Doghead's Cosmic Bar
This is a science fiction character forum. Doghead's Cosmic Bar is an intergalactic bar run by your favorite bartender, Doghead. Stop in, have a drink, and get your talk on!
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Back at ya prob, Happy Valentines day to all, and those lucky singles out there who don't have to empty pockets out of obligation to buy something for your significant other... (wow could that of been any more long winded??)
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Hope you're going somewhere nice - holiday, is it? Don't hurry back - we'll learn to live with our disappointment somehow.
Bev: I came at it from the other side, mainly, as I started with the martial arts. 
I didn't get deeply into the meditative aspects until this summer, when I went to a camp where the practice was to spend half an hour (6:30 - 7: 00 am) in seated meditation. I had done some meditative exercises before, but I found the quiet, non-doing meditation at camp more beneficial overall. I still like the energy exercises, but they've become a much smaller part of my practice lately.
I didn't get deeply into the meditative aspects until this summer, when I went to a camp where the practice was to spend half an hour (6:30 - 7: 00 am) in seated meditation. I had done some meditative exercises before, but I found the quiet, non-doing meditation at camp more beneficial overall. I still like the energy exercises, but they've become a much smaller part of my practice lately.
Meditation works very well as a technique to control chronic pain. I would say that constitutes a major physical benefit.
Personally I find the self control development the most applicable benefit of meditation, but calm and healing are excellent as well. As for why I started in the first place... heh... I was 14 and thought that the concept of astral projection was 'wayyyyyy coooooool'. A few years later and I wasn't even doing it for that anymore (partialy because I really didnt want to go anywhere in particular, fear of dieing due to inability to breathe right- which the qiqong fixed, and partialy because peace was preferable to parlor tricks)
Well, ya see, there was this giant fork, and it belonged to a guy named Val. He never went anywhere without that fork and its tines, so it was Val'N'tine. And today's the day he discovered spaghetti!
... Oh i get it! ... wait what is spaghetti? *looks it up in the ships computer* I've nver had spaghetti before! That sure looks good! Does the cosmic bar have any spaghetti??? PLEASE HAVE SOME!!!!
Speaking for the lucky singles, gosh thanks. I feel much less old and bitter now.
I think I'll have that daquiri (hold the pasta).
Seriously, happy Valentine's Day everyone!
I think I'll have that daquiri (hold the pasta).
Seriously, happy Valentine's Day everyone!
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