the briefest of updates for you all!
Hard to believe I have lived in this house for over ten years.
So much here over that time - many cats and goldfish and rats dead, Rinchen dead, 2 children born (were to have been born here! so much for home-water births! but the idea was lovely!)many seasons of some wonderful and some neglected gardens, the trees have grown wonderfully, the house has been painted in (most rooms)and out..bathrooms are yummy to use with revamps - and lots of activities and memories. It may be time to move on, but I realised while lying in bed the other night reading with Doi that it was the first time I had done that, in the "recovery" room which is now my bedroom. I used to be a reada-holic! I have been a work-aholic. Bed time used to mean - kids are asleep - now I must work - and work I did.
I have been relocating all the Students for a Free Tibet archives to Clubs and Societies, we now have 3 count them 3 lockers..it still is not enough but I will do another cull eventually - time to set up a space that can be shared rather than everyone assuming it is my life and the only way activity will happen is if I do it. It is good to let go, as the issue is so important, more need to participate if anything is to move...
It is a hard crawl back from overworkaholic to well person, but the Qigong is working a treat. I have commited to a half hour daily standing practice - I have to do 100 consecutive days then tweak it somewhat before we do the organ replenishing next level in April, it hasn't been taught widely and not at all in NZ yet.. Supreme stuff. My students are practicing beautifully and are wanting more rather than less. it is lovely seeing the results in them spiritually physically and mentally. I am being asked for more of my insights on the practice but will keep it all cruisy rather than verbose! I am starting to feel normal again, I have missed doing this much practice - but I don't regret any of the last 12 years at all. I have learnt so much more to apply to depths I could have only superficially reached. Still a long way to go, and I love knowing it!
Doi has a wonderful way of communicating, very direct, but on a different level than I currently fully understand. Not that my way is shocking, but we need to do a bit of finding common ground. At first it was worrying but now I am starting to relax and investigate it further. The impact on the kids also learning how to be clearer is marked, they look more certain about how to express their needs without whining or coercing. Love him heaps. On other matters we have an incredible ease being with each other. Guess it is to be expected after we have both had testing previous relationships working with extreme conditions to see a bit of that stirred up and gone beyond - with a basis of unconditional love.
Kids finish school for 6 weeks this Wednesday. It will be a nice holiday together. We are not planning to be going anywhere but do have invitation to Waiheke Island late Jan for Nicci's wedding - would be wonderful to go but highly impractical cost wise. Only Mum and Dad will be in Dunedin for Christmas family day but Doi and kids have been invited up too..
back to "work"! hope you are all well - apologies to not be up to date with all of you. I am in some kind of Retreat space...lots of catching up on the put aside stuff being done - finally! :)
So much here over that time - many cats and goldfish and rats dead, Rinchen dead, 2 children born (were to have been born here! so much for home-water births! but the idea was lovely!)many seasons of some wonderful and some neglected gardens, the trees have grown wonderfully, the house has been painted in (most rooms)and out..bathrooms are yummy to use with revamps - and lots of activities and memories. It may be time to move on, but I realised while lying in bed the other night reading with Doi that it was the first time I had done that, in the "recovery" room which is now my bedroom. I used to be a reada-holic! I have been a work-aholic. Bed time used to mean - kids are asleep - now I must work - and work I did.
I have been relocating all the Students for a Free Tibet archives to Clubs and Societies, we now have 3 count them 3 lockers..it still is not enough but I will do another cull eventually - time to set up a space that can be shared rather than everyone assuming it is my life and the only way activity will happen is if I do it. It is good to let go, as the issue is so important, more need to participate if anything is to move...
It is a hard crawl back from overworkaholic to well person, but the Qigong is working a treat. I have commited to a half hour daily standing practice - I have to do 100 consecutive days then tweak it somewhat before we do the organ replenishing next level in April, it hasn't been taught widely and not at all in NZ yet.. Supreme stuff. My students are practicing beautifully and are wanting more rather than less. it is lovely seeing the results in them spiritually physically and mentally. I am being asked for more of my insights on the practice but will keep it all cruisy rather than verbose! I am starting to feel normal again, I have missed doing this much practice - but I don't regret any of the last 12 years at all. I have learnt so much more to apply to depths I could have only superficially reached. Still a long way to go, and I love knowing it!
Doi has a wonderful way of communicating, very direct, but on a different level than I currently fully understand. Not that my way is shocking, but we need to do a bit of finding common ground. At first it was worrying but now I am starting to relax and investigate it further. The impact on the kids also learning how to be clearer is marked, they look more certain about how to express their needs without whining or coercing. Love him heaps. On other matters we have an incredible ease being with each other. Guess it is to be expected after we have both had testing previous relationships working with extreme conditions to see a bit of that stirred up and gone beyond - with a basis of unconditional love.
Kids finish school for 6 weeks this Wednesday. It will be a nice holiday together. We are not planning to be going anywhere but do have invitation to Waiheke Island late Jan for Nicci's wedding - would be wonderful to go but highly impractical cost wise. Only Mum and Dad will be in Dunedin for Christmas family day but Doi and kids have been invited up too..
back to "work"! hope you are all well - apologies to not be up to date with all of you. I am in some kind of Retreat space...lots of catching up on the put aside stuff being done - finally! :)