{"id":13,"date":"2008-01-28T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T01:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/niasomoves.com\/Rachaelsblog\/2008\/01\/28\/awareness-white-belt-principle-5\/"},"modified":"2008-04-25T13:16:56","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:16:56","slug":"awareness-white-belt-principle-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/awareness-white-belt-principle-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Awareness: White Belt Principle #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Morning session.<\/p>\n<p>I awoke this morning, tired and happy, to a thin dusting of snow, just the smallest draft from the pinky feather of the wing of the White Goddess who is cloaking my friends and family in Ashland.&nbsp; My mind has been keeping me awake the last two nights, excitedly reviewing the events of the day and worrying over my altered morning routine.<\/p>\n<p>I rode the bus downtown and felt like a Portlander again.&nbsp; I got off at Yamhill Marketplace, where I held my first job in Portland, working in a French restaurant called Savoir Faire when I was 23, and then walked eight blocks to Nia headquarters<\/p>\n<p>Awareness:&nbsp; What if I could sense my body all the time?&nbsp; What is happening to my attention when I am not sensning my body?&nbsp; Can I grow my attention such that I have 100% awareness of my my body sensations regardless of what else is going on around me?<\/p>\n<p>This morning Carlos said, &ldquo;Awareness is the way we connect with the body.&nbsp; The body is already aware.&nbsp; <b>The body itself is awareness.<\/b>&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The body itself is awareness!&nbsp; My body is the warm, curious attention of the mystery itself, manifesting as me and my 75 trillion cells.&nbsp; My several million proprioceptors are so faithful, always sensing what is happening.&nbsp; I desire to hear their voices, to hear their devotional song, singing pleasure, singing pain, guiding me how to move, how to be a human animal, how to live, how to heal, singing me awake,&nbsp; guiding me how to be, in turn, devoted right back to the mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Morning session. I awoke this morning, tired and happy, to a thin dusting of snow, just the smallest draft from the pinky feather of the wing of the White Goddess who is cloaking my friends and family in Ashland.&nbsp; My mind has been keeping me awake the last two nights, excitedly reviewing the events of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-belt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}