Lie-down

Getting better today after few days of sickness. How do I know? There were moments when I was actually attentive today. I even had an AT lie-down, the first one since the last lesson.

I paid attention to my neck and asked it to do nothing. I had the sense that it was exactly what was needed. No bothering about directions, just inhibit. I connected with the floor and the boundary between my body and the outside kind of dissolved.

I noticed some major repetitive reactions in my body to recurring memories and imagination. This is where I am, and this is the place to begin.

It seems that the AT process is not linear, but can't say much more about it.

Re-connection

I had my first AT lesson in 7 months today.

The ongoing preparation for my training course begins here...

Today: work with the mirror and the chair & lie-down.

We completed the meeting with a short Chi Kung exercise to organize the energy in the body. The teacher combines these two disciplines.

Evil trainers

I walked a lot yesterday, using the trainers that are too tight. It caused a lot of tension and some pain in the big toe of the left foot. To compensate this and release the pain I re-adjusted the work of my ankle, but in a way it hasn't been designed to operate, thus adding to the misuse. The domino effect continued and later on that night I actually found my left hip joint tensed.

The punch line: get yourself new shoes mate. And few AT lessons would do as well. I'm actually planning to have one in the second half of the month. My last lesson was about six months ago...