Yoga - Before You Forward The "Original Message", Read This Edited Version

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Before You Forward The "Original Message", Read This Edited Version

DharmaMitra

2005-11-15, 10:58 am

This message is, indeed, very important to you and to many other
people.

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Flourishingly,

Dharma Mitra

Helping you "Say It With Panache!"

Because, how you say it can be, and often is,
as important as what you want to convey,
and what you have to say is
very important to you.

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They are "educated" who have learned much, remembered much,
and make use of their knowledge in everyday life.
And of these lessons integrated into their life,
moral conscience is the most imperative to learn
and convey to others.
Their virtues give true meaning to education.

EDITED WIDTH AT 62 SPACES ACROSS WITH THE ">" TAKEN OUT:

=3D=3D 1 of 21 =3D=3D Date: Sun 13 Nov 2005 18:31 From: "George
Cherry"

"Dave =E3=88=8E=C3=9F" <dave@_nospam_howdydave.com wrote in message
news:l6Adf.2345$lg.1396@news01.roc.ny... "George Cherry"
<GWCherryHatesGreenEggsAndSpam@alum.mit.edu wrote in message
news:M_udneEksY-SDOvenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@comcast.com ...
<dkotschess@yahoo.com wrote in message
news:1131843307.528124.314310@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com ...
George Cherry wrote: <dkotschess@yahoo.com wrote in message
news:1131821866.938274.77870@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com ...
George Cherry wrote: I started teaching Breath Walking this
year. Here is a description of the course:
Breathwalk Your Way to Optimum Functioning
By ingeniously combining breathing, walking and the
sub-vocalization of a mantra, Breathwalk helps you optimize
and manage your physical and mental functioning: increasing
vitality, improving mood, lowering blood pressure, even
breaking addictions. In this course we'll learn how to
Breathwalk, practice it, and receive feedback on our
Breathwalk experience.
And here is the first page of the notes I wrote for the class:
A Simple Breath Walk

Breath walking synchronizes our steps, our breath, and our
attention while we're walking or taking a stroll. To help aim
and sustain our attention when we're breath walking, we
mentally recite a mantra. We'll start with the simplest
mantra:

IN, 2, 3, 4; OUT, 2, 3, 4

In the simplest breath walk, we inhale for four steps and
exhale for four steps, in synchronism with our mantra. Here's
the pattern of the simplest breath walk:

Mantra: IN 2 3 4 | OUT 2 3 4
Steps: right left right left | right left right left
Breaths: inhale <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<| exhale

We repeat this pattern for the duration of our walk. Note
that: inhalations begin with a right step and end with a left
step; exhalations begin with a right step and end with a left
step. This very regular pattern makes it easier to synchronize
our steps and our breaths with our mantra. Think of reciting
the mantra as conducting the music of our movement, with our
breathing and our stepping as our two main musicians.

Try to take deep, full breaths. To breathe fully and deeply,
you must work the sheet of muscle (your "diaphragm") which
separates your chest cavity from your abdomen. When your
diaphragm drops, your chest cavity enlarges and your lungs
fill with air. The downward movement of your diaphragm
automatically pushes out your abdomen and rounds your belly.

This means that in order to take a deep and full breath, you
may have to loosen your belt! When your diaphragm rises, your
chest cavity reduces in volume and air is squeezed out of your
lungs. Think of your diaphragm as a bellows, rising and
falling, rising and falling. You can walk fast or slow. (We'll
talk more about proper breathing later. If you find anything
about the above confusing, just breathe naturally during your
first breath walks.) For an aerobic effect, walk fast and
swing your arms in high arcs. The faster you pump your arms,
the greater your aerobic benefit.

Dr. Candace Royer,Director of Physical education at MIThas
this to say about Breath Walking,"Breathwalk is a simple but
elegant methodfor altering moods and state of mind. I use it
in my general walking class at MITand have found students to
be veryreceptive to the techniques. Personally,I use the
principles almost every time Iwalk anywhere, for an exercise
orrelaxation effect. Quite sincerely, it works!"-- George W.
Cherry

This is cool George.
How might you apply this to running? It's something I've
been working on for some time. I ascribe my ability to run
long distances to the fact that I learned to breathe in a very
unstrained manner.

(Philly marathon coming up in 8 days!)
You run in marathons, Dave? Congratulations!
Slowly, very slowly. Marathoning is *exactly* the same as
Buddhism. It does not matter how fast you go as long as you
keep going.

The spectators appreciate those, often applauding the last
stragglers as much as the "winner".
To "breath run", you need to find the right number of
syllables for your "mantra". When I'm walking fast up a steep
hill, I have to breathe faster, so I use either of the
following

IN, 2, 3, 4; OUT, 2, 3, 4 or IN, 2, 3; OUT, 2, 3
When I'm walking downhill I breathe slower and use IN, 2, 3,
4, 5; OUT, 2, 3, 4, 5 or IN, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; OUT, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

There's no more basic process than breathing and walking or
running. Just find the right number of counts (which will vary
with your exertion) and synchronize your breath and steps and
subvocal counting. I play around with the rhythms. I love it.
I never walk more than half a dozen steps anywhere without
making it a breath walk. When I do "breath sitting", I slow my
breath waaaaay down, taking only about two breaths per minute.
I believe that I cured my atrial fibrillation with breath
walking. The doctors are mystified but dismiss my claim that
it was the breath walking.

George

I find it useful to have something like what you have
recommended in the early part of my runs or in short runs. So
I'll give that a try. After a certain point (5 miles or so) it
doesn't matter. I feel pretty unified with my running at that
point. Then again it might come in handy again during the
later "I hope I don't die" parts.

Or, "hope I don't wimp out". I'm going to try a little breath
running tomorrow. One reason I gave up running for walking is
that I take my walks with my wife, who doesn't run. The dogs
don't like that pace either because they like to pause and
grok the smells (and other dogs).

George

Howdy!

I've got an extra step in my process:
IN,2,3,4; OUT,2,3,4; PAUSE,2,3,4;
or
IN,2,3,4; OUT,2,3,4,5,6; PAUSE,2,3,4,5,6,7,8;

ORIGINAL UNEDITED MESSAGE:

=3D=3D 1 of 21 =3D=3D
Date: Sun 13 Nov 2005 18:31
From: "George Cherry"

"Dave =C2=A9=C2=BF=C2=A9=C2=AC" <dave@_nospam_howdydave.com> wrote in messa=
ge
news:l6Adf.2345$lg.1396@news01.roc.ny...
> "George Cherry" < GWCherryHatesGreenEggsAndSpam@alum.mit.edu> wrote in
> message news:M_udneEksY-SDOvenZ2dnUVZ_s2dnZ2d@comcast.com ...
> Think
> our
> must
> air
> For
> faster
> to
> working
>
> Howdy!
>
> I've got an extra step in my process:
>
> IN,2,3,4; OUT,2,3,4; PAUSE,2,3,4;
>
> or
>
> IN,2,3,4; OUT,2,3,4,5,6; PAUSE,2,3,4,5,6,7,8;
>
>

Now, I ask you, which is easier to read???!!!

omjaroo

2005-11-15, 5:58 pm

> See the current message, sampled below, for how much better it could
> come across by using this utility:
>
> http:// ReFormatYourEmail.makes.it

Hi,

Even though this is spam I appreciate the post. It reminded me to find
a good text editor for my mac so I could quote and respond to posts in
Google. Something Google doesn't do very well at all.

I looked at the site referenced. It seems like a really good idea.
However there is something creepy about the idea of passing all of my
correspondence through someone's website. For that reason alone I would
not use the site.

Jared

DharmaMitra

2005-11-16, 5:57 pm

Much is missed, and all too often misconstrued when depth perception is
not applied in a practical and ethical manner.

Your messages are not "passed through" the website in a delivery
manner, simply cinched at the edges at your chosen wideth, with the
option of modifying the capitalization of words and ridding them of
repetitive noxious symbols such as the ">>>>".

Life experienc also renders sensible depth perception. People of good
will invent things useful for others. People of good will also refer
the use of such things to others. Also, people of good will and human
moral relevance comprehend good will, right efforts, and maturity of
others in recognizing common sense, practicality and the intiative to
share things of value with others.

With the myriad meaningful messages with goooooofy layouts due to poor
width management and truncated sentences due to the perpetual ">>>>>'s"
that make your message seem more like a passed note at the Star Wars
Saloon, people of sound mind and moral development will readily
recognize that the message sent was done in good faith, and will have
the proper communication skills NOT to refer to such sincerity and
implicit faith as 'spam'. Such morally retarded misrepresentations are
neither satya, nor ahimsa, nor aparigraha, nor astaeya, nor
brahmachary, nor the rest of yama niyama, the first and foremost of any
relevance to deserve the true meaning of "practicing yoga".

Sevenhundred Elves

2005-11-16, 5:57 pm

DharmaMitra wrote:
>
> READ THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE, AND SEE HOW MUCH BETTER IT LOOKS AFTER USING
> http://ReFormatYourEmail.makes.it/
>
>
> Flourishingly,
>
> Dharma Mitra

I read it, and made the comparison. Sorry, the program is not any good.
The > marks actually show who said what, and if they are removed, the
message seems to be from just a single user.

I guess the program was made by someone who is not familiar with usenet.
The number of > preceding a remark gives a clue to who said it, you
understand. My newsreader even renders comments in different colors,
depending on how many > that precede it. Thank you anyway, for your good
intent.

S.

2005-11-16, 5:57 pm

omjaroo wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Even though this is spam I appreciate the post. It reminded me to find
> a good text editor for my mac so I could quote and respond to posts in
> Google. Something Google doesn't do very well at all.
>
> I looked at the site referenced. It seems like a really good idea.
> However there is something creepy about the idea of passing all of my
> correspondence through someone's website. For that reason alone I would
> not use the site.
>
> Jared

As a Mac user you may want to try Unison http://www.panic.com/unison/
The download is free and if you like it, it cost $25. It is a
standalone newsreader and works way better than Google.
You will also need to get the usenet server address from your ISP,

Stu

omjaroo

2005-11-17, 10:57 am

Thanks Stu,

I have a dedicated news-reader called MT-News-watcher for my mac. I
think its the bomb! However as far as I know it requires a dedicated
news account. Mine has lapsed for the moment buy regardless I have
become accustomed to using Google for text groups. It is quite handy
and I always have my browser going anyway.

While searching around I came across a free program for the BBEdit
people called Text-Wrangler for the Mac. What you can do with text is
amazing. It is primarily geared towards programers and others who are
working with all kinds of arcane word structure. 80% of what it can do
I don't even understand what its for. But it works great for sizing,
ordering and applying multiple levels of quotes, etc. Perfect for what
I need. It will strip out HTML hard returns and such for formating
something copied from the web to a word processing document. Things
like that.

Thanks again.

Jared

omjaroo

2005-11-17, 10:57 am

My young friend,

Your post brought me genuine mirth and I thank you. Lord knows I've
had so little lately. Even while as a yogi I continue to strive for
equanimity :-)

If you took offense to my response it was not intended :-(

I did not question the sincerity of your post, in fact I thanked you
and expressed my appreciation for it. Perhaps you thought I was being
sarcastic but as you suggested, Yama/niyama would preclude me from
making any such false representation.

Any unsolicited top level post from a unknown contributor, which
promotes a product or service is defined as spam. If it is off-topic,
doubly so. Certainly you can appreciate the appearance of your post as
such. I don't make up the "rules" or "definitions" on Usenet or the
Internet. They are fairly well established and have general acceptance
by the Internet community at large.

Besides, spam does not equal malicious intent. Malicious intent equals
malicious intent; whether it is commercial exploitation or
self-righteousness couched as oriental wisdom. Nor is "goodness" or a
"good person" such, because one claims to be so or claims another is
not. If one's intent is sincere and helpful then whatever they do or
say, is such. If one's intent is ignorant, righteous or fearful then
whatever they say will be such. This is simply as it Is; he Truth, so
to speak.

Imagine for a moment that I am an Internet Marketing and text editing
professional (which I am :-) and I made the following comments.
[vbcol=seagreen]

Clearly I have expended time and effort in reviewing the site, without
any obvious expectation of compensation. But what, if any, helpful
information have I provided? I have offered my opinion that the basic
idea is a good one and by inference that it is worth pursuing. I have
also pointed out what I believe to be a serious stumbling block to the
adoption of this idea by the intended end-user. Addressing this issue
may give the product a better chance of success. Companies often spend
a lot of money on focus groups and hiring consultants to get this kind
of feedback. It can make the difference between an idea succeeding or
failing.

I take it, based on your statement, that you are not affiliated with
the company who has developed this web product. But because you profess
to care about and believe in the product, it is not a far reach to
believe that you might transmit this pointed feedback to the developers
so that they may consider adjusting their strategy accordingly.

In short I was trying to be helpful in response to someone who
(although spamming) I believed was trying to be helpful.

Regarding the sundry yogic (Hindu?) references you enumerated in your
post, I suggest you might run your own response to my post through that
same "filter" and then run it by your guru :-) If you would like I
would be glad to answer any questions you might have in that regard :-)

Jared

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