Wu-Wei: A Physical Approach to Letting Go

TRE, or Trauma-Release-Exercises are a rather new topic in the field of stress and tension release. Tough they resemble a physical, neurological approach to these issues, they are in complete accordance with ancient philosophical concepts. Seen in that light, TRE can be seen as philosophy in the flesh, as will be shown. 

Few Thoughts on Freedom

As should be clear by now, the central premise at the heart of this blog is the unity of body and mind, and resulting from that, the equation that movement is life. In our culture however, the mind-body split is still deeply rooted. (Ironically, of course this very concept of a mind-body split is itself embodied within the human organism, but that's for another day.) Therefore, most philosophical notions that originate from a body-mind unity will differ from classical Western philosophical notions and also from Western 'common sense.' Today, I want to take a short look at the term of freedom and how it may relate itself to an embodied existence.