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May 30, 2009 08:36AM
I think there are certain positions in yoga that are meditation type some just are invigerating.
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I was just thinking that Emilee about yogaAlso when I do tai chi it feels like meditation in movement if that makes sense.
Another meditaion in movement I get is knitting. for some reason the constant moving of fingers empties my mind and reaches a still calm in breathing and traquility... haha unless it's a complicated pattern or my yarn gets knotted up then it has the exact opposite effect!
That is funny because I was thinking that I had not done tai chi in like 14 years and there is a nice little place up the street that has tai chi.
I draw mandalas, digitally these days, although next week I have to paint some round tables with them, and find I meditate when I'm doing them. My thoughts get drawn deeper and to a sort of calm centre as I progress through the rings and layers of the mandala.
I think I am going to start up yoga again. I am so out of shape and need something.
Petra X wrote: "I draw mandalas, digitally these days, although next week I have to paint some round tables with them, and find I meditate when I'm doing them. My thoughts get drawn deeper and to a sort of calm ce..."Petra is this something you taught yourself or do you replicate patterns you see?
I have found some really nice designs on the web that I use with henna.
Richard and I privately meditate together though one hundred miles apart. I suggest a regular time set aside. Maybe start with fifteen minutes. Although not a Catholic it was some of their writers who got me started. What helped me most was that it was all right to have thoughts cross one's minds while meditating, but to just brush them away like cobwebs. I had had the mistaken idea that one was to have a non stop thought-less meditation so I kept thinking I was failing. Many meditators come from the Eastern tradition, like Richard. I come from the Western tradition. The inner light of the Quaker tradition meshes very well with the Buddhist tradition. We just use different words. There is no failure in meditation. We all have days when our monkey minds struggle to hold still, but usually quiet down after a few minutes.
Thanks Sandra for the suggestions.
Prettymisslara, I think you will find the longer you meditate the easier it is to go into the deeper state.At first do not have any expectations of yourself or the session. Do not go into mediatation with any sort of goal at all. Just sit and let sounds of the birds or any other outside sounds fade into the background.
I thought I would add some folders as some writers have many books that we have discussions started on. I will add more as we start more book discussions.
PML I was glad to hear you have begun meditating.I read Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind as Richard suggested. It was most helpful. It is better not to have a plan for meditation, just sit. Keep to the same time and the same place; that will help you get in a routime.Please keep us both posted on your progress. From your posts I think you will enjoy meditating very much. I come away after it with a much clearer mind.
That all looked interesting but I'm sorry Richard its just too hard to plow through 50+ lines of a single unpunctuated sentence. Have pity on the poor readers who would like to read your words and try a full stop here and there and a paragraph or three.
I am thinking about doing belly dancing classes. I need to get in shape and miss dancing.
Emilee wrote: "I am thinking about doing belly dancing classes. I need to get in shape and miss dancing." I miss dancing too and I'd love to do belly dancing but my belly dances anyway when I walk, I don't think it needs extra instruction on the art of wobbling grossly. (I need to stop eating cheese).
Petra, I can identify with you. I need to learn to put small portions on plate. Quit when through and go upstairs or someplace else far from kitchen That might be step one.
I only eat small portions from small plates. Lots of them. I don't really eat much fattening food - mostly chick peas, lentils and miso soup at the moment, and All Bran with raisins and milk. But then I snack on cheese, lots of it!
It is good. My downfall are baked potato chips and cookies. Chick peas sound good. I used to use them often in salads. Have not had any in a long time.
Petra: I didn't know that you danced. What types of dancing did you do?
Richard wrote: "dear old2new-not this again-it is not one sentence"**sigh**
Whether or not Jack Kerouac used your form of writing I do not know, but when it came to published books which he wanted people to review, to read, to buy and to appreciate then he respected the conventions of communication. I seem to remember that On The Road , Dharma Bums, the Subterraneans et al were all properly punctuated.
I find your writing as tiresome as you find my comments, so I'll take your advice and just skip your posts.
Richard - I find your style free flow'n and unconventitional. That's why I love it.
It lends a different "voice"
off topic, I have no internet access at home right now. I am so sad as I can't be online all the time. So bear with me if I am not online much. I only have until the 27th.
it does stink but i shall recover. i am actually getting a lot of reading done.
Fiona wrote: "Not being online is unbearable! It's hard to imagine until you are actually forcibly not able to be online much, You feel so disconnected in a way. I mean I get the news from online, I don't watc..."
I agree, I remember life before the internet- I used my encyclopedia a lot more, and my home line. But sheesh the internet is just so fascinating- I mean even now instead of using the encyclopedia I go to wikipedia which leads to more links which lead to other links.... it's just amazing
Emily, I am sorry about your loss of internet at home for such a long period. I'd be sunk. While you are doing more reading is there anything you recommend - author or book? I am always looking.
I am brand new to Good Reads. How is everyone doing?nora
