No Space To Waste: Floor Sleeping As A Small Space Design Solution
The bed's primary purpose is to serve an ESSENTIAL BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION which will influence our failure or success and our health and well being and how long we live and our quality of life.Many people take the bed for granted, seeing it mostly as an object....
The Lean Green Dwelling: Ten Solutions for Downscaling
To most of us, a small dwelling normally brings up negative images such as: compromise, cramped, ghetto, low income, anti-social, and utilitarian. Isn’t this the land of the free, where bigger is better? The current offerings on the market for space-saving furniture...
The Paradox Of Small – Simplicity And Minimalism In The Bedroom
When I was in highschool I was inspired by Henry David Thoreau who lived in a 10'x10' cabin as an experiment in self awareness and personal independence from herd mentality. Ever since, I had the ideal that living in a small space would be beautiful and simple. A...
How We Learned To Live In And Love A Tiny House
Twenty years ago I set out to build a house. I wanted a house that was a sanctuary, soothing, and interactive, that reflected serenity, open space, simplicity, and looked somehow more vernacular than modern. But vernacular to what? Perhaps vernacular to any culture...
How We Learned To Live In And Love A Tiny House – Part One
Camping in a tent next to a pile of lumber, recycled windows, and boxes full of our entire household belongings, Linsi and I had a task ahead of us: build a house and move into it before winter. It was at that time mid November of the year 1987. Okay, the house was...
Sweet Dreams On A Hard Surface: The Ergonomics Of Sleep
I spent 30 years wondering what to sleep on for optimal sleep and health. When I finally realized through personal experimentation and research that the best mattress is no mattress, I could never look at the world the same. We are asleep when it comes to...
Optimize Circadian Rhythms For The Sleep Of Your Dreams
One characteristic shared by practically all the 'modern' or 'neolithic' diseases like obesity, diabetes, hypo thyroidism, sleep apnea, etc.-- is poor quality sleep. Whether this is causative or indicative has been a question. The reality is more complex. The cause...
Laptop Ergonomics: How To Get Out Of Your Slump
The advent of the laptop computer has revolutionized the table-and-desk-sit-down office work station. With the laptop, people are free to lie on the floor or bed, lean back on a couch in the hotel lobby or against a tree, or even stand up. No sooner did an opportunity...
Vippassana Breath Meditation
This is one of many ways to practice meditation. This is particularly effective in quietening the mind and grounding the body.Once you have assumed a comfortable sitting position, take the first few moments to sweep through the body with the intention to relax. Soften...
Meditation Basics: The Art Of Natural Sitting
The iconic "Meditation Posture" seen in many publications is often misleading as a guide to real-life sitting for meditation. In advertising photographs the head is thrown back with neck jutting forward. The spine is sometimes shown as rigid. This position...