Blogging as meditation

Meditation and mindfulness are the two new buzz words in the area of mental health. Although if you go back to the beginning of this blog it was to help me lose weight, mental health has always been a huge priority for me. I firmly believe good physical health and good mental health are interdependent. I am very much the whole mind body spirit thing.

Thats one reason I think why qigong has gripped me so much is because it is a kind of moving meditation. I can be very mindful when I am doing qigong.

But sometimes sitting still is good....and in the past I have found that blogging about something can help me sort my thoughts out. Sometimes its almost a kind of automatic writing.

I am very hard on myself at times. I think I should meditate and be mindful and be more spiritual than I am. I am a reiki practitioner and we are meant to be spiritual. I recently took someone though her reiki level one...and she was very unhappy that it wasn't more spiritual. I got the impression she wanted a big spiritual break though, some answers to life's great questions....the truth is answers don't come in in a flash very often. They come from discipline and regular practice.

One of my friends posted in a face book group that she had been told to tell us to talk to our guides today....about anything. Not to worry if we can't hear them, they can hear us. Now this is something I have a problem with. I am not sure about this whole 'guide' thing and suspect I just make things up ........but then I don;t expect to hear things. And that of course could well be the problem. We limit our achievements by our expectations.

Blogging like this is a way of me 'talking' to guides/angels/god/the universe/.....take your pick on who could be the recipient. And I know I have experienced moments when my thoughts have gone in unexpected direction while blogging......and that could be an answer by who or what ever 'listens.

I have been reading a book recommended from a very unexpected source about a players in a virtual reality game. Their avatars can meditate and pray. When they meditate it is possible for those outside the game to talk to them (even though this shouldn't happen) When they prey only the mainframe computer that controls the game talk to them.
For a sci fi book it contains a lot about spirituality. And it actually mentions reiki....



And I have just remembered that reading has also been recommended as a form of meditation.

Maybe I am not as bad at being spiritual as I though...

So how is my design for life going?

Well I still have a weight problem but whatever other medical problems I have (and I have a few) I am not diabetic, not hypertensive, and don;t need to take the normal cocktail of drugs for prevention of cardiovascular events that a lot of women my age need to take.

My holistic skills are increasing. I am now qualified in Indian head massage, use of Kats Eye blends of aromatherapy oils, and to teach a form of Tai chi called Shibashi qigong

I have left my room at the salon and now have access on an as needed basis to two wonderful purpose built consulting rooms in Edgbaston and Bromsgrove

I now have regular locum work at two Spire Private hospitals and may have a work at a third soon.


And I am supposed to be retired...................

I do have a few new health problems. I have succumbed to the fashionable disease of Vitamin D deficiency, and just been diagnosed with late onset asthma. And today I have been told I have early signs of cataracts, and hearing problems that may require me to have hearing aids.

But I feel so lucky I have easily treated problems and that there is nothing that will stop me doing what I love.

We are in the middle of the general election campaign and Steve is a candidate in our constituency and I feel so proud of him I could almost burst.

In other words, life is good, and I intend for it to get better and thats the best design you can possibly have

I'm back.............

Wow.....what a long gap First of al why have I re-started this blog? well I know I need the discipline of blogging. It will help me. Plus I wanted to remind myself what I was doing last time I made an entry.

It may be many months ago...but I remember that network meeting I mentioned in my last entry. I didn't get the cancellation fee from the client. I didn't get into networking...and I am now in a very different place to where I was all those months ago. But thats a story for tomorrow.....its too late tonight