Everything spins
We had a sub for Michele in yoga today, and she talked a lot about how our thoughts tend to get in this circular pattern and we focus in on one thing and then endlessly analyze and rehash it – whether it’s somebody we felt did us a wrong and we play out all the scenarios in which we respond or also simple things like I need to go the gym, I need to go to the gym loops. The thing is that yoga is about forcing yourself out of these thought loops so you can witness it going round and round but not participate in it.
I had an occasion to do this when my friend approached me on the bayou yesterday late afternoon, when I was out with Wolfie and Loca and enjoying the pink puffy cloudy sky. My friend prodded me about the ducks. For a moment, I thought it was out of interest in wanting to know my point of view, but quickly I realized it was more about wanting to kickstart the loop, so I stood back, and just witnessed it, and in the end didn’t get sucked into the duck controversy as it went spinning round and round.
This morning when I was walking, it crept into my thoughts and I said, enough of this and banished the loop out of my mind.
Sometimes, we are capable of grand personal feats.
September 15th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
checkout the duck story airing tomorrow but available today at wwno.org
September 16th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Thanks – I was stopped by Ms. Marie this morning with a Times Picayune in her hand. She was vexed to put it mildly – she said she moved that I LOVE DUCKS sign from the bayou to the woman’s house and that she has been looking for either the man or woman to tell them to get their ducks out of the bayou. She said the article in the paper is a lie – she has been on the bayou for 94 years and there were never white ducks – ever – on the bayou. In my musings of letting this duck controversy go to the ducks, I found myself trying to calm Ms. Marie down about the ducks – ha! Thanks for the link – actually thought the TP and WWNO gave a fair and balanced view.
September 16th, 2009 at 9:25 pm
tp was banal. wwno good. I heard the ducks parents are making more signs and distributing them around. please post your anecdote from this morning to the egroup.
September 17th, 2009 at 8:46 am
S – I delisted from the group. But you can feel free posting my note using it as an email that came to you directly if you like. R