Meditative Exercises

Something clicked earlier today about the practice of Yoga.

I finally understood that Yoga one time or even a few times does little to no good because the real merit of Yoga lies not in the stretching or exercise.

The point lies in focusing your mind through a deep level connection (subconscious) with your body and its movements.

Once I really understood that, I applied the knowledge in an amusing way, at least to me. At work, I am at the point where I need to focus on my body very little and use the time to freely wander through what ever paths of my mind I wish to take.

So as I made beds and cleaned bathrooms, I focused my mind differently, uniting it with the body and I immediately felt peace and freeness of spirit.

Who ever knew housekeeping could become its own religion? ^_^

Mind of a Warrior

Here was an interesting one that I really liked.

It was talking about how the mind in meditation was just like that of a warrior in battle. And I don't know how many of you have ever done sword fighting or martial arts sparring or anything, but what this was saying made perfect sense to me since I have done both.

When you are about to fight or are fighting, you are not deaf, you are not blind. You see and note every little thing going on around you and in your enemy, but the real key to fighting is not letting that distract you in the slightest. You still need to know what is happening, but your mind takes in your surroundings and only brings the necessary information into your frontal awareness.

It's a really cool feeling and I realized that those really good meditations, that's what happens. I can be sitting there, fully aware of the conversations around me, the cars outside, the way my skin prickles in the cold. It's not that it doesn't matter, because it all does, but I don't let it distract me in the slightest from my thoughts.

I have never made that connection before now, but thinking about it, they are the same feeling. Strange.

Mind and Body

An interesting thought today that I have somehow missed in all of my musings.

I was reading on the history of physics and philosophy and ran into something intriguing. it was talking about how there was a division once that had to be made between the mind and body, a transition to where the mind was thought of as controlling the body.

But if you follow that backwards, then people before that time believed that mind and body were equal.

it's strange for me to think of now. That might point to a balance issue, but I always just assumed that the mind was far more important than the body. I mean I have taken care of my body with the primary reason to preserve my mind.

And not only that, but I have always heard so much about transcending beyond mortal needs as if it is this heavenly goal.

But what if that is not right? What if they are equal?

That would change how I look at things for sure.

Freeing Mindset

Isn’t it amazing how the same things can be done with a different mindset and everything changes?

All I thought was, “Today, I am going to do everything I can to be closer to the person I want to become,” and poof, it was as if everything was different.

I am free today. Free and required to do what I want to do. And I’m finding that what I want to do ends up correlating oh so nicely with my future goals.

For example, I want to strengthen my spirit and body. So, I went on a long walk, seeing the leaves drifting down, spinning and catching the morning light. I listened to the bird song and raced a few dogs through the park.

I want to become more intelligent, always. There’s always so much I want to learn. So, big surprise I spent some time at the library and I must say, I fully enjoyed myself, The Tao of Physics being just one of my interesting finds.

I want to become emotionally stronger and hope to do the same for others, so my best friend, Jo-Anne, and I are scheduled for a Philosophical debate today.

Life is so amazing. I tried to love every moment of it and you know, I think every bit of amazement and love for the world I sent out, got sent right back. I keep having the hardest time not smiling at everything.