Comments for Composing Experience

Comment on Memory and Expectations by Celeste

Celeste — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:58:55 +0000

I’ve always felt that the past deeply affects how we view our world, and although it may help us at times it also can greatly hinder us. This is especially true in regards to anything negative in our past. We are constantly looking for that to happen again, as if somehow because something simply happened once that it could occur again. I am always reminding my daughter not to let her past create her future. Even with meeting new people I find this very true for myself, immediately assessing them so to speak based on others in my past who were similar to them. I’m much more conscious of this now, but still find myself doing it.

Comment on “Composing Experience” as a description of life by Celeste

Celeste — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:17:23 +0000

I am one of those people who holds their breath when stressed and it has caused me back pain and once I realized I had been doing it and stopped doing that the back pain I’d had for years was gone.

Never thought of it in the light of “life is hard”. Very interesting.

Comment on Choice and Experience by Celeste

Celeste — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:10:08 +0000

How very true and yet even knowing and studying about the law of attraction for several years and trying to live and create my life more consciously I hadn’t thought of it in these terms. That I am bringing into my world what I expect it to be and making my next creation decisions based on that. Really think now that I’m obviously not always looking at the bigger picture.

Comment on About Ralph Strauch by Ralph Strauch

Ralph Strauch — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:29:16 +0000

Julius,

It’s hard to give accurate advice based on a short description of a complex situation, so take this advice accordingly. It sound to me like you might be trying too hard. Perhaps you need to reduce the amount of effort you put into your practice, and focus more on noticing and observing what you are doing.

I don’t know Lui He Ba Fa, so I’ll tell you a bit about how I approach teaching T’ai Chi. I don’t see learning T’ai Chi as being about learning to replicate the postures that the teacher does. It’s more about discovering natural trajectories that body moves through without effort. The stress that many teachers put on getting the details right is misplaced. The stress should be, instead, on allowing the ease and quality of movement to improve. As it does, the details will fall into place.

My article onTraining the Whole Person explores this way of thinking about learning. You might find it useful.

I hope this helps. Let me know how it works out for you.

Ralph

Comment on About Ralph Strauch by Julius L. deslate

Julius L. deslate — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:58:16 +0000

Ralph,
Help me out with some physical advice. I had studied under an Alexander Technique teacher but she moved on to another country. I’ve read about Feldenkrais, but no one practices it in the Philippines. I have been studying Lui He Ba Fa, a Chinese internal martial arts that is longer( about 300+ moves), more complicated than Tai Chi but shares practically the same principles. I am 20 or more moves short of finishing Part One, but I notice that in the middle of the form,my back begins to ache progressively forcing me eventually to stop for a few minutes before I can resume. What do you suggest I do given your background on Tai Chi and Feldenkrais? I know I must explore/bring into awareness something but I don’t know where to start.

Comment on Composing different experiences from the same situation by Randy

Randy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:13:00 +0000

I agree that CONTEXT plays a major in perceiving reality. Each country or culture produces its own stereotypes, that will always look extreme to other cultures. And some of the perceptions/illusions are shared by almost all people, regardless the culture or country. What puzzles me, however, is that people would rather die than let go. Consequently I see the grace in what you write in gently offering them to see a choice, a shift of perception and paradigm, rather than to have them have more of the same old shite they already fell for (save the world, develop superpowers, have the nicest home, the best car, the most impressive barbecue, the diggest dick, the biggest breast etc etc)

Comment on About Composing Experience by music

music — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:52:10 +0000

very interesting.
i’m adding in RSS Reader

Comment on The Importance of Context by Ralph Strauch

Ralph Strauch — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 04:19:17 +0000

I’m glad you liked it, Jaclyn. The red spade experiment has been one of my favorites since I came acress it may 30 years ago. It illuminates so clearly an phenomenon that seems to crop up all over the place. I’ll give some other examples later of the the same phenomenon in what seem to be hard and fast physical situations.

Ralph

Comment on The Importance of Context by Jaclyn Boone

Jaclyn Boone — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:19:43 +0000

Hi Ralph,
This is fascinating. Again I’m flummoxed by reality! Thank you for helping to open the doors of our perception. The video does good service to your relaxed and friendly approach. . . the musical ending is a nice acoustic touch too.

Jaclyn

Comment on Back on track by Ralph Strauch

Ralph Strauch — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:51:45 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Alfons. I came across mention of that plugin a while back, but when I tried to go back to it I couldn’t find it. (It doesn’t show up in a Wordpress plugin search>) I just found it on google, though, and it looks like that might be a better way to go as my material expands.

I don’t now have a developmental site set up on my own computer so any changes I make are to the live site, which limits my experimentation. Maybe I’ll need to set up a developmental site.

If you mockup is accessible please let me know where it is; I’d like to take a look at it. Email me if you don’t want the URL on the web.

Ralph