Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Climb on
Today I went climbing after work. I guess I haven't been in two weeks. It was awesome. I need to go more often because it is the only thing that makes me feel okay lately. I like the mental and physical challenge. And the fact that it shuts your whole brain down. I guess I really needed an escape from the constant noise and crazy in my head these days and the constant sadness. For two hours anyway, I was relieved.
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climbing is a good way to slow down mind chatter. most alcoholics massively over-think, have extremely negative thinking, are very unconscious of how negative their thinking is, and believe unquestioningly every thought that comes into their head. and every feeling they experience.
meditation does not force the mind to quiet but teaches you to have a much more objective relationship with thought forms and emotions, which has the same long term effect as reducing the mind chatter by climbing.
http://www.abhayagiri.org/index.php/main/media_more/C14
I cant explain meditation any better than Amaro.
katie byron the work is a method which is really nothing more than questioning every single thought (not in at typically 'thinking' way) and emotion one thinks, so could have a similar long term effect as meditation.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=katie+byron+the+work&search_type=&aq=0&oq=katie+byron+the+
So if you would like the same relief you experience when you climb, when you are not climbing, alter your relationship with thought forms and emotional states using meditation techniques, katie byron method, or both.
Helping newcomers has exactly the same effect. Because it FORCES you to not be obsessed with your own circumstances for 5minutes at a time, and contains the same life and death urgency as climbing, as the relapse rate is very high and horrible accidents happen regularly to women who drink.
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