Best Of
Re: Important Stuff
Except for N1, in no particular order....
1. Exercise. It's my best medicine.
2. Accepting/allowing all symptoms of anxiety and refocusing on thinking/doing something productive.
3. Working on my newly established small business daily.
4. Morning routine and helpful/positive routines in general.
5. Multimedia (including books) that enoble the soul.
6. People that are more advanced in a discipline I value, including being more spiritualy mature.
7. Honest, supporting, courageous talks with friends.
8. Trying to be actualy-factualy helpful and kind as much as possible.
9. Being in nature.
10. Retreating from unhelpful behaviors/habits and adopting helpful ones.
11. Small amazing 'noticings'. Eg. making a stranger in the shop genuinely laugh, having a poignant conversation with a homeless person, noticing something visually especially beautiful while outside...
marcitko
Re: Important Stuff
My important stuff… in no particular order
1. Food
2. Sleep
3. My close spaces like home/office being organized and clean
4. Socializing
5. Learning
6. Experiencing art of all kinds
Vastmind
Re: Important Stuff
There are many important things - I don't even know what a lot of them are. As for personal priorities, they have narrowed considerably of late.
Staying mindful and acting accordingly so far as that is possible - this is most important and actually includes many of my past and future priorities.
Assisting my wife, who is more impaired than I am.
Taking care of the dog (ancient but in good health)
and Painting almost obsessively.
Fosdick
Re: Important Stuff
- Coffee greeting the day
- Clark: walking, training, treating, playing
- Reading (currently the Name of the Rose)
- Meditation usually walking meditation
- Exercise at gym with my Mom, though I need to be careful not to wear down my leg/hip
- Trivia and music performance with Michelle who does musicals herself
- Math or maths however you say it
- Video Games (currently Titan Quest Anniversary Edition)
Jeffrey
Re: Earthing
The Apollo astronauts left a Chuck Berry record on the moon (part of the “We came in peace for all mankind” message offering) which pretty much caused Carl Sagan’s head to explode. This dichotomy sums up my reaction to earthing to prevent/cure disease.
Humans (actually all animals) are indeed capacitors, capable of storing a charge; that is, a DC voltage potential. This can of course be discharged by grounding. Interesting, I suppose. And with modern technology, quite measurable whether interesting or not.
Prior to the 1800s, there were many explanations/superstitions about the cause of disease, and also a few actual hypotheses. But thanks to Koch, Pasteur, and others, we now understand the “Germ Theory of Disease “ which postulates that microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, fungi) are the pathological agents responsible for infectious illness. Since then the corroboration has been massive, to say the least. So, if someone wants to persuade me that a lifted ground, besides curing 60 Hz hum in the PA, also somehow causes disease, I would like to hear an explanation of the pathophysiology involved.
On the other hand, there are things, a great great many things, which we experience to be true but that do not yet have a plausible/verifiable physical/chemical explanation. A barefoot connection to the earth is good for me. I can feel it. I can’t explain it but I’m not sure I need to. Breathing outdoor air, on the trail by the river with the dogs, is blissfully restorative. The dogs swim in the river, even in the bitter cold (northern Colorado). They know, at their level, what it is doing for them. I know too, but not in a way, in a realm, that coexists with words, or Internet forums.
I’d love to walk barefoot in the damp sand. But I’ll skip the grounding mat. Yes, if the panel is wired correctly it will ground the static charge; I know that at the physics level. But it’s not the same as being truly connected to the natural environment; I know that at the much higher natural level.
Steve_B
