Kevin Wacknov's Insights Notes

Solution 0: Create a Personal Process

My process is to use a timer, and gradually increase the difficulty of my exercise during each interval. Example:

For 2 minutes I sit holding a good posture,
for 2 minutes I stand holding a good posture,
for 2 minutes I shift weight holding a good posture,
and for 2 minutes I walk holding a good posture.

I think of this as "two minutes per gimmick," shifting the energy pattern after each interval.

Solution 1: Awareness of a wave’s down time

After successfuly accomplishing something, I am aware of an unwilled decrease in control which allows for a fresh wave of success to follow: It is just like the sine function in trigonometry peaks, falls ('down time') and is followed by the sine function rising from a low level again (goes from -1 to +1).

Solution 2: Close Separation

All things in my body are close, yet at the same time separated, just like breathing. Mantra: "Close, Separate" or "close, separation."

These words in my head work well for me while doing tai chi or other physical activites.
These words work during spiritual crises also, during which people close to me mean different things and I want to retain my separation.

Of course, both "close" and "separate" have at least two meanings each, any of which can be intended successfully during the mantra.

Solution 3: Dark Radiation

Since 'holding' one-pointed awareness at my abdomen seems impossible for me, during the inbreath I make a large 'black hole' in my lower center, and during the outbreath forget the black hole and expand awareness to visibility. Mantra: "dark (during inbreath), radiation (during outbreath)."

Spirituality usually shuns darkness, but it is awareness' close companion: recognizing it and giving it space allows the whole organism to breathe.

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