Sit with this for a moment. Three minutes. That is how long it takes the average person to read the opening page of this piece. In those three minutes, your heart will beat roughly 210 times, sending a pressure wave of blood from your chest to the tips of your fingers and back. Your adrenal glands will have made a quiet, ongoing assessment of your alertness and stress load, and your cortisol curve, which peaked sometime around waking, will have continued its slow daily desc

A little light reading with Mae-Wan Ho, and the small piece of water that explains why coherence is the skill that matters most Life on the farm can feel a bit hectic, and sometimes it means grabbing a quiet moment when you can. This morning, just as I was finishing breakfast, I decided to spend a few minutes with Mae-Wan Ho and her book, Meaning of Life and the Universe: Transforming. My favorite thing is to just open a book to any page and read what shows up. I was not disa

Reflections from a heuristic study on the relational dimension of the human-nature experience There is a difference, subtle at first and then unmistakable, between being in nature and being with her. To be in nature is to enter a setting. The forest becomes a backdrop, the meadow a scene, the ocean a view. We walk into it, we receive what it offers, and we walk out again, restored in the way one is restored by a beautiful room. This is real, and it is not nothing. Time in nat

Bioenergetic coherence is not a supplement to clinical skill. It is the substrate that makes clinical empathy physiologically possible in the first place.