Slippery Fish Mind
The second day of massage classes started with Ethics and since ethics is my middle name (in Chinese--seriously--it is my middle name) I was ready to go.
"Don't have sex on your massage table and don't have sex with your clients." Those were the absolutes taught today. Everything else falls into a grey area. I guess there goes my social life. (bu-dum-dum--ching) And that of course is just a joke.
Today went very well. From ethics we moved to body mechanics. We did some yoga, some grounding with your center of gravity. We practiced walking around massage tables with our knees bent. It was a very good day. Why? Well, I found it very meditative. I come to calmness of mind through the body. My awareness is very rooted in my sense of touch and movement. That's come out of meditation: Breath awareness, walking meditation, etc. I really came out of class with a charged energy level and a very positive feeling. And so we come to the fish.
After class I went to buy a printer at Best Buy, just one exit down from my school on I-285 in Atl. I thought it would be a quick jump but boy was I wrong. I was stuck in traffic and I litterally watched my mind go from calm serenity to tense frustration. It flopped like a fish from one side to the other in just a matter of half an hour and I feel so lucky to have been aware enough of what was going on to, well, know what was going on.
I believe deeply in karma--meaning cause and effect (not some cosmic next life generator). What goes on now conditions what follows. Emotions, thoughts are the result of what we are in contact with. Pleasure brings comfort and bliss and irritation brings the opposite. BUT...hmm. there's a but in here somewhere...
But, knowing is half the battle. Knowing that certain causes lead to certain effects allows you to sever the chain. When something happens the effects follow. Those effects then cause more effects and this repeats and repeats. Breaking the cycle is knowing when to insert causes that can bring you back to center. Adding deep breathing to frustration. Throwing some relaxation ontop of Tension. Theres a lot that can't be controlled but there's a lot that can.
Ok. That was a rambly one. Anyway, It's hard to hold onto a flopping fish. But isn't that what meditation is all about?
"Don't have sex on your massage table and don't have sex with your clients." Those were the absolutes taught today. Everything else falls into a grey area. I guess there goes my social life. (bu-dum-dum--ching) And that of course is just a joke.
Today went very well. From ethics we moved to body mechanics. We did some yoga, some grounding with your center of gravity. We practiced walking around massage tables with our knees bent. It was a very good day. Why? Well, I found it very meditative. I come to calmness of mind through the body. My awareness is very rooted in my sense of touch and movement. That's come out of meditation: Breath awareness, walking meditation, etc. I really came out of class with a charged energy level and a very positive feeling. And so we come to the fish.
After class I went to buy a printer at Best Buy, just one exit down from my school on I-285 in Atl. I thought it would be a quick jump but boy was I wrong. I was stuck in traffic and I litterally watched my mind go from calm serenity to tense frustration. It flopped like a fish from one side to the other in just a matter of half an hour and I feel so lucky to have been aware enough of what was going on to, well, know what was going on.
I believe deeply in karma--meaning cause and effect (not some cosmic next life generator). What goes on now conditions what follows. Emotions, thoughts are the result of what we are in contact with. Pleasure brings comfort and bliss and irritation brings the opposite. BUT...hmm. there's a but in here somewhere...
But, knowing is half the battle. Knowing that certain causes lead to certain effects allows you to sever the chain. When something happens the effects follow. Those effects then cause more effects and this repeats and repeats. Breaking the cycle is knowing when to insert causes that can bring you back to center. Adding deep breathing to frustration. Throwing some relaxation ontop of Tension. Theres a lot that can't be controlled but there's a lot that can.
Ok. That was a rambly one. Anyway, It's hard to hold onto a flopping fish. But isn't that what meditation is all about?
posted by Brantley | 8:56 PM
1 Comments:
ah HA! i find you at last.
do you know how many times I've gone back to ahhomonkey blog wondering where you've been (very Pavlovian of me, i know)...esp. since it's all YOUR fault that I myself started blogging in the first place
congratulations on your knitting and purling, i mean quilting, i mean building a frankenstein monster, i mean, uh, not having sex on the massage table...
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