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Post by timfarney on Oct 10, 2006 20:40:12 GMT -5
Talk to me about the meditating part, Tim. You just close your eyes for 5 mins, or do you do a more formal, Lotus-position regimen or what? I am thinking about getting into Hatha Yogurt. I just sit up in bed. I've been meditating for about 35 years. There were a few years in there when I didn't do it much, but for most of that time it has been daily. I started when the Maharishi's transcendental meditation movement was big in America, which means I started with a Mantra -- a meaningless word/sound (well, meaningless of you don't speak Hindi) that you repeat in your mind just to give you something to sort of flow with and take you away from the clutter of thoughts that you'll quickly find out is normal and pervasive inside your head, once you look for quiet. Somewhere along the line it evolved on its own and the mantra went away. I ride the rhythm of my own breath these days, which becomes very, very, shallow in a meditative state. Also, the TM people do 20 minutes at a time, twice a day. I do more like 40 minutes to an hour, in a single sitting, usually just before dawn. It long ago became deeply ingrained in my day and my life and I get great pleasure from it. I know I'd really miss it if I stopped, but I can't say it has transformed me either. I mean I get stressed out, angry on occasion. 35 years of daily meditation and I certainly don't feel like I have any great spiritual insights to share, maybe just one very smalll one: Most of the time, when I come across someone who is attempting to meditate, their difficulty is the same. They can't stick with it, can't sit sitll because they find it diffficult to concentrate for that long. I know this much is true -- if it is difficult, if you are trying, if you are concentrating, you're not having trouble sticking with meditation. You haven't yet begun to meditate. That's all I've learned in my 35 years. Tim
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Post by Deleted on Oct 10, 2006 21:14:32 GMT -5
Wow, that's cool Tim. I have a mantra that I was given by a yogi in the area. I use this when I wake up at night to quiet my mind and it helps me to fall back asleep. I haven't tried meditating but have been interested in it.
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Post by billhammond on Oct 10, 2006 21:43:09 GMT -5
"Carvin" would be a good mantra, I think.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Oct 10, 2006 22:12:23 GMT -5
The radio stars up at 5:15 and while 'Nita drags herself into the shower I go make coffee. She is at work at 6:30 and home around 4:00.
I punch in at 7:00. I punch out at 9:15. Then I punch back in at 10:10. Then I punch out at 12:50. I go home and make lunch and a espresso or two, and if I have enough time, I log on here. Then I go back and punch back in at 2:00. Then I punch out at 4:35.
I wonder why they have so much trouble keeping bus drivers? Mike
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Post by chak on Oct 10, 2006 23:44:03 GMT -5
I always wondered what hours bus drivers worked Mike. Kinda broken up.....
Out of bed by 6:30ish, get kids up (wife's out the door by now), out the door by 7:25am, drop kids off at school, at work between 8:00am and 8:30am depending on traffic.
Chak
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Post by HarmonEyes on Oct 11, 2006 0:38:23 GMT -5
Alarm rings at 5:37am, whereupon I stumble out of bed and into the living room where my bright-eyed and bushy-tailed morning person of a husband welcomes me with a quick backrub...those feel really nice. Make a quick breakfast, make my daughter's lunch, shower, get dressed, and I'm out the door by 6:15. Catch the 6:23 bus in order to get to work for 7am. The three of us are so different regarding mornings: my husband's a morning person--doesn't even need an alarm, I'm groggy, and my daughter's a crank. Yep, mornings sure get interesting around here sometimes.
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Post by andrewg on Oct 11, 2006 5:19:36 GMT -5
Why don't they make an alarm that doesn't wake you up? They irritate the hell out of me with their damn bleeps and buzzes.
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Post by Village Idiot on Oct 11, 2006 6:48:46 GMT -5
Harmoneyes, my youngest daughter (15) is just awful in the morning. Fortunately, after finally getting her up, I'm out the door before she can reach for her rifle.
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Post by theevan on Oct 11, 2006 7:08:06 GMT -5
For morning people we have an early-bird hermit (moi), a sweet sleepy-head (dear dottah), and an homicidal angry person (to remain unnamed). Is there a problem with that?
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