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Book review: Aware, Awake, Alive – by Elliott Dacher
Aware, Awake, Alive by Elliott Dacher is an excellent guide to an emerging vision of human flourishing and integral health. Dacher’s perspective and his recommendations for specific practices are grounded in his 21 year career in internal medicine, as well … Continue reading
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Elliott Dacher on Integral Health
I’m still savoring Elliot Dacher‘s excellent new book, Aware, Awake, Alive. Obviously, I’m interested in the whole notion of Integral Health in general, and Dacher has perhaps done more than anyone to articulate just what an integral vision of health … Continue reading
Elliot Dacher on the process of entanglement with mental activity
I’m savoring an excellent book right now: Aware, Awake, Alive by Elliot Dacher. Dacher’s previous book, Integral Health, outlines and describes one of the main models of Integral Health that has inspired my work on this site. I will do … Continue reading
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The Embodiment of Freedom: An integral approach to optimal health and personal transformation (Part 4: Repression & socialization)
The habitual, unconscious, hegemonic, “hammer” approach of the dissociated bodymind is reinforced in at least two ways: through fearful repression and through socialization. First, let’s look at how sensual alienation is rooted in the individual’s tendencies to repress and deny … Continue reading
The Embodiment of Freedom: An integral approach to optimal health and personal transformation (Part 3: Bodymind dissociation)
The notion that a typical mature, well-adjusted person in our culture is alienated from or out of touch with their bodies may seem, at first blush, curious if not absurd. Most of us yelp out in pain when we stub … Continue reading
The Embodiment of Freedom: An integral approach to optimal health and personal transformation (Part 2: Defining terms)
As a student of psychology, both academically and in the broadest sense, I have surveyed a number of practices and fields of study that strive to help individuals become more fully themselves. These can generally be described as approaches to … Continue reading
The Embodiment of Freedom: An integral approach to optimal health and personal transformation (Part 1: Introduction to the inquiry)
We’ve all had moments when we feel particularly full of life, especially present to whatever we’re engaged in — times when we’re simply more on, more there, more tuned in to life than usual. I was in my mid-twenties when … Continue reading
Book Review: The Sustainable You, by John Loupos
It’s been over twenty years since Somatics pioneer Thomas Hanna published his seminal article titled Clinical Somatic Education—a concise outline of what he hoped would become “A new discipline in the field of health care”. A brilliant philosopher and gifted … Continue reading
Q & A with Sam Harris
As I continue to explore questions of human potential with an eye toward balancing open-minded inquiry and rigorous, evidence-based critical thinking, no one has been more inspiring to me in recent years than Sam Harris. Especially considering his recent focus … Continue reading
When Stress Becomes Stressed Out – 5 Ways to Outsmart the Invisible Killer: Presented by Dr. Neha Sangwan
[Thanks to William Harryman at Integral Options Café for posting about this talk.] I’m impressed with Dr. Sangwan, and her new venture called Intuitive Intelligence strikes me as a fine example of an approach to Integral Health. Here’s a bit … Continue reading
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