Creating the mood

It's been a very long time since I wrote about my practice... yet it is been strong during these months... and it hasn't been so much a matter of time, but of being in the mood to write or not.

Very much like getting around to doing qigong itself; somehow it seems easier to spend a cumulative hour resisting and procrastinating the practice, which when finally engaged in takes only 30 minutes. I've now been practicing virtually-everyday since 2003, and have often wrestled with the "resistance to presence" that gets in the way of *just beginning now*.

I'm fairly successful at creating the right head and heart space for qigong; it's a priority that I live; why not writing? Why not language study? Why not the synchronized swimming I'm so obsessed with? Well, okay... just writing ;-)

Topics that have been coming to mind:

• -- qi belt
• -- perenium awareness
• -- body breathing; feeling and flowing with a whole-body-level expansion/contraction
• -- using the eyes and ears; looking within, listening within
• -- mental/emotional detox

virtually every day I have some insight or another that I consider noting. Let's see how it goes.