I always thought stress was good for productivity though? Isn't the way we have all been conditioned to think? If you want to get something done, give it a deadline, create stress, stress leads to action, the task gets finished quickly. I've always thought of a certain degree of stress being somewhat helpful in an essay deadline crisis. I thought it made my work better.
According to Liu, if you live like this, one deadline to the next, your body never replenishes, it never relaxes fully, it goes from one stress peak to another, it gets overworked, then you get sick, then you really aren't capable of productivity because you're bedridden.
I liked the analogy brought up in class. Life is like a cup of dirty water. If you are still you create clarity, if you are stressed your judgement of it will be eternally clouded.
As energy hits peaks and troughs you can stabilise it by clearing it from your meridian; somewhere I assume....near your belly button.
The integrity that comes with this sort of ideology is dependant on its history. It has been around for thousands of years. The frustration lies in the slow reaction time. Teas and herbs are great, but sometimes you just need the anti-biotics and you need them now and if you dont get them now you can't finish the assignment by tomorrow, you will have less time for the next one, you won't be able to go to so-and-so's 21st; everything will get ruined clearly without the antibiotics.
I often think of eastern medicine much like the greens. you should vote for them, you know they will do whats best, but sometimes whats best will take way too long and you want your life to be good right now. but i will vote for them and i will...one day... start my meditation again.
Meditation facts
-induces sleep quite often afterward.....and a lot of the time during
- is supposed to create an out of body experience.
- is supposed to give your brain time out from thinking
- you think about nothing in meditation, easier said than done.
- makes you feel more rested than when you started.
Circadian and Cyclical time.
Circadian is what we in the west are used to. the sun rises, the sun sets, then theres the moon, once thats happened thats a day, you never get that day back again and so on. Time flows from an upper recepticle to a lower one, left to right, moving constantly forward and never back,
Cyclical, would you believe, runs in a circle. Much like the zodiac, each specific time in that circle is revisited and carries with it specific qualities. This is why people born in the same year are said to have similar qualities....which i am terribly sceptical of, a lot of people the same age never have similar qualities. Alas, I'm the year of the horse, all other 1990ers are too.
Apparently I am rigid, forceful, amibitious, self reliant and business oriented? They had me until business oriented. couldnt care less.
Its the same in politics. the West, stemming from greek mythology uses rationality, logic, majority vote. Chinas history points toward using what has come before, relying on tradition rather than innovation. on Yin and Yang. Apparently Yin along with meaning passive means evil, dark, corrupting and female. interesting.
Back to Liu, this circlular/cyclical mentality finds its way into all of his martial arts moves, if you do something to one side you have to do it to the other. Its about balance and being cyclical.
Even the approach to excercise in the east and west is different. Gyms are about strenous excercise that ups the heart rate, gets you sweating, no wonder i hate gyms. easter is about not causing injury, preventative care for your body, trying to align the body and mind, rectifies your normal appetite, possibly giving you less reason to do strenuous excercise? maybe?
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