2013.03.03 _ 47

After a week or so hiatus I realized how much I missed this daily routine , so today I restarted in my office after a distracted morning at home. Not overly concerned about timing myself I did 50 meditative breaths, 50 tea cups and 50 stretches after which I also did a few other short Chi Gong exercises focusing on joints with involved slapping up and down the inside and outside your arms and across your chest and "lung points".

In order to keep myself slow(er) today I tried (and succeeded) to do the entire 3 part Tai Chi form with a CD case balanced on my head.

In terms of timing, there was no clock running but I do remember beginning my meditation with "Echos from Pink Floyd starting when I left the room and returning at the completion of Eight Miles High by the Byrds...(these are on my iPhone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KMpZaEF6g0 - time 23:29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH6UnvSlahc - time 3:28

The scales indicate 270. That's another 2 pounds lost, and 45 pounds overall since October.
(Storm refrains from celebrating with a big cake.)

Sometimes personal revelations come from surprising places...

I was playing chess - in accordance with my mind health program - and learning a new opening with the help of a slim book on the subject. I decided to play it against "Chess Titans" - a free program that comes with Windows 7. When Titans varied from the book - not surprising as it's hardly exhaustive - I tried to analyze things myself and sought comment on my analysis from "Rybka", a forerunner of a World Champion program.

While I found strong moves, Rybka told me there were better. But I had avoided them. Why? Because, it seems, they were complicated, or they were risky, or they left me potentially exposed. I'd shied away from those because I am more fallible than a computer.

And this seems to be a reflection of the way I live. I don't always make the best choices, but I rarely make the worst ones. Few choices in life have certain outcomes, and the consequences of some risky choices backfiring are not always recoverable later on. By contrast, it's often easier to recover from less risky choices if they backfire. So instead I seem to go for choices that are reasonable rather than best, and certainly not bad, but choices that are recoverable from if they go awry.

Or is this just my laziness shining through in yet another form?! ;-)

Meditated in the evening.

After getting into the right posture, I quite easily first dropped words, and then the idea of meditation, falling into a place where everything was just as it was and the inadequacy of words made it quite easy to let (most of) them go. And then I dropped out of that place again, which was no big deal either.

::: Fragile harpsichord
::: In a wooden concert hall
::: Silver light slivers

did 30min on bed with med. buddy as usual

was in the middle of mantras when the sound of my son doing horrible things to my dishes distracted me, so I spent some time breathing and listening to it, I realized something: "may you find happiness and the causes of happiness", I was listening to a cause of happiness.

interruptions aren't always interruptions :)

Grateful for a fun night out bowling :)
112, 148, 107 :)

moving into more spacious inner patterns