Taste The Gasoline

[gorzilla]

This is dahlia's fault. Though it's not really blame, just an observation that she started the marble in my skull rolling.

I need to clear space. Both physical and mental.

I do meditate but it hasn't been nearly as useful or for as long as it was in days gone past. It seems I've let life take over my actions instead of taking over my life. So over

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[gorzilla]

I'm looking, this time around, to see what Toaism has to say. One of the more spiritually productive points in my life was after reading the Te Of Piglet. Of course, that was also when everything else was on the rocks (jobless, about to be homeless) so this time I'm hoping for more balance.

I'll look at Taijiquan and Qigong as well though, have never really looked into them.

[janscottfrazier]

*hug*

I hope that your relaxation comes.

I realized that my Happiness Project was skidding and, after digging around to find why, I find that I have not been very mindful this year. So March has become my month of mindfulness, or at least regaining some sense of it. I'm trying to meditate for 15 - 20 minutes a day, mostly counting breaths and loving-kindness work. It's good that there's a meditation app with Zen bell timers and tracking. :)

*hug*

[gorzilla]

what's the app called? I should check it out.

I've also got some recordings of Tibetan Monks that are the right level of mellow.

[theheretic]

I'm a big fan of spartanism, counter-materialism (ridding oneself of stuff), and adaptation, which I suppose is an extension of recognizing the Now. I remind myself of the now, but I habitually live at least 5 years in the future so the present is mostly a lot of scenery to me compared to where I'll be later on in life. We are of an age where we've had plenty of time to digest our own mortality so the appeal of religion at this point must solely fall on coping with Now rather than denial fantasies, the fuel for those truly frightened by their Doom. Of course, I'm not a buddhist or xtian, more atavistic than anything. If not for music I'd probably be a naturist, which would be somewhat awkward when tied to an insulin pump 24/7.