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Moving Meditation for Westerners Obstacle Love The obstacle is the path. - Zen proverb Home » Moving Meditation for Westerners Moving Meditation for Westerners Most people live life habitually. What does it mean? It ways people in the “civilized” or western world perform the same tasks every day. Westerners walk the same paths and see the same things day in day out. It’s not unchangingly an issue of course! Depending on what exactly the daily tasks, paths and things are your habits can have both a positive and a negative impact. When you live life habitually you reduce the cognitive load and thus make your life both simpler and easier. Yet you moreover lead a unrewarding life then. How to find out whether you are typical westerner leading a monotonous life?   Are you living your life on autopilot? What is cognitive load? It’s the unvarying decisions you need to make. Which gown to wear, what to eat, which way to go. By getting up at the same time daily, drinking the same drink and moving withal the same path each day you can perform scrutinizingly on autopilot. You don’t have to think well-nigh and plan each word-for-word step. This way you can spend your energy on the very decisions that matter. Will you quit that villainous job? Will you ask that special person for a date? Will you start taking flit classes? Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg is unchangingly wearing the same neutral gray t-shirts for that word-for-word reason. He sure could sire increasingly varied clothing. As a decision-maker on top of a huge hierarchy the Facebook-founder can’t waste his energy on negligible details. This is moreover how I manage my daily life. I get up, eat, drink, meditate, walk the dog, train and work at roughly the same time each day. I go well-nigh these daily tasks increasingly or less the same way. That’s fine. It’s tabbed routine. It works well to some extent. Habits are not sufficient though. You can’t live the same old daily routine day in and day out without suffering from ABC: stoicalness wearisomeness self-satisfaction You need to unravel up the routine regularly. Do you suffer from ABC? It’s easy to find out: Do you think well-nigh your next holiday while on public transit? Do you text while driving? Do you stare into your mobile phone while eating? These are signs that you spend your life unconsciously – on autopilot – without plane stuff where you are. You are unchangingly distracted and trying to get to the next moment – the really important one – while missing the very moment you are in. Don’t worry. You are not the only one. It’s basically the norm now in the West. People spend several hours staring into screens every day while they talk with their kids just for a few minutes.   How to unravel out of the unrewarding routine Most people unravel up their routines during the weekend or on holidays. When you’re young and vacated you may moreover be worldly-wise to spend the evenings in surprising ways. As an sultana who has a family and work you will most likely have to rest in the evening or perform plane increasingly daily tasks without work. Think washing dishes and the likes. When you start depending on your daily schedule you wilt a zombie in a way. You stop choosing what you do. You do what you have to. You lose sensation of your surroundings and your inner self. You wilt increasingly and increasingly like a robot trying to be as productive as possible. Things, ideas or plane people who do not fit in your daily schedule get ignored or dismissed. You could meet your platonic partner on the way to work or plane encounter them on your daily commute repeatedly without overly chatting that person up. Why? It’s considering you are unseat to work and have “no time”. Some people moreover succumb to peepers and do only the yellowish minimum. They react not with the frenzy of stuff unchangingly rented but the opposite – apathy. The remedy to world-weariness and routine is parkour training. When you run, jump and climb you unchangingly are fully zestful and focus on your surroundings.Withoutall irreflective could midpoint hurting yourself and leading to pain or injury plane when overcoming minor obstacles. In a way parkour training is moreover the perfect mindfulness meditation. You focus on the here and now. You don’t ruminate. Your mind is not overcast by thoughts related to the past or the future. When thoughts distract me I momentarily lose my balance. When you are training parkour you wilt one with your surroundings and their very elements. Any obstacles you find, be it trees or walls are your teachers.   Becoming fully zestful To unzip the highest level of performance you are ideally “in the zone”where your sustentation is undisturbed by anything that is not relevant for the particular move. Like any kind of mindfulness you can expand your practice of parkour when to your daily life. I don’t just midpoint jumping over barriers while going to school or work. You can plane perform habitual tasks without wayfaring yonder to pointless ramblings well-nigh the past or the future. You can’t jump over obstacles in the past or vault over them in the future. You can only practice parkour in the present moment. Likewise your daily or weekly chores can wilt interesting then or in the first place. Anything like washing dishes vacuum cleaning ownership groceries can wilt heady then and part of your mental, physical and spiritual training. Instead of rushing through each task or postponing it forever you can do it with uneaten care.   The Zen of washing dishes One of my favorite Zen sayings goes something like this – there are multiple versions of it – “before enlightenment the dishes, without enlightenment the laundry.” The month old Zen philosophy wants us to embrace your daily life and not seek some lofty ideals instead. Whether pensile your next vacation or seeking enlightenment – do not let it distract you from your current task. Happiness is not some lofty goal you can reach one day when you unzip this or get that. It’s a daily practice. Most people in the West just imagine happiness in the future when they find the platonic partner, have a unconfined career or retire. You can be happy or at least content (because happiness is such an overloaded concept) right here right now, plane when washing dishes.   The left hand of lightness When training parkour I unchangingly try to train both my strong and my weak leg, arm etc. Depending on the move I can do it largest with my left leg/arm/side or the right one. Thus I try to switch sides on purpose as often as I can and not to jump automatically with my stronger foot and goof in a real life situation when the obstacle doesn’t match my requirements perfectly. When vacuum cleaning I struggle to do it with my left hand considering I did it mostly with right one for decades. This way I have to make a conscious effort. I don’t let my mind run on autopilot and think well-nigh something completely variegated and unrelated to the task at hand. Consider trying to spice up your daily chores by doing them with the left hand.Planewhen you think it’s nonsense you will see a positive impact on your daily life. It’s not just parkour training. It moreover works for any other endurance or venture or plane regular exercise habit: exercise makes your life increasingly endurable by making you resilient to daily stress fear and uneasiness lack of repletion as scientists have found out. In Germany where I live there is an idiomatic expression you use to explain that you can do something with ease: “with left” (mit links). You are so good at it you can do something with (the) left (hand). On bad days when I’m once tired stressed sick I can’t perform the task securely “with left”. I have to take the stronger hand, foot, arm whatever. It’s moreover a good skill by itself – noticing when you have a low performance day.   Learning uneaten skills to master daily tasks On good days I get an spare conviction uplift when I realize that I can do things “with left” or simply with ease. Try tying your shoe laces or plane brushing your teeth with your weak hand and you will know what I mean. When you are worldly-wise to succeed things so hands that you only need your weak hand to perform them you can remoter pursue your lightness training. Can you do it with one hand, without plane using the other hand for holding things etc.? Can you do it with vision closed? Can you do it while standing one leg? You may think these are ridiculous ideas by someone who has too much time to waste but you will need these skills sooner or later. You will need one-hand techniques as a parent holding a baby. You will need them when injured. You will need eyes-closed techniques when camping or in a storm when there is no electricity. You will stay wifely considering you will be prepared. Heck you plane need the one hand techniques when holding a mobile phone while on the go!Unchanginglyremember to move in unexpected ways. You never know when you will need them. June 7, 2017 · training Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. 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