This Experimental Life

  • The Core of Meditation

    I would like to share with you a basis for meditation that provides some of the most useful tools for meditation, opening access to a world of possibilities. I must give credit to Dr. Amishi Jha, the writer of a book called peak mind. She is a neuroscientist studying mindfulness meditation, which I believe to…

  • A New Perspective on Exercise

    I lifted weights for seven years, from freshman year of highschool through most of college. I stopped for a variety of reasons, but the main reason had to do with a philosophy I developed about exercise That is, exercise is a practice that will dictate how you move in your daily life. So what does…

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  • On Finding Purpose

    I have taken a break from writing here, as I am traveling and having problems charging my laptop with an adapter that seems to do nothing. But that’s not important. Today, I want to discuss something that I think most people struggle with in life, which is finding purpose. I have always been a person…

  • Sketching meaning

    For isn’t all writing an attempt? An unmanageable grasp at the unimaginable, the scouring claws of words scraping against the edges of sensation, mapping out its boundaries. Not quite a cage, or even a chain, but a foot print of this place, we sense the impression it leaves but it can never quite be shared,…

  • A Channel for Rage

    Anger is an emotion so violent and disruptive that many people have a lot of trouble controlling it. We are told to avoid these emotions, and to repress their expression. From what I have seen, that course of action is destructive in itself. To harbor those emotions, to avoid releasing them, turns them inward, and…