Saturday, February 25, 2006
Day 24 - K.I.S.S.
[Post for yesterday].
This marked the first day of my "bounce back" from the travel/illness ILP void. Positing the simple of act of just beginning over all lengthy exercise activity, I boiled it down to a very simple 10-minute, 4-module exercise to do in my dining room before running to catch the bus. In other words, Keep It Simple Stupid.
Body: modified, super-sleek 3-Body Workout, amounting to about 3 minutes of basic movements and light yogic stretching.
Mind: sat in my chair and "felt into" the four basic perspectives of my existence: all the shit going in my head, the phlegm and pain working its way out of respiration, the myriad conversations I'd left hanging in the air, the rental/infrastructural systems my apartment is embedded in.
Spirit: very simple 1-2-3 of God, which is quickly becoming my favorite practice. Rest as the infinite "I Am", then put yourself in an I-Thou relationship with this imagined deity, followed by a contemplation of the deified's presence in all manifest phenomena. Whether or not God exists is kinda besides the point: the practice is just a fun rollercoaster through different perspectives, with all the humility and agonized ecstasy that implies.
Shadow: Here's where I keep getting hung up. The kit suggests 3-2-1 Process as its "gold star" practice, but it's clear that it doesn't apply to all "issues". The main way to get 3-2-1 started is to indentify someone around whom you have a noticeable "charge", but herein lies the problem: today I love/hate everyone equally, with no one standing out as particularly worthy of praise or blame. If I had to choose an "issue", it would be my job, and the funds I'm not putting away for my future existence. The real shadow, then, is my antipathy towards self-sacrifice in the moment for the sake of the future. And that, it turns out, is the basic pathology of life today: we'll go in horridly in debt just to live a little bit more sensate pleasure in the here-and-now.
To win our Selves away from this maw, that's our real challenge today.
This marked the first day of my "bounce back" from the travel/illness ILP void. Positing the simple of act of just beginning over all lengthy exercise activity, I boiled it down to a very simple 10-minute, 4-module exercise to do in my dining room before running to catch the bus. In other words, Keep It Simple Stupid.
Body: modified, super-sleek 3-Body Workout, amounting to about 3 minutes of basic movements and light yogic stretching.
Mind: sat in my chair and "felt into" the four basic perspectives of my existence: all the shit going in my head, the phlegm and pain working its way out of respiration, the myriad conversations I'd left hanging in the air, the rental/infrastructural systems my apartment is embedded in.
Spirit: very simple 1-2-3 of God, which is quickly becoming my favorite practice. Rest as the infinite "I Am", then put yourself in an I-Thou relationship with this imagined deity, followed by a contemplation of the deified's presence in all manifest phenomena. Whether or not God exists is kinda besides the point: the practice is just a fun rollercoaster through different perspectives, with all the humility and agonized ecstasy that implies.
Shadow: Here's where I keep getting hung up. The kit suggests 3-2-1 Process as its "gold star" practice, but it's clear that it doesn't apply to all "issues". The main way to get 3-2-1 started is to indentify someone around whom you have a noticeable "charge", but herein lies the problem: today I love/hate everyone equally, with no one standing out as particularly worthy of praise or blame. If I had to choose an "issue", it would be my job, and the funds I'm not putting away for my future existence. The real shadow, then, is my antipathy towards self-sacrifice in the moment for the sake of the future. And that, it turns out, is the basic pathology of life today: we'll go in horridly in debt just to live a little bit more sensate pleasure in the here-and-now.
To win our Selves away from this maw, that's our real challenge today.
