Community Through Communication

By Pavel G. Somov, Ph.D.

Facebook, Twitter, email, chat, texting, social media, blogging. What is this constant compulsion to share? Must be the fear of remaining un-witnessed.

When “the body is but the foam of a wave” (as Dhammapada teaches), the mouth has nothing to do but to foam with words.

It’s always been like that. What’s a haiku but a medieval tweet?! Mind watches its own passing and mourns itself with verbal sentimentality. Community through communication.

Pass your time in centrifugal peace, fellow eddy-in-a-stream. Un-wind outward! No swimming up this stream of consciousness. No hoarding of water.

This constant communication-compulsion to rejoin the stream of “what is” is what makes this communal life-stream flow in the first place. Pour out!

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and the author of "Eating the Moment" (New Harbinger, 2008), "Present Perfect" (NH, 2010), "The Lotus Effect" (NH, 2010), "Smoke Free Smoke Break" (2011), and "Reinventing the Meal" (2012). He is in private practice in Pittsburgh, PA. His book website is www.eatingthemoment.com

Marla Somova, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice and an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, PA. She is the co-author of "Smoke Free Smoke Break" (2011).

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Last reviewed: 9 Jul 2011

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Somov, P. (2011). Community Through Communication. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 19, 2013, from http://blogs.psychcentral.com/mindful-living/2011/02/community-through-communication/