In this blog, I’d like to explore the topic of “positive” and “negative” functioning a bit, and to explore it from a bodymindspirit point of view.

Sometimes in working with a client from a coaching/counseling point of view, the goal might be to work with the problem itself. Other times, the goal might be to not focus on the problem at all, but instead to focus on the benefits of change. Both strategies are valuable and necessary in their own place . . .

I’ve had some fun experiences teaching in my life, and one of the more unusual ones involved me and group of college students eating wasabi as a way to understand non-typical states of consciousness.

It was a few years back, when I was working at an educational retreat center in administration and education. A group of local college students had created a university club based around studying consciousness. As director of education, they were hoping I would help them arrange a visit onto our campus and have it count as education for their university. We put together a series of bodymindspirit experiences with experienced workshop leaders to provide these students the types of educational experience they were hoping for. As one of the experiences, they asked me to talk to them about non-typical states of consciousness. Of course, I said, “sure!" . . . . .

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