I love to hear the head of my Practitioner Support team (the group in my company responsible for technical marketing and education) speak about health and wellbeing. Her passionate interest in restoring normal flow to the body's various systems fascinates me - and our clients - to no end. Restoring optimal cellular function …
Tag: greg hake
Seeing is believing.
Vision is a powerful sense. Whether the capacity for vision is the product of thousands of years of evolutionary development or the result of an original design modified over time by the aforementioned invisible hand, vision is a marvelously powerful tool. While roughly 0.3% of the American public is legally blind, I have heard it said …
You needn’t see it to believe it.
I had an unusual conversation yesterday that I feel is worthy of further consideration. A new acquaintance, whom I have not met in person, asked me where I thought the world was headed. What a whopper of a question! She qualified her question with a mention of the Mayan Calendar, which as I understand it …
The Highest Common Denominator
We are incredibly complex creatures. From macro to micro, our design is beautiful, intricate and marvelous to behold. I remember watching a short video in physics class in high school similar to the one below which showed the wave dynamics of a crowd of people: People, when moving in an aggregated mass, tend to "go …
Play to Open Space
I spent much of my youth on the soccer field, first as a defender and then as a midfielder. While I learned many lessons during the first twenty-five years, I can say that one of the most valuable lessons I took home with me came from an English coach who taught a summer camp …
The Hippocratic Oath for Education
“I swear...to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or …
Satisfying Restfulness
"Here is a country lovely and unspoiled. Here is a simple and satisfying restfulness...a place to charm the mind while nature mends nerves worn thin by living too fast and too hard. Here, in short, is peace, and play, and freedom." ~ Howard Coffin If you've ever had the good fortune to visit Sea Island …
Imagination, Purpose and Change
“All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein It’s a little ironic to me that my company’s product line is based in part on a manufacturing method developed in the Middle Ages while at the same time we …
Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!
The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive. ~ V.S. Pritchett I spent a number of years close to the Canadian border in Michigan as a young man and it never ceases to amaze me how different Americans are from Canadians, despite their proximity. One of my best friends and …
Freedom from Fear
Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~ German Proverb No reasonable person would deny that there are dangerous elements in the world we inhabit. Whether part of the natural state or the product of having mismanaged the natural state over the ages, these perils are a regular part of everyday living. Children must …