Off the Cushion 9/21/07

In recent days I have noticed a loosening of my main reactive pattern, avoidance. I experience this as increased energy, increased motivation, achieving small goals I set for myself, less feelings of frustration and worry. As I look back over my blog, I see that this period of practice is the longest running regularly sustained practice I have done. I hope to continue this trend. Knowing that others also are practicing helps me sustain my practice. Thank you to all of you practitioners in the blogosphere, yoga and meditation classes, and close friends far away for your practice. I am going to ramp up the practice slightly and try to work in a more conscious way with the hindrances to practice: sleepiness, restlessness, and so on that I have up until now just observed. I will try to put into place some antidotes to those hindrances and see what happens and how that translates to daily life.