what to do about our sleep

on feldy forum
a long discussion
on the "difficulties" of getting people excited
to come to Feldenkrais lessons

called
" Re: resistance to the Method"
this chain
reaction
is an old familiar one:

we have something amazing
and unique and the
world is not beating down our doors

oh, well:

a few other things
people
seem to have
"resistance" to:

love
(when they don't get what
they want, from the person
they "love" when they get what they want)

awareness of the present moment
minor exceptions:
first kiss,
sex,
first bite of new meal,
maybe

self realization
of the
oh, yeah, I lie, scold, hide,
blah, blah, whatever i criticize,
too

patience
to listen to another
to hang in there with "bad" feelngs
to hang in there with "not knowing"
to be here and not at the next
thing

silence
inner
harder than outer,
neither of much use to many

so,
la,
la
back to Monseur Gurdjieff
and the whole
question of humanity asleep

a big question

bigger even than the Feldenkrais Method
if you can believe anything so vast

and joking aside
the Method
is vast


and the title of this posting:
what to do about our sleep;

our
sleep

look at the s and the p
of the word sleep
notice the difference

notice the breath
coming in
and out
and don't even notice that difference
notice
the difference
that noticing
our breathing makes

sit calmly
and if
you know
the Feldenkrais
method
do six or so
variations
in pelvis, neck, ribs, eyes,
belly back
and be
so happy
at the gift
of knowing
how amazng
this brain body thing is

and then
holy fuck
go try to talk to another person
about this
from a noticing
and awake place
knowing they are asleep
and loving
them anyway
or maybe even
especially
they have such an amazing chance
and probably won't take
it
and we
can
and
can
and
forget
and the
can remember again


ciao
chris