Laid up in bed with flu for the last few days, noticing...
- immense difficulty and resistance to being with unpleasant feelings in the body (hardly surprising but interesting to experiment with this!)... using my breath as anchor - an accompanying habitual urge to scroll through social media, for distraction from pain, for 'entertainment' (I use this term loosely), for news of the world out there. In the most part utterly mindless, and ultimately depleting both mentally and physically. I am not used to having hours at my disposal to 'choose' to scroll through feeds on my phone. Having proper flu is a fairly extreme state for me, bringing into sharp focus some automatic tendencies that I dislike greatly, and am intent on tackling. At our Gaia House retreat Christina Feldman talked about developing themes for applying mindfulness in our day-to-day lives. Mindful phone use is a huge one, with potential to effect our relationships with others, ourselves, and the fabric of our lives.
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Our first day of teaching practice in pairs... sessions 1 and 2 of the eight week course. I arrived feeling exhausted and left feeling energised - not at all what I had expected! I told my husband D that I'd had a good day and he asked what we'd been doing. I said teaching the raisin exercise and body scan, along with the relevant inquiry, to which he replied 'oh easy!'. He then proceeded to lead me and some other imaginary participants in his own raisin exercise inquiry... 'so did you like your raisin??... and did you like your raisin!?'... punctuated with pauses for him to piss himself with immense merriment. This is how I live...
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