November 7

Does this count as an epiphany?

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A response to Havi’s most recent post about keeping it challenging in the form of the conversation in my head that popped up when I read it. A conversation in my head Me: Oh yes! I’m just starting to see the patterns and everything and wow I did that whole round (i.e. from one starting [...]

October 30

Masochism FTW!

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Past the dip on Level 3 Having made it through Level 3 arms I’m now working on being able to do it with greater speed and fluidity (rather than with lots of pausing and umming!) However, the golden rule of Shiva Nata is “it has to be difficult to work”.  So rather than simply work [...]

October 24

Level 3 arms bend to my will!

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Boo-yah! I finally got all the way through the Level 3 arms without going horribly, inextricably wrong and having to start all over again. I’m starting to see the path that Havi describes where you go from: I’ve no idea what the heck is happening here; to Oh, that seems kind familiar, I can kinda [...]