Life Force is a clear, secular invitation to experience aliveness from within. It begins with what is already present: warmth in our hands, the quiet thrum of our blood, the rise and fall of our breath, tiny twitches in our muscles and tendons. Taken together, these ordinary signals form a bundle. There is no ghost in the machine, only the coherent pattern of a living body: the life force.
Through simple body scans, this book teaches sustained attention without beliefs or rituals. We will learn to notice sensation, to map tension without bracing against it, and to let attention widen and narrow as a lens does. Along the way, accessible explanations of readiness potentials, habit loops and pain literacy show why simple noticing can change how our nervous system responds to pain and ageing.
Life Force does not promise cures. It offers a practice for steadier mood, less reactivity, and a kinder relationship with pain and ageing. It is for readers who want to cultivate presence without spiritual framing, and for anyone curious about how agency can feel different once the body’s signals are heard.
Practical, evidence-literate, and humane, Life Force shows that nothing mystical is required to experience the ordinary miracle of being alive now.
Life Force by Suzanne Visser eBook
Suzanne H Visser (born 1957) is an Australia-based legal scholar, author and publisher. She is the founder and chief executive of Clear Mind Press in Central Australia and the managing director of Sustainable Justice Australia, where her work focuses on sustainable justice, criminal justice systems and space law. Her current scholarship builds practical evaluation tools for law, policy and procedure, developed over extended research periods at Charles Darwin University and the University of Newcastle. She writes and publishes in English after an earlier career in Dutch.
Visser’s bibliography spans fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Earlier Dutch-language titles include the thriller De Vismoorden (later published in translation as The Fish Murders), the novels Terra Nostra and Een man met mooie benen, and the children’s book De Verdwijning. Her recent English-language works include the two-volume inquiry The Elephant’s Tooth (on crime in Alice Springs and rural Australia), Marks on Paper: Essays on Drawing, Seeing and Looking, Never Retire: An Exploration of Old Age, and Hundred Fifty Five Sonnets, The Mankeeper.
As a publisher, she has commissioned and edited a diverse list of authors across essays, memoir, poetry and visual arts.
Visser has lived in Central Australia since 2000. Her practice is shaped by long engagement with embodied disciplines and the arts, including formative periods in Japan, and by sustained work at the intersection of research and community consultation. Across her roles as scholar, writer and publisher, she aims to connect careful inquiry with usable frameworks for institutions and readers alike.
PUBLISH TYPE: Print & Ebook
PAGES: 108
TRIM SIZE: 5.50 x 8.50 in
BINDING TYPE: Paperback
COLOR QUALITY: Black & White
PAPER TYPE: 70 lb White
COVER TYPE: Gloss
