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November 28, 2004
Sleep very soon
Many times when I end a journal entry with "sleep soon", "soon" turns out to be longer (sometimes much longer) than one might think. But not tonight! I hope.
I just finished receiving my first myofascial release session. It was done fully clothed, focused on my legs. Because fascia is all connected throughout the body, one can feel effects in parts other than those worked. I felt some releasing in my hands during this session.
The entire thing was very subtle and relaxing... like ortho-bionomy, it's mostly about listening to the client's body. My practitioner moved my legs around, first one and then the other, slowly and carefully, bending and twisting slightly. I'm looking forward to receiving more later in the quarter.
Today I laid out what I've dubbed "Master Plan 2.0" for bringing my development to the next level. I basically identified the most prominent areas for growth, set a number of intentions for each, and organized them all onto one page. In the center I identified the primary tools I'd like to use to address them, with Polarity at the top of the list.
The basic experiment is to take the entire sheet into my next Polarity session as "the intention". As in, "Here, all of this." I don't see why it shouldn't work: "My intention is to set each of these intentions into motion for my life."
Intense? Sure, but the past two weeks have already brought up more than I'm sure I can handle. So I might as well get behind the driver's seat with it. To that end, I included some meta-intentions, such as "To integrate all of these intentions with ease and grace." and "To allow these changes into my life quickly, efficiently, and smoothly."
Some other tools on the list were Bach Flower Essences, self-work, and bringing the intention into all of the sessions I receive, regardless of modality. So, I'll be talking to Surya tomorrow to get a new bottle of Essences. I'll continue with the usual self-work I do, which includes the acupressure, some energy work, and other various and sundry things I've picked up over the years. And finally, I do believe it could be powerful to work on these intentions during any kind of session, whether it be cranio-sacral or good old swedish.
So I'll be journaling in the future as to how it all works out.
I only got one of my sessions done... every possible sessions space was booked up. Wow. I've never seen that before. Must be a function of the holiday, everyone got back and got scrambling. Ahh well. Glad I booked one before leaving.
Other than that, it's so good to be back. I was really looking forward to meal time. Dinner was thai, which the kitchen is getting much better at. I really enjoyed the sweet rice, the hot chili oil, and whatever noodle dish they made.
Earlier I unloaded the car, dish laundry, cleaned the room a bit. More to be done, for sure. And I need to mix up some 3% hydrogen peroxide from the 12% food grade h2o2 I got at Rainbow.
The way to do that, btw, is with the formula s1v1 = s2v2, where s is strength and v is volume.
If I want to make 2oz of 3% from a stock solution of 12%, then I have:
s1 = 12%
v1 = unknown
s2 = 3%
v2 = 2oz
I need to find v1, so I divide both sides by s1 to get v1 = (s2v2)/s1
Putting in the values I know on the right side yields (3% * 2oz)/12%, or 6/12 = 1/2 = 0.5 oz
So I'll put half an ounce (3 Tsp.) of my stock peroxide into the 2oz dropper bottle I purchased, and then top it off with distilled water.
How geeky is that?
Posted by Josh A. at November 28, 2004 09:57 PM