Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Hello, Harsha. Thank you for mentioning the physiological stress reducers. It's interesting that your input comes at the same moment my husband and I were just now speaking of hypoglycemia. It's been the bane of my existence! Although I'm vegan, I still have to be very careful about sugar. I was wondering why the past three days and especially yesterday were bad and getting worse. I was having the usual oatmeal, raisins, sunflower seeds for breakfast, but over the last couple of days I added a bit of maple syrup. I was wondering why I was getting more and more ornery and jittery until yesterday. That's when I was at my lowest and most depressed - interesting that it was also directly between New and Full Moon, but I digress. I find my hypoglycemia affects my spiituality and my sense of peace very directly and very erratically. So, thank you for the "confirmation" and the reminder that I must respect my body and its limitations, otherwise my spirituality will continue to be held hostage by my biochemical junkyard dog! Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 Rose, I am glad you understand all this. There is a lot of information available on how blood sugar can influence emotions. Weight lifting and strength training and losing weight can be helpful, I have heard. David Bozzi, a long term member, knows quite a bit about strength training and often mentions sources of information for maintaining the body and good health. Many medical doctors are now also discussing the benefits of strength training. Body and mind influence each other profoundly. Harsha , "Fred & Rose Lieberman" <pyrite@c...> wrote: > Hello, Harsha. Thank you for mentioning the physiological stress reducers. > > It's interesting that your input comes at the same moment my husband and I > were just now speaking of hypoglycemia. It's been the bane of my existence! > > Although I'm vegan, I still have to be very careful about sugar. I was > wondering why the past three days and especially yesterday were bad and > getting worse. I was having the usual oatmeal, raisins, sunflower seeds for > breakfast, but over the last couple of days I added a bit of maple syrup. > > I was wondering why I was getting more and more ornery and jittery until > yesterday. That's when I was at my lowest and most depressed - interesting > that it was also directly between New and Full Moon, but I digress. > > I find my hypoglycemia affects my spiituality and my sense of peace very > directly and very erratically. > > So, thank you for the "confirmation" and the reminder that I must respect my > body and its limitations, otherwise my spirituality will continue to be held > hostage by my biochemical junkyard dog! > > > > Rose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 With deep and quiet breathing, vitality will improve, which will influence the brain and help the mind to grow pure and stable and fit for meditation. Without vitality, little can be done, hence the importance of its protection and increase. Posture and breathing are a part of yoga, for the body must be healthy and well under control, but too much concentration on the body defeats its own purpose, for it is the mind that is primary in the beginning. When the mind has been put to rest and disturbs no longer the inner space (chidakash), the body acquires a new meaning and its transformation becomes both necessary and possible. (496-7) Give all your attention to the question: "What is it that makes me conscious?", until your mind becomes the question itself and cannot think of anything else. (447) Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is "try". Allot enough time daily for sitting quietly and trying, just trying, to go beyond the personality with its addictions and obsessions. Don't ask how, it cannot be explained. You just keep on trying until you succeed. If you persevere, there can be no failure. What matters supremely is sincerity, earnestness; you must really have had surfeit of being the person you are; now see the urgent need of being free of this unnecessary self-identification with a bundle of memories and habits. This steady resistance against the unnecessary is the secret of success. (509) The value of regular meditation is that it takes you away from the humdrum of daily routine and reminds you that you're not what you believe yourself to be. (492) Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond the "I-am-so-and-so", beyond "so-I-am", beyond"I-am-the-witness-only", beyond "there-is", beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being. But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. It is definitely not a part-time occupation. Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents' barest needs. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret. (413) It has nothing to do with effort. Just turn away, look between the thoughts, rather than at the thoughts. When you happen to walk in a crowd, you do not fight every man you meet, you just find your way between. When you fight, you invite a fight. But when you do not resist, you meet no resistance. When you refuse to play the game, you are out of it. (349) No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence. (242) -Niargadatta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 > No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the > idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, > it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, > every experience happens against the background of silence. (242) > -Niargadatta Which raises the possibility of the following questions to be answered at the next Yogathon: Which swami experiences the deepest silence of all? Which swami reverts most quickly to silence after the least amount of experience? Which swami waits the longest to break the perfect stillness of realization? Still talking -- but against a background of silence, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 , "Fred & Rose Lieberman" <pyrite@c...> wrote: > Hello, Harsha. Thank you for mentioning the physiological stress reducers. Namaste, Yes hormones and sugar imbalances can upset one that's for sure. However I have found it helpful to stand back and observe my sugar imbalance and witness it. The same with hormones they tell you what to think about but not what to think. I'm saying not to use counter measures, but to ask oneself, 'to whom is this happening?'. It seems easier to control the emotions etc,,,Om Sakti,,,saktidass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 on 11/14/02 9:33 AM, dan330033 at dan330033 wrote: >> No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. > Not the >> idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its > natural state, >> it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, > rather, >> every experience happens against the background of silence. (242) >> -Niargadatta > > Which raises the possibility of the following > questions to be answered at the next Yogathon: Who raised it? > Which swami experiences the deepest silence of all? let's form a commitee and make a measuring devise! > Which swami reverts most quickly to silence > after the least amount of experience? Let's crawl into their experience and find out! > Which swami waits the longest to break > the perfect stillness of realization? You call that perfect?! > Still talking -- but against a background of silence, > Dan Dear Swimmy, The water's warm here, Dannyji. But i think the fishys may be competing for silence. They all seem to out do eachother in their silent wriggling.... or perhaps it's just my not so silent wriggling! I swim with the fishes and yet live! Where are you dan?... country and statewise, of course. Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 snip > I swim with the fishes and yet live! > > Where are you dan?... country and statewise, of course. > > Shawn Swimming with fishees in NC, USA, Shawn. The wriggling of the fishees, is them swimming ... Wrigglingswim, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 > I swim with the fishes and yet live! I'm Sicilian and I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Swimming wit da fishus means a whole udda ting. Ciao, Rosa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 14, 2002 Report Share Posted November 14, 2002 on 11/14/02 12:39 PM, Fred & Rose Lieberman at pyrite wrote: >> I swim with the fishes and yet live! > > > I'm Sicilian and I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Swimming wit da fishus > means a whole udda ting. > > Ciao, > > Rosa yes, Rosa, that's why I said I'm still kickin'. Yo, Vinni...not for nottin, but ya matza rella iz like shoe ledda! Shawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 17, 2002 Report Share Posted November 17, 2002 , "Fred & Rose Lieberman" <pyrite@c...> wrote: > > I swim with the fishes and yet live! > > > I'm Sicilian and I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Swimming wit da fishus > means a whole udda ting. > > Ciao, > > Rosa Reality made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Amore, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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