I will be doing my second year of Meditation Month with Salzberg. This was on the website for the sign-up, and it has Meaning for me as I slog through my real happiness process.
Swimming has been the most meaningful experience I have had in a very long time. Fred, teacher, has said several times, people do not teach people to swim but effort into moving the body in the water so they can get to the other side of the pool. When I ask people who tell me, “well I learned when my father tossed me into the pool” … and did you learn to swim as in comfortable and can swim a long time. The second question is… and did you teach your child the same way… “yes, since that is how I was taught”.
There are 21 ways to learn and most teachers teach they way they were taught even when they also say, I did not learn that way. So why continue the dangerous practice. Yes, we need to look at the past but why stay there?
My hearing loss was a great gift for I did not lose the hearing, I hear much more clearly now since I listen much more. Every day, I get out of bed and say, I am awake. Now, I do yogi breathing, meditation, morning body ritual and say… I am awake and alive and aware.
The big trick is to conscious of being awake, aware, and alert and to set up continuous ways to pause and check in to bring awareness back to the heart/mind.
Pause.....Bing bing bing… another wakeup call.
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