Comments on: The Great Discipline Experiment, Day 17: Relax Already http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/ Susan Piver - Meditation, Relationships, Creativity Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: susan http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-1892 susan Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:10:21 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-1892 See next blog post... See next blog post…

]]> By: Diana Daffner, Intimacy Retreats http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-1891 Diana Daffner, Intimacy Retreats Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:12:08 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-1891 Well, this post of yours is only day 17 and it seems your month-long experiment has come and gone. I look forward to whatever it is you are writing next! I also sometimes make one-month commitments. Some pan out, some don't. When it works, when I actually do the thing (or don't do) that I promised myself, it strengthens me somehow from the inside out. And the whole process, as you so have so openly written about, reveals myself to myself, warts and all. Well, this post of yours is only day 17 and it seems your month-long experiment has come and gone. I look forward to whatever it is you are writing next! I also sometimes make one-month commitments. Some pan out, some don’t. When it works, when I actually do the thing (or don’t do) that I promised myself, it strengthens me somehow from the inside out. And the whole process, as you so have so openly written about, reveals myself to myself, warts and all.

]]> By: Steve http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-1880 Steve Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:55:15 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-1880 My loving wife Dianne directed me to this post (and I'm not a namaste kind of guy), on a day as a writer when I woke up truly thinking I'd be fired, and through the graces of a friend/boss (rather than the other way around), I flourished a bit but not enough to sleep well. Your post gave me what I need, and will refer back to for comfort. Thank you. My loving wife Dianne directed me to this post (and I’m not a namaste kind of guy), on a day as a writer when I woke up truly thinking I’d be fired, and through the graces of a friend/boss (rather than the other way around), I flourished a bit but not enough to sleep well. Your post gave me what I need, and will refer back to for comfort. Thank you.

]]> By: Joli http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-1862 Joli Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:37:20 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-1862 I was in your Tulsa meditation workshop. I was very grateful for the simplicity of calling every distraction--no matter what it was--"thinking." Similarly, I am now calling all my schedules, and plans, and rigidness, and structures "errands." I've spent way too many years of my life "erranding." And all the while there have been people to connect with and moments to relax and enjoy. So now I'm trying to errand less and enjoy more. Thanks for your presence in Tulsa, Susan. I was in your Tulsa meditation workshop. I was very grateful for the simplicity of calling every distraction–no matter what it was–”thinking.”

Similarly, I am now calling all my schedules, and plans, and rigidness, and structures “errands.” I’ve spent way too many years of my life “erranding.” And all the while there have been people to connect with and moments to relax and enjoy. So now I’m trying to errand less and enjoy more.

Thanks for your presence in Tulsa, Susan.

]]> By: Susan Piver http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-2589 Susan Piver Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:43:27 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-2589 <span class="topsy_trackback_comment"><span class="topsy_twitter_username"><span class="topsy_trackback_content">New blog post: TThe Great Discipline Experiment, Day 17: Relax Already http://bit.ly/nLN39</span></span> New blog post: TThe Great Discipline Experiment, Day 17: Relax Already http://bit.ly/nLN39

]]> By: Katherine http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/2009/06/11/the-great-discipline-experiment-further-reflection/#comment-1849 Katherine Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:45:33 +0000 http://www.susanpiver.com/wordpress/?p=646#comment-1849 Hi, Susan - your posts about Getting Things Done and the great experiment have me smiling today as I attempt to keep to my SCHEDULE on my self-directed "writing residency" here in Provincetown. Meditate, write, study, exercise, WRITE.... Sound familiar? It's the routine you established on our wonderful writing retreat last year... and it works really well for me, except when those inevitable things (also known as life!) come up! Relaxing with that, remembering that life IS the point, not ORDER.... is both the challenge and the "solution"... I so much appreciate your openness about your challenges, and your learning (and "failures") - it's helping me to approach all this with a lighter touch! Thanks, Katherine Hi, Susan – your posts about Getting Things Done and the great experiment have me smiling today as I attempt to keep to my SCHEDULE on my self-directed “writing residency” here in Provincetown. Meditate, write, study, exercise, WRITE….
Sound familiar? It’s the routine you established on our wonderful writing retreat last year… and it works really well for me, except when those inevitable things (also known as life!) come up! Relaxing with that, remembering that life IS the point, not ORDER…. is both the challenge and the “solution”…
I so much appreciate your openness about your challenges, and your learning (and “failures”) – it’s helping me to approach all this with a lighter touch!
Thanks,
Katherine

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