Day 27
Timer on…
Well, it’s past midnight, but…I got a late start and I wanted to do the whole series again tonight, so…I don’t care if the writing occurs after midnight. I had a radio interview tonight and then I always talk to Nick, and then I needed to bathe before the hot water heater turns off to save power/money, so…I got started late…but I did the whole thing, and it was really nice today. There’s something kind of awesome about repetition. There’s a point where repetition gets boring and one has this desire to switch it up, but…if you push past the boredom, something else happens…confidence…and discoveries of new places one can push themselves to… When I took ballet pretty seriously for a while, I noticed that the barre work would do that…it would be good, and then it would get boring, but then I kept going and my muscles would change and a confidence would take the place of the boredom and I could see other places/muscles I could still work…
A couple of days ago I was really bored because the radio told me and just about everyone else in Sullivan County to not drive around, if possible, and so…I stayed in…but I got really stir crazy after the first day, so I went into town and looked at the DVDs that were for sale at the grocery store. I picked up a documentary on horses, and in the episode about dressage the trainers talked about how it takes 5 years just to learn the moves, 10 years to start to understand how to apply them, and 15 years before the horse can compete, but that you can start to see confidence creeping into the horses’ muscles and movements starting in the 10th year. I think that’s how human bodies are, as well… I’ve been practicing yoga since 1997, and I’m just starting to feel a confidence in many poses, and some poses I thought I couldn’t do anymore, are coming back to their original confidence with the repetition of this series… So, I guess the moral of this story is that repetition is universal in the animal kingdom, and if you want to do something well, you need to keep repeating the actions for many years on a day-to-day basis…
Alright…we were still suss-ing out the definition of the Ajna…hopefully, I can finish that out tonight and we can move on to something different…
“Third eye or brow chakra. Color: Indigo. Element: ether. Endocrine system; hypothalamus and pituitary glands. Vital organ: the brain. General function: cognition. Related to wisdom and awareness of the mind.”
Well, to re-cap, we made the discovery that the endocrine system connection in the poses associated with this chakra work on my two goals: to help find a transition out of my mourning and to lose the 20 lbs. I gained and can’t seem to get off during the deepest days of my mourning…
“General function: cognition…” Now, I know the defintion to that, but I think I want to look at it again because something nagging in me wants me to… “Conscious mental activities: the activities of thinking, understanding, learning and remembering…” Ah! Yes! “Remembering…” In this series I am not only trying to achieve the goals of transitioning out of mourning physically and emotionally, I am also continuously “remembering” because I’ve been pushing memories down about my father because they make me cry instantaneously… However, when I am doing this series, I have to work through the tears and, lately, none have been happening, so…I think this is working… Allowing me to reflect and “remember” is allowing me to mourn…and, hopefully, transition…
Well, I guess that’s all the Ajna Chakra, in a nutshell. I have already listed the benefits of standing balance poses, and, apparently, they are the same, so…not much to discuss there. I think the important thing about this Part of the series is that it’s more about the Chakra. I’m going to try and focus on that more in the practice for the next couple of days. I had forgotten about all the discoveries I made yesterday until I was in Natarajasana/The Dancer Pose, and then I started to use it, and it made the pose stronger, somehow… I need to do that with the other standing balance poses…
Until tomorrow…that’s all for today!
Timer on…
Well, it’s past midnight, but…I got a late start and I wanted to do the whole series again tonight, so…I don’t care if the writing occurs after midnight. I had a radio interview tonight and then I always talk to Nick, and then I needed to bathe before the hot water heater turns off to save power/money, so…I got started late…but I did the whole thing, and it was really nice today. There’s something kind of awesome about repetition. There’s a point where repetition gets boring and one has this desire to switch it up, but…if you push past the boredom, something else happens…confidence…and discoveries of new places one can push themselves to… When I took ballet pretty seriously for a while, I noticed that the barre work would do that…it would be good, and then it would get boring, but then I kept going and my muscles would change and a confidence would take the place of the boredom and I could see other places/muscles I could still work…
A couple of days ago I was really bored because the radio told me and just about everyone else in Sullivan County to not drive around, if possible, and so…I stayed in…but I got really stir crazy after the first day, so I went into town and looked at the DVDs that were for sale at the grocery store. I picked up a documentary on horses, and in the episode about dressage the trainers talked about how it takes 5 years just to learn the moves, 10 years to start to understand how to apply them, and 15 years before the horse can compete, but that you can start to see confidence creeping into the horses’ muscles and movements starting in the 10th year. I think that’s how human bodies are, as well… I’ve been practicing yoga since 1997, and I’m just starting to feel a confidence in many poses, and some poses I thought I couldn’t do anymore, are coming back to their original confidence with the repetition of this series… So, I guess the moral of this story is that repetition is universal in the animal kingdom, and if you want to do something well, you need to keep repeating the actions for many years on a day-to-day basis…
Alright…we were still suss-ing out the definition of the Ajna…hopefully, I can finish that out tonight and we can move on to something different…
“Third eye or brow chakra. Color: Indigo. Element: ether. Endocrine system; hypothalamus and pituitary glands. Vital organ: the brain. General function: cognition. Related to wisdom and awareness of the mind.”
Well, to re-cap, we made the discovery that the endocrine system connection in the poses associated with this chakra work on my two goals: to help find a transition out of my mourning and to lose the 20 lbs. I gained and can’t seem to get off during the deepest days of my mourning…
“General function: cognition…” Now, I know the defintion to that, but I think I want to look at it again because something nagging in me wants me to… “Conscious mental activities: the activities of thinking, understanding, learning and remembering…” Ah! Yes! “Remembering…” In this series I am not only trying to achieve the goals of transitioning out of mourning physically and emotionally, I am also continuously “remembering” because I’ve been pushing memories down about my father because they make me cry instantaneously… However, when I am doing this series, I have to work through the tears and, lately, none have been happening, so…I think this is working… Allowing me to reflect and “remember” is allowing me to mourn…and, hopefully, transition…
Well, I guess that’s all the Ajna Chakra, in a nutshell. I have already listed the benefits of standing balance poses, and, apparently, they are the same, so…not much to discuss there. I think the important thing about this Part of the series is that it’s more about the Chakra. I’m going to try and focus on that more in the practice for the next couple of days. I had forgotten about all the discoveries I made yesterday until I was in Natarajasana/The Dancer Pose, and then I started to use it, and it made the pose stronger, somehow… I need to do that with the other standing balance poses…
Until tomorrow…that’s all for today!
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