Today’s favourite poses: TBA
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: TBA
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading video
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Day #99
Today’s favourite poses: Table, Dog, 3 Legged Dog, Child's Pose
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 15-20
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/video:
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 15-20
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/video:
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Day #98
Today’s favourite poses: Warrior, Plank
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10-15
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/video:
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10-15
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/video:
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Day #97
Today’s favourite poses: The usual suspects (Dog, Pigeon, Child)
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 5-10
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/videos:
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 5-10
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading/videos:
Friday, April 8, 2011
Day #96
Today’s favourite poses: Plank, Child
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 6
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading (Taken from the National Association for Christian Recovery)
Most children who have negative attachment experiences will defend against a conscious awareness that they are not loved, and will decide that the problem is with themselves – that they are not lovable. However, unconsciously they will "see" others as not loving, including God. As a result, they will unconsciously avoid true intimacy with others and with God.
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 6
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading (Taken from the National Association for Christian Recovery)
Most children who have negative attachment experiences will defend against a conscious awareness that they are not loved, and will decide that the problem is with themselves – that they are not lovable. However, unconsciously they will "see" others as not loving, including God. As a result, they will unconsciously avoid true intimacy with others and with God.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Day #95
Today’s favourite poses: Child only. Only Child
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10 total
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading videos
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10 total
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading videos
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Day #94
Today’s favourite poses: Ch, D, P
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 3, 5, 3
Today’s interesting/thought provoking Vid
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 3, 5, 3
Today’s interesting/thought provoking Vid
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Day #93
Today’s favourite poses: Child, Dog, Bird
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 3
Today’s interesting/thought provoking video
(I really liked this video, except for the part where they sort of use fear to discourage fear…….Still worth a watch though....)
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 3
Today’s interesting/thought provoking video
(I really liked this video, except for the part where they sort of use fear to discourage fear…….Still worth a watch though....)
Monday, April 4, 2011
Day #92
Today’s favourite poses: Pigeon, Plank
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 5-10
Today’s interesting/thought provoking videos
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 5-10
Today’s interesting/thought provoking videos
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Day #91
Today’s favourite poses: Pigeon, Tree, Warrior II, II, Down. Ward. Facing. Dog!
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: TBA
Today’s interesting/thought provoking videos
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: TBA
Today’s interesting/thought provoking videos
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Day #90
Today’s favourite poses: Pigeon, Warrior, Child, Doggie
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 2
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
Staying in the “what” has nothing to do with wallowing. Wallowing involves believing in our thoughts and opinions. To stay in the “what” is to experience the moment with all its uncertainty – without the ground of thoughts and concepts, with no knowledge of what is to come. This is just the place where we least want to be.
But as we continue to push the truth of the moment away – whether by attempting to figure it out or through flights into our comfortable addictions and fantasies – the heaviness, drama, distress, and dis-ease of our life will persist. As we insist on believing in our thoughts and judgements, we will continue to shut ourselves off from the depth, the genuineness, and the satisfaction available to all of us in every moment.
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 2
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
Staying in the “what” has nothing to do with wallowing. Wallowing involves believing in our thoughts and opinions. To stay in the “what” is to experience the moment with all its uncertainty – without the ground of thoughts and concepts, with no knowledge of what is to come. This is just the place where we least want to be.
But as we continue to push the truth of the moment away – whether by attempting to figure it out or through flights into our comfortable addictions and fantasies – the heaviness, drama, distress, and dis-ease of our life will persist. As we insist on believing in our thoughts and judgements, we will continue to shut ourselves off from the depth, the genuineness, and the satisfaction available to all of us in every moment.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Day #89
Today’s favourite poses: Dawg, Cat, Child,
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10. no more, no less
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
Nonetheless, we continue to believe in our thoughts, especially those most deeply conditioned. It’s our urgent need to avoid the groundlessness , the anxious quiver of being, that drives us to embrace our concepts, our beliefs, our judgements – in order to gain some footing, a measure of security, a sense of living in a known world. And, of course, there’s the juicy gratification of “being right”.
What are we really doing when, for example, we sit in meditation allowing ourselves to get lost in planning? We’re simply living in the mental world, where we can try to make life ordered, stable, and predictable. We’re avoiding the “whatness” – the discomfort and uncertainty of the present moment. In those moments when we fall into the muddy water of uncertainty, can we just stay with the “what” of our experience without escaping into thinking, analyzing, judging, blaming or believing?
Minutes with a relatively quiet mind: 10. no more, no less
Today’s interesting/thought provoking reading: (Taken from At Home in the Muddy Waters by Ezra Bayda)
Nonetheless, we continue to believe in our thoughts, especially those most deeply conditioned. It’s our urgent need to avoid the groundlessness , the anxious quiver of being, that drives us to embrace our concepts, our beliefs, our judgements – in order to gain some footing, a measure of security, a sense of living in a known world. And, of course, there’s the juicy gratification of “being right”.
What are we really doing when, for example, we sit in meditation allowing ourselves to get lost in planning? We’re simply living in the mental world, where we can try to make life ordered, stable, and predictable. We’re avoiding the “whatness” – the discomfort and uncertainty of the present moment. In those moments when we fall into the muddy water of uncertainty, can we just stay with the “what” of our experience without escaping into thinking, analyzing, judging, blaming or believing?
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