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14 hours ago, Veggie dancer said:

i really think mind and body are not so separate as we often think. Anyone else got thoughts on that?

I guess a mechanistic approach would be that the body ie. brain, is in fact the mind. 

To me mind and body are intermeshed. 

I think it's been shown that deep muscle relaxation is incompatible with stress. 

That was interesting.

Our emotions effect our bodies, our posture, places of tension can be an expression of our feelings and cause physical pain. Also a physical injury can cause an emotional response, I've heard and experienced how back pain can make you feel depressed. 

As a flip side to this I have felt how dancing; physical exercise and working on balance and flow and releasing tension and moving with a different kind of intent can uplift emotions. Also how positive emotions like laughter can be so healing physically.

This article is about some techniques that use physical contact to help deal with anxiety.

i really think mind and body are not so separate as we often think. Anyone else got thoughts on that?

Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 143

King of the Faeries – Mythago – https://mythagomorris.wordpress.com

Talky Bit 1 – Tea with a Druid – Adrian Rooke – http://rooketherapy.co.uk

Amazing – Glenn Conroy and all at SHOBODA 2019 – https://www.groveofthesummerstars.nz

Talky Bit 2 – Gail Nyoka talking about the Voices of the Ancestors project facilitated by Healthy Villages Inc – https://healthyvillages.weebly.com

The Sailor and the Magician – Paul Francis aka Dr Space Toad – http://paulfrancistroubadourspacetoad.com/aboutpaul.html

Ceridwen’s Cauldron – Mythago – https://mythagomorris.wordpress.com

DruidCast theme – Hills they are Hollow – Damh the Bard – https://www.paganmusic.co.uk

For further information on the Druid tradition – https://www.druidry.org

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Paganism and Witchcraft, as a set of beliefs and craft, respectively, are subject to being referred to and spoken in the media. Today I plan to tackle a bit at how, Paganism and Witchcraft are viewed and portrayed by the media nowadays, mostly television, literature, media and cinema. I will use the term and quot;witch and quot; in the feminine but this applies to both women and men. Lets start with Literature. Since forever that fairy tales with witches and gnomes and dragons are a part of people's min

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... all as Moonsmith has said!

^^^^^^ Late to this topic - everything that John Mac has said!

Interesting Veggie:  not only is it the Chinese new lunar year but two of the folk in the grove on Monday have been quite ill and have missed out January.  For them too, Imbolc was the start of a new year.

I didn't make a New Years resolution for start it January this year so I'm making one for Inolc instead and that is to relax and chill out. Been far too stressy lately. And stressing out is not useful in any way it just stops you from being able to think or function so I'm giving it up best I can from now on.