Thank you to everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday!
I ended up not doing too much. My sister and her husband and daughter came from Iowa to visit me. She rented a hotel room, my parents and brother and nieces came had some birthday cake and they played together, and everyone talked, so it was kind of nice.
I ended up going out for a little bit, now I usually do not go to bars or pool halls or anything like that, but I just felt like going out for a bit, so I did. Went to a local pool hall where I drank for free and played pool for free, because it was my birthday. So I will chalk that up to the sub, because I usually would have said, ahhh, I can always just go next year.
I have noticed a couple of things lately. The other day I felt a kind of pressure in my head, not painful or bad in any way, just a pressure. I believe it was when I was listening to the stream version, which I loop over and over again for the recommended 8 hours. Now I am not sure because the speakers are right above my head a few feet or if it is a more energetic thing.
Another thing is that I am starting to think about past events. How I responded, how I wish I would have responded, why I responded the way I did. I went through alot of the same thing when I had been doing the energetic work I had been doing.
@Shannon-thanks for the advice, I am also a believer in karma, which is why I would never try to break up or interfere in a relationship. By the way, I hope you are feeling better, I hope the hammer in the pants helped
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@Ronatello- thank you also for the advice.
I agree with you to always think positive, but negativity sometimes pops in, not as in control of my monkey mind as I have been in the past. But don't worry, I observe them, respect them, and let them go. Actually, I try to have no thought at all.
@Roy- right now I am doing a form of qi gong called golden shield. It is a chinese energetic system that trains from the outside-in. At one point my training partner was actually hitting my stomach with a brick as hard as he could. In my past though I did some other qi gong practices that were more movement based, that involved static and dynamic elements, and that is what I was referring to, because the amount of growth I received from that was......unexplainable.
Another thing I have noticed is that it is easier for me to express the thoughts in my head, either verbally or even now as I am typing. Not quite as focused as I have been in the past, much more than recently though. I have always been very quiet, and not so much withdrawn, but apprehensive about expressing myself, my thoughts or feelings.
There is more I could write, but I might have to be at work in a few hours, time to get some sleep.