It's a refreshing alternative approach to our mental development.......much more practical than some directions that modern Psychology is taking.
We are so conditioned to understanding through articulation in our Western Culture that we tend to devise logical steps wherever possible. Guess it's how we work, and the results can be spectacular.
Familiar terms remove some of the threat and strangeness of what we are learning and launch us on interesting adventures.
It may help, however, to consider that we are forcing round pegs into square holes, in that Mountain Biking (and RV maintenance) is a physical thing, rather than a mainly thinking one. Our articulation and systematic constructions should be devised to unleash this somatic energy, rather than try to "control" it.
You Tube is a wonderful key to mechanical mysteries but time comes we have to confront grease and stuck nuts on their own terms.
The Teacher can help by building confidence with the rational but then facilitating a progression to more intuitive, muscle and task-based activities.
Mountain biking, with it's challenges and exhilaration is a wonderful place to build this integrated synergy.
"East is East and West is West...........and never the twain shall meet'..........except maybe on a good trail!
I have packed a few wheel bearings in my life. Great Job Griff . Love the approach so important. I also want to work on letting go of the approach " let's hurry up and get this over with". which always ends in frustration for me. Love Your awareness of Your life in each moment. Learning so much from Your sharing . Getting ready for a week in Whistler so much to learn and then I return and rebuild my KTM for a big ride in October my intent is to be mindful and present for these adventures . Allot of awareness in each moment to be mindful. I appreciate Your sharing it helps me learn its a great way to teach.
Camping seems to give you an itchy writing finger..........
I find my reaction to your ruminations somewhat confusing:
I really do not want to be a negative block but I find this approach strangely unsettling. It may be that I have unduly separated my private adventuring from my academic efforts......or maybe that I have been going in a different direction?
In General :
I'm always suspicious of generalizations.
I realize that we need to do some sorting of ideas and that an "average" plan is a fair point of departure, but I feel that the key element of the Human Sciences is the diversity of our species. Once we generalize we loose contact with the individual reality that each individual possesses, and which "makes them tick".
When our generalizations obscure this diversity they cease to be valid.
This reservation sort of gybes with a reluctance to treat humans (and other things) as a "Deus ex Machina"........a simple , predictable, replicable tool.
So........I catch a pause at your opening comment:
"Emotions are always triggered by thoughts"
What about existing Beauty -- Danger -- Exhilaration?
For me a large part of Outdoor Adventuring is the Direct Contact with Nature and Experience: When I'm barreling down an iffy rolling slab I want to be Doing not Thinking.
As they say......."Living In The Moment".
But we may be already getting bogged down in specialized jargon and rhetoric -- to use language to communicate such things we should perhaps first create a lexicon of terms (and perhaps procedures). I sense that I may be reacting to such loaded terms?
MEDITATION
What a vaste and varied field of thought!
To say nothing of cultural; and language blocks to understanding.
But.......I eventually came up with my own , western, eclectic, system the works for me, and has stood the test of vigorous and sometimes traumatic testing. That's what I refer to here.......
I find it useful to divide "meditation" into Classic and Contemplative.
The Classic form is to "Empty your Mind"........the think of NOTHING. To simply BE.
This form is useful to subdue massive stress; to dampen the "Stress Response" that can have deleterious physical effects on our biological systems (and definitely inhibit Learning).
Supposedly, with such an Empty Mind, we are free for more profound thoughts to enter our consciousness (though this doesn't work that way for me).
"Contemplation" however is the gentle examination of ideas or questions -- while meditating.
This is not fully committed cognition -- "wrestling with a problem" but a mild ALLOWING the answer to arise within us.
The key would be to ensure that your body was still dominated by Alpha Wave neural activity (The state of the Classic form too). This is measurable with EEG etc........
You seem to be doing some cognition in the meditation you describe here?
If so, that may be a different process; and lead to a different outcome.....
Journalling is a whole different trip. Very useful to sort and order our thoughts, ideas and draft techniques. Hard to see that this level of neural activity would happen in Alpha.........though of course Beta and other brain activity is necessary for certain tasks.
I very much doubt, from experience,that anyone else could come up with a specific strategy that would apply to my individual process and needs.
What does work is to try out all kinds of things, including professional and personal suggestions and customize them for my personal situation.
This is not easy and includes a measure of practical testing that can be rather exciting.
My feeling is that, with potentially dangerous activities, this slow, deliberate process is best, in the Long Run.
Let's see what your other mails are about, before I try to be more positive.
That was a wonderful share Griff! I could totally see me being the whack a mole “there I go oops there I go”
That was great - thank You!
Welcome to the Dojo of Life.
It's a refreshing alternative approach to our mental development.......much more practical than some directions that modern Psychology is taking.
We are so conditioned to understanding through articulation in our Western Culture that we tend to devise logical steps wherever possible. Guess it's how we work, and the results can be spectacular.
Familiar terms remove some of the threat and strangeness of what we are learning and launch us on interesting adventures.
It may help, however, to consider that we are forcing round pegs into square holes, in that Mountain Biking (and RV maintenance) is a physical thing, rather than a mainly thinking one. Our articulation and systematic constructions should be devised to unleash this somatic energy, rather than try to "control" it.
You Tube is a wonderful key to mechanical mysteries but time comes we have to confront grease and stuck nuts on their own terms.
The Teacher can help by building confidence with the rational but then facilitating a progression to more intuitive, muscle and task-based activities.
Mountain biking, with it's challenges and exhilaration is a wonderful place to build this integrated synergy.
"East is East and West is West...........and never the twain shall meet'..........except maybe on a good trail!
I have packed a few wheel bearings in my life. Great Job Griff . Love the approach so important. I also want to work on letting go of the approach " let's hurry up and get this over with". which always ends in frustration for me. Love Your awareness of Your life in each moment. Learning so much from Your sharing . Getting ready for a week in Whistler so much to learn and then I return and rebuild my KTM for a big ride in October my intent is to be mindful and present for these adventures . Allot of awareness in each moment to be mindful. I appreciate Your sharing it helps me learn its a great way to teach.
Thanks great advice I will try it
Excellent job getting your wheel bearings greased! It is a very messy job.
Camping seems to give you an itchy writing finger..........
I find my reaction to your ruminations somewhat confusing:
I really do not want to be a negative block but I find this approach strangely unsettling. It may be that I have unduly separated my private adventuring from my academic efforts......or maybe that I have been going in a different direction?
In General :
I'm always suspicious of generalizations.
I realize that we need to do some sorting of ideas and that an "average" plan is a fair point of departure, but I feel that the key element of the Human Sciences is the diversity of our species. Once we generalize we loose contact with the individual reality that each individual possesses, and which "makes them tick".
When our generalizations obscure this diversity they cease to be valid.
This reservation sort of gybes with a reluctance to treat humans (and other things) as a "Deus ex Machina"........a simple , predictable, replicable tool.
So........I catch a pause at your opening comment:
"Emotions are always triggered by thoughts"
What about existing Beauty -- Danger -- Exhilaration?
For me a large part of Outdoor Adventuring is the Direct Contact with Nature and Experience: When I'm barreling down an iffy rolling slab I want to be Doing not Thinking.
As they say......."Living In The Moment".
But we may be already getting bogged down in specialized jargon and rhetoric -- to use language to communicate such things we should perhaps first create a lexicon of terms (and perhaps procedures). I sense that I may be reacting to such loaded terms?
MEDITATION
What a vaste and varied field of thought!
To say nothing of cultural; and language blocks to understanding.
But.......I eventually came up with my own , western, eclectic, system the works for me, and has stood the test of vigorous and sometimes traumatic testing. That's what I refer to here.......
I find it useful to divide "meditation" into Classic and Contemplative.
The Classic form is to "Empty your Mind"........the think of NOTHING. To simply BE.
This form is useful to subdue massive stress; to dampen the "Stress Response" that can have deleterious physical effects on our biological systems (and definitely inhibit Learning).
Supposedly, with such an Empty Mind, we are free for more profound thoughts to enter our consciousness (though this doesn't work that way for me).
"Contemplation" however is the gentle examination of ideas or questions -- while meditating.
This is not fully committed cognition -- "wrestling with a problem" but a mild ALLOWING the answer to arise within us.
The key would be to ensure that your body was still dominated by Alpha Wave neural activity (The state of the Classic form too). This is measurable with EEG etc........
You seem to be doing some cognition in the meditation you describe here?
If so, that may be a different process; and lead to a different outcome.....
Journalling is a whole different trip. Very useful to sort and order our thoughts, ideas and draft techniques. Hard to see that this level of neural activity would happen in Alpha.........though of course Beta and other brain activity is necessary for certain tasks.
I very much doubt, from experience,that anyone else could come up with a specific strategy that would apply to my individual process and needs.
What does work is to try out all kinds of things, including professional and personal suggestions and customize them for my personal situation.
This is not easy and includes a measure of practical testing that can be rather exciting.
My feeling is that, with potentially dangerous activities, this slow, deliberate process is best, in the Long Run.
Let's see what your other mails are about, before I try to be more positive.
It'svery interesting!