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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Monday, September 05, 2005

Tonights Sit

This evening I sat for meditation. Chest open, spine and neck straight. Within seconds of sitting I began to feel a sharp stabbing pain in my throat with every in breathe and out breathe. This then radiated down to the middle of the chest area, which again felt like a sharp stabbing pain that pulsated with every breathe. There is a huge lump in my throat, feels as though something is blocking the air passage. The pains were not in unison, but throat then chest, chest then throat. The pain became so much I had to get up from my sit. I tried again 10 minutes later. The pain returned but I tried to sit through it. Then my ears started to ring, very loudly. Ringing in both ears. Whenever I get up from sitting ... I am fine. I can breathe deep and not feel the pain. I thought maybe there was some blockage in the throat area. I have eaten more than usual today and had meat (chicken) for the first time in a while this evening when I went out for dinner with a friend. Alot of dairy (cheese and milk) today too. I've been having digestive problems all night.

I tried meditating again. I was able to sit for 25 minutes. I focused on the heart chakra and made every in breathe filled with energy of love and every out breathe filled with energy of love. After a few minutes of this the pain became deeper and more intense. The left side of my arm went tingly. Then it went numb for a minute or so. My head quickly snapped as far left as it could go. And then I could feel energy pulsing throughout the left arm. My ears popped. And then the pain in the chest area subsided. I put the same focus on my throat, which was still painful. I was not receiving the same effect. I tried to bring the pulsing pain upwards to my third eye. I could feel pulsing in both areas now. But the throat pain would not subside. I brought my hands into prayer pose and ended the meditation.

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