so, the meditation school i attend has this concept of a “growth period”.
it’s like when everything seems “just fine” but you nevertheless have this annoying tendency of walking into walls.
another way of putting it, is that your spirit (if you believe in such a thing) & your body (we’ve all got one of those) are just at different ‘times’ today. It’s as if one just woke up, while the other has already finished the daily chores & is off to bed.
when you feel kinda ‘psyched’ but sluggish, your “spirit is ahead of your body”. we’ve all felt this after finishing a tough climb, a long project, or [finally] getting off the phone w/ mom. it’s like we have the creative energy to go for ‘miles’, but yet can’t seem to make our body move.
when you feel energized but sorta brain-dead, that’s when your “body is ahead of your spirit”. This can happen to ppl who drink coffee at nite, experience a sudden shock, and/or are having ‘hot flashes’. we can’t seem to go to sleep, but can’t seem to do anything creative either… reading a book, watching a movie, ugh– everything ‘bores’ us pretty quickly.
{tune in later for some tips/tricks on dealing with growth periods}.
so all that sounds like fun, right?
er, why bother meditating, anyway?
all i can say is
- after a pretty depressing childhood
- years of attending shrinks
- a college-life which cemented a pattern of severe up’s ‘n down’s
- a series of post-college years spent bopping from admin (secretary, not system) to admin job, overqualified & underpaid
- the requisite series of bad relationships
- even a swing thru the Erhardtian consciousness movement & Tony Robbins
…nothing, & i mean nothing has got my head on straight like plain ‘ol meditation.
…& that’s just the ‘work’ part. ‘fixing’ yourself, if you will.
meditation is also fun– it can take you places wouldn’t've believed possible. i used to live at a veggie commune, so i’ve done my share of psychotropic experimentation, & i’ve never hit a state [back then] which i’ve not been able to get to w/ meditation…
…plus, there’s no hangover in the morning. 