AOC #4: A Comfortable Death

04Feb07

“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now. “ Joan Baez.
Practice #4a: Notice each and every time the thought/feeling arises in you that “I have to. (or I can’t, or any variation of feeling like you have no choice.  This slipping [...]

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AOC #4: What’s Your Major?

04Feb07

Practice #4a
Notice each and every time the thought/feeling arises in you that “I have to.” (or I can’t, or any variation of feeling like you have no choice.)

What are you noticing? Where and when do you tend to slip into the frame of “Have to”? Reflect right now for a few [...]

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AOC #4: Remembering

04Feb07

Practice #4a
Notice each and every time the thought/feeling arises in you that “I have to. (or I can’t, or any variation of feeling like you have no choice.)

Remember to practice. We know the challenges of remembering to practice in the middle of our full days.
Remind yourself at the beginning of each day of [...]

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AOC #4: I Have To/Choose To: Part I

04Feb07

Practice #4a: For the next 5 days, notice each and every time the thought/feeling arises in you that “I have to. (or I can’t, or any variation of feeling like you have no choice.)

Practice #4a is the first step in a 3-week practice whose purpose is to help you move [...]

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Change what?

04Feb07

So, what is “social change”, anyways? The Journal of Social Change describes it as “change that improves the human condition and progresses people, groups, organizations, cultures, and society toward a more positive future.”
That’s fairly obvious, I suppose – but what would that “positive future” look like? Is it always ‘change’ that we [...]

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