My brother will be taking the train home from Amsterdam tomorrow! He and D has been stuck there since wednessday because of the volcanic activities in Iceland. Quite honestly I must say I miss him. Fortunately, Ellen was kind enough to let him stay at her new place in the outskirts of Amsterdam, so a lot of kudos and nice thoughts to her!
Practice has been rather dull this week, haven't felt encouraged at all with worrying for bro's return, dads computer exploding - but at least at this point I can almost always get that easy feeling in XingYi, it made me quite happy that I could even get it after I spent a night this weekend at a mates place. Was a good saturday night out.
I can't wait for bro's return so we can spend some quality time together.
Lastly, my weightloss has kind of halted. I find that annoying, but I'll be able to go run tomorrow and I'll try to pick up the pace with my other practices too.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Awesomeness!
Today has been quite nice, I tried out a new game called Heroes of Newerth. Pretty good concept, but so far, I really stink at it. I also found a way to order the knives for me and bro, so in 2 weeks or so - we'll start dealing with some simple exercises with those. We'll working with fear, panic and slowly let go of that and turn it into a respect for knives that does not paralyze you in a threatful situation.
The real awesomeness comes from todays class practice - Master Ma is very interested in coming to Sweden this summer and give us a weekend workshop. This will prove very interesting, or as D puts it: "It will be like watching mozart play the piano. You'll see it, but you won't believe it!"
Anyway, this will be a great gift!
Class was interesting in other ways too, we did taiji push hands with ding (centre) as focus. I practiced with bro, and D showed stuff with me for the class. A lot of things happen when you do that, so I'm grateful for the opportunity and I feel like we actually filled a piece of the puzzle that I've had huge issues with and have been working with for some time now. I will practice a lot during our "break" from class training for the coming 1.5 weeks (small sad face, but good stuff will happen in the meanwhile).
The real awesomeness comes from todays class practice - Master Ma is very interested in coming to Sweden this summer and give us a weekend workshop. This will prove very interesting, or as D puts it: "It will be like watching mozart play the piano. You'll see it, but you won't believe it!"
Anyway, this will be a great gift!
Class was interesting in other ways too, we did taiji push hands with ding (centre) as focus. I practiced with bro, and D showed stuff with me for the class. A lot of things happen when you do that, so I'm grateful for the opportunity and I feel like we actually filled a piece of the puzzle that I've had huge issues with and have been working with for some time now. I will practice a lot during our "break" from class training for the coming 1.5 weeks (small sad face, but good stuff will happen in the meanwhile).
Sunday, April 11, 2010
First entry
So, I'm a taoist practitioner. I practice Qi gong, Tai ji quan and Xing yi quan.
Thus, I deal with certain types of meditations and practice both for martial skill and for health. This causes me to have a different view of life, health in general and perspectives of what is and is not important, a problem or a gift.
This blog is not really supposed to be a bunch of my problems and egocentric thoughts about the world, but rather a diary of what I've been doing and how my practice has gone, what it contained and so on.
I'll start with covering this weekend.
was at my dads house all weekend, played with the cats and relaxed. Atlas is still kind of afraid of me I guess, and Billan still wants her private time I guess.
Practicewise was good, short time spent and only did XingYi, but I finally got that easy feeling I've been looking for since D made transmissions for it in class - it's funny how the spirals can move my arm upwards without me actually using my muscles for doing so. I also got a chance to feel what Johan's (my brother) San ti (standing meditation in Xingyi, I'm not doing this yet), it felt very dense.
Thus, I deal with certain types of meditations and practice both for martial skill and for health. This causes me to have a different view of life, health in general and perspectives of what is and is not important, a problem or a gift.
This blog is not really supposed to be a bunch of my problems and egocentric thoughts about the world, but rather a diary of what I've been doing and how my practice has gone, what it contained and so on.
I'll start with covering this weekend.
was at my dads house all weekend, played with the cats and relaxed. Atlas is still kind of afraid of me I guess, and Billan still wants her private time I guess.
Practicewise was good, short time spent and only did XingYi, but I finally got that easy feeling I've been looking for since D made transmissions for it in class - it's funny how the spirals can move my arm upwards without me actually using my muscles for doing so. I also got a chance to feel what Johan's (my brother) San ti (standing meditation in Xingyi, I'm not doing this yet), it felt very dense.
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