This is not about what makes a person attractive. There are myriad different philosophies and coaches for that. Rather this is about how we know that a person is attractive. I like who I am when I’m in that person’s presence. That is a fair threshold for measuring another’s attractiveness, however we explain it. You …
What would you like to work on today? “This blog, actually.” Go on. “I want to see if I’m doing with it what I intended to do with it.” What are three things you intended to do with it? “Have some sort of a professional presence, something that might come up other than boxing when …
“I want to write a book – I have a lot of ideas – but it’s just a matter of sitting down and doing it, you know?” Tell me more. “Sometimes I wonder if I could just pay a person to write a book for me. Like a ghostwriter.” What stops you? “I worry my …
Whatever flavor we favor – spirals, energy, power, needs – there’s a general consensus shape they all form, and it makes life into a double helix of sorts, wherein one visits and revisits similar themes through life but behaves differently as s/he goes. When we consider the difference between being and doing, doing and being, …
“Let’s talk about Karma Yoga, as promised, specifically what distinguishes it from Kundalini Tantra Yoga.” What do you think distinguishes them? “I have no idea. I didn’t even know their names till you mentioned them.” What if I told you the only obvious thing they share is our talking about them? “I’d say they probably …
“I was hiking last Saturday with my dog, and I started thinking about how his memory works.” What about that? “He must have memory the same as us. He remembers how to eat, run, jump, bark. Even the involuntary stuff, the breathing and chasing squirrels, must draw on its own sort of memory.” Like a …
“I try all these life hacks, like cold showers and vitamins and grounding, and I suppose they work, like, I’m happier, but I don’t really drop breadcrumbs.” What is a hack you’ve yet to try but interests you? “Sensory-deprivation pods.” Floating your consciousness away, as it were. Interesting. I began floating in sensory-deprivation pods a …
What would you like to work on today? “I’d like to figure out this metaphor that’s been careening through my mind lately.” I sense you wanted to use a word other than figure, there. “I did. I wanted to say ‘flesh’, but as the metaphor has to do with a car and movement, I just …
“I don’t know much about meditation, but some of my friends do yoga that seems like mostly breathing.” What is it called? “Something Tantra.” Kundalini Tantra? “I guess.” I began a daily meditation practice in April 2014 at a time of unsurpassed anxiety, a stomach dipped oftenly in acid. Here’s what I noticed immediately: Five …
“I hear all these awesome things about being in a flow state, flowing, being in flow, being like a pro athlete in the zone.” What do you hope to do with that? “Lots of things. Washing dishes, driving a car, managing a project, stretching a canvas. Everything!” What about juggling? Flow wasn’t the genesis of …