Dear Alan,
its really a tough life.
I enjoy your admonition.
Looking at my practice in regard to reading, I see that I guide/misguide
myself by accepting sources in various ways.
For instance the local "Bild" newspaper is simply good at distracting me
and I believe nothing they print, including their pictures.
And looking at the other papers I read or look through, I see a
hierarchy, just by the name of the paper. This I need to pay more
attention to.
And I realize that other folks have really different hierarchies.
I often help myself by looking into the huge Webster Dictionnary on my
desk. Under "meditation" it says, among other things:
"continued application of the mind"
and cites Grandell Hicks with:
"enforced seclusion has given him opportunity for the meditation out of
which this novel has come".
Ok, this could mean that my practice of reading the entire "User's
Guide" everytime before I facilitated an ost event (for which I needed a
dgree of seclusion and some time) was "application of mind".
Sticking to the Webster's definition my practice could be called
"meditation".
So that is me training myself? Just reading?
What I did notice reading the Guide (which I did 200 times) is that
there was always something new, something I had not consciously seen
before.
Of course, each read was followed by experiencing myself as facilitator
(200 times). No wonder I kept discovering stuff.
cheers
mmp
Am 18.08.2019 um 12:31 schrieb Alan Halford via OSList:
Hi Michael
Don’t believe everything you read in wikipedia!
On 18 Aug 2019, at 5:56 pm, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
wrote:
Dear Alan,
meditate?
Ok, I ain't trained.
Missed it.
Is it too late?
Looking at meditation in wikipedia it tells me:
"Meditation may be used with the aim of reducing stress, anxiety,
depression, and pain, and increasing peace, perception,[7] self-concept,
and well-being.[8][9][10][11] Meditation is under research to define its
possible health (psychological, neurological, and cardiovascular) and
other effects."
Shocked myself with the section "criticism":
"The psychologist Thomas Joiner argues that modern mindfulness
meditation has been "corrupted" for commercial gain by self-help
celebrities, and suggests that it encourages unhealthy narcissistic and
self-obsessed mindsets."
Hope you you all enjoy a lovely Sunday.
mmp
Am 17.08.2019 um 11:08 schrieb Alan Halford via OSList:
I have a vague and distant memory of seeing/hearing HO saying or being
quoted “ The only training you need for OST is to meditate”
Not sure whether I imagined it, but it was a decisive reason for me
to delve into the world of OST
AND it’s still
“Issue the invitation, sit in a circle, create an agenda and get to work”
WHOO HOO
Alan
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