Here is my new blog. Created not for the propogation of such self-evident information but as a way to address my appalling record at correspondence. I want my brain to work. Maybe you feel the same. I hope so.
the idea is for ideas,
what are you interested in, reading, thinking, at the moment?
here's my me at the mo:
yoga (duh)
jung - the undiscovered self
learning to understand balance
the breath
and you?
5 comments:
Hey Jenn
Tell me again what books you are reading now.
I just finished 'The Bodymind' a classic by Ken Dychtwald that I have to read for my course.
And a really disappointing book by John Updike.
It was the first I ever read by him and all I can say is:" old man obsessed with his dick." I wonder if his earlier books are any better. He is an acclaimed writer after all.
Am reading
the undiscovered self - jung
my anatomy manual for teacher training
in terms of other stuff that should theoretically have been good but sucked:
the doc "the root of all evil" by Richard Dawkins - have you seen it?
He basically spends a couple of hours huffing and puffing at religious groups in a bitter vitriolic way without raising any new or thought provoking points. He uses pejorative manipulate language and is completely subjective in his bitter tirade against religion and refuses to properly engage in any thoughtful discussion with willing and able parties he is interviewing. I basically felt like this was so typical, the bbc, suposedly one of the leading mainstream media sites and Dawkins, supposedly one of the great intellectuals of our day showing the calibre that passes as mastication for a thinking population.
Hey Jenn,
Happy New Year.
have you read any stuff by Jon Kabat-Zin? Its all about mindfulness and accepting the world as it is, so its stuff i'm using lots in my current job (i'm now a student counsellor at Massey uni). i haven't read the whole book yet because its on its way from Amazon, but i'd be keen to hear if you know his stuff and what you think of it.
smile lots. b
Hey Dr B,
I'm glad you're helping out the confused Massey kids (I was one there myself quite recently : ))
I haven't heard of him but the mindfulness stuff I am very interested in. There is a great quote about awareness and asana (yoga poses) by BKS Iyengar (actually there's probably millions by him alone).
"Consider a lake. Does the water touch the banks on one side and not the other, or does it touch the banks equally everywhere? When you are performing an asana your consciousness, like the waters of a lake, should touch the frontiers of the body everywhere . . . your intelligence has spread through your whole body".
Dumbo, who are you? I have my suspicions but . . . x
I think that there is a spirituality/g-d and the manifestation of that that you recognise is incidental. It's all experiential.
"The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still the beauty of the self is reflected".
xx
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