About the Five Skillings (part one)

Most of the Five Skillings comes from a forthcoming book by a Santa Barbara psychotherapist, which notes that the main reason that people do not get results from therapy is that they have fallen out of balance in one or more aspects of their core relationship to the themselves and others. The point is that they can work on these skillings independently from therapy and start to feel much better through these practices on their own. And then they can also start to realize the benefits of therapy on those problems that are external to their core relationships.

The other side of the skillings comes from a thread in sociology which tells us that our society (within modernity) is increasingly removing our ability to acquire basic skills (for example, making shelters or clothing, or growing food, or teaching our children). We are an increasingly unskilled lot. Look for this as one of the tones for "Game Nation."

The credit for the body as the primary relationship to the world owes its inspiration from the marvelous work of Dr. Michael Luan in Santa Barbara. Michael has a singular perspective about the road to a healthy body and mind, and he has helped (and continues to help) many people regain their sense of a positive relation between the body and the world.