My Monastic Ways

My Monastic Ways

For those of you who are interested in how I get into the mindsets for these post, I'll take this time to explain..

First, it's an evolved minimalist attitude, based on 'what is worth the expenditure of energy' beyond those legal obligations in which I have contracted myself. By saying this I'm incidentally asserting that ethics and morals, which provide my boundaries come under constant re-evaluation since they can be influenced if not corrupted by sentimentalities of past feelings.

As I see it, my days are very basic:
-Getting done the necessary errands/work
-Getting the food and rest for my later exercise time
-Doing the exercise time as not only a physical therapy but as a therapy for my mental and emotional venting and meditation
-Choosing what combination of hard and soft data to expose my sensory receptors

Anything not relevant or compelling enough to augment those actions is regarded quite dubiously.

How you reach those end-goals will be the journey in which you must determine the means. It may be developing a serious focus on what you'd otherwise would be doing besides those four activities. I found that subconsciously I had a slew of little habits that in the past were diversions and distractions. Particularly my relationships with people, socially; plus the perennial cultural and social traditions and events to which I give my attention and more than casual emotional energy.
Even the casual attendings I notice incidentally, or more significantly, the ones I dwell upon in my non-demand focus time: you can approach from an economy of time opportunity. For those times, it is better to let yourself go into 'veg-mode' and let your mind have its play in meditation or power-naps, so it can do its own data dumps-some of which show up as our dreams.

I've evolved from a reserved, somewhat shy guy as a youth, to more extroverted by the sophomore year of college and through the decades until  reached this monastic insight. This insight developed over decades of me purging myself of the trivial and superfluous mental and emotional investments I had been devoting my energies.

If you are willing to endure the change, as an old or older-dog learning a new way to reach those goals, then this is what I had to do.

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I'd never have guessed, but the signs signaled it all along

I'd never have guessed, but the signs signaled it all along

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Born for being #metaphorical_symbols of #metaphysical_messaging of the past to the present ~#Message_of_the_anatomical_Vessel~
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'In the beginnings': Where else are the beginnings other than from#cognizance_of_ones_state as grounded at the center of the start
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Investing in #YourPhysicalnMentalEnergies lays the foundation for other extra-corporeal investments for our attentions' focus
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Knowledge is more than the incidental mundanities and artifacts, it's the #de_facto_parent ultimate #intangible_authority_figure for growth
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'Karma of Knowledge' Ars Scientiae! http://www.academia.edu/34476851/Karma_of_Knowledge.pdf …
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Even from a #Toddlers_perspective, we are given the benefits of our #neural_connections to take note of temporality's #irrational_paradoxes
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IF We lived the #Conscience_of_our_Knowledge, and the #derived_insights_n_visions of that awareness, our lives +those we affect would change
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the #fortuity of the messaging of #theLogos at crucial strategic decision points in our thinking and emotional processing for each stage
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#the_Logos, aka #God, communicates to our senses through its various signals-n-symbols for our #synchronistic_n_serendipitous well-being
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Aestheticized Culture

Aestheticized Culture

The social environments influences what aesthetics are publicly presented and which become the memes and icons of imitations for one’s behavior. That behavior becomes preconditioned by the mind-influencing environment on what is relatively-due to fetal influencing factor-a blank slate, aka a tabula rasa at the time of birth. After birth the signals and their symbolic meanings exposed to the malleable, plastic mind become the suggestions for neural associations that set the predisposition for one’s potential preconceptions of one’s self and the environment about one.

We are all, genetically capable of homosexuality. Certain subtle factors contribute to the greater tendency and probability of homosexuality. In the same way one’s social gender identity is as much the environmental associative suggestions, as any genetic ‘anomaly’ to the anatomical gender’s character. In both cases our anatomical sex organs are not determinative to the preferred cultural social posture they’d prefer, despite their gender equipment.

Let me not stop with the provocatively contended phenomena of human character. Allow me the indulgence to assert that our mass and homogeneous identities develop in the same way, but for the strong coherence of the individual or the strong adherence systems within the group structure. Even then, the organic interaction with the physiological hormonal effects precipitated from the marginal levels of psychological stress boundaries on an individual are still capable of initiating a heterodoxical response in and by the individual, despite an otherwise consistent signal pattern of guidance.

One could say that aesthetics is the universal template for the mental patterns that are chosen. As well, it can be said that there reaches an objective point where aesthetics are an extrapolated derivative of the organic response to signal stimuli. Those extrapolated derivatives become branches or, more profoundly, new root patterns that have a unique nurturing system arrangement for their sustenance and maintenance. The aesthetics control the organic development, with the the organic process being the subject than the tool of the process.

In this case, a diversity to the point of ambiguity of purpose for both the mission of either the aesthetic or the organic exists; neither having a base template of form, but a variable and ever-changing-by addition or reduction-of the component parts. To the extent of the variety of fetishes to which we casually to compulsively are drawn. That extent, as the aesthetics, becomes our justification and rationalization for our interpretive perception and resulting character we exhibit. Aesthetics, our affected states, become the driving guide for our actions until the imperative needs for our physiologic survival do an interventionist course-correction to our perceptional arrangement to reorient our attention to our organic survival means than the more stylistic means of predisposing aesthetics we have accepted as the presumptive determiner for our being.

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Ascetic revitalization

I've received compliments on how young I look. My appearance and condition is NOT due to better than average genes. In fact, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and other cardiovascular diseases have been part of my and my family's and extended relatives medical history.


An incident involving my wine drinking gave me the resolve to put me on the path I am now. I won't go into the path I took, that's my past. I will share (for $1.00) my present and future path of good nutrition and exercise that has people thinking I'm in my 40's than being a few weeks short of being 62 years old.

OFCOURSE, CONSULT YOUR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN BEFORE STARTING THIS OR ANY OTHER REGIMEN TO DETERMINE YOUR CONDITION FOR THIS REGIMEN.


Nutrition
Fresh vegetables shakes in the morning
Veggies of your choice
Yogurt (ice cream)
Skim Milk


Fresh juice drinks in the evening.
Favorite fruit-particularly those you can place the outer skin in the mixture
No-sugar, no calorie drink mixes
Water

You can use a blender or 'juicer' to make either. ADD ICE CUBES, ALSO!
 
Drink 16 to 32 ounces of either for your breakfast and dinner male.

During the mid-day (before 4pm) have a moderate to small meal of a high protein, low carbohydrate and fats meal of the MORE healthy processed foods.

EXERCISE
To reduce wear and tear o your joints from the concussive impact of exercise, I stress isometric weight resistance and short sprint calisthenics. In 'Sprint Cals', you do as many reps as you can until either or both muscular exhaustion or respiration 'breathlessness'. You'd give yourself your individual recovery time, which can be measured, subjectively, by not only recovery from that muscle fatigue, but you being able be diverted to other thoughts unrelated to your exercise.


Isometric weight resistance is using your own weight as the resistance to your muscles' efforts. I use a rope-spring set, as well as an elastic band rope set.

The rope--spring set is a rope passed through a loop that also serves as a block wedge you would place in a closed door jam. The rope is passed through the loop and has the springs at each end. Handles are connected to the hooks on the springs. The springs on the ends of the ropes provide the 'give' when your weight is loaded on both or either handles.
FOR THE ARMS:

 -Stand with you feet shoulder length apart. Hold the handles with your arms at fully or partially extended from your shoulders or body. You lean forward shifting your weight supporting you to both or either arm. You then slowly shift that weight to the other arm. Continue shifting the wieght until you feel the fatigue burn enter your muscles. 


FOR THE LEGS:
-Hold the rope-springs in the same manner as you were for the arm exercises. This time your feet are not only shoulder length apart but they are set with one of the feet staggered in front of the other and pointed at a 45-90 angle from the other. When you shift your weight, shift it to one of the legs that will be bent so that the thigh and calf feel the pressure of the weight shift. Slowly extend the thigh and calf as you shift the weight to the other thigh and calf. Your arms are passive, acting as back-up balances during the shifting of your legs.  Repeat these motions until the muscular fatigue burn sets in. Stop and go to the ABDOMINAL Calisthenics.


ABDOMINAL CALISTHENICS:
Sit on a chair with a wide base (for example, a patio chair). Sit near the front half of the chair so that only your buttocks and the very upper part of your thighs are resting on the seat of the chair. Your hands are connected to the elastic bands to give you balance and support, as well as to provide mild rhythmic movement to accompany the movement of your legs. From this position you can do the following exercises.
a.)  Leg bends to your stomach b.) Leg raises to a level above the seat of the chair. c.) Alternating leg bends to  your abdomen. d.) Alternating leg lifts to above the level of the chair set. e.) Leg circles, clock-wise and counter-clockwise, below and above the level of the seat.
Your arms can move in complimentary motions to what you are moving your legs.



These exercises can be done while watching TV or listening to an audio broadcast. If all three are done consecutively and in series, you can get a good 45-75 minutes of low-impact aerobics that would be good for your muscle tone and good for your heart.


Enjoy the vitality and good health these eating and exercising tips can do for you!


Harp
June 2012