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Daniel Clement

Jan 15
1 min

B.K.S. Iyengar and the development of posture

Warrior one, B.K.S. Iyengar First photo on the left, from his book "Light on Yoga" next photo, years later at a public demonstration. Can you see the differe...

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Daniel Clement

Dec 30, 2019
2 min

The temporary feeling of hunger or loss

The sensation of hunger has no location. Hunger pangs do have a location - the fleeting abdominal sensation of cramping or restriction. I'm talking about the...

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Daniel Clement

Dec 12, 2019
1 min

The drive to let go

Notice your breath. Now try not to manipulate it or control it in any way while your attention remains on it. This inability to surrender control of that wh...

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Daniel Clement

Dec 5, 2019
2 min

Dancing around the obvious

Transparency means to not colour or block the spontaneous flow of information. When we are incentivized to colour our perceptions, this colouring often happ...

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Daniel Clement

Nov 29, 2019
3 min

Lying and the brain

This is probably as good a time as any to clarify that this author has not mastered how to be honest all the time. The amount of lying we doing daily - eithe...

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Daniel Clement

Nov 17, 2019
2 min

Yoga adjustments: good or bad?

This kind of binary view overlooks the value of some forms of valuable touch and doesn't investigate why other forms have little or no value or worse. 1) Dir...

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Daniel Clement

Nov 15, 2019
3 min

Forms of truth

The most straightforward example of the concept of truth is 1+1 = 2. Numbers are an abstraction: 1 does not refer to anything in particular, but to how many ...

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Daniel Clement

Oct 16, 2019
3 min

What is Honesty?

A search for a definition of honesty yields mostly synonyms such as integrity, the absence of lying, and trustworthiness. To be fair, a clear and simple de n...

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Daniel Clement

Oct 6, 2019
2 min

Honesty (Introduction to the book)

INTRODUCTION As evolved creatures, we are here because of millions of years of ancestor competition. Winning that competition didn’t mean being the most stra...

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Daniel Clement

Jun 27, 2019
3 min

What would be there instead if jealousy were absent?

There is no more unwelcome emotion inside the circus tent of feelings than jealously. Jealousy makes us feel shame for feeling it - we feel its nature is to...

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Daniel Clement

Jun 22, 2019
3 min

The end of yoga teacher training?

Is yoga teacher training over?

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Daniel Clement

May 29, 2019
2 min

Is yoga practice an expression of anxiety?

I've been thinking about a recent post concerning the benefits/hazards of prescribed breath (pranayama) in yoga. There is a claim that a certain form of con...

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Daniel Clement

Jan 28, 2019
3 min

Honesty: how self-deception robs us of meaning

Excerpt from my soon to be released book: This book is about being more honest, not about finding The Truth. There's a reason for this. Looking for the tru...

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