Understanding Emotion as Intelligence Emotion Is Information Most people do not understand why they feel what they feel. They often experience their emotions as unpredictable, inconvenient or overwhelming. They try to make sense of them with the mind alone, and when the mind cannot explain what is rising inside them, they assume something is wrong with them. But emotion is not random, irrational or meaningless. Emotion is information. It is the intelligence of your system sp

Understanding the language your body speaks Your First Language Is Sensation Long before you learned how to speak, long before you had ideas about who you are or who you should be, your nervous system was already at work. It was reading the world. It was sensing safety and danger. It was shaping how you would later respond to life. This is your first language, the language beneath words, the language your body understands. Most people do not realise how much their nervous sys

A deeper understanding of meditation beyond technique or calm Why Meditation Is Often Misunderstood We live in a world that moves fast, and the mind can move even faster. It can feel as if there is always something to respond to, to plan for, to manage or attend to. Most people live in a continuous state of mental motion, pulled by thought, habit and expectation. From this place, meditation is often misunderstood. It becomes another task on a long list, something to do in ord