I am tackling again in this dispatch the role of Consciousness in human life.

Years ago, at a workshop in Sydney, I suddenly heard my teacher Marjorie Barstow saying:

"If I Only had 4 Tongues, I Could Explain It Better"

As usual, Marj managed to encapsulate complexity into an amusing metaphor; a metaphor that graphically captured the essence of our challenge in consciously managing co-ordination. If that's what we're even doing…

You see - I write long sentences like that one, and Marj just makes you laugh.

SORRY!

Part of my work involves getting up at 3.30am to coach clients scattered around the world.

At first I reacted with horror; now I get up at 3.30am anyway.

In Tokyo, the light is already peeping through the clouds by 4am.

The streets are deserted, the traffic lights aimlessly changing in vacant stupidity. It's quiet, and there you see a tall, erect-looking man, thumping along the side of the river alone, wondering why he would want anyone to love him?

Years ago I was having dinner in a restaurant in Paris with Marie-Françoise Le Foll, when a serial killer - in the guise of a French intelligence officer - strolled over and, uninvited, began intruding on our dinner conversation.

Our table was on a raised platform, and he stood below, his arm over the rail...

Of course at the time I did not immediately know he was a killer, but he soon happily let us know about a murder he had completed a week before in South Africa. This was in the early 80's, before Mandala's magic had cast it's spell.

Or even hugged by a chimpanzee?

I haven't, but Zoologist Desmond Morris relates his experience of both in his book Initmate Behaviours:

Discovery needs celebration.

Without it, the physiology required to imprint insight fails to energize. Celebration is physiology - it facilitates oligodendroglial* cells to myelinate the axon pathways ignited by your discovery. The result is the ability to act faster.

Yesterday, I nearly yelled at one of my students.

Metaphorically, I certainly did. These days I have stopped being middle-class nice – what a wasted life! - instead telling it how I see it. My trainee was a robust, heavy-set man with a problem. He could handle it.

Yes, now it's official.

An Australian doctor entered my name into Medibank's database as a "Chronic Back Pain Sufferer". She wanted me to benefit from the "5 funded sessions" that Medicare will grant me.

I didn't have the heart to tell the doctor that:

“Banned” is a little hyperbole. Thrown out is a tad closer.

And I like getting thrown out of things. It’s become a habit.

Usually it’s because I won’t conform, or behave in an “expected” way. In the FB group AT Global, I kept asking people to try my services. I behave normally for a business, but they don’t like it.

It all started with STAT – doesn’t everything?

"You're all weak."

At BodyChance, most of my staff are teachers who have trained with me. They spend their time teaching / marketing for the school.

The non-teaching work is administration of that activity.

Are you a detective when it come to your co-ordination issues?

I wrote about my approach recently in "My Leg is in Pain, and I have 3 Theories Why"

And Marja Krappe read that, then wrote back with her version of the same:

Couldn't agree more with that 1st theory.

I also got sudden pain in my right hip joint one day after walking about 10 min.

I’m hitting the stop button on my series of three.

Instead – today’s is Grace’s birthday, and it’s a good moment to reflect on my (and yours) mammalian instincts. These most often remain hidden to you, yet determine 99% of your actions.

That 1% is important: that 1% is Steve Jobs @ Apple. It’s Gandhi in India.

Conscious Constructive Guidance, the 1%.