Meditation could be good, but devoting seventeen seconds to generate a loving and wise intention, just prior to meditation, could make it even better. The recitation of “The Four Immeasurables” fits the bill. Endorsed by the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, it has many variations. Here is a version I love: . . “May everyone be free from stress, may everyone be happy. May no one ever be separated from their happiness. . May everyone have balance, from the tyranny of hating, cra

Language does not easily lend itself to describing the neurodivergent experience, for it was composed by neurotypicals, for neurotypicals. And yet, there are some contemplations that could lend themselves to the profound complexity of an autistic brain. Especially if those ruminations are rhetorical and based upon assumptions: therapeutic and empowering. Despite the state of one’s neocortex (Gordian-like in its tangles) all of us with lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spinal cor