Goings On: Personal Update
Returned recently from Hawaii where I spent time on both Kauai (first time) and Maui (first time back since moving from there almost 3 years ago). While I was there I worked some and played a lot, and returned with the intention of living that way all the time from now on.
So for the last couple weeks I've been working (SalesForce.com training delivery mostly, but also an implementation for a non-profit that is wrapping up), learning the dilruba with a new teacher (just got my dilruba back from Shastro when on Maui), dancing, and practicing Bikram yoga at least every other day. If you've never done Bikram, it's a bit like going to a sauna for 90 minutes a day, only doing a lot of balancing and stretching poses while in there. Sometimes it's a little hard to breathe, but I always leave feeling centered and relaxed, so it is worth the torture.
Reconnected with my old friend Lori, who I originally met when I was hosting a women's spiritual arts therapeutic support group 14 years ago. Turns out she is friends since childhood with my next door neighbor. I also got to connect her with my friend Stevo who owns a permaculture farm on Maui where he takes in work/study students and teaches them permaculture. Lori is wanting to learn permaculture to extend her nutritional consulting work to earlier stages in the food's production.
Meditation practice is fairly strong, but daily mindfulness practice is quite strong. That may be partly due to running into Rinpoche quite frequently lately. I've seen him three times in the last week. Each time, his presence strengthens my own foundation within the view. It's as if he vibrates so strongly with a certain note that everyone around him gets attuned to it too through entrainment.
Working on my fourth book these days, and got one of my teen nieces to agree to provide feedback. It is a book for teens, so that is very helpful.
No complaints in the romance department. In summary, life is good, and I intend to keep it that way as a mental decision, regardless of the exact contents of my experience. But I also intend to make a real effort each day to fill the day with as many happiness inducing experiences as I can reasonably come up with. Life is what you make it. I've decided to make mine fuller, and that does take some effort.
So for the last couple weeks I've been working (SalesForce.com training delivery mostly, but also an implementation for a non-profit that is wrapping up), learning the dilruba with a new teacher (just got my dilruba back from Shastro when on Maui), dancing, and practicing Bikram yoga at least every other day. If you've never done Bikram, it's a bit like going to a sauna for 90 minutes a day, only doing a lot of balancing and stretching poses while in there. Sometimes it's a little hard to breathe, but I always leave feeling centered and relaxed, so it is worth the torture.
Reconnected with my old friend Lori, who I originally met when I was hosting a women's spiritual arts therapeutic support group 14 years ago. Turns out she is friends since childhood with my next door neighbor. I also got to connect her with my friend Stevo who owns a permaculture farm on Maui where he takes in work/study students and teaches them permaculture. Lori is wanting to learn permaculture to extend her nutritional consulting work to earlier stages in the food's production.
Meditation practice is fairly strong, but daily mindfulness practice is quite strong. That may be partly due to running into Rinpoche quite frequently lately. I've seen him three times in the last week. Each time, his presence strengthens my own foundation within the view. It's as if he vibrates so strongly with a certain note that everyone around him gets attuned to it too through entrainment.
Working on my fourth book these days, and got one of my teen nieces to agree to provide feedback. It is a book for teens, so that is very helpful.
No complaints in the romance department. In summary, life is good, and I intend to keep it that way as a mental decision, regardless of the exact contents of my experience. But I also intend to make a real effort each day to fill the day with as many happiness inducing experiences as I can reasonably come up with. Life is what you make it. I've decided to make mine fuller, and that does take some effort.
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