Dear Janus, Earth Angel and Poet:

Even before your second post with the poem, the poet in you is expressed (first post): “Looking at the sun shining through the trees that lined the corners of the sidewalk paths.. the shrubs that had originally been green.. are now having vibrant red splashes.. In the early hours, the campus is quiet and listening to the birds is relaxing”- a Poet indeed!

Your meditation practice started long ago, and I hope that you establish a daily meditation practice like you plan to do, and that you improve it following the meditation class that you will be taking. A yoga practice reads like a good idea to me, start with five minutes yoga per day and increase from there? Continue Qi Gong as well and continue to use your excellent visualization skills to calm and ground yourself.

It is very important that you do stop “the intense and straining workouts” and that you do see your body “as a whole and achieve balance and flexibility with the poses. You asked for yoga advice: I suggest the chest opener poses (see how you feel about those!), warrior 1, warrior 2, various stretches, nothing too fancy or strenuous, and keep each pose for a couple of minutes or so. The corpse pose is a wonderful way to.. lie down and call it yoga.

I very much like your poem: “Thoughts drift like clouds in  my mind/ Some of these thoughts may be unkind/ Blocking out the clear blue skies in my mind and making peace hard to find/.. I blow the negative thoughts so they go ‘Bye-bye'”- beautiful sound to it, worthy of getting published, says I!

anita