Meditations & Reflections

Introduction The freedom to do what you want with your life, with your body or speech, has gained much attention, especially in this new era of global debates centered on corrupt leaders, corporations, pandemics, global warming, and biological and economic warfare. Science too is losing ground in giving us an objective view into things like our bodies, since the objective mechanical science of previous generations—i.e. the “modern science” that began with the scientific revolution of Descartes, Newton, and the like—is being challenged by the subjective worldview of the newer sciences of post-modernism. This is why looking around us, as much as we like to hold onto ‘facts’, pure objective facts have become far more fluid and a matter of belief. No matter our persistence to adhere to ‘facts’, they slip through our fingers, since the world is at once much smaller as a global village, and far more diverse and humbling due to its many shades of gray and colorful hues. This means our belief ...

 I have heard it said, "Facts do not care about your feelings." But how could human beings ever not feel? When was the rational mind ever divorced from feelings and the heart? So it seems facts do care about our feelings, albeit try as we might—in the general modern schism of body and spirit.  (c) —Houman Z. Emami Site:  Transformative.me/

  A million things could be influencing how you feel today: From the weather to the great firmaments, the planets, and the sun, to the moon and the ocean tides, to how many coffees you have had today, to the psychic who wrote today's predictions based on your horoscope. More importantly, there are the pains and aches in the body, ecstasies and unions, the rationale and the emotions, the mind and the heart-mind , and all our daily victories and defeats that we celebrate or moan about everyday. How about all the things, people, leaders, and governments we blame? And what about our upbringing and culture?    The list goes on, but there is one thing above all these that I have found, which influences how I feel today: What I tell myself, or more precisely and broadly, the presence I am hosting now. So perhaps before examining the million reasons why I feel the way I feel today, I could listen to what I am telling myself and the state I am in, then see how much time is left to...