tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363121032024-03-07T14:46:32.272-08:00Tai Chi :: Yoga :: Health :: Weight Loss :: TransformationHealth is good. <br/>
Happiness is good.<br/>
You are good. <br/>
Let's make good on that.<br/><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.comBlogger141125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-83977498058255390952011-05-30T07:40:00.000-07:002011-05-30T07:40:05.535-07:00<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">MINDFUL EATING, published first at <a href="http://slowsonoma.com/">SlowSonoma.com</a> </span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> and included here, as a compendium of the food/ health/ weight loss/ yoga / tai chi postings</span></b><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">The tongue has the biggest representation in our brains compared to its size in our body.<br />
Why?<br />
Eating.<br />
Talking.<br />
<br />
And, guess what? If you are in the mood to “wake up” in the enlightenment sense, and are on the pathway to being present and aware at every moment, you might or might not have noticed that these two times are times when we often go back to “sleep.”<br />
<br />
So here is today’s game, so simple and so deep and so off the normal track as to appear almost impossible.<br />
<br />
And in the words of Moshe Feldenrkais, the goal of an amazing life is to “make the impossible, possible; to make the possible easy; to make the easy elegant or pleasurable, or both.”<br />
The end is a bit of a paraphrase.<br />
Oh, well.<br />
<br />
Eating.<br />
<br />
Look at your food as your prepare it. Find your feet on the ground, and your eyes bringing in light and images, your fingers touching the food, your breath coming in and out.<br />
<br />
Notice your arms and legs and spine.<br />
<br />
Breathe.<br />
<br />
Prepare your food so that it looks and smells good to you.<br />
<br />
Sit somewhere that is conducive to feeding yoru body, and your heart and your spirit.<br />
<br />
Sit up somewhat straight.<br />
<br />
Take three breaths before you take a bite. If you live with other people, hold hands with your eyes close for many breathes, and then look around at each person before letting go. Maybe say something meaningful to you. Listen to what anyone else has to say.<br />
<br />
Before the first bite, follow three breaths.<br />
<br />
After the bit, put down the eating tool, or the bowl or the cup. Down, hands free. <br />
<br />
Chew and savor and taste.<br />
<br />
Take a breath when the food is “gone.”<br />
<br />
Then pick up the eating tool, cup or bowl, and resume, one more bit, again setting this down while you chew and savor.<br />
<br />
If others are there are you going to talk?<br />
<br />
I don’t know.<br />
<br />
Find out, and if you do, see if you can put attention all on eating and then all on listening and/ or talking, but make them separate.<br />
<br />
Make the attempt.<br />
<br />
Slowness and awareness will feed something deep in you.<br />
<br />
Try it and feel, see, experience;<br />
<br />
Good. <br />
<br />
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AND<br />
improving your brain<br />
balance<br />
and<br />
sense of humor</b><br />
<br />
<br />
If you know tai chi,<br />
and want to radically improve the awareness/ mindfulness<br />
benefits<br />
try this:<br />
<br />
start the form as you usually do<br />
with extra attention on whether your weight is on<br />
your left foot<br />
or your right foot<br />
<br />
gradually expand your awareness<br />
so that each time you weight is on your left foot,<br />
you add on as well<br />
attention to your right hand,<br />
and vice versa<br />
<br />
do this as fully as possible:<br />
all fingers, all toes,<br />
the meat of the hand, the fullness of the foot<br />
the wrist, the ankle<br />
<br />
and in the foot<br />
attention to where your weight is being placed<br />
<br />
keep doing this and then add on:<br />
selecting one digit of the "lit up" hand ( which is the<br />
hand opposite the foot pushing down into the Earth)<br />
select one finger of the "lit up" hand<br />
and put attention on that finger and the equivalent toe<br />
of the opposite/ weight bearing foot<br />
<br />
And switch in the next posture<br />
as your weight shifts to the opposite foot<br />
<br />
Like this:<br />
left foot on ground, right hand lit up: chose the thumb and the big toe<br />
right foot bearing weight, left hand lit up: choose the little finger and the little toe<br />
<br />
toward the middle of the foot,<br />
those toes are "harder"<br />
but that is the fun of it<br />
in a way<br />
<br />
and you'll forget to keep this<br />
awareness game going,<br />
maybe,<br />
and just come on back<br />
and "light up" your brain<br />
as you do tai chi<br />
<br />
</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-14468684486980124962011-05-16T10:44:00.000-07:002011-05-16T10:59:49.010-07:00<b>Going Beneath and Beyond Feeling Bad</b><br />
<br />
How to lose weight, by realizing that your unhappiness doesn't have to run and or ruin your life.<br />
<br />
I'm going to start posting almost weekly in this blog, too. To the right you can find a list of my other blogs and the days on which they are published.<br />
<br />
This blog is going to return to it's original aim: Tai Chi:: Yoga::Health:: Weight Loss<br />
<br />
And I'm starting my return here by talking to the core of overeating:<br />
Using food as a way to cover "feeling bad."<br />
<br />
In later essays, we can talk about eating mindfully, and shifting radically the "kinds" of foods that you eat.<br />
<br />
But if you can't begin to shift out of slavery to "getting rid" of unhappiness, the freedom that can come from real health and healthy eating will always be just "beyond the beyond."<br />
<br />
So here's the essay, a chapter in my new book on Real Health:<br />
<br />
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<div class="chapter">The Importance of Feeling Bad</div><div class="parabold">Sometimes, and with awareness</div><div class="parav">Sometimes we feel bad. Or, we could say, sometimes we feel like shit, or poorly, or unhappy. Mad, angry, depressed, worried, stressed, overwhelmed, sad. Bad.</div><div class="parav">We don’t feel good.</div><div class="parav">Now, this book is about waking up to real health by being present to whatever is going on.</div><div class="parav">If we feel bad, the “normal” way of reacting is:</div><div class="parav">Oh no, help. I feel bad. Get me out of here.</div><div class="parav">So we call a friend to rescue us from our loneliness, or going to a bar or a movie to distract ourselves, or even do something “good for us,” like jog, or write in our journal.</div><div class="parav">Some of these modes will move our life forward. Some will leave us stuck. And this book is about creating a life of ongoing happiness, health and learning. Of creating conditions where we can be helpful to ourselves, and to others and to the planet.</div><div class="parav">So, how can we “use” a moment, or a day, or a period of unhappiness to create a life of ongoing happiness, to create conditions where we can be useful to ourselves and to others and to the Earth.</div><div class="parav">Good old Earth. What does that have to do with being unhappy?</div><div class="parav">A lot, it turns out, since we can look around and see how much destruction is being melted out to our planet by the ravages of people rushing out to buy all sorts of stuff they don’t need, to coat and cover and “bad feelings” that might be creeping up.</div><div class="parav">That “shop until you drop” is considered sheik and cute rather than the ethical ecological equivalent of obscenity is testimony to how “normal” the habit of consumption is. And consuming stuff, consuming the Earth, here does the “stuff” come from? </div><div class="parav">Okay, okay, eco preaching yeah, yeah, but what does that have to do with unhappiness?</div><div class="parav">When unhappy: A. Don’t shop. B. Don’t get in a car and go somewhere. C. Don’t shop online. </div><div class="parav">When unhappy, don’t speed up.</div><div class="parav">Slow down. Slow down to the present.</div><div class="parav">Don’t avoid.</div><div class="parav">Feel, in the sensory sense, whatever sensations come up with “feeling bad.” </div><div class="parav">In your chest, breathing, jaw, neck, ribs. Wherever you constrict and contort yourself when you feel mad, afraid, weird, angry, sad, bad, notice as pure sensations.</div><div class="parav">There is almost always a bunch of words accompanying “feeling bad,” and try this: shift your attention to the present.</div><div class="parav">If you feel something in your stomach feel it. If you are sitting on a chair, sense that. If you are sitting upright, or walking, or lying down, sense your five lines (two arms, two legs, one spine) in whatever position you find yourself. Unhappy, let that be the background noise to this job, this job that pays a huge dividends, the job of being present.</div><div class="parav">Sense your five lines, and let the sensations of your unhappiness add to that.</div><div class="parav">And listen to the world. If the world outside you is saying, “You poor thing, Mary Lou should have been nicer to you,” then listen. But if those words, and any other ones that carry and justify and fuel your unhappiness are coming from inside your brain, pay them as little attention as you can.</div><div class="parav">For now.</div><div class="parav">Later in this book, and always to be recommended is to write down what the “should” and “shouldn’t” statements that are throbbing underneath your unhappiness and “doing the Work” on them. The Work is the work of Byron Katie, and that can be found online at <a href="http://thework.com/">http://thework.com</a>, and she, Byron Katie’s her “stage” name, has books out with titles like “Loving What Is,” and “I Need Your Love, Is that True,” and “A Thousand Names for Joy.”</div><div class="parav">Also, in my previous book, available online, <a href="http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/p/e-book-for-sale-108-ways-to-improve.html">“Happiness in 4 Modes: 108 Ways of Moving, Feeling, Thinking and ‘Soul-ing’ to transform your Life,”</a> I have a number of sections giving step by step pathways to take advantage of the Byron Katie work. </div><div class="parav">And for now, we are practicing giving so called “unhappiness” a bigger container by coming to the now.</div><div class="parav">And a specific set of ways of coming to the Now.</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">1)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Sense the “feel bad” sensations that go along with your unhappiness, without the words, just as sensations</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">2)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Sense your five lines</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">3)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Pay attention to real sound in the “real” world outside of you</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">4)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Pay attention to real light coming into your eyes from the world outside your body</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">5)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Follow your breathing</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">6)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Feel the totality of your experience in the present</div><div class="parav" style="margin-left: 89pt; text-indent: -53pt;">7)<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Find the happiness that is always there when we “wake up” to ourselves in the present. </div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">So, this is subverting “unhappiness” by going Big and going now. Sure you are suffering, but is your big toe suffering? Is your breathing? Is your right elbow? How is the sound coming in your ears? The light coming in your eyes? </div><div class="parav">Your unhappiness can stick around, if it wants to, but your Life is bigger than that. Can you remember that the next time you are unhappy?</div><div class="parav">And guess what? Except for “sensing the feel bad” sensations in the list above, all the other avenues toward the Big and Present and Real you can be jumped into and enjoyed, right now.</div><div class="parav">And will that be good for the Earth?</div><div class="parav">Yes.</div><div class="parav">And will that be good for others around you?</div><div class="parav">Yes.</div><div class="parav">And will that be good for you?</div><div class="parav">Start practicing now, either six or seven of the above list, and find out.<br />
<br />
All you have to lose is your slavery to<br />
1) Feeling Bad<br />
2) Fear of Feeling Bad<br />
3) Having to "get rid" instantly of Feeling Bad<br />
<br />
Good.</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-70371690927751554252011-02-09T10:59:00.000-08:002011-02-09T10:59:23.436-08:00<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Fl2mvyjHYS0" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br />
<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cheng Man Ching<br />
decided that he didn't want to do the "long" form, so he invented the<br />
short form<br />
<br />
Through some charming mistake somewhere along the way<br />
this is called the "shot form."<br />
<br />
Oh, well. If we watch this for a bit<br />
(and in this day or Internet rush, rush, do we actually<br />
have 7:41 minutes?<br />
But surely we can hang in there for 3:33,<br />
so let's see what we can see....<br />
Be back in 3:33 (notice the simple minded rhyme scheme<br />
creeping up on us.<br />
Good, eh?)<br />
<br />
Well, actually, he moves a bit fast for my taste,<br />
kind of like I do on days I want to "get the form over."<br />
<br />
However, he wasn't rushing, more like moving<br />
seamlessly from one pose to the next<br />
with no<br />
"look at me, I'm here now"<br />
feeling.<br />
<br />
His weight shifted slowly and completely<br />
like sand going from one foot to the other.<br />
<br />
His hands seemed to float,<br />
and knowing what I do of the form as taught<br />
by his pupils, I'll guess that he had a great deal of<br />
attention<br />
in his hands<br />
<br />
and feet<br />
<br />
and spine<br />
<br />
and feeling of soft arms<br />
<br />
and knowing exactly where and how<br />
his feet where.<br />
<br />
<br />
Have you ever noticed that tai chi is a lot like walking,<br />
weight on one foot and then weight on the next.<br />
<br />
Unlike walking, but like some of the work we do in the Feldy/ Anat worlds,<br />
his arms don't have a stable pattern vis a vis his legs.<br />
In walking left leg forward pairs up with right arm forward.<br />
<br />
In tai chi, many of the moves are like that:<br />
in the punch (here right handed), the right fist is forward and the left foot<br />
<br />
in brush knee, left foot and right hand and then right foot and left hand<br />
<br />
However, many are right right and left left<br />
<br />
the single whip is such a move<br />
<br />
the kicks, which come later<br />
<br />
and fair lady shuttles, again later, has same foot and same hand forward<br />
<br />
And so it goes;<br />
<br />
move slow<br />
<br />
put attention on gravity and both arms and both legs and spine<br />
<br />
create variation in patterns of arms and legs<br />
<br />
It's a dance, don't you think?<br />
<br />
And what's the other half of my roots for the Feldy/ Anat work.<br />
<br />
Well, maybe I should have been dividing into thirds<br />
with one third good old fashion NOW<br />
<br />
and one third the Gurdjieff meditation of keeping attention<br />
all day in both arms and both legs (plus light and sound)<br />
<br />
Or maybe four:<br />
add to Tai Chi<br />
and Now<br />
and Gurdjieff<br />
a love of nature, and how natural can we get by being attentive to slow and novel and delicious movements<br />
movements<br />
learning<br />
awaring<br />
in the so called "body"<br />
<br />
Waking us to Now.<br />
<br />
Tai Chi can do that,<br />
and it can be a "thing" we do.<br />
<br />
So can reading.<br />
<br />
So can writing.<br />
<br />
It's all the dance: am I awake now,<br />
and if so what is my experience.<br />
<br />
Is that a good question for you?<br />
<br />
I hope so.<br />
<br />
Chris</span><br />
<br />
on Wednesday in Austin, where the cold was last week<br />
and then it got warm and toasty this weekend<br />
and now the cold is back.<br />
Cold means 40s, sissy winter for most of the county,<br />
and "too cold" for the spoiled Texans and all the immigrants.<br />
<br />
In May I'll be back in the Northwest,<br />
and in March visiting No. Cal.<br />
If you are interested in connecting,<br />
let me know.chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-1164223574882925032010-12-22T23:11:00.000-08:002011-05-30T07:42:33.967-07:00<h2>INDEX OF ALL the POSTINGS IN THIS BLOG: 130 so far</h2><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;">You might enjoy re-reading some of these or perusing them for the first time.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"> Good.</span></b><br />
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<div style="color: #b45f06;"><b>MAY 2011</b><br />
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<b>130. May 30, Monday: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2011/05/mindful-eating-published-first-at.html">Mindful Eating, originally in Slow Sonoma, </a> <a href="http://slowsonoma.com/">SlowSonoma.com</a>, over a thousand postings there, if you are energetic and don't mind practicing reading in wakefulness</b><br />
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<b>129. May 18, Friday: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2011/05/tai-chi-for-learning-amazement-and.html">Tai Chi made "harder" and even more amazing with a foot/ toe connection to the opposite finger/ hand</a> </b></div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><b> </b></div><b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">128. May 16:</span> <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/">Going beneath "feeling bad," essential to weight loss, and happiness</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;">127. December 22: <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1491454003">Tai Chi and Potency:</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1491454003">Wake up,</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1491454003">push out your belly,</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1491454003">thrust into life</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-november-22-2008-i-in-my-life.html">smile, get off the computer: live, it's the solstice</a></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: #22008b;">NOVEMBER 2010</span></b></span></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #22008b;">126. <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-of-healthiest-ways-to-eat-is-to.html">Weeds and Seeds: Wild Amaranth in issue of Edible Austin</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #22008b;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><b><span style="color: #8b0022;">APRIL 2010</span></b></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #22008b;"><a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/11/one-of-healthiest-ways-to-eat-is-to.html"></a>125 April 17: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/04/dogwood-in-bloom-in-sonoma-ca-in-april.html">movement with attention in a chair</a></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #0022cc;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #22008b;"><a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/04/dogwood-in-bloom-in-sonoma-ca-in-april.html"></a>124. April 13: "<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/04/getting-older-and-so-what-life-moves.html">Getting older" = turning 65, blah, blah</a></span> <br />
</span><span style="color: #11aa8b;">MARCH 2010<br />
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123. March 8, Orcas Island and a year later:<br />
every day is a good day to restart everything<br />
<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2010/03/essentials-of-health-part-two-coming.html">How to Be Healthy, a less sure but hopefully useful compendium</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ee668b;">FEBRUARY 2009<br />
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122. February 5, 2009: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2009/02/tai-chi-and-yoga-chance-to-wake-up-or.html">back to some thoughts on tai chi and yoga</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #22008b;">NOVEMBER 2008<br />
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121. Nov. 28, Friday, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/11/eating-and-finishing-thanks-giving-is.html">Day after Thanksgiving, Time to change Habits???</a><br />
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120. Nov 22, Sat. <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/11/essentials-of-real-health-and-healing.html">Essentials of Real Health, My take</a><br />
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119. Nov. 14, Friday, <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/11/maybe-raw-maybe-healthier-maybe-more.html">Maybe raw, maybe more greens, maybe healthier</a><br />
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118. Nov. 7: Friday, finally got to it: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/11/failing-learning-loving-health-could.html">Learning, failing: Real Health</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #8b0022;">OCTOBER 2008<br />
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117. Oct. 24: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/10/friday-and-week-ending-everything-ends.html">things ending is a chance to live more fully</a><br />
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116. Oct 3, 2008: <a href="http://www2.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=36312103">3 L's for a Good Life</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: forestgreen;">SEPTEMBER 2008<br />
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115. Sept 26, 2008, <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/09/what-to-say-on-friday-i-got-up-early.html">third blog of day: what to say: loving all of life</a><br />
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114, sept 19: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/09/how-to-eat-better-its-easy-step-this.html">how to eat better, simplified:</a><br />
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113. Sept. 12, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/09/lose-weight-eat-less-eat-better-eat.html">losing weight is easy</a><br />
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112. Sept. 5, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/09/happiness-and-heat-its-hot-today-and.html">happiness and heat</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #bb00ff;"> AUGUST 2008<br />
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111. August 29, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/08/friday-hot-friday-undoing-stress-and.html">Health, Stress and Undoing the Marlie/Chris thing</a><br />
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110. August 25, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/08/classes-for-fall-access-your-brain-to.html">Fall Classes, Sept 6 thru Oct 9</a><br />
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109. August 8, 2008: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/08/something-to-say-for-august.html">Thoughts toward health and anti-aging</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #00ee55;"> JULY 2008<br />
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108. July 18: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/07/have-wonderful-day.html">have a wonderful day, it's good for your health</a><br />
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107. July 12: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/07/friday-and-alive-and-what-morning-bee.html">bee sting and sweet healing and the joy of gardens</a><br />
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106. July 6: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-is-love-and-can-it-help-to-make-us.html">what is love? an approach to discovery</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #cc0011;"> JUNE 2008<br />
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105. June 28: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/06/life-upgrading-sessions-action-coaching.html">Upgrading Your Life, Private Sessions, expensive</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #0088aa;"> MAY 2008<br />
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104. May 8: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/05/lose-weight-get-smarter-be-happier-lose.html">Lose Weight, Get Smarter, Be Happier</a><br />
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103. May 2: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/05/tai-chi-yoga-health-weight-loss-life-is.html">Tai Chi, Yoga, Health, Weight Loss: Beyond Boredom</a>, a beginning<br />
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</span><span style="color: #33ee00;"> APRIL 2008<br />
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102. April 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/04/classes-happening-and-waiting-for-you.html">Class Times: Wake Up Tai Chi/Yoga Brain and Learning Fun; Waking up to Movement and Flexibility and Learning; Waking up Thursday Nights</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #aa0033;"> MARCH 2008<br />
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101. March 31: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/03/eliminate-pain-emotional-improve-skills.html">Loving Yourself More, Undo Emotional Pain, Improve Emotional and other skills</a><br />
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100. March 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/03/tai-chi-for-non-dummies-tai-chi-is-good.html">tai chi for non-dummies</a><br />
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99.March 10:<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/03/recovering-from-surgery-we-all-of-us.html">Recovering from Surgery</a><br />
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98. March 7<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/03/soul-and-soil-what-is-souls-purpose-on.html">SOUL AND SOIL, sort of?? Maybe: health is...</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #00ee33;"> FEBRUARY 2008<br />
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97. Feb. 24: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/02/rains-and-our-inner-well-being-in-this.html">rains and reality</a><br />
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96. Feb. 20: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/02/importance-of-fresh-air-sweater-on.html">importance of fresh air to health, mental and otherwise</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ee0044;">JANUARY 2008<br />
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95. Jan. 5: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-to-lose-weight-part-44-half.html"> How to Lose Weight, part 44, or is it 7?</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #660099;">DECEMBER 2007<br />
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94. Dec. 31: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-lose-weight-stop-waiting-to-be.html"><br />
how to lose weight and stop waiting for..</a><br />
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93. Dec. 20: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/12/free-new-years-day-sufia-yoga-class-new.html"> Free New Years Day Yoga Çlass</a><br />
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92. Dec. 20: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/12/sufia-yoga-strength-unification.html"> Sufia Yoga: Strength, Unification, Flexibility, Intelligence, Awareness & Anti-Aging</a><br />
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91. Dec. 10: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/12/living-life-is-good-even-when-you-are.html"> Life is good, even when you are tired</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #447722;">NOVEMBER 2007<br />
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90// Nov. 29: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/11/waking-up-now-friday-night-wake-up.html"> Waking Up on Friday Nights</a><br />
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89. Nov. 28: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/11/waking-up-in-new-year-january-5-2008.html"> Workshop in Waking, Jan. 5, 2008</a><br />
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88. Nov. 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/11/clear-skies-and-waters-of-inner-peace.html"> Clear Skies and the Waters of Inner Peace</a><br />
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87. Nov. 9: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/11/eating-less-to-become-sweet-and-fine.html"> eating, waiting, real food, souls of life </a><br />
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86. Nov. 6: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/11/what-is-health-resiliancy-and-ability.html"> What is Health, and Love is just around the Corner</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #33ff11;">OCTOBER 2007<br />
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85. Oct. 29: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/10/clarifying-standing-on-one-leg-1-human.html"> Monday Yoga: Clarifying Tree Pose, 1</a><br />
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84. Oct. 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/10/yoga-on-monday-tadasana-this-one-is.html"> Tadasana, Mountain Pose</a><br />
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83. Oct. 15: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/10/yoga-for-monday-warrior-ii-or.html"> Yoga for a Monday, Vira 2</a><br />
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82. Oct. 8: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/10/yoga-for-monday-cat-and-cow-cats-when.html"> Yoga for a Monday: Cat and Cow </a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ee0033;">SEPTEMBER 2007<br />
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81. Sept. 28: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/waking-up-to-be-healthy-is-wonderful.html"> Waking Up to the Call of Health in the Moment</a><br />
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80. Sept. 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/seasons-changing-or-just-little-early.html"> Season's Change, Now is always </a><br />
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79. Sept. 17: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/dna-yoga-benefits-increase-flexibility.html"> Benefits of DNA Yoga</a><br />
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78. Sept. 12: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/eating-less-in-ramadan-people-eat-only.html"> Eating Less, and Habits, Ahhhhh</a><br />
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77. Sept. 11: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/nine-eleven-did-bad-guys-get-to-heaven.html"> Nine Eleven, did the Bad Guys get to Heaven? </a><br />
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76. Sept 6: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/09/red-sun-fires-global-warming-happiness.html"> Global Happiness</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #660044;">AUGUST 2007<br />
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75. Aug. 30: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/joy-to-world-light-has-come.html"> Joy to the Word, Joy to the World, Joy to the Weird, Joy to the Now</a><br />
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74. Aug. 23: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/ongoing-sleep-and-weight-loss-in-our.html"> Weight Loss and the Ongoing Sleep</a> Or, to robot, or not to robot. This is the REAL question.<br />
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73. Aug. 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-be-healthy-22-to-be-healthy-is.html"> How to be healthy with windfalls and weeds and a good hearth and mind</a><br />
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72. Aug. 18: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/shitty-food.html"> Shitty Food</a><br />
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71. Aug. 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/transformative-yoga.html"> Transformative Yoga, DNA Yoga, Feldie Yoga, Yes Yoga, Yes</a><br />
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70. August 12: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/classes-starting-in-fall-test-drive.html"> Classes for Fall 2007: Transformation and Illumination</a><br />
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69. Aug. 8: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/08/eating-and-fasting-we-have-this-word.html"> An experiment in regaining Break Fast each morning</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #44ee88;">JULY 2007<br />
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68. July 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/07/what-is-yoga-yoga-is-ancient-system-of.html"> What is Yoga? </a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #22bb00;">JUNE 2007<br />
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67. June 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/06/weight-loss-and-gout-undoing-diet-gout.html"> Weight Loss, Water Increasing, Gout routing Diet </a><br />
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66. June 4: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/06/body-ecology-diet-radical-healing-via.html"> Body Ecology Diet for radical healing</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #2200cc;">MAY 2007<br />
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65. May 23: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/05/secondary-gain-and-path-to-deep-healing.html"></a><br />
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64. May 4: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/05/create-joyous-health-for-yourself.html"> Real Health is Ours to Be Lived, Each and Every Day</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #66ccff;">APRIL 2007<br />
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63. April 26: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/04/fda-up-to-their-usual-support-big-drug.html"> FDA up to their usual tricks</a><br />
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62. April 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/04/relationship-learning-moving-and.html">Relationship Improvement and Movement Waking Up </a><br />
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61. April 9: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/04/wonder-full-relationship-improvement.html"> Wonder Full Relationship</a>, Workshop, and Private Sessions.<br />
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60. April 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/04/health-health-is-our-wealth-and-it-come.html"> Health is our wealth</a><br />
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<span style="color: #993322;">MARCH 2007<br />
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59. March 30: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/03/eat-in-season-or-on-sale-and-how-about.html"> Eat in Season, or On Sale, and Go Cave Person for the Yum of it</a><br />
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58. March 18: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/03/save-your-back.html"> Save your back, save your neck, breathe easier: Raise your computer.</a><br />
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57. March 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/03/green-drink-plus-fruit-heres-one-way-to.html"> Green Drink, Plus Organic Fruit = Nutrition and Fluid to Start the Day</a><br />
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56. March 3: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/03/food-and-fat-life-is-good-and-then-we.html"> Food and Fat: Loving Life vs. Self-Dislike, and 4 things to do,</a> if you want to experiment.<br />
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</span><span style="color: #ff11aa;">FEBRUARY 2007<br />
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55. February 28: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/eating-in-three-levels-we-sit-down-to.html"> Eating in Three Levels.... Yes</a><br />
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54. Feb. 27: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/walking-in-three-levels-our-feet-walk.html"> Walking in Three Levels....Ah </a><br />
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53. February 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/walking-many-steps-to-heaven-all.html"> Walking, and the beginings of Heaven</a><br />
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52.5: Feb. 20: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/currently-offering-these-classes-march_20.html"> Currently Offering These Classes</a><br />
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52. Feb. 19: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/get-in-shape.html"> Get in Shape, Race a Bicycle, or Less, and have Fun </a><br />
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51. February 16: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/beautiful-weather-today-was-beautiful.html"> Beautiful Day</a><br />
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50. February 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/importance-of-happiness-happiness-is.html"> The Importance of Happiness</a><br />
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49. February 10: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/seeds-and-nuts-soaking-way-good-and.html"> Soaked Seeds and Nuts </a>, a good idea.<br />
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48. February 6: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/porpoise-of-life-raw-chocolate-pleasure.html"> Raw Chocolate Smoothie Porpoise of Life</a><br />
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47. Feb. 3: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/02/jokes-are-good-for-your-health-and-your.html"> Jokes, Good for Hearth, Health, Soul and Brain</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #6600ee;">JANUARY 2007<br />
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46. Jan. 31: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/cave-man-or-woman-diet-is-possible-way.html"> Cave Man/ Cave Woman Diet::: A Possibility? </a><br />
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45. Jan. 28: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/yes-this-is-about-headaches-and.html"> Differentiation and a Headache 'Cure'</a><br />
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44. Jan. 25: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/healthy-eating-joy-of-eating-is-one-of.html"> The Joy of Healthy Eating, and Thinking</a><br />
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43. Jan. 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/to-be-human-to-be-human-is-to-have-all.html"> To be Human, to be Healthy: Make Choices</a><br />
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42. Jan. 19: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/enzymes-whole-raw-food-thing-has-couple.html"> Enzymes and real Health</a><br />
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41. Jan. 16: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-fear-of-being-cold-many-of-these.html"> On the fear of being cold </a><br />
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40. Jan. 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/supper-to-end-day.html"> Supper</a> to end the day, as in... making it light.<br />
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39. Jan. 10: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/lunch-food-combining-new-ways-of.html"> Food Combining, Healthy Lunch, Main Meal</a> = on the way to health.<br />
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38. Jan. 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/start-day-off-right-with-super-food.html">Start the day off right with a Super Smoothie</a><br />
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37. Jan. 4: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2007/01/food-and-health-to-be-healthy-is-one.html"> Food and Health</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #ff3300;">December 2006<br />
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36. Dec. 31:<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/glory-of-today-today-is-end-of-year.html"> The Glory of Today</a><br />
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35. Dec. 25: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/talking-to-jesus-me-hey-jesus-what-do.html"> Talking with Jesus on Christmas Day</a><br />
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34. Dec. 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/overeating-and-choices-self-attack-self.html">Overeating and Choices: Self-attack, self-love, curiosity</a><br />
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33. Dec. 19: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/unconditional-love-what-concept-eh-boys.html"> Unconditional Love. What a concept, eh?</a><br />
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32. Dec. 16: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/full-spectrum-lighting-for-health-and.html"> Full Spectrum Lighting, for Health, Mood and Happiness</a><br />
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31. Dec. 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/smart-eating-if-you-want-to-be-healthy.html"> Beyond Sugar: Raw Fat plus Raw Sweet = Great Taste, Great Health</a><br />
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30. Dec. 10: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/food-is-good-food-is-good-food-is-god.html"> Food is Good</a><br />
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29. Dec. 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/12/offerings-classes-and-fees-wonderful-to.html"> Offerings, Classes, Workshops, Fees</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #00aa66;">November 2006<br />
28. Nov. 26: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/glories-of-feldenkrais-improve.html"> The Glories of Feldenkrais</a><br />
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27. Nov. 22: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/some-steps-toward-healthy-and-wondeful.html"> Eating Healthy</a><br />
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26. Nov. 21:<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/functional-integration-amazing-and.html"> Functional Integration®: Amazing and Transformative (and feels great, too!)</a><br />
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25. Nov. 18: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/raw-foods-and-feldenkrais-there-are.html"> Raw Foods and Feldenkrais</a><br />
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24. Nov. 17: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/learning-by-healing-and-healing-by.html">Learning by Healing, and Healing by Learning: Deep Tutoring for Real People</a><br />
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23. Nov. 15: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/healing-by-learning-whats-your.html"> Healing by Learning</a><br />
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22. Nov. 14: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/tai-chi-and-feldenkrais-tai-chi-is.html">Tai Chi and Feldenkrais</a><br />
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21. Nov. 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/super-wheatgrass-grow-your-own-add.html"> Super Wheatgrass for Your Health</a><br />
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20. Nov. 13: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/importance-of-sky-photo-r.html">The Imortance of Sky</a><br />
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19. Nov. 12: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/enhancing-excellence-learning.html"> Enhancing Excellence, Learning Acceleration and Waking Up</a><br />
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18. Nov. 11: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/fitness-health-and-weight-reduction.html"> Fitness, Health and Weight Reduction</a><br />
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17. Nov. 10: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/mindfulness-and-stress-reduction-photo.html"> Mindfulness and Stress Reduction</a><br />
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16. Nov. 9: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/neck-shoulder-and-back-pain-pain-is.html">Neck, Shoulder and Back Pain</a><br />
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15. Nov. 8: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/gifted-and-athletic-children-sometimes.html"> Gifted and Athletic Children</a><br />
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14. Nov. 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-is-feldenkrais-method-one-word.html">What is the Feldenkrais Method?</a><br />
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13. Nov 7: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/who-was-moshe-feldenkraisa-longer-and.html"> Who Was Moshe Feldenkrais?</a><br />
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12. Nov. 6: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/longer-lists-well-well-blogger-gives.html"> Longer Lists of Movies and Books</a><br />
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11. Nov. 4: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/tuesday-night-class-mindfulness-health.html"> Tuesday Night Mindfulness and Health and Stress Reduction</a><br />
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10. Nov.2: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/children-and-learning-difficulties.html">Children and Learning Difficulties</a><br />
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9. Nov.1 : <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/11/parentteenager-communication-sometimes.html">Parent and Teenager Communication</a><br />
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</span><span style="color: #8800ee;">October 2006<br />
8. Oct. 26: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/walking-is-good-for-you-walking-is.html"> Walking is Good for You</a><br />
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7. Oct. 24: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/ericksonian-hypnosis-gentleness-and.html">Ericksonian Hypnosis</a><br />
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6. Oct. 21: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/what-is-wakeup-feldenkrais-undo.html"> What is Wake Up Feldenkrais?</a><br />
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5. Oct. 19:<a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/ten-week-radical-health-improvement.html"> Ten Week Radical Health Improvement and/or Weight Loss Program</a><br />
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4. Oct. 18: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/about-marlie-photo-richard-dale-marlie.html"> About Marlie Wesner and Yoga and More</a><br />
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3. Oct. 17: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/wakeup-feldenkrais-offerings-undo.html"> Wake Up Feldenkrais Offerings</a><br />
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2. Oct. 16: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/byron-katie-work-happiness-work.html"> Byron Katie work, Happiness Work, Relationship Work</a><br />
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1. Oct. 15: <a href="http://taichiyoghealthweightloss.blogspot.com/2006/10/more-bio-grew-up-young-and-loving.html"> More Bio</a></span><br />
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</span></b>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-86792371848027854022010-12-22T07:32:00.000-08:002010-12-22T07:40:09.123-08:00TAI CHI AND POTENCY<br />
Or: the joy of two arms<br />
two legs<br />
a smile<br />
a spine<br />
a pelvis<br />
ten toes<br />
ten fingers<br />
a belly<br />
two eyes<br />
two ears<br />
and<br />
AWARENESS<br />
<br />
On November 22, 2008, I wrote in my Life Potency blog<br />
about tai chi,<br />
and had some nice pictures<br />
of going through the tai chi form<br />
as a series of tucking in, coiling and rounding<br />
as a pulling in and getting ready to strike<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpYQBBT0HETGu54n4AdVAL01sppyseERgQuLuDvGmI-nqDS3wIOXhDWzTfQeJg2M9_ULau0vQzD3PrHi4IxGb7ak91FZaQL294GXgDGU70ZA4E8Z6Tz61buGUq3MRf3QuoOgA/s1600-h/DSCF0018.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271639059998029522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEpYQBBT0HETGu54n4AdVAL01sppyseERgQuLuDvGmI-nqDS3wIOXhDWzTfQeJg2M9_ULau0vQzD3PrHi4IxGb7ak91FZaQL294GXgDGU70ZA4E8Z6Tz61buGUq3MRf3QuoOgA/s320/DSCF0018.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
alternating<br />
with<br />
arching the back, pressing from the ground through the<br />
lengthened spine,<br />
uncoiling<br />
striking<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcq_SKSlkWTjx457OwHY545zpiRyOf-N5lvPgoG2hT2jyvwfy5tRLLe9x0eW7srP0dxR-Y7wWwfUY_wfOdkkOl0eW1TbFYhXOLDxHxSKDeyrhu3y2EvoVCG9_Qfcv30O8qAMp/s1600-h/DSCF0019.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271638969615462194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigcq_SKSlkWTjx457OwHY545zpiRyOf-N5lvPgoG2hT2jyvwfy5tRLLe9x0eW7srP0dxR-Y7wWwfUY_wfOdkkOl0eW1TbFYhXOLDxHxSKDeyrhu3y2EvoVCG9_Qfcv30O8qAMp/s320/DSCF0019.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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Here's the link: <a href="http://wakeup-feldenkrais.blogspot.com/2008/11/loving-of-moving-tuck-inround-and.html">Tuck and Coil, then Unfurl and Strike</a><br />
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So what more is there to say?<br />
<br />
Tai Chi is fun.<br />
<br />
I have another essay on why Tai Chi is grand for you,<br />
with the usual suspects:<br />
going slow,<br />
connecting to yourself,<br />
finding and knowing the use of all four limbs in space,<br />
use of the pelvis,<br />
use of the spine<br />
<br />
And here I must interject that tai chi,<br />
like yoga,<br />
is often taught as rigidity<br />
in the sense of demanding a "tucked in" pelvis,<br />
which requires a tightening of the abdomen muscles<br />
which feels like "strength"<br />
and isn't<br />
<br />
its a tightness that prevent injury<br />
sort of<br />
by preventing any movement<br />
<br />
but, the minor problem<br />
is<br />
preventing movement<br />
is preventing life<br />
<br />
(he says, rigidly sitting at a chair<br />
typing into his computer,<br />
okay,<br />
okay,<br />
life<br />
is funny:<br />
<br />
and hey you: reading at this computer,<br />
get up now<br />
and do a little tai chi<br />
make it up<br />
<br />
any position will do,<br />
just know where your arms and legs are<br />
and then have an idea of the next position of your arms<br />
and legs<br />
and move there<br />
<br />
hint:<br />
tai chi is fancy walking<br />
it's always shifting<br />
from right to left to right foot<br />
<br />
okay<br />
up,<br />
you and me and all of us and<br />
play the tai chi<br />
<br />
game<br />
<br />
))))<br />
<br />
okay<br />
this is life: moving the legs,<br />
moving the arms<br />
<br />
and life is nothing<br />
without being awake<br />
<br />
and this is the real trick in standard tai chi<br />
with its obsession with the form<br />
<br />
perfection is death in a way<br />
getting better and better and better<br />
even by taking the detour of making it worse for awhile<br />
is life<br />
<br />
so how to be awake in tai chi:<br />
feel the power from feet to finger tips in each<br />
pose<br />
<br />
feel the coiling in<br />
and preparing for power in each transition<br />
<br />
feel the softness in the power<br />
feel the power in the softness<br />
<br />
this could be mumbo jumbo<br />
or<br />
it<br />
could be a lot of fun<br />
<br />
shut down your computer and do tai chi<br />
or pretend tai chi<br />
for the next half an hour<br />
<br />
treat it all as a breathing<br />
and skeletal awareness meditation<br />
and<br />
be aware of everything you see<br />
and hear<br />
as you do<br />
all this<br />
<br />
good<br />
<br />
and maybe this as the final treat<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbR8y9hEBcZ0ZbaMKk6taWgvVw444K09brfjbsZPhm5Fjpmk-mvapQPbgqPhdy7yYNWfNo0-LrV7p2lboJAsM-W431vwRUrDri9hmpKJbbEoHlAGkHK9jJYkILSLfe6w2JlF-/s1600-h/DSCF0020.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271638885098307394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxbR8y9hEBcZ0ZbaMKk6taWgvVw444K09brfjbsZPhm5Fjpmk-mvapQPbgqPhdy7yYNWfNo0-LrV7p2lboJAsM-W431vwRUrDri9hmpKJbbEoHlAGkHK9jJYkILSLfe6w2JlF-/s320/DSCF0020.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
round,<br />
breathe in,<br />
get ready<br />
<br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuFQk4JSJs733RKMw0jErIuct6rlGL53sJVXtksAp7fq3vb8btbZmvvFW3xiicRvLlr0-hi0Cd46WXRzU_xoT5Ecua15wv6n1ajaIHohSo9q6x2Clrs5VwYEqh43mggpWL96i/s1600-h/DSCF0021.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271638778419844258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmuFQk4JSJs733RKMw0jErIuct6rlGL53sJVXtksAp7fq3vb8btbZmvvFW3xiicRvLlr0-hi0Cd46WXRzU_xoT5Ecua15wv6n1ajaIHohSo9q6x2Clrs5VwYEqh43mggpWL96i/s320/DSCF0021.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; height: 240px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
breathe out<br />
push out belly<br />
push into ground and hands<br />
<br />
brush knee this is called,<br />
one hand pushes forward<br />
one by the other kneechris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-37396871840566509382010-11-05T10:16:00.000-07:002010-11-05T10:16:12.544-07:00<!--StartFragment--> <br />
<div class="chapter">Waking up in Austin, One TURNING AND LEARNING, AGAIN, SURE, WHY NOT??<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parabold">A bit of bio and a sweet turning while sitting opportunity to “wake up” to spine, life, movement…and more.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parabold"><br />
</div><div class="parav">From October 17, 2009 to October 16, 2010 I lived mainly on an amazing island in the Pacific Northwest by the name of Orcas Island. I will write about it again in April when I go back for the summer. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Now it is fall, turning into winter. I am in Texas and a supposedly magically part of Texas, by the name of Austin. Austin was reputed to be the Berkeley of Texas, and many people said it would be amazing, and I came knowing two people who couldn’t get back to me and stayed three nights with a wonderful couple who didn’t know me but where willing to take a couchsurfing chance on me. This was Bridgette and John. We liked each other and I weeded their garden and gave the Bridgette “lessons” I teach, a form of gentle and awakening body brain movement from the Feldenkrais Method® and the Anat Baniel Method. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">She and her husband found me my next stranger with whom to stay and marvelous raconteur and permaculture activist and Texas good old boy if someone who was an MD and PhD and threw them away because of wanting real healing outside of allopathic medicine can be called a “good old boy.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Anyway. That was Ted. I cleaned Ted’s refrigerator, a more daunting process than you might imagine, and gave him some lessons and he was grateful and pleased and we turned out to be kindred and brotherly friends.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">And Ted led me to Sonora, a bright transplanted star from Missouri, who raised four children in Austin and teaches voice and piano out in southwest Austin right next to the Waldorf school (where she sent all her kids). And Sonoma has room to store me for the winter, a teenagers’ house with the teenagers gone and some land we are going to turn into a garden and now I’m ready to stop talking writing about me and let the focus be on you and how you can wake up to your body and ease and pleasure and learning in the moment.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
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</div><div class="parav">That’s our life. This being in the moment is our life, whether we notice it or not. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Many enjoy noticing it and find freedom and pleasure and ability to love and forgive and be creative and discover the joy of the new when they are present.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">We’re all going to die, and each moment is a gift and a miracle, and moving slowly and with attention can wake us to that miracle. And if the movements are designed to pattern and reawaken natural “functions” that make our life full and vital and easy, as the movements are in the Feldenkrais Method and the Anat Baniel Method, then this waking up can be not only a coming to the present, but an upgrading of your whole nervous system so that we feel younger and taller and lighter and more at home in our “bodies” and brains after the little lesson.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">And here’s one.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Here’s a game in which you can begin to come back to you.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">What a gift.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">One: sit at ease at the forward edge of your chair. Feel your arms and legs and spine and pelvis and ribs and head. Sense yourself. Sense your breathing. Be aware of being alive. Be aware of being aware.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Two: turn your head to the right and to the left, slowly and easily and less than the limit Go for pleasure and learning and awareness. “Range of motion” is a strange and awful trap. Don’t fall for it. Slow into the delicious present of each time you move being brand new. Notice differences in turning right and turning left. Notice differences as you slow and ease into paying more clear and curious attention. Notice the moment.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Notice being alive.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest. Feel what slow and attentive movement can do for your mind and body.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">It is good.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Three: turn your head, in sitting more or less upright, just to the left and back to the middle. Several times. Each time slowly and with pleasure and learning.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Four: put your hands each under the opposite arm pit, so you feel your ribs. Now slowly turn to the left and back to the center. Sometimes just turn “the head.” Sometimes pull the ribs to the left so that your torso and head are a team.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Go slowly. Gently. Pleasurably. With learning.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Notice your spine in all its 24 vertebrae glory.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Notice the difference in “just head,” and head neck and torso and ribs as team.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest. In the middle. Eyes closed. Sensing the all of you experience: head spine arms legs pelvis ribs feet hands breathing.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Five. Take the hands the same way as above and rotate your ribs to the left, not to the gosh darned “limit,” but over there comfortably, and leave your ribs and torso and sternum facing that way.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Now like this, rotate slowly your head back toward the center, and then a little to the left of where your chest is pointing.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">The usual: slow, gentle, pleasure, learning.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Come back to the center and rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Six: Take your head and eyes to the left and let them rest comfortably there. And now, hands on opposite side ribs as before, rotate your ribs to the left and back to the center, keeping your head to the left.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Slow, gentle, pleasure, each time new and a learning.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest in the center.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Seven. Tilt side to side as you sit, so that your weight is sometimes on your right “sit bone” and sometimes on your left. Enjoy this. Think of the “sit bones” as the two feet on which you stand when you sit.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Enjoy this.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Slow, gentle, etc.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Eight: Tilt to the left sit bone and stay there , and with your weight over there, begin to bring your right knee forward, by pushing your right hip forward. Go gentle. If you don’t get it, just imagine something, anything. But go slowly, and keep your right foot on the ground, and slowly push your right knee a little bit forward and then back and then forward again so you feel your hips rotating to the left.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Go really slowly. Go really gently. Don’t demand you “get it” if you don’t. Find the pleasure. Find the learning.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">FIND THE PLEASURE. FIND THE LEARNING.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Nine: Take your hands to the opposite arm pits and rotate the torso to the left and when there, tilt to the left sit bone and bring the right knee forward, and stay rotated in both hip and torso, and now bring your eyes left and right while your head stays pointing where it’s pointing. Many times. Slow and easy.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Ten: sit in ease and awareness. Turn your head to the left with maybe knowing your ribs can help, maybe knowing your pelvis can help, maybe knowing your eyes can help.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Take lots of time to enjoy this.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Take a mini rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Turn both right and left and notice the difference.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav">Rest.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
</div><div class="parav">Eleven: stand up and walk around and see if somehow life isn’t lighter and brighter and more clear and happy and easy for you.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="parav"><br />
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</div><div class="parav">Good.<o:p></o:p></div><!--EndFragment-->chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-25499804360741996532010-11-01T18:47:00.000-07:002010-11-01T18:47:18.380-07:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">One of the healthiest ways to eat</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">is to harvest wild greens:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">On Orcas,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I had an abundance of Nettles and dandelions</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">In Sonoma,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">pigweed and mallow where in glory</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Coming to Austin,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">things have been slim</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">except that one garden plot at the Sunset Valley Community Garden</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">was full of my old friend:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">pigweed,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">aka,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">wild amaranth</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Imagine my surprise and delight to discover a magazine</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">called Edible Austin</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">in the summer issue of which</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">had a full page spread on the glories</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">of eating wild amaranth;'</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Here's the link: <a href="http://www.edibleaustin.com/content/editorial/editorial/625?task=view">Eat Wild</a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And here's the glorious "weed" itself.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Mix in some soaked sunflower,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">pumpkin,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">almond,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">flax seeds</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and a little Celtic salt,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and sweetener:</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">honey, fruit, stevia, agave</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">and you have a high powered,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">super nutritious feast in your hand,</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">soon to be in and nourishing</div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">your body</div>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-81136120240804109452010-04-17T06:29:00.000-07:002010-04-17T06:30:11.121-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CpgaGQk1JA-xckjFQ7T2ppoCUEMSbZEAf4J04dmvl7Fu9iPWG8AnxstIHY_rjaHE6AD8vU98Pw6G_z3cveXmD4MWEzt7dnUrGT4aHDfV0zRQqebp7plVD0X7_jroW8ySgBhK/s1600/IMG_0094.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CpgaGQk1JA-xckjFQ7T2ppoCUEMSbZEAf4J04dmvl7Fu9iPWG8AnxstIHY_rjaHE6AD8vU98Pw6G_z3cveXmD4MWEzt7dnUrGT4aHDfV0zRQqebp7plVD0X7_jroW8ySgBhK/s320/IMG_0094.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461097182628707282" /></a><br />Dogwood in bloom in Sonoma, Ca, in April<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HqnwSVoMUcFxJZLAZ-PBN0-ckws2CVBzMn1G8l7M6RndGtTagHh53Sjj9q7ESsnxIYS9nrCuQLG0XvmITzpd-djk736D0hdBPraK19921VP6Ji1ESYjNbpgosl6JGsmDmis_/s1600/IMG_0084.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HqnwSVoMUcFxJZLAZ-PBN0-ckws2CVBzMn1G8l7M6RndGtTagHh53Sjj9q7ESsnxIYS9nrCuQLG0XvmITzpd-djk736D0hdBPraK19921VP6Ji1ESYjNbpgosl6JGsmDmis_/s320/IMG_0084.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461096677880096386" /></a><br />Brendan, my son, at the <a href="http://anatbanielmethod.com">Anat Baniel Method</a> training, Special Needs Children, Segment 4, as part of some 60 people doing grand learning<br /><br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Movement with attention<br />is one grand path to feeling<br />younger,<br />to sharpening up the brain,<br />and<br />waking up to now</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);">Try this:<br /><br />1. Sit in a chair. Don't lean back. Feel your pelvis against the chair, and your spine holding up your head. Enjoy that. Close your eyes, and sense two arms, two legs, fingers, toes, breathing, and spine.<br /><br />2. Do this for awhile, as if a meditation.<br /><br />3. Imagine doing this sensing and awaring all day long.<br /><br />4. Now, begin to move the toes of your left foot back and forth,<br />rotating at your heel. Go slowly. Go so slowly that each time you<br />do this, and do it many times, you can feel and sense and learn something new about your nervous system and your bones and your feet.<br /><br />5. Take a rest.<br /><br />6. Now, move the heel of your left foot back and forth (to the left and to the right),<br />slowly, pivoting on the front part of your foot. Many times, slowly, pleasurably,<br />learning.<br /><br />7. Take a rest and feel the differences, left to right, and before to now.<br /><br />8. Come back, if you've forgotten, to being present.<br /><br />9. Lie on your back, and put both feet "standing," which means the foot is on the floor and the knees are pointed toward the ceiling.<br /><br />10. In this position, a number of times rotate the toes of the left foot to the right and left. Rest. Then rotate the heel of this same foot. Rest.<br /><br />11. In the rests, come into a deeper meditation.<br /><br />12. Bring both feet to standing again, and push up your pelvis into the air. Do this a number of times, more and more arching your back, and pushing out your belly.<br /><br />13. Rest with awareness and pleasure.<br /><br />14. Again, feet standing, pelvis up, and bring the toes of your left foot as if for running. Toes on the floor. Put your hands behind your head on the floor, and tilt your whole upper body toward the left, and then back to the middle. It is as if the ribs on your right get longer and the left elbow comes closer, staying on the floor, to your left hip.<br /><br />15. Rest.<br /><br />16. Do all of 14 again, and use that to get your left hand to your left heel. Once there, rotate slowly your left heel right and left. See if you can feel the toes pressing the floor most clearly between the big toe and the second toe.<br /><br />17. Rest. Imagine other moves you could make. Imagine being aware of your ankles and which toes press into the ground as you walk forward today.<br /><br />18. Get up to standing and go forth to a life of slowing and awaring and happying.<br /><br />Good.</span></strong>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-61612972782780792082010-04-13T06:51:00.000-07:002010-04-13T06:58:04.135-07:00Getting "older"<br />and <br />so what?<br /><br /><br />Life moves along.<br />We are present.<br />Or we aren't.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpNRuodctRDATjsv_AnVi_c6YRsuGOV8CyoO7__bZlxnlz5fFm65WZPn4pwiPjMsH6X-6etZtVv1D_t06ND_umiHJXMHf4gI3PjP4Zbml4pvJGrM_oufKyhmVAt82XR0qXQcx/s1600/DSCF0064.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGpNRuodctRDATjsv_AnVi_c6YRsuGOV8CyoO7__bZlxnlz5fFm65WZPn4pwiPjMsH6X-6etZtVv1D_t06ND_umiHJXMHf4gI3PjP4Zbml4pvJGrM_oufKyhmVAt82XR0qXQcx/s320/DSCF0064.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455343721056957778" border="0" /></a><br />i couldn't do this in my forties,<br />can do it in my sixties<br />and<br />actually: so what?<br />am I present<br />the rest of the time<br /><br />this moment<br />is my life<br /><br />and yours<br />too<br /><br />really fair<br />life<br />is<br />that way<br /><br />To me,<br />being present<br />is like<br />four times<br />more sweet<br />than not being<br />so.<br /><br />How is it for you?<br /><br />I love the Anat Baniel Method<br />for Waking up to Now<br /><br />and true thinking,<br />which means<br />creating brain concepts and solutions<br />of a "new' sort.<br /><br />New is now.<br /><br />And no matter how<br />many years,<br />the calendar<br />says we are<br /><br />And mine says <br />65<br />today<br /><br />we are always as young<br />as our joy<br />in life<br />ability to love<br />and enjoy others<br />and our<br />learning to<br />be think feel create enjoy serve<br />in new<br />ways<br /><br />even slightly new<br />is amazingly<br />potent<br /><br />good.chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-56864226333587581062010-03-08T16:05:00.000-08:002010-03-08T16:21:03.121-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5M5_8bPBCXz3PQbrOih87qxL61KXyvPMpcvQTYxC-biuOp10SFds15NYXfiPs6yKViRM3lTCF-ISRYUx75J9F1DVi9xVdmEkmPUDHyHcJxV8TQAJDU-k9Nzb3YJDRgDczrVSR/s1600-h/DSCF1170.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5M5_8bPBCXz3PQbrOih87qxL61KXyvPMpcvQTYxC-biuOp10SFds15NYXfiPs6yKViRM3lTCF-ISRYUx75J9F1DVi9xVdmEkmPUDHyHcJxV8TQAJDU-k9Nzb3YJDRgDczrVSR/s320/DSCF1170.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446421408821911682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Essentials of Health, part two,<br />coming back to this blog</span><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(151, 204, 0);">Today is Monday<br />and it's March in 2010.<br /><br />I'm on an island,<br />far north<br />and moderated weather by water all around.<br /><br />Of name, Orcas Island.<br /><br />One, of my last posts<br />was a pious little piece<br />about real health.<br /><br /><br />I'm in the mood to start this<br />up again,<br />having connected with a grand group<br />of people<br />who are interested in Nutrient Rich<br />eating<br />and deep health<br />with a lot of help<br />from the ideas of Weston Price<br />and the book,<br />Nourishing Traditions,<br />and their own<br />natural instincts.<br /><br />Based on associating with them,<br />and some slight humility<br />in my great, but not perfect health,<br />I'll play at these "what to do, what to eat fields"<br />again,<br />in a little less dogmatic way.<br /><br />I hope.<br /><br />Here's the ideas/ opinions of one person<br />in this day<br />or this year<br />this springing season<br />2010, March.<br /><br /><br />How to be Healthy:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0);">Spend a fair amount of time<br />in the present.<br /><br />Spend a fair amount of time<br />Loving What Is.<br /><br />Help the Earth and your own health<br />by growing the food and meat you'd like to eat.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Eat mainly raw,<br />if you enjoy that.<br /><br />Follow the Weston Price logic for at least awhile<br />and see what high quality fat,<br />from high quality milk, cheese, meat, fish, eggs<br />will do for you.<br /><br />I like to eat these raw.<br />You discover what's good for you.<br /><br />So far:<br />be present.<br /><br />love what is.<br /><br />eat mainly raw, and a lot of high quality good raised<br />on grass.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">Adding on:<br />do something physical each day,<br />walk<br />tai chi<br />yoga<br />garden<br /><br />add on underneath<br />The Feldenkrais Method<br />or<br />the Anat Baniel Method<br />to discover<br />how to learn<br />again how to move and learn<br />and discover<br />as you did when you were younger<br /><br />Learn to think and feel<br />as a chance to have options><br /><br />Someone is "mean" to you:<br />options: fight<br />feel sorry<br />feel hurt<br />feel compassion<br />feel curious<br />step aside<br />fight<br />write a poem, story, play<br />put yourself in their shoes<br />put yourself in the present and see<br />"who you are without the story"<br /><br />Thinking:<br />you have a "problem"<br />What are five ways to "solve" it.<br /><br /><br />Do the work of Byron Katie.<br /><br />Links to all this are readily<br />available on this and my other sites.<br /><br /><br />Enjoy.,</span></strong>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-66930570735119701962009-02-05T13:28:00.000-08:002009-02-05T13:40:58.431-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJXtiiH9G_MXjs6a58QBClAekEenAGHOt_yLwCP_ERARD2mdHyGxZnYegGnidKGJNoN2Duh67-wAhuyddvkCzYPRonfFb3-8LkQDgsFhD5xFCnPSB7_tr4skWh9MdGxtvEBXXi/s1600-h/DSC01445.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJXtiiH9G_MXjs6a58QBClAekEenAGHOt_yLwCP_ERARD2mdHyGxZnYegGnidKGJNoN2Duh67-wAhuyddvkCzYPRonfFb3-8LkQDgsFhD5xFCnPSB7_tr4skWh9MdGxtvEBXXi/s320/DSC01445.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299431324273945266" /></a><br /><br /><h2> <h2> tai chi and yoga</h2></h2><br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0);">a chance to wake up<br />or a chance to troll away<br />in the stale waters of<br /><br />"this is how to do it"<br /><br />"this is the RIGHT WAY"<br /><br />"pay attention," which really means: be vigilant for<br />'not doing it the Right Way'<br /><br />but<br />can, I must admit, at least have the advantage<br />of helping us be aware of how often<br />we just make random<br />movements<br />and think we know what we are doing<br /><br /><br /><hr/><br /><br />so what's the point of tai chi<br />and yoga<br />if it isn't to "do 'em right" ?<br /><br />the point:<br />do them<br />and discover how many slow<br />and varied<br />and connecting to gravity<br />and breathing freely<br />ways<br />you can do<br />each and every<br />"posture"<br /><br />the posture is<br />the start not the end:<br /><br />the real learning:<br />how to get to the posture<br />and<br />transitioning to the next<br />and<br />how to be near and beyond<br />and just off<br />the posture in a whole lot<br />of fun, useful, interesting<br />and possibly amazing<br />ways<br /><br />and this isn't improvization:<br /><br />it's experimenting<br />and awaring<br />and<br />learning<br /><br /><br />good<br /><br /><br/><br /></span></strong>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-9838822482975550042008-11-28T12:17:00.000-08:002008-11-28T12:22:03.444-08:00<h2> Eating and Finishing</h2><br /><br />Thanks giving<br />is a sweet<br />and wonderful<br />chance to see:<br /><br />ah, I can stuff myself.<br /><br />And then:<br />how do we sleep.<br /><br />How do we feel<br />the next day?<br /><br />A possible<br />switch:<br /><br />do all stuffing before 2 or 3<br />in the afternoon<br /><br />and then stop eating<br />until<br />the next morning.<br /><br /><br />Dali Llama does it<br />Ayuruvedic recommends it<br /><br />when I do it:<br />I sleep better<br />wake up fresh<br />and untired<br /><br />a nice shift of<br />habit<br />I'm looking forward<br />more and more<br /><br />to making<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-48005940421904858252008-11-22T12:14:00.000-08:002008-11-25T11:59:09.620-08:00<h2> The Essentials of Real Health and Healing:<br /><br />My Take</h2><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIcXe39xCdbHAwhH4wDJ52ystr0zL5lY3_ZKsVzMKY-uAA_xLaSQZ42siawq9IDV2rzzEBlqfMjXRbAY5ytb0hd_wAguXFRQYF47crKvd7gAmPt_t7scs1pmzd1ffqOmcSNw7/s1600-h/DSCF0001.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIcXe39xCdbHAwhH4wDJ52ystr0zL5lY3_ZKsVzMKY-uAA_xLaSQZ42siawq9IDV2rzzEBlqfMjXRbAY5ytb0hd_wAguXFRQYF47crKvd7gAmPt_t7scs1pmzd1ffqOmcSNw7/s320/DSCF0001.JPG" border="0" alt="nasturium"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271575114803879490" /></a><br /><br /><br />1. Meditate Full Time<br />Not on your butt, though that twice a day 10-20 minutes <br />would be nice.<br />All the time, while living.<br /><br />2. Spend a couple hours a day outside.<br />Do walks.<br />Talks.<br />Writing.<br />Gardening.<br />Thinking.<br />Commute on your bike or feet.<br />You figure out how.<br /><br />Enjoy these minutes/ moments.<br />Meditate in them.<br /><br />3. Re-learn to learn how to move<br />with ease, grace, pleasure,<br />creativity and awareness.<br />Deepen sensing, body comfort, skill<br />and learning.<br />Vitality and learning at center of life.<br /><br />4. Eat only raw foods.<br />(If you want to stop getting sick<br />or heal something <br />or lose weight<br />or increase radically overall vitality.)<br /><br />Raw fish, meat, cheese, milk, keffir, eggs<br />okay/ good.<br /><br />This puts you way out of social norm.<br />Oh, well.<br />Doing morning and evening raw<br />is fine wonderful great, too.<br /><br />And being present,<br />you can love<br />those around you,<br />even as they look at you<br />like you are some sort of scary freak.<br /><br />When you start to glow,<br />lose huge amounts of weight,<br />stop getting sick,<br />and look ten to twenty years<br />younger,<br />they might get a little more interested<br />and respectful.<br /><br />Then again,<br />they might not.<br /><br />Their business: see Work of Byron<br />Katie, below as stress undoing <br />part of real health.)<br /><br />5. Write three pages a day.<br />Dreams, wishes, ideas, wondering,<br />exploring, undoing, investigating,<br />letting go, diving in, loving, gratitude,<br />creative ideas.<br /><br />6. Undo all grudges, resentments, regrets.<br />All of them<br />The <a href="http://thework.com">Work of Byron Katie</a><br />is supreme for this.<br /><br />7. Care for and be of use<br />to <br />Other People<br />and<br />the Earth.<br /><br /><br /><br />This is a lot.<br />This will do almost anything.<br /><br />Again:<br />my opinion.<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-67173710472636401082008-11-14T10:14:00.000-08:002008-11-14T10:18:42.638-08:00<h2> Maybe Raw,<br />Maybe healthier,<br />Maybe more greens,<br />Maybe healthier</h2><br /><br />You can read<br />books<br />saying to eat this,<br />eat that.<br /><br /><br />One of the set of books you can read<br />is some fun stuff<br />that lets up<br />know about losing weight<br /><br />or ending sickness<br /><br />or even stopping heavy hitters<br />like cancer <br />and whatnot<br /><br />by eating raw<br /><br /><br /><br />me,<br />I don't know<br /><br />think it's fun<br />easier<br /><br />easier to digest<br />food tastes<br />better<br /><br />simple<br /><br />if I don't eat too much at night<br />have tons<br />of energy<br />even with little sleep<br /><br />who knows<br /><br />might work<br />for you<br /><br />and if you do it<br />go<br />all raw<br /><br />messing around<br />with "trying"<br />it<br /><br />really isn't going<br />to give you the glow<br /><br />so<br />go slow in your breathing<br />your eating<br /><br />but,<br />make the shift<br />all the way<br /><br />if you want to try<br />an amazing experimentchris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-34068467704233923282008-11-07T08:49:00.000-08:002008-11-07T09:00:18.943-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w5Kmp9OxYccV2Dx5BavICVTLjJ8hdUQXH3OLjGLlslaV3bKoJI01zBrAsmbN9Uq7dReFgyM8yr2i7xcLMhyphenhyphen6vC45y7EZDN1ro6GocmyCPaOHSyI8ei_qvhDNq77QZBGjc78I/s1600-h/DSCF0033.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5w5Kmp9OxYccV2Dx5BavICVTLjJ8hdUQXH3OLjGLlslaV3bKoJI01zBrAsmbN9Uq7dReFgyM8yr2i7xcLMhyphenhyphen6vC45y7EZDN1ro6GocmyCPaOHSyI8ei_qvhDNq77QZBGjc78I/s320/DSCF0033.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265961289937419074" /></a><br /><h2> failing, learning, loving<br /><br />What is Real HEALTH????</h2><br /><br />health<br />could mean:<br />never get sick<br /><br />and a good path<br />toward that is two of<br />the things Mom should have told us:<br />get good <br />sleep<br />and<br />go outside and play<br /><br />and the third<br />and this is to <br />NEVER<br />get sick:<br />eat raw<br />foods<br /><br />Mom probably didn't tell us that,<br />though she hopefully pushed<br />bananas and carrots and celery our way<br /><br /><br />Anyway:<br />another version of health<br />is<br />a Feldenkrais definition:<br />springing back from setbacks<br /><br />can be physical:<br />get sick<br />then get well fast<br /><br />can be emotional:<br />get whacked by someone's unkindness<br />or insensitivity<br />or just plain forgetting that we<br />want to be as important as we want to be<br /><br />and springing back<br /><br /><br />can be<br />life path:<br />setting out to do a business<br />or a project<br />and various<br />rejection/ failure along<br />the way:<br />and picking ourselves up and<br />going<br />do<br />with the show<br /><br />good<br /><br /><br />and spiritual:<br />setting out to be present<br />or loving<br />or whatever<br />failing<br />and getting back to it<br />instead of trashing ourselves<br />for "failing" "again"<br /><br />la,<br />la<br /><br />easier<br />to write/ give<br />this advice<br /><br />than<br />sometimes to remember it,<br />myself<br /><br />see today's essay at<br /><a href="http://slowsonoma.com">slowsonoma.com</a><br /><br />love<br />and happy<br />ungradings<br />to <br />you,<br /><br /><br />Chrischris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-12780327319497373622008-10-24T11:10:00.000-07:002008-10-27T11:18:25.518-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9OTGp0FCLeRNcPeXfNdO1Yg0u9Rsh9DU97KaN8oX7rauXfHxk7bYCNSYQWNp3CpKQgnvRcqdpqLDMlj0UO20sAssCbDjI-ufJSHt9_-pb6T4uUrGHbVi5RuvoXIll02UL9U6h/s1600-h/DSCF0033.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9OTGp0FCLeRNcPeXfNdO1Yg0u9Rsh9DU97KaN8oX7rauXfHxk7bYCNSYQWNp3CpKQgnvRcqdpqLDMlj0UO20sAssCbDjI-ufJSHt9_-pb6T4uUrGHbVi5RuvoXIll02UL9U6h/s320/DSCF0033.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261899463294051586" /></a><br /><h2> Friday and the Week ending</h2><br /><br />Everything ends<br /><br />Weeks end<br /><br />Life ends<br /><br />Relationships end,<br />either by death<br />or parting<br /><br />Tomato season ends<br /><br />Winter ends<br /><br />Summer ends<br /><br />This blog<br />entry ends<br /><br /><br /><br />I bet you knew that,<br />and breathing in,<br />that ends,<br />pause,<br />breathing out,<br />that ends,<br />pause.<br /><br /><br />Someone says something to us.<br /><br />What about a pause.<br />A breathing.<br />An opening.<br /><br />What if we spoke and responded from emptiness,<br />rather than the old chatter tapes.<br /><br />Ah, wouldn't that be interesting.<br /><br />Giving life<br />our minds<br />our lives<br />a pause<br /><br />some space<br /><br />after one thing<br />ends<br /><br />and the next begins<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And what, to do with yoga, weight loss, tai chi,<br />and health,<br />has this to do?<br /><br />Actually a lot,<br />and I'll pause<br />and maybe you will, too,<br />and then you can pursue how yoga and stop pause<br />tai chi and stop pause<br />health and stop pause<br />even weight loss (take a bit, and stop pause)<br /><br />can be great and wonderful<br />ways<br />to improve the sweetness<br />and now-ness<br />in your life.<br /><br /><br />Ciao,<br />Chris<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-53210304171770111282008-10-03T09:55:00.000-07:002008-10-21T10:00:59.855-07:00<h2> 3 L's for a good life</h2><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbm6IQc1ibGUbYp90np67i_L3w_frQ44IjVzG5jaZMBeHdiW3nMABKrmVYJ55RCyKOBQPs9W04e1H-wvu-3BYTT8YyQfJvDeeWCp-hZEis82UrVZdS6YZUcNfQJ52vBV-r30CT/s1600-h/DSCF0026.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbm6IQc1ibGUbYp90np67i_L3w_frQ44IjVzG5jaZMBeHdiW3nMABKrmVYJ55RCyKOBQPs9W04e1H-wvu-3BYTT8YyQfJvDeeWCp-hZEis82UrVZdS6YZUcNfQJ52vBV-r30CT/s320/DSCF0026.JPG" border="0" alt="saliva ug"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258739852063975698" /></a><br /><br />Laughing<br />at ourselves,<br />especially when we have taken ourselves <br />into unhahttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifppiness by<br />our hatred/ anger at/ annoyance at<br />other people.<br /><br />Why laugh?<br />Do <a href="http://thework.com">The Work</a><br />and realize:<br />we do the same damn thing<br />that bugs us in them.<br /><br />Learning,<br />something new,<br />about moving with more ease,<br />about plants,<br />about the person we live<br />with and might be taking<br />for granted<br />about the<br />joys of silence<br /><br /><br />Loving:<br />this is big.<br /><br />Find something "hard" to love,<br />and see<br />what's stopping you.<br /><br />More to come<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-76128230592056459082008-09-26T10:34:00.000-07:002008-09-26T10:42:59.695-07:00<h2> What to Say on Friday?</h2><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMzJ2lGz9IxXHbU76FeoZQuJoa2xjvg08Qu6BcJiKAFR1jJPQqyBDAcuRwTUZa5Sc1GQyvHSG51QdlHDEpPYNIBzh_wF-wx8oYZdIk9D_LtAZ4aD-aBywuVF7XwR9tBfLUJeW/s1600-h/DSCF0045.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMMzJ2lGz9IxXHbU76FeoZQuJoa2xjvg08Qu6BcJiKAFR1jJPQqyBDAcuRwTUZa5Sc1GQyvHSG51QdlHDEpPYNIBzh_wF-wx8oYZdIk9D_LtAZ4aD-aBywuVF7XwR9tBfLUJeW/s320/DSCF0045.JPG" border="0" alt="flowers"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250380162043659074" /></a><br /><br />I got up early today<br /><br />usually wake up way early<br />and getting out of bed<br />is another story, <br />usually wait for the sun<br /><br />but friends<br />at the Sonoma Ashram<br />like to meditate at 6:30 AM<br /><br />so got on the sweet bicycle<br />still dark<br /><br />went and meditated<br /><br />good:<br /><br />here is<br />what I<br />want<br />to be<br />and assist others to be<br />in life:<br /><br /><br />happy,<br />present,<br />loving what is,<br />learning,<br />healing of our moving, our thinking, our hearts, our Earth<br /><br /><br />Earth<br />love<br />happiness<br />learning<br />awareness<br /><br /><br />there was something more<br /><br />real health<br /><br />okay:<br /><br />happiness<br />being present<br />real health for me, others, and the Earth<br />love, and letting for all unlove (forgiveness)<br />learning to move, think, breathe, live with Ease<br /><br />ease<br />awareness<br />love<br />happiness<br />healing<br />health<br /><br />good<br /><br />fine,<br />that's enough<br /><br />good<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-44637280540218587092008-09-19T16:13:00.001-07:002008-09-19T16:16:38.090-07:00<h2> How to Eat Better, </h2><br /><br />It's an easy<br />step this one<br />and helps the Earth<br />have less junk<br />and your body<br />have less sludge:<br /><br />Don't eat anything<br />from a package.<br /><br />Get it in bulk,<br />get it at the butchers,<br />get it from your garden<br />and your farmer's market.<br /><br />Sometimes I slip<br />on this, usually<br />sweetners:<br />Agave in a plastic thing,<br />and organic free trade brown sugar<br />to feed my kumbacha<br /><br />and chocolate raw<br />in plastic<br /><br />and raw milk<br />in containers<br /><br /><br />that's a lot,<br />and still<br />it could be more<br />lots more<br /><br />do the best you can<br /><br />and see how much better<br />you feel<br /><br />oh, yeah,<br />and the stuff<br />you do get:<br />organic<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-4637048352146024272008-09-12T08:55:00.000-07:002008-09-12T09:00:08.175-07:00<h2> Lose Weight: <br />Eat Less, Eat Better,<br />Eat Different</h2><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTi3zZux4FfHbFd1znyGNN5t36I7SLlJkNYBYcms5Q96O_tqqY7lwzFuBm7oYUkDVj74IRlkKFQ7Q6ieRLJWcawDeI5UTCncnwiYk8OCVWV1WTmAfwdf-TkwcxzwPCzgdwt_1_/s1600-h/DSCF0008.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTi3zZux4FfHbFd1znyGNN5t36I7SLlJkNYBYcms5Q96O_tqqY7lwzFuBm7oYUkDVj74IRlkKFQ7Q6ieRLJWcawDeI5UTCncnwiYk8OCVWV1WTmAfwdf-TkwcxzwPCzgdwt_1_/s320/DSCF0008.JPG" border="0" alt="flowers roses"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245162346171497314" /></a><br /><br />losing weight<br />is easy:<br /><br />stop<br />the stuff in packages<br /><br />stop<br />the sugar<br />and refined flours<br /><br />only have grains<br />if soaked<br />over night<br /><br />only have organic food<br /><br />eat a couple<br />or all your meals <br />as raw foods<br /><br />don't mix protein<br />and grain<br /><br />better<br />yet<br />stop all grains<br /><br />and eat less at night<br />and<br />a lot<br />as much as you want<br />in<br />the middle <br />or <br />middle-ish<br />of the day<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-76286760966304825822008-09-05T13:07:00.000-07:002008-09-05T13:13:31.023-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rWo5y-SS49uaUVgV6R24klwcArgRjc7UuKrZIEHZ_tNrZN1kz11mh3Be40It4WuVfGOEm8tfcuDlXul0T2l2oYlhX9IOnpSWRCN-S8m2odtJnqA5LbJhIc51yJTnK8BxIXUF/s1600-h/DSCF0032.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-rWo5y-SS49uaUVgV6R24klwcArgRjc7UuKrZIEHZ_tNrZN1kz11mh3Be40It4WuVfGOEm8tfcuDlXul0T2l2oYlhX9IOnpSWRCN-S8m2odtJnqA5LbJhIc51yJTnK8BxIXUF/s320/DSCF0032.JPG" border="0" alt="roses"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5241868628906126146" /></a><br /><br /><h2> happiness and heat</h2><br /><br />it's hot today<br />and <br />often<br />hot<br />around here<br /><br />what are you going to do?<br />go out into the heat a little, with <br />a hat<br />walk<br />ride a bike<br />don't stay too sheltered<br /><br />and still:<br />nice to cool<br />the house <br />off at night<br />by opening the windows,<br />and then<br />keep the house<br />more or less<br />cool<br />by<br />shutting the windows<br />in the day<br /><br />everyone knows<br />that<br /><br />some still use <br />air conditioners<br /><br />oh, well<br /><br />global<br />warming:<br />we all try<br />to do a little bit<br /><br />and what is good<br />for our health:<br /><br />loving what is<br />always<br />takes the stress<br />way<br />away<br /><br />so:<br />some way to love<br />the heat<br />seems a grand idea<br /><br />I say:<br />plant tomatoes<br /><br />then even when we are hot, <br />at least they are charging forward<br />into something delicious<br />for <br />us<br />to eat<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-4556752798840543642008-08-29T09:47:00.000-07:002008-08-29T10:02:59.467-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrU4Z4bElwfHo67sBKpNG7OkXCSgRgAn-K1i8AUmL-XX_ecEGNU5FeGM91Fez0z9CfYfz7ERp8BhvYO1_wDiixuU0hcc9Gh6SOmBp3mCVVDp0HqSn0GiS99i056Gx_BtoB4A4/s1600-h/DSCF0208.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixrU4Z4bElwfHo67sBKpNG7OkXCSgRgAn-K1i8AUmL-XX_ecEGNU5FeGM91Fez0z9CfYfz7ERp8BhvYO1_wDiixuU0hcc9Gh6SOmBp3mCVVDp0HqSn0GiS99i056Gx_BtoB4A4/s320/DSCF0208.JPG" border="0" alt="sunflowers and barn"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5239985991364950370" /></a><br /><h2> Friday, hot Friday<br />Undoing Stress<br />and<br />Real Health</h2><br /><br /><br />the news yesterday:<br />Marlie and I are going to work<br />toward moving apart<br /><br />this could be stressful<br /><br />this could be sad<br /><br />this was "hard" yesterday<br /><br />and to "deal" with stress<br />is one of the great gifts <br />of the <a href="http://thework.com">Byron Katie work</a><br /><br />to have stress <br />means to be at war<br />with What Is.<br /><br />to have stress<br />means not to be comfortable<br />now<br /><br />it usually means being <br />lost to <br />now<br /><br />and on the contrary:<br />to be now<br />is the end of the Byron Katie work,<br />usually<br /><br />and to be now<br />is to<br />re<br />turn to a state of ease<br />and clarity<br />a feeling<br />an experience <br />of our being-ness<br />right now<br /><br />and so,<br />the Marlie and Chris<br />thing<br /><br />what a nice story<br />and she's wonderful<br />and I'm wonderful<br /><br />and "it" was hard yesterday<br />and will probably be hard<br />at times in the future<br /><br />and here's what we did:<br />talked<br />talked with one talking<br />the other listening,<br />five minutes at a time<br />no interrupting<br /><br />if someone interrupted,<br />they had to finish out the time<br />period<br /><br />talking<br />listening<br /><br />and then<br />for me,<br />two sets of 22 minutes<br />doing<br />the work:<br /><br />the beliefs:<br />"This isn't a good time for this to be happening"<br /><br />Is that true?<br />I don't know.<br /><br />How do I react when I hold to the thought/belief that<br />"This isn't a good time for this to be happening"? <br /><br />Hell, is how I react. Feeling bad, sad, mad, <br />victim, cheated, fooled, afraid<br />and more.<br /><br />Who or what would I be without the thought that<br />"This isn't a good time for this to be happening"?<br /><br />I'd be someone sitting here<br />now<br />breathing<br />and curious:<br />how is this going to play out?<br /><br />I'd be alive<br />and grateful<br />to have a friend I can talk<br />while we work<br />out what all the stories<br />say is a "hard thing"<br /><br />I'd be in love.<br />In love with Marlie,<br />and excited to have a love<br />that rises to the occasion of loving<br />her when she wants her path and my<br />path to go different directions.<br /><br />I'd be in love.<br />In love with me,<br />and excited to love me, even in<br />the scary place of wants my path<br />to go in a different direction<br />than someone I deeply cherish<br />and love.<br /><br />Good.<br /><br />And the turn around to the statement:<br />"This isn't a good time for this to be happening"<br /><br />This is the best time for this to be happening.<br /><br />A weird<br />wild<br />wonderful world.<br /><br />Over and over the choice:<br />control<br />or<br />love.<br /><br />Over and over the choice:<br />going into War with What Is<br />or<br />Loving What Is.<br /><br />Ah,<br />life.<br />a hot Friday,<br />a future that will go ????<br />a love that is here,<br />right now.<br /><br />this is one<br />way<br />one amazing way<br />out of so called "stress"<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-27121974566049986332008-08-25T10:26:00.000-07:002008-10-21T10:04:47.014-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsg7S4TwkZKiTrpf6fqtp4wEyyctRDnpx5e1lmK9o28I3WYvJQwqXUay3vDGlfdmFEZGoRT62KKKw2UaBb8HID3qkbhcdWeHUDeZaJXnVnqW1okJar555217-vGbC2ay_L_pF/s1600-h/DSCF0136.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIsg7S4TwkZKiTrpf6fqtp4wEyyctRDnpx5e1lmK9o28I3WYvJQwqXUay3vDGlfdmFEZGoRT62KKKw2UaBb8HID3qkbhcdWeHUDeZaJXnVnqW1okJar555217-vGbC2ay_L_pF/s320/DSCF0136.JPG" border="0" alt="rose"width="360px"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238511484003393314" /></a><br /><h2> Classes for the Fall<br /><br /> </h2><br /><br /><br />Increase Skills and Enjoy Life More <ul><br /><li>Think more clearly</li><br /><li>Anti-Aging</li><br /><li>Move with more ease</li><br /><li>Re-discover how much you love to learn<br />and<br />be alive</li><br /><li> Decrease and Make Irrelevant Various<br />Aches and Pains</li><br /><li> Recovery faster from Surgery</li><br /><li> Perhaps avoid surgery</li><br /><li>Recover from Strokes and falls and accidents</li><br /><li>Rediscovery how much of you there is </li><br /></ul><br /><br />Starting the Second Week in September<br />(on the weekend of September 6<br />and running for 5 weeks,<br />to end the week of October 4-9)<br /><br />Group lessons <br />Monday and Wednesday<br />11:30 AM Discovery and <br /> Anti-Aging Yoga<br />5:30 PM Backs, Necks, Shoulders<br /> and Anti-Aging<br /><br />Thursday<br />5:30PM Musicians, Surgeons, Hands<br />6:30 PM High Performers<br /><br />Saturday<br />9:30 AM Discovery and <br /> Anti-Aging Yoga<br />10:30 AM Rolling & Relationship<br />11:30 AM Backs, Necks, Shoulders<br /><br /><hr/><br />Based on my 127 days of training<br />in the Anat Baniel Method<a href="http://anatbanielmethod.com"></a>,<br />including certification in her Mastery Programs for<br />Special Needs Children<br />Vitality and Anti-Aging<br />and<br />High Performers<br /><br />as well as<br />200 days of training<br />in the Feldenkrais Method<a href="http://feldenkrais.com"></a><br /><br />These lessons<br />can appear to be "movement lessons"<br />and are really<br />brain lessons,<br />anti-aging lessons,<br />regaining vitality lessons,<br />regaining our skills lessons,<br />and rediscovering discovery lessons<br /><br /><hr/><br /><br />Costs:<br />taking one five week series <br />(Monday 5:30 PM Backs, Necks, shoulders and Anti-aging, say)<br />$100<br /><br />taking two series:<br />$160<br /><br />taking three series:<br />$200<br /><br />drop in $30<br /><br /><br />yoga series:<br />one class a week for five weeks: $80<br />two classes a week for five weeks: $140<br />three classes a week for five weeks: $180<br /><br />yoga teachers: add 50 %<br /><br />drop in for yoga classes: $25<br /><br /><br />high performer series:<br />five week series: $200<br />drop in: $50<br /><br />enjoy<br />learn<br />love each moment<br />and<br />smile<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36312103.post-53765051978721328532008-08-08T09:57:00.000-07:002008-08-08T10:02:51.161-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2AeC5JF6wTd2gVxqeCWSNuDPyjElsOW2xMP4BP-tEUm2Qi-r_V8ghf1NULYbsMCIObk0ukZQAsNmT2Xy3MLB10DbplUZDAfrgiGb0x5rZHcqeUt-Mt1tSWHZ9UWW63pyqh84/s1600-h/DSCF0070.JPG"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju2AeC5JF6wTd2gVxqeCWSNuDPyjElsOW2xMP4BP-tEUm2Qi-r_V8ghf1NULYbsMCIObk0ukZQAsNmT2Xy3MLB10DbplUZDAfrgiGb0x5rZHcqeUt-Mt1tSWHZ9UWW63pyqh84/s320/DSCF0070.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232193428704242434" /></a><br />Something to say for August.<br /><br />August has been hot.<br /><br />August has been cold.<br /><br />It rained a bit the other night.<br /><br />Sleeping outdoors, Marlie and I got some raindrops<br />on our faces.<br />In the eye and it's kind of a zinger.<br />Still, we fell asleep with the rain,<br />and it was light,<br />and didn't last long,<br />and the next day things were damp<br />but not down to our layer.<br /><br />Why mention that.<br />Rain in good, I think.<br />Sleeping outside is great, I think.<br />I'm getting more and more jazzed on eating totally<br />raw,<br />having had just one meal at the local Ashram on Guru Purnama<br />of cooked food<br />and gotten first cold<br />in a<br />long,<br />long<br />time.<br /><br />What you do.<br />Up to you.<br /><br />Though if you want to stay<br />slim<br />and have extra energy<br />and not<br />get sick,<br />this,<br />combined<br />with not eating much if anything<br />at night<br />and being<br />present<br />and moving<br />with awareness<br />and joy<br />and ease<br /><br />all<br />are great<br />anti-aging<br />pathways<br /><br />hope<br />you find one for you.<br /><br /><br/>chris elmshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14693928904474520561noreply@blogger.com0