Exit-Entry Blocks–Re-opening the Doors of Knowing

Exit-Entry Blocks:Re-opening the Doors of Knowing Here’s an acupuncture-related post, but remember, you all have fingers—you can treat yourselves any time! There is a difference between cognition and knowing. Cognition is a process of working with input in order to get to clarity. With cognition, we go through a process of arriving at knowing, and we can tell that we’ve gone through a process. At other times, we seem to arrive instantly at the knowing. Usually, there was a process; it was just so swift and efficient and transparent that we don’t notice it. Both of these processes—cognition and the seemingly instantaneous knowing—are important for us to look at, and to be able to troubleshoot. We do this by assessing the ...
January 28, 2021 by Thea Elijah in Me-First Blog 0 Comments
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A HAPPY NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

A Happy New Year's Resolution For a few years now, I’ve had an Economic Redress policy at Perennial Medicine. I do this in part because it feels good to stand behind what I believe in, but also because I want to introduce the Economic Redress concept to my community—especially to other anti-racist white people who often wonder what they can actually do to help end racism.  What is Economic Redress? It is an attempt to redress the economic aspects of racial injustice upon which this country was founded, by disrupting and re-patterning the way that our resources are currently being distributed.  As a white-bodied person in America, I am aware of my economic privilege in comparison with people who have darker skin than my own. However, ...
January 8, 2021 by Thea Elijah in Me-First Blog 0 Comments
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