Today was one of those days that a situation was bring back a good memory of something that I have known for a long time. But I forgot when times have passed since other things will come in and take away my attention. I wish I don’t forget any wisdom I have learned or anything I have once valued dearly. I hope they can just pop in my mind immediately without my effort.
The reality is as human beings we forget things. Time normally washes away anything from our memory no matter how intensely we once are engaged. However, we may be lucky that some situations may able to re-establish that same memories and allow us to feel great meaning of them again and that what happened to me today.
I didn’t have good sleep in the last 3-4 nights, so when I woke up I felt awfully tired. My body couldn’t function properly; my eyes were burning and felt very heavy. My brain felt very heavy and closed up. I had breakfast, and felt the need of having more, so I ate twice as much as I normally did. My throat felt dried and a little soar, and on top of that I felt dehydrated, so I drank a lot of water. Then, when nothing could lift up my energy, I decided to lie down. While I was resting, I focused on claming my mind and breathed even more lovingly and slowly. I had been doing it for 45 minutes before I got up. I felt a little better, but my energy still felt low and weak, so I rested and focused on my mind and my breath again. I didn’t remember how long I rested, but after the second round of relaxing I woke up completely rejuvenated.
After I was filled up with a full tank of freshness and liveliness, I went to my vocal awareness studio and did my practice right away. Wow!! My senses were so full of live. They are vivid and in motion. I felt the vibration of the sound, the connection of mind/ body/spirit, and I felt energy flew in (deep) and out so strongly. Also, my voice had more color and juice, and while I practiced I could get into the different pitch easier. I was thrill with the experience, and remembered all over again about the benefit of good night sleep. A simple thing, but is yet very powerful!!!
Filed under: Being, Life, Reality, Self-realization, Spirituality, happiness | Tagged: Aphinya Deley, Arthur Joseph, Realization, vocal awareness
It’s cool that I just read this tonight. Only a few hours ago I had a flash of insight into what it would mean if we could very intentionally, with surgical precision, choose what and when we want to forget something. But the beauty of this insight was not that it would mean that we can retain a coveted memory, rather it was that we could choose to release for all time a memory that does not serve us well. What a magnificent feeling it was to even imagine that! Although it is impossible for me to know a true figure, any given person might have about 30 to 60 thoughts per minute, depending on the conditions of the day. At that rate, we nearly reach 1 billion thoughts by the time we are 30, counting night time when we dream with unconscious compulsive thought. With a clinical analysis, how many of those thoughts that flow at 1 thought/second do you think are helpful, beneficial? I suspect that it is an atrociously low number for the majority of people, even if they are thinking at a slower rate. Those compulsive thoughts will be dominated by what might be likened to meaningless scrap or even decomposing waste. The worst of it is that usually there is a theme, or likely many different themes running at the same time. The theme strings thoughts together like a needle and thread. What happens when you knit needle and thread? You get a sock or some other functional bit of clothing. So a theme of thought allows a great number of minuscule thoughts to build up into something big and functional. But it can easily be functionally destructive. The same thought/theme, thunk too many times becomes either a wonderful new sweater or a bumpy railroad track that steers the rest of your life. And now back to the point. If we could choose a theme that does not serve us well, see it for all it’s harmful nature and then consciously decide to eliminate it, thereby removing all potential for the theme to reoccur, what a gift that would be! If a thought had mass, 1 billion thoughts would be pretty heavy! The more of those dedicated to a theme lets that theme gain weight, and the more mass, the more the theme draws in fresh thought. Neuroscientists say, “Cells that fire together, wire together.” I can only imagine the baggage that I could get rid of if I had such a skill, leading perhaps to enlightenment, the ultimate state of weightlessness. So my view was quite a different take on the workings and implications of memory, and an uncommon escape from my typical perspective that is exactly as you expressed in your story. “Why can’t I just remember that?!?”
You are doing just awesome!!