A small project about fear, breath, and the space between.
Throughout life, you never stay the same even two consecutive days. Your body replaces itself in countless ways, only two things stay with you from birth to death: your fear and your breath. And so long as you remain in the current of life, the current decides for you. If you want to choose for yourself you must look for gaps — for only in a gap can you set a direction of your own, before the current claims you again.
Epiphanies, observations, and practices collected in troubled moments and processed in quiet ones.
If fear is a swamp, breath is the stream. The most powerful tool — at your service anytime.
A short visual exercise to calm the eyes and create a small inner gap. The first one in an upcoming collection.
Fuck the Fear explores fear as a natural companion. The book offers practices, short essays and simple designs for daily attention. Minimalist layout, practical items, and an invitation to write your own book.
Inside: short guided exercises with clear explanations — why they work, when they don’t, and how to adapt them to yourself. Practical. Immediately usable.
Set the chart perpendicular to your face and look at it with crossed eyes, i.e. the right eye rest on the left column and the left one on the right column. Distance: about 80 cm. This way of looking brings up a third floating shape in between and creates a cognitive dissonance in the visual center of the brain. The gap ensues from this. I found this one at George Pennigton , have printed it for myself on little cards and been using it for ages.