It's a great explanation. A good overview, and a good invitation to throw myself into practice!

The future is rocking!

This has been a fantastic course and experience. Thank you Brian and everyone who played. I've gotten so much out of this.

I watched earthlings and food inc both recently. What a one-two punch. I have been experimentally refining my diet and lifestyle practices for me, based on a huge shift brought on by my wife participating in the Integrative Nutrition program. Great stuff from Josh Rosenthal! A great book!

PS. You can see earthlings online for free, and I think you can food inc at hulu.com.

A huge help to me was Brian's comment, when dealing with social comparisons, about adding the, "what do I want?" I've spent years getting caught in the social comparison game, and for me, it's about career and creative projects. Choosing to appreciate and celebrate other people's successes becomes so much easier and rewarding when I can say, "great for them, now what do I want?" It's the second piece of that practice that has made a huge difference.

Thank you. I've just completed a few months with my young-adult stepson, and it's been a lesson in living the principles Aimee is sharing.

It's been quite a rocking adventure!

That's a big sticking point I keep running into when thinking about transformative practices. Thanks for asking it! One big question I work with is: what is the relationship between how I move and who I am, in all possiblie meanings?

Movement, then, can be done physically, emotionally, or more subtly. Someone who can do little but shift awareness and attention (and that is still saying quite a lot!) as well as modify the quality of that awareness, can indeed create openings in the body. The question then is what is an opening in the body? Openings go beyond just joint openings and might be observed as a release of tension, an increase of suppleness, or a dissolving of a trigger point.

The opposite is true as well - massage, heat and other forms of releasing tension physiologically can affect the development of our consciousness. They go together.