Silence

[resonant]

I had a strange experience yesterday, though I despair of being able to convey it in words.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I have a very chattery brain. If you come upon me unexpectedly, you'll usually catch me talking to myself; this is the only way I can hear my thoughts over my, well, other thoughts. If I wake up in the middle of the night, there'll already be a song in my head. It's very noisy in here.

Well, yesterday I walked to my coffee shop, had a mocha, and worked for a couple of hours. I completed a goal. Feeling very pleased with myself, I packed up my backpack and got ready to walk home --

And discovered that my brain had fallen silent.

There were no chains of thoughts, no ongoing arguments, no pileup of associations. Not even music. Thoughts floated into my head and floated out again.

It lasted twenty minutes, nearly all the way home.

I told the spouse about it and he said, "You're achieving enlightenment."

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[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I haven't been able to go back to yoga since the last time I posted about it! First I hurt my knee, and then I had stitches in my hand, and then I strained my rotator cuff. Sad.

I never really had that experience in yoga yet, but I would imagine one could.

I did experience exercise endorphins once. The elliptical machine I like to use at the gym is next to a window that looks out on the river, and there was a boat going by, and I thought, "The curves that the waves make going out from either side of the stern are the most beautiful thing that could ever exist."