The annual Christmas letter from my longest – not, she will quite rightly insist, my oldest – friend, included a sentence I’ve been thinking about ever since I read it. Of herself and her husband she wrote: “we’re keeping as well as can be expected for people in their mid-70s.” I know the background, which …
For more years than I’d like to confess to, I greeted every January 2 like a sprinter in the starting blocks. I was armed with resolutions, high on solstice euphoria, and fueled, at least in part, by having eaten far too much chocolate in the preceding two weeks. The impending austerity looked good. We …
If there’s one thing that everyone from bestselling authors to renowned philosophers agree on, it’s the power of habits – itself the title of a bestselling book. From Aristotle (“we are what we repeatedly do”) to Henry James, (“Sow an action, and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow …
A few weeks ago, I showed this picture of two men on a ferry in Mumbai to a friend who is new to Spinefulness. I pointed out the deep hip creases of the man on the right, how they show that his pelvis is in a good position. His buttocks are back. That lets …
At the beginning of every Eight Weeks to a Longer Spine class, we sit in a circle and check in. I want to know how the past week went, what worked and what didn’t. The responses usually include at least one tally of days without pain, an insight or two, some new aches, and accounts …