We can choose to play or to think in metaphors.  Then we feel those gestures.  But some gestures originate from within and seem to choose us.

Think back from 12th to 1st grade.  Did your education include teaching your mind to play with gestures?  Are you still using those gestures today?

Think about the motions involved in your favorite play activities. Those motions may have influenced how your mind plays now.

Typical biographies tell it forward and track what we have DONE in life. But only looking backward can we tell the story of what we have BECOME.

Even great teachers can have a rare student that just shuts down. Offering micro-steps without novelty may succeed when all else fails. But why?  

Society seems as likely to become enflamed and our planet has. Can we learn to lower our emotional temperature and interrupt our explosive emotions?

When disruptive events knock us down, we usually recover easily.But sometimes the illness, grief or chronic pain needs a miracle to stop spiraling.

What does it mean to go too far, to go past the tipping point.  And what does that have to do with spiraling? Can that lead to chronic pain?

What drives chronic pain?  Why does it happen to some of us? Is there any way to break that cruel pattern once it starts?

It’s only one lens for looking at life’s journey but it’s a remarkable one. Here’s a first look at these 7 year milestones and how to track them.