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flexagonI was minding my own business on Sunday when WHOOMP (that was the sound of kindling lighting on fire), my physical energy came back in full force. Wow. It's a lot, being me when one isn't used to it! I spent a couple of hours at the gym, walked to circus, did acro for a couple more hours and then took a walk with the bug before I remembered to regulate. :-) Then I rested on Monday, continued normal training but with a lot less misery, and I think the only remaining fallout from my cold is some stiffness in my splits. So yay! Even my period didn't arrive along with a tired day. I think I had a lot of extra sleep/rest banked up.
On Friday I did a press handstand with just a ribcage-tap from my coach, and the best one was the easiest one... who knows how long now until I do one alone, but let's just say the coach has given me some new overhead pressing exercises to do with a kettlebell, and I'll absolutely be doing them. Often.
Work has evolved into an endless swim through floodwaters. I haven't cried over it in a while, so lately I'm just telling people to do an image search for Harvey cat if they want an idea of how I'm doing with the big project. The good news is that I've been talking to my new boss a lot more, and starting to win his trust/respect etc. The bad news is that a lot is still weird. There's one person who will reflexively, reliably disagree with me when I repeat their own ideas back to them, which is an amusing game but makes it difficult to get things done. And the volume of things people ask me to do is too damn high.
On a random note: the guy who wrote The Mind Illuminated, a very influential teacher of meditation, just got booted out of his own foundation for cheating on his wife (for years, with 10 or so women, some of whom were escorts). A friend of mine is really into TMI (yes, the acronym is hilarious), which is how I know about it... now I keep reading r/themindilluminated because it is such a weird enclave of people who fell deep into a rabbit hole, and they are in such turmoil. A lot of them are asking "what's the point of becoming super-aware of your own mental processes, if all that awareness -- painstakingly cultivated -- can't save you from being a cheating POS" and it's a good question. I think this guy painted himself into a nasty corner using the paintbrush of his own ego. It's probably hard to sit down and have an honest talk with your wife about evolving sexual desires and their importance to you when you've already written, in a published book, that you can banish lust with a flick of your enlightened neurons. But that means he did it to himself, so, in other words: Christ, what an asshole.
On Friday I did a press handstand with just a ribcage-tap from my coach, and the best one was the easiest one... who knows how long now until I do one alone, but let's just say the coach has given me some new overhead pressing exercises to do with a kettlebell, and I'll absolutely be doing them. Often.
Work has evolved into an endless swim through floodwaters. I haven't cried over it in a while, so lately I'm just telling people to do an image search for Harvey cat if they want an idea of how I'm doing with the big project. The good news is that I've been talking to my new boss a lot more, and starting to win his trust/respect etc. The bad news is that a lot is still weird. There's one person who will reflexively, reliably disagree with me when I repeat their own ideas back to them, which is an amusing game but makes it difficult to get things done. And the volume of things people ask me to do is too damn high.
On a random note: the guy who wrote The Mind Illuminated, a very influential teacher of meditation, just got booted out of his own foundation for cheating on his wife (for years, with 10 or so women, some of whom were escorts). A friend of mine is really into TMI (yes, the acronym is hilarious), which is how I know about it... now I keep reading r/themindilluminated because it is such a weird enclave of people who fell deep into a rabbit hole, and they are in such turmoil. A lot of them are asking "what's the point of becoming super-aware of your own mental processes, if all that awareness -- painstakingly cultivated -- can't save you from being a cheating POS" and it's a good question. I think this guy painted himself into a nasty corner using the paintbrush of his own ego. It's probably hard to sit down and have an honest talk with your wife about evolving sexual desires and their importance to you when you've already written, in a published book, that you can banish lust with a flick of your enlightened neurons. But that means he did it to himself, so, in other words: Christ, what an asshole.
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Date: 2019-08-26 01:51 pm (UTC)I'm curious about the TMI thing.. Is that practice generally viewed as legitimate? In this context it sounds a little money-grab-ish, but at the same time scientific approaches to enlightenment based on old-world mysticism tend to attract my gullible attention.
I can see how the bit about the leader guys transgressions is disruptive to folks who are into it. power corrupts, I guess.. even if you can control your mind. ha.
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Date: 2019-08-31 11:36 pm (UTC)