I’ve gone back to keeping a little notepad window on the desktop to keep track of things I need to do and that I want to record immediately, while I think of it. Now as you’d expect this grew and grew and grew … and all got a bit depressing as the last thing that [...]
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I’ve just read on interesting account from Melissa Maples about a not so rosy Goenka vipassana retreat in the wilds of turkey: little and poor food, creepy badly functioning hotel, creepy crowd of people and topped off with a little sleep deprivation. Good to get some balance on my experience although I can sympathise with the [...] Lots of catching up with all the boring stuff over the last couple of days; fighting my way through the small mountain of admin that having all of these little businesses create. Sometimes I think its good to assign a day to ploughing through it all, but that makes for a very long, frustrating day. Sometimes [...] It’s now been four months since I completed my Vipassana retreat, so how is it going? Am I keeping up my two hours a day? Has it turned my life around? Well I definitely feel calmer day to day. It works well with the Non-Violent Communication, in that Vipassana gives me the mental space in which to [...] I’ve been making a big effort to try and reduce the amount of time I spend working, and increase the amount of time I spend idling – ”Don’t do anything that isn’t play”! I’ve been doggedly studying the works of Tom Hodgkinson (How to be Idle, The Idler and How to be Free) and working on [...] The big thing that I’m excited about at the moment is Non-Violent Communication. The basic idea is that to resolve conflicts and differences of opinion you express your needs and the feelings that are associated with those needs, and empathise with the other persons needs, and from that a solution should fall out. Rather than [...] I finally did it. I went to see what having nothing for company for ten days – not even my own thoughts – was going to do to me . And it was pretty amazing! I’d definitely recommend it. It was very hard; a bit more a strenuous, SAS style strenuous, workout for the brain [...] |
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