Today was the last meeting of my on-campus meditation group until January, when spring (?) semester begins. So for the next month or so, y'all are my sole practice community, so you'd better behave yourself.
thanks Lorianne! I need reminding to behave myself every once in a while :)
oh beth, I am lulling along right with you all ... very very good at lulling right now ...
actually I have 'posted' a couple of times but not managed to keep my concentration long enough to actually complete and submit my post. Duh.
last friday I attended a lovely auricular acupuncture and group meditation session (my rehab center is very big on alternative practices and buddhism in particular). It was so peaceful ... but after several fraught days and no thinking time I was suddenly overwhelmed by everything coming to the surface.
Life is full of what seem to be tipping points at the moment. I am checking myself to see whether I am over-dramatising ... but I don't think I am.
Some of them I have no control over - others involve decisions that are too complex to know what the outcomes might be ... urgh!
I'm just trying to get through the holidays with enough energy to help my father, who is still grief-stricken at the loss of my mother. My own needs, wants, and grief seem to have little room amid the needs of the people close to me, so I am making room for them in my contemplative/prayer life, which is the only healthy way I can see to do it. It's been difficult for the past few weeks but I seem to be feeling lighter lately.
I don't have an in-person group to sit with and never really have, but since I'm Christian I have always had a church community that was an important and supportive part of my life. The sung Eucharist each Sunday is very meditative, with quite a bit of participatory chanting, and it functions as a 1 1/2hour "group sit" for me, usually leaving me feeling renewed and much clearer. During the week I do "sit" and practice mindfulness as well as something closer to prayer but I haven't been able to keep up a regular on-the-cushion practice for a while. Our life is very irregular and changeable. In January my husband will be starting two months of French lessons four evenings a week, so that may be the structure and predictability that helps me get back to it.
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Helllo Jean, great minds think alike - and at the same time. Leave this up, I'll delete mine.
Oh, you crazy kids... :-)
Today was the last meeting of my on-campus meditation group until January, when spring (?) semester begins. So for the next month or so, y'all are my sole practice community, so you'd better behave yourself.
:-)
OK Loriane...we'll all vow that there'll be no more sloppy meditating or procrastinating!
(sits up straight, sharpens pencil)
yes ma'am!
thanks Lorianne! I need reminding to behave myself every once in a while :)
oh beth, I am lulling along right with you all ... very very good at lulling right now ...
actually I have 'posted' a couple of times but not managed to keep my concentration long enough to actually complete and submit my post. Duh.
last friday I attended a lovely auricular acupuncture and group meditation session (my rehab center is very big on alternative practices and buddhism in particular). It was so peaceful ... but after several fraught days and no thinking time I was suddenly overwhelmed by everything coming to the surface.
Life is full of what seem to be tipping points at the moment. I am checking myself to see whether I am over-dramatising ... but I don't think I am.
Some of them I have no control over - others involve decisions that are too complex to know what the outcomes might be ... urgh!
just. keep. breathing.
Sx
I'm just trying to get through the holidays with enough energy to help my father, who is still grief-stricken at the loss of my mother. My own needs, wants, and grief seem to have little room amid the needs of the people close to me, so I am making room for them in my contemplative/prayer life, which is the only healthy way I can see to do it. It's been difficult for the past few weeks but I seem to be feeling lighter lately.
I don't have an in-person group to sit with and never really have, but since I'm Christian I have always had a church community that was an important and supportive part of my life. The sung Eucharist each Sunday is very meditative, with quite a bit of participatory chanting, and it functions as a 1 1/2hour "group sit" for me, usually leaving me feeling renewed and much clearer. During the week I do "sit" and practice mindfulness as well as something closer to prayer but I haven't been able to keep up a regular on-the-cushion practice for a while. Our life is very irregular and changeable. In January my husband will be starting two months of French lessons four evenings a week, so that may be the structure and predictability that helps me get back to it.
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