Adventures of a Shivanaut

I realised today, now that I’m doing a slightly longer practice (warm up with fun run throughs of level 1 and/or 2 then challenge myself with level 3), that one of my biggest challenges is keeping focussed for the whole length of time.  If I start to let my mind wonder then I start going horribly, horribly wrong!

I said before that never finished that post about how my mind wandering was one sign that I’m not challenging myself enough (and I will admit that I kept it at the same difficulty level so as to give myself the boon of getting all the way through the sequence) but it made me realise that when it’s not too easy I’m being singly focussed on my practice to the exclusion of all else.

Shiva Nata has helped me practice mindfullness!  I totally wasn’t expecting that one (though now I think about it I’m pretty sure Havi’s mentioned something like that before) but still, it wasn’t what I was aiming for (I got into this for the epiphanies, man) but it’s excellent when you’re doing a practice for a certain reason and you start to see other related and equally desirable benefits pop-up and go, here you are, a free bonus for you!