I’m up late. I didn’t plan it this way; in fact, lately I’ve been working on regularizing my routines to waste less energy and to stabilize my life. I’ve been trying to go to bed earlier.
One of the things I do every day is a little bit of qigong (from the Shaolin Wahnam tradition) and a few other exercises involving vital energy. Particularly recently, it’s been helpful in increasing my daily energy. But one caution I was taught was not to practice during a thunderstorm.
Well, I like to test the boundaries. Tonight there was a thunderstorm and I decided to breathe in a little energy and then breathe it out again. Just a couple of breaths, nothing much.
Then I lay in bed trying to get to sleep, but it was like I had drunk coffee or something. I just had too much energy in my body, the kind of energy that was too wild and kept moving instead of settling down.
So here I am. Interesting stuff, this qi. I can see why it is wise to cultivate it carefully and harmoniously.
Posted at 12:08 am —
Been reading The Magus of Strovolos, a narrative book about the late Cypriot mystic Dr. Stylianos Atteshlis, aka Daskalos. One aspect that is very familiar in many ways is his concept of “elementals” or thought-forms, which resonates with Seth’s idea that “you create your own reality” and “thoughts have electromagnetic reality,” as well as with the concept of memes, the concept of institutional entities, etc. To me, Daskalos’ conceptualization is a bit more along the lines of how I’m accustomed to thinking: in practical terms that address how such mental constructs affect one’s expression of one’s true being, and thus how one can transform oneself to express one’s true being more clearly.
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Posted at 2:53 pm —
Last week I went to my Alexander Technique lesson feeling stiff and achy, as usual, and wishing that my teacher would just work all of those knots out for me. I didn’t want to do any work; I wanted work to be done on me.
In a way, that’s kind of the underlying philosophy of most forms of medicine, Chinese medicine included. In most of the texts I’m studying, they discuss treating disease patterns using acupuncture and herbs. But this gives the patient nothing to work on to better themselves.
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Posted at 2:57 pm —
