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Watching thoughts go by..
Feb. 16th, 2009 03:53 pmTeaching on Saturday morning went well, especially for a first experience with such a full class with a wide range of ages and experience levels, and the critique and feedback received was supportive and helpful. Our team really held each other well, and the whole training weekend was full of great conversations and profoundly deep internal moments during practice.
My sensitivity to energy feels heightened in some ways since my visit to Devi Mandir, and I'm still watching the ripples and aftereffects in life and consciousness. If that sounds too new-agey, I don't really give a damn. I like to think I've always kept a healthy sense of skepticism and a measure of rationality in all my spiritual wanderings, and the more intense experiences I have on the path, the more credence I began to give these concepts that have been around for many thousands of years. Yogis were doing experiments on their own states of consciousness long before Athens was experimenting with democracy, and that gives me cause enough to continue my investigations with an open mind.
I've still got completely functional bullshit detectors, and I'm happy to ponder the power of the mind and the placebo effect, but I don't really see the difference in the practical realm of the everyday. If I've got a headache, and I really believe I'll feel better if I do some pranayam (breathing excercises) instead of taking an aspirin, it's likely I'll feel better after a round of kapalabhati. Results speak for themselves sometimes. I don't feel threatened either by the idea of God, or the idea that God is something humans made up. I live somewhere in the middle, with the idea that God is my essential self, and that there is no difference between the two.
My studies invigorate my mind as hatha yoga strengthens my body and kirtan nourishes my spirit. It's a miraculous life, and I'm grateful to be living it.
Later.
-Me.
My sensitivity to energy feels heightened in some ways since my visit to Devi Mandir, and I'm still watching the ripples and aftereffects in life and consciousness. If that sounds too new-agey, I don't really give a damn. I like to think I've always kept a healthy sense of skepticism and a measure of rationality in all my spiritual wanderings, and the more intense experiences I have on the path, the more credence I began to give these concepts that have been around for many thousands of years. Yogis were doing experiments on their own states of consciousness long before Athens was experimenting with democracy, and that gives me cause enough to continue my investigations with an open mind.
I've still got completely functional bullshit detectors, and I'm happy to ponder the power of the mind and the placebo effect, but I don't really see the difference in the practical realm of the everyday. If I've got a headache, and I really believe I'll feel better if I do some pranayam (breathing excercises) instead of taking an aspirin, it's likely I'll feel better after a round of kapalabhati. Results speak for themselves sometimes. I don't feel threatened either by the idea of God, or the idea that God is something humans made up. I live somewhere in the middle, with the idea that God is my essential self, and that there is no difference between the two.
My studies invigorate my mind as hatha yoga strengthens my body and kirtan nourishes my spirit. It's a miraculous life, and I'm grateful to be living it.
Later.
-Me.
