Suspension
Dear Musashi,
Sometimes I wonder how I've survived this long without somehow managing to get myself killed.
I'm not good at making connections between things, so I suppose it's just as well that I have people who point them out for me.
Still working further on that project. *And* I've been practising. I don't think I'll actually be able to test me theory for a good long while. But I am practising.
I've been working on Focus exercises combined with Image training. So far it's been ping pong. Feeling the paddle in my hand, seeing the paddle, hearing the paddle as it hits the ball. That's the image part. And then hitting the ball over and over again, trying to control the ball, make the ball go in the same place. That's the focus part.
It's boring though. And I have no focus. Not good at imagery either. But eh. It could be worse.
I see why it's necessary. For a slit second, less than a second, less than half a second, my mind was completely -clear- and all that existed was me and what I was focusing on. I guess it was like, the feeling you get when you jump off of a cliff into a pool of water. The feeling before you fall, before you start plunging into the water which keeps you from dying. You're not really thinking at that moment, or at least I never do. I never have time to think in that moment.
But would it be the opposite of that? Having all the time in the world -not- to think.
How interesting.
And I wouldn't have even reflected very far into it unless someone had led me. Gods I'm so useless sometimes.
Thought of the day: "Don't focus so much on what you haven't done yet, instead reflect more deeply upon what it is that you have done."
kwishin.
Sometimes I wonder how I've survived this long without somehow managing to get myself killed.
I'm not good at making connections between things, so I suppose it's just as well that I have people who point them out for me.
Still working further on that project. *And* I've been practising. I don't think I'll actually be able to test me theory for a good long while. But I am practising.
I've been working on Focus exercises combined with Image training. So far it's been ping pong. Feeling the paddle in my hand, seeing the paddle, hearing the paddle as it hits the ball. That's the image part. And then hitting the ball over and over again, trying to control the ball, make the ball go in the same place. That's the focus part.
It's boring though. And I have no focus. Not good at imagery either. But eh. It could be worse.
I see why it's necessary. For a slit second, less than a second, less than half a second, my mind was completely -clear- and all that existed was me and what I was focusing on. I guess it was like, the feeling you get when you jump off of a cliff into a pool of water. The feeling before you fall, before you start plunging into the water which keeps you from dying. You're not really thinking at that moment, or at least I never do. I never have time to think in that moment.
But would it be the opposite of that? Having all the time in the world -not- to think.
How interesting.
And I wouldn't have even reflected very far into it unless someone had led me. Gods I'm so useless sometimes.
Thought of the day: "Don't focus so much on what you haven't done yet, instead reflect more deeply upon what it is that you have done."
kwishin.