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that, help me out here, i've been so deeply on the fence right from the start. that, first off: holy heck, can this man paint. i'd say i can't fathom how he does it, except i used to say that about some music i've actually... well, kind of somehow learned how to pull off... and he's just incredibly up there with a paintbrush. and finding his art, early 20s, starting to noodle about... ...but, then, second off: chakras are like galen's humours: solid technology for the time, but kind of like "let's apply leeches to the wound," these days, in my opinion. so also, early 20s, starting to noodle about, i thought: "the man is a very talented painter, but this is mentally daft hippie shit subjectwise and what it gets right philosophically is in a very archaic way" i was looking at them again and just admiring the geometry; the veins. then thinking: no, i still think this is mentally daft hippie shit. but if i were incredibly rich i'd still buy one of his paintings for the living room. |
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too skinny. man clearly needs more natural breast |
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like, daily pranayama exercises. then you get into: in through left nostril, out through the right. well: they somehow noodled out the direction blood circulates (barring certain rare genetic conditions, or dick cheney's artificial heart, etc) and they've turned into some religious codex. then your heart rate will fire up as you breathe in and, actually, can't quite remember what ratio they recommend... 3:4:7? in, hold, out. and so you're both slowing the heart down and fighting the natural urges that come with very gently slowing down the oxygen supply and plenty of introspection tumbles out. that when i'm into it and conscious of my heart valves i do kind of muse which step is proper to move to the next breathing phase; i should go back and crib what they have there probably but most all of it i find rather trivial to walk over to more modern conceptions of physiology. and this is my thing with alex grey: his paintings are beautiful to the point where it's taken me twenty years to describe what i feel is wrong with them. i could be missing it though |
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3:4:7 totally wrong, definite not what i was... not sure why i thought... 4:7:8, that's more about it |
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have never tried the breathing, would like to do it, but, i tend to stay away from what is marketed as esoteric here, though im sure yoga & ayurveda is really good stuff. |
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i need alex grey's help. i was stirring my macaroni and i splashed boiling water on my abdomen and now there's some skin peeling. how would alex grey paint this as a systemic exploded diagram, because it would at least distract me from it hurts also, if he has time - i slipped on ice a week ago and it was pretty dramatic; haven't gone down that hard in years. that walking around for miles, normal whatever, i feel fine... but there's this one spot on my knee where i landed that is still OW OW FUCK OW and i only hit it when doing yoga or such. i figure if it were a hairline fracture i'd know. just like if the burn were serious, i'd know. but fuck that's quite a long stretch for it to still be... that way |
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and, i suppose, rudimentary advice attempting this as an ADHD fidget who by all rights should not be able to get that deep i sit cross legged, but i don't force myself to hold a position straight up. take a puff of weed. it actually takes ten minutes or so of... i'll rise up breathing, settle back down like i'm snoozing in bed... and i'll shift backwards, forwards, remind myself to stop tensing muscles in my neck a bajillion times... and fuck, will this ever work? it always feels like but then it's just some sheer time required, and after ten minutes, there it goes, where was that? it goes away every time i get a good night's sleep and then my legs and my back are settled and more just zeroed in on the breathing. take another puff of weed then just keeping on it day after day, less chemical help required, so long as you maintain. quite really have a moment often, "dfjgkdfg what's wrong?" then "ohhh i haven't gone and done that yet today" and then you get into how meditation is best done earliest in the day. because you're a whiteboard that gets erased after a good nights' sleep and then, hey, where's that fucking feeling? shit i need to go meditate and have a smoke |
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oh, this board, i've missed the obvious one -- have you heard of ? ...which is, effectively, an occasional rhythmic contraction of segments of bowel to shift food along. that one day, i was meditating, and... what? and later i figured out: i just caught peristalsis in the act. it felt, suitably, like the act of pooping, just... internal, somewhere way up the pipeline. that, when you swallow food, that is also technically peristalsis. i think most anyone reading this could sit there and imagine the sensation of food travelling down your throat. and everyone knows what it feels like to have poop move out. and combine that sense of automatic movement with the feeling of pooping, further up the pipeline. that i'm looking on wikipedia and i think what i caught is the delightfully named "mass action contraction" utterly useless as an accomplishment, really, but amuses me to no end that i caught it. and since then, i casually notice it sometimes, just random |
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