Regular contemplation will eventually lead to pliancy
of both mind and body … they become more lissome
as our rigid thoughts and patterns gradually dissipate.
Uniting with the universal oneness that embraces all
Our thoughts, creativity and body soften, become lithe.
Gratitude and kindness increase with far less effort.
Improves our physical health in so many ways
anxiety, depression, chronic pain and much more.
We sleep deeper, gives our life purpose and meaning!
word of the day – lissome
aroused 
We must have been drinking the same water, differnt but similar, wonderful post
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Great minds think alike … busy with NAIDOC week so bit behind with reading … will get there eventually 🙂
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I’ve been trying to do some meditation and it’s been a good way to calm down. Thanks for posting Kate and I hope you’re doing well 😁
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I know that you won’t approve of this idea Kate ….. but I was reading about a guy last night (a respectable and respected guy, I hastily add) who began experimenting with LSD and reported, like so many others, that it was a life-changing and positive experience. In order to gain maximum benefit he learned to meditate and I thought you might find the following extract interesting ….. “
So what was he left with? “A perspective on my ego I didn’t have before, the disinterested, uninvested awareness that I had is, with some effort, available to me in meditation. Then you learn to recognise when your ego is up to its old tricks.” For example? “Well, reacting defensively to something, letting someone get my back up. Now I just think, let it go. I can do that better than I used to.”
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lol takes you to confuse psychedelic drugs with meditation … his end result was most similar it is about demolishing our ego, having a pause between thoughts to get insight into our behaviours and grow!
But true meditators don’t muddy the waters with drugs, unless you’re Carlos Castenanda … that was just in the book 🙂
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Here’s another extract ….
After taking psilocybin a lifelong smoker reported experiencing “a feeling of connectedness to everything”. He quit smoking, he said, “because I found it irrelevant. Because other things had become so much more important.” A depressive described the experience “as a holiday away from the prison of my brain”
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well go for it if that’s your path, some people might need the boost .. I prefer al naturale 🙂
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I should add, lest you show daughterly concern, that there are reasons, at this stage in my life, that meditation is the only option viable for me.
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nope, first I’ve heard of him … drugs, legal or illegal can clog your chakras so can be quite detrimental and never been my interest 🙂
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No no …. what I am telling you is that, right at the moment, my only option in accessing that particular part of myself would be through meditation and NOT medication
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ah got you. Sounds like you are reading the right books for you then and I’m sure there are classes nearby if you stand still long enough to attend anything …
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I’ve been reading a bit of Alan Watts of late too. I think I might become a Zen Master. Any idea how long that might take (you know …on average)?
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a few lifetimes at least … now there is a very worthy master! Not done any of his courses, too expensive, but he usually leads one a year in Sydney, more in Thailand and India. Had the pleasure of meeting him and he is the real deal!
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We may be talking about different Alans. Either that or I have bad news for you. My guy died in 1973.
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lol Dr B Alan Wallace … interesting slip
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Another interesting slip of the tongue …. the zen masters are in us …. as in, ALL OF US, as apposed to a bit of geography on the other side of the pacific
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Your poem came at a good time for me! Thank you for writing it and sharing it! I will reread it several times so I can focus on it over the next couple weeks.
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…those flowers are stunning! 🙂
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Indeed , great benefits. Thank you Kate
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