Goal: to help you reclaim eating moments of your life with meaning and moderation; and to help you leverage self-acceptance and compassion! 

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

WEAR OUT YOUR COMPASSION

Q: What am I to do with this meaningless nonsensical drivel? 

A: Read.  Then, ask yourself: "What pattern did this break for me?" 

What is Pattern Interruption?

Pattern interruption leverages mindfulness: mind is a pattern, interrupt it.  Lose your mind to find your consciousness.  Confusion means loss of certainty.  Loss of certainty means open-mindedness to what is. 

Po:etry - Pattern Interruption Poetry

Po:etry is based on the concept of "po." "Po" is a mind laxative, a conceptual provocation, a pattern interruption facilitator. "Po," as a linguistic device, was introduced by Edward De Bono. Here's how De Bono describes the function of po: "Po is to lateral thinking what No is to logical thinking. Po is an insight restructuring tool... The function of Po is the rearrangement of information to create new pattern and to restructure old ones."  Po:etry is philosophical poetry, poetry of pattern interruption.  Read more.

""There’s only one way out of prison, which is to set your jailer free." Grebenschikov (The Time, Radio Silence, 1989 CBS Records).

Mind is its own hostage. Each belief, each schema, each defense is both an adaptation and a handicap. The very anchors that have helped you feel grounded may now hold you down with all the weight of their historical usefulness… Yes, mind is its own hostage... But mind isalso its own search-and-rescue.  Take a look at what of what you are is no longer you…