Being In The Zone

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I have found that I can be more in the zone at work late on Fridays. One just loosens up as the week drags on if you don' t get worn out and keep moving with repetitive work. This works well under endless repetition without breaks for hours as the body, breathing just regulates itself and the nagging complaining just drifts off and you just forget you are tired, bored or want to take a break. The body does work by itself. It experiences pleasure, has its own momentum. I think that as one ages, loses fitness that this gets more difficult. However yoga has helped me maintain flexibility, tai chi helps with balance. But both and strength, endurance come out mindlessly. It is effortless dance. Can one hold youth as one ages? This is a big part of that. Meditation is one form of freedom but one can only meditate so long, sports like weights, jogging or tai chi are also limited. But we must work. Many do desk jobs. Similar effects can occur for mind numbing tasks. States of flow kick in. Then our productivity and joy in process, not for substance, is felt. Our heart becomes harmonized, synchronized with our limbs. Our main chakras work in union with our balance, our dexterity. I think younger peopls have this part easier, acheive it more naturally on the physical level. However motivation might be lacking as major goals are unfulfilled, worries nag, one is self conscious. Older people are comfortable with themselves but have grown stiff, tired, beaten down, worn out The ideal is to have a youthful body and aged wisdom. I recall reading about a famed pitcher who at 40 had a trainer for himself who put him through an arduous routine daily to stay fit. My sport is like this but it would never be enough on its own. The yogic energy which flows, chi, prana, connects all the parts of our body and rejuvenates them continually. This happens automatically after a certain point. Although this, in and of itself, can cause massive internal stress, heat, burning, it overcomes inertial resistance dragging us into a living grave that we call aging We hardly notice, suddenly we are middle aged, old, stiff, our balance gone, flexible back is stiff. The spring in our step has disappeared. Through training and an awakening we can delay bad effects considerably. Anti- aging research ignores the esoteric as it concentrates on the scientific method and ignores ancient customs. These matters must be investigated more thoroughly. Decades of tai chi brings suppleness and a conscious energy flow to fingertips, across chakras. Yoga does similar after decades of practice and with breathing, meditation. This is a magic elixir, a feeling of flow, youthfulness experienced in the moment that usually only great athletes acheive by extreme discipline of will over many years and is limited to peak youth. However this can grow over years, allowing a second youth phase. I don' t know how long this can last. Maybe a 70-90 year old if properly maintained traditionally plus having intensive energy in the esoteric sense can suppress the wears of time. As the nerves and chakras grow in energy capacity and strength, they overcome the aging tendency around them. Perhaps a mathematical formula for this is determinable. At 25 wear and tear begins its preponderance. If sport, nutrition plus chi levels are to counter this then it must increase proportional to age. I notice that my chi continues to increase. In the last year I improved my physical disciplines, nutrition, fasting, meditation. Slowing decline to a minimum would be critical. The gadgets on our arms and electronic scales measure everything and tell us we are 35 or so although we are closer to 60. They measure, heart, fat, blood pressure, etc. Obviously the better the results desired the deeper we must dig. Kundalini blogs talk of feeling it in their bones, muscles. Texts tell of holy men who revitalized their cells, obtained a golden body. Obviously this was a centuries old science passed on highly secretively, much like our modern ph.ds. As it is self experimental, it is highly subjective. Everyone wants a pill, but not to change lifestyle. Most will not try something dubious, experimental, perhaps dangerous. This is understandable. Usually therefore fundamental life changes only occur after trauma of childhood or teen years. Our psychological or body image is bad and we need a complete ideology to get out of a socio- cultural rut dragging us down. Modern suburban lifestyles with bland food, TV, endless academic desk sitting, neurotic upbringing, loneliness, etc lead to a crisis of meaning as young adults. This spawns a cultural shift towards health foods, fitness, asian religious practices. Due to the momentum of our culture towards progress, success, accumulation however very few reach escape velocity. Obesity,over medication, screen time, time indoors, inactivity, social isolation all increase. Mental and physical and social health are on the downswing in society despite having more and better tools to overcome them. The future as they say is distibuted unevenly. Perhaps a collapse of an insane system, focused on consumption and the rat race is neccessary. We say that hippies tried to drop out unsuccessfully. Obviously population growth, pollution, environmental destruction is the flip side of abundance, longer lives. Eating and living minimally is an answer to this. Thousands of years of East Asian culture acheived this. Emulating the American Dream is no solution. We expect limitless growth. My father worked on a gold dredge in the 1950s until the gold ran out. Then he had to move on. Chinese coal mines, Russian and Saudi oil wells will also peter out. Plastics and gas guzzlers, cheap synthetic fabrics will belong to grandpa' s days. Cement, asphalt, massive skyscrapers or electrical tools and rapidly built houses without much sweat will be wishful thinking. Hand tools, reliance on sun and wind will be normal. Then technique of being in the zone after a long week of hard physical effort in old age due to proper care will be critical and normal wisdom, not a curiosity for freaks with nothing else to do.