Self-study
I was posting every few days for a while there. The reason it has slowed down is that I am keeping a private journal for the month of March and mostly choosing not to share those entries. Our homework for yoga teacher training was to choose one of the yamas or niyamas (yoga's How-To-Live guidelines - sometimes jokingly called yoga's Ten Commandments) and "live with it" until the next workshop in early April. I chose svadyaya, which is self-study, and the journal is one of the main tools I'm using to figure out what's going on in my head.I remember when I was in school we had to keep a journal for a while, and I got so bored with it ("I went to school. I ate a sandwich for lunch.") that I started to invent stuff and turned my "journal" into serial fiction. I'm pretty sure that teacher was just checking whether we had written something every day. She couldn't have been reading all those diaries.
It is much more interesting now that I have specific things I want to learn about through journaling.
* my relationship with money (turns out I have been carrying around not only a minimum in my head of how much I need to earn, but oddly, a maximum of how much it is "okay" for me to earn. huh.)
* my thoughts about work (assumptions about what kinds of work is acceptable for me to do, what is the right number of hours per week to spend doing it)
* my baggage from graduate school WHY HELLO THERE. (assumptions about what ways of thinking, learning, and living are valuable, track record of being miserable and unproductive with respect to a long-term project, habit of using fear and guilt as motivators while pretending to still be passionate about the work... and so on)
* when in my life have I been happy and full of enthusiasm? What was going on in my life and how was that time different from now?
Havi Brooks is a really inspiring blogger if you want to do any self-study of your own. And her business partner is a duck! Thanks to my friend showingup for pointing me in her direction.
Labels: yoga
posted by Jaime_sama @ 11:44 AM
4 Comments:
Karen said:
Ignoring the truly awful look of the site, go to http://wishcraft.com and download the entire book. Seriously. 30 years ago, Barbara Sher put out a book that clearly dealt with ALL THIS STUFF. And I only discovered it the other day.
She lays out how our whole culture warps how we consider our worth, and pushes readers to determine what it is they really need to do and to respect it. It's a 30-year old book, so it's not choc-a-bloc with how to use new media for your business, but the emotional baggage we cart around with us about work and worth is really dealt with head-on. I am very impressed so far.
Also, yamas! I'd be interested in your take on this very brief article on them: http://www.spiritvoyage.com/blog/index.php/a-kundalini-perspective-on-the-yamas/ I found it a useful summary.
svadyaya has always been my favorite one of the yamas and niyamas. :)
Havi commented on my blog!
I feel special.
Havi is like the svadyaya queen.
You are special.
Also, I love that our idea of celebrity is people who get us excited about examining our beliefs, and not people on reality shows :)
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