"Healing comes in many guises. We're healed by just the touch of a friend. We're healed by the hug of a child. And healing does not imply that your life is suddenly going to lose all of the struggle, all of the challenge. What it does instead is it strengthens us for what is next. But to be open to healing means to be vulnerable. And I think if you look at me, you know I'm what they would call a vulnerable adult. The cat doesn't even listen to me here. I have no real sense of control anymore."

~ Bruce Kramer

Equanimity, Practice in LifeDaron LarsonApril 25, 2015Bruce Kramer, life, death, body, illness, medicine, On Being, frustration, struggle, suffering, yoga, relationshipsComment

Emotion and Touch are Deeply Linked

"We have this strong idea, in the culture and in the language, that emotion and touch are deeply linked, and I think the neuroanatomy bears this out."

~ David Linden

Clarity, Feel Out, Feel InDaron LarsonFebruary 5, 2015David Linden, Fresh Air, neuroscience, body, mind-body, feelings, senses, sensingComment

We are Here

"It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you. It is an immense privilege, and it is incredible that humans manage to forget the miracle of being here."

~ John O'Donohue

Daron LarsonDecember 14, 2014Pina Bausch, dance, John O'Donohue, body, walking, self/other, Rainer Maria Rilke, societ, loneliness, present, miracleComment

Within and Without

"This is just simply asking, again, as if we had arrived for the first time, what is the relationship of the human project to time and space?"

~ Antony Gormley

See In, See Out, ClarityDaron LarsonDecember 1, 2014Antony Gormley, art, body, space, architecture, time, humanity, self/otherComment

Letting Go of Mental Images

"Meditating on the body means meditating on body sensation, not mental images of the body."

~ Michael Taft

Feel Out, See In, Clarity, BeginningDaron LarsonSeptember 15, 2014body, mind-body, senses, touch, embodied cognition, paying attention, Michael Taft, Antony Gormley, art, mindfulness, meditationComment

Fake It till You Become It

Daron LarsonMay 5, 2014Amy Cuddy, TED, body, change, feelings, neuroscience, research, self, uncertainty, vulnerabilityComment

Turning to Me

"Our voices echo in the spray
and steam of this room where once,
long ago, he knelt at the tub’s edge
to pour cups of bathwater over my head."

~ Amy Fleury

Daron LarsonMarch 11, 2014Amy Fleury, aging, body, growing up, intimacy, parenting, poetryComment

Pain and Response to Pain Teaches Understanding

"The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are."

~ Sherwin Nuland

Daron LarsonMarch 10, 2014Sherwin Nuland, body, compassion, connection, death, feelings, life, love, medicine, obituary, pain, self/otherComment

Really Accepting

Daron LarsonMay 11, 2013Shinzen Young, acceptance, body, equanimity, feeling, paying attention, stillnessComment

Illuminated Manuscript

Daron LarsonMay 11, 2013Brian Craig-Wankiiri, Gil Hedley, art, beauty, body, mystery, poetry, sacred, sculpture, wonderComment

What We Feel Most Has No Name

Daron LarsonJanuary 11, 2012Jack Gilbert, body, feeling, language, love, poetryComment

Rest Your Hands

"Several times a day let your hands relax completely. For at least a few seconds, let them be completely still. One way to do this is to place them in your lap and then focus your awareness on the subtle sensations in the quiet hands."

~ Jan Chozen Bays