My body is not happy today. I drank too much wine last night and have not been drinking water, so my body is dehydrated, and it finally said, "Enough is enough." Needless to say my head is where I feel the most, the blood vessels constricted, trying to do their job, but me not cooperating. Most of the tension is gone after doing the meditation, but a little bit remains, as if to say, "You do the crime, you do the time." These meditations take me into a deeper relationship with my body, urging me to listen, not just during the meditations, but to have a constant loving conversation with it. It is because of my body that I am able to have relationships with the world around me, people, animals, plants, music, touch of my feet on the wooden floor, or my fingers on a computer keyboard. A good exercise for me today may be to actually feel when I touch something, pick something up, just to pay attention to what is happening, to "Be Here Now."
Oh how quickly I forget. I got up to put the laundry in the dryer, and realized when I walked away that I really didn't feel. I did feel the dampness, but I wasn't paying attention, it was so automatic to do it. I didn't feel the floor as I walked over to the dryer, my mind going in a million different directions, but I cannot even tell you what I was thinking! Baby steps, tiny, tiny baby steps.
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My body is not happy today. I drank too much wine last night and have not been drinking water, so my body is dehydrated, and it finally said, "Enough is enough." Needless to say my head is where I feel the most, the blood vessels constricted, trying to do their job, but me not cooperating. Most of the tension is gone after doing the meditation, but a little bit remains, as if to say, "You do the crime, you do the time." These meditations take me into a deeper relationship with my body, urging me to listen, not just during the meditations, but to have a constant loving conversation with it. It is because of my body that I am able to have relationships with the world around me, people, animals, plants, music, touch of my feet on the wooden floor, or my fingers on a computer keyboard. A good exercise for me today may be to actually feel when I touch something, pick something up, just to pay attention to what is happening, to "Be Here Now."
Oh how quickly I forget. I got up to put the laundry in the dryer, and realized when I walked away that I really didn't feel. I did feel the dampness, but I wasn't paying attention, it was so automatic to do it. I didn't feel the floor as I walked over to the dryer, my mind going in a million different directions, but I cannot even tell you what I was thinking! Baby steps, tiny, tiny baby steps.
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