Your not going to believe this, I don't believe this, I now have a cold.
for context see
The way back (to practice) -2
Updated: The way back - Six weeks off regular practice...Manju looming ever larger
A cold, really? Enough already.
Throat virus
All over skin rash
Kidney stones
...common cold
Wasn't it supposed to come in threes?
Who am I Job?
But a cold for heavens sake What's it going to be next, a broken fingernail?
A cold, how pathetic is that, how am I suppose to construct a heroic, warrior monk, Ashtangai narrative with just a cold to work from.
Despite the snivelling nose he strode manfully to my mat...
Ekam (cough) Inhale, dve (sniff) exhale.
And yet it's enough to make me put off practicing and then put me off practicing some more, what was that about discipline? This is the way back remember, the discipline is weak in this one.
Manju: "The fat one, he's very dedicated" (sorry M. promised I wouldn't share that one x)
hmmm, not so dedicated perhaps
I mentioned how I'm trying to find my way into a post on the link/relationship between the practice and discipline, how perhaps they are too closely linked.
An fb comment reminded me that the discipline we have, if we can call it that, is built on routine. We practice at the same time, in the same place, the same sequence....routine routine routine...perhaps it just gives an illusion of discipline. The routine goes awry and we find that we don't actually have as much discipline as we thought we did. Give me the Ashtnagi with kids who finds a different place to practice around the house each day, at a different time and with a hundred interruptions and yet still practices, there's some discipline for ya.
Still not a post here, more thought on this needed. Help me on this, are we disciplined.....or Ahstangabots : ) (Oh that's good, going to have to add that to the title). And if we are disciplined how to extricate that from the routine and develop it such that when the routine collapses for something dreadful, earth shattering like, well like nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, acute coryza for example we can still keep our...., well you know, keep it together.
So...
A slight runny nose all day yesterday, went to bed with the beginnings of a sore throat and streaming nose, woke up again and again in the night only to fall back asleep sucking lockets.
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It's my day off anyway and I often practice late on a Tuesday, allow M. to leave the house so I can put on Manju's DVD and practice along to that.
Slept until late, put off practice some more to walk up the road to get more lockets.....had a coffee and watched episode 6 of Battlestar Galactica , not sure I'm hooked yet Noble but may be getting there.
Considered cleaning the bathroom, or the kitchen....checked to see if the fridge needed defrosting, it doesn't..... bugger
I really should practice.
Hunted around the house for the olbas oil to give me a couple of hours free from the runny nose at least.
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for context see
The way back (to practice) -2
Updated: The way back - Six weeks off regular practice...Manju looming ever larger
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| Rhinovirus |
A cold, really? Enough already.
Throat virus
All over skin rash
Kidney stones
...common cold
Wasn't it supposed to come in threes?
Who am I Job?
But a cold for heavens sake What's it going to be next, a broken fingernail?
A cold, how pathetic is that, how am I suppose to construct a heroic, warrior monk, Ashtangai narrative with just a cold to work from.
Despite the snivelling nose he strode manfully to my mat...
Ekam (cough) Inhale, dve (sniff) exhale.
And yet it's enough to make me put off practicing and then put me off practicing some more, what was that about discipline? This is the way back remember, the discipline is weak in this one.
Manju: "The fat one, he's very dedicated" (sorry M. promised I wouldn't share that one x)
hmmm, not so dedicated perhaps
I mentioned how I'm trying to find my way into a post on the link/relationship between the practice and discipline, how perhaps they are too closely linked.
An fb comment reminded me that the discipline we have, if we can call it that, is built on routine. We practice at the same time, in the same place, the same sequence....routine routine routine...perhaps it just gives an illusion of discipline. The routine goes awry and we find that we don't actually have as much discipline as we thought we did. Give me the Ashtnagi with kids who finds a different place to practice around the house each day, at a different time and with a hundred interruptions and yet still practices, there's some discipline for ya.
Still not a post here, more thought on this needed. Help me on this, are we disciplined.....or Ahstangabots : ) (Oh that's good, going to have to add that to the title). And if we are disciplined how to extricate that from the routine and develop it such that when the routine collapses for something dreadful, earth shattering like, well like nasopharyngitis, rhinopharyngitis, acute coryza for example we can still keep our...., well you know, keep it together.
So...
A slight runny nose all day yesterday, went to bed with the beginnings of a sore throat and streaming nose, woke up again and again in the night only to fall back asleep sucking lockets.
It's my day off anyway and I often practice late on a Tuesday, allow M. to leave the house so I can put on Manju's DVD and practice along to that.
Slept until late, put off practice some more to walk up the road to get more lockets.....had a coffee and watched episode 6 of Battlestar Galactica , not sure I'm hooked yet Noble but may be getting there.
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| see what they did there : ) |
Considered cleaning the bathroom, or the kitchen....checked to see if the fridge needed defrosting, it doesn't..... bugger
I really should practice.
Hunted around the house for the olbas oil to give me a couple of hours free from the runny nose at least.
Where is that stuff, can't find it anywhere, going to have to practice heroically with a sniffle.... or fish out the neti pot.
pffffffffff (looking around), could cut the grass
Alright, alright.... Update to come later, full practice for the first time in a while and with Manju's dvd, so no hanging around.....could fix that floorboard in the home shala perhaps.....
Update
Not much of an update, practiced along with Manju's DVD (finally) and practice was going so well that, though tempted to do the full series, I decided to stop at navasana and skip to finishing. This half series week seems to be working so well that I figured I might as well stick with it for the rest of the week, move on to full Primary Sunday. How sensible am I.
Nice to practice along with Manju, it's faster than I've been practicing of course and straight into the postures but I managed to keep up, three slow breaths in the postures helped slow it down a little. Still couldn't find the olbas oil but we have a humidifier from Muji, put some eucalyptus oil in that which helped. And a curious thing about ujjayi, if your careful you can kind of breath behind the stuffed up nose.
Back to bed
