Comments on: A poet’s advice http://paul-bradley.com/blog/2007/05/08/a-poets-advice/ Ecce Homo Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Opus http://paul-bradley.com/blog/2007/05/08/a-poets-advice/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Opus Tue, 08 May 2007 08:54:11 +0000 http://paul-bradley.com/blog/2007/05/08/a-poets-advice/#comment-37 I have been exploring information about meditation and Buddhism for the past 3 weeks. I am particularly interested in the ability to master one's own emotional states, to the point of eliminating unneccessary ones, or at least to direct them in more positive ways rather than allowing them to flow wherever and making a mess of the whole place. I've mentioned earlier the book "Destructive Emotions", which is a narrative of the 9th (or so) of a series of meetings between the Dalai Lama and a series of eminent scientists about emotions and the mind, and what to do about bad ones. Noticing feelings on ones body, as instructed in meditation, reminds me of the stage of NLP reframing where one waits for signals from parts for objections. As a direct example of what I have gained from meditation, even before I began reading about the Buddhism, is how I've been tackling a particularly nasty habit I have developed of waking up with a great amount of tension in my jaw and throat that makes my wakings seem almost unsurmountable. I don't know why this has started lately, but meditation to relax all of the parts participating in the missery has been the only thing to break it. But I find that I haven't eliminated it, as I still need to continue practice for it, and if I miss and forget, as it subside alot with little practice now, it comes sneaking back again. As I meditate more I find that I am getting very good at this for feelings and body sensations that are not very unpleasant, but interrupt my thinking or best patterns at different times. And more practice also seems to make the morning tensions go away for longer periods at a time. Eventually I will climb this small mountain to find the root cause of it. It's interesting that you appear to be on a parallel path for a time. I have been exploring information about meditation and Buddhism for the past 3 weeks. I am particularly interested in the ability to master one’s own emotional states, to the point of eliminating unneccessary ones, or at least to direct them in more positive ways rather than allowing them to flow wherever and making a mess of the whole place. I’ve mentioned earlier the book “Destructive Emotions”, which is a narrative of the 9th (or so) of a series of meetings between the Dalai Lama and a series of eminent scientists about emotions and the mind, and what to do about bad ones.

Noticing feelings on ones body, as instructed in meditation, reminds me of the stage of NLP reframing where one waits for signals from parts for objections.

As a direct example of what I have gained from meditation, even before I began reading about the Buddhism, is how I’ve been tackling a particularly nasty habit I have developed of waking up with a great amount of tension in my jaw and throat that makes my wakings seem almost unsurmountable. I don’t know why this has started lately, but meditation to relax all of the parts participating in the missery has been the only thing to break it. But I find that I haven’t eliminated it, as I still need to continue practice for it, and if I miss and forget, as it subside alot with little practice now, it comes sneaking back again. As I meditate more I find that I am getting very good at this for feelings and body sensations that are not very unpleasant, but interrupt my thinking or best patterns at different times. And more practice also seems to make the morning tensions go away for longer periods at a time. Eventually I will climb this small mountain to find the root cause of it.

It’s interesting that you appear to be on a parallel path for a time.

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