tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post814304311071037199..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "A Meditation On Meditation"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-23598911603074427802009-04-28T18:42:00.000-07:002009-04-28T18:42:00.000-07:00Sounds powerful. Just wondering how long you have ...Sounds powerful. Just wondering how long you have to meditate to reach relaxed concentration. A minute? An hour? How do you know when you are there?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-56963701744788544442009-04-28T16:03:00.000-07:002009-04-28T16:03:00.000-07:00It is relaxing Buck Short, I totally agree with yo...It is relaxing Buck Short, I totally agree with you.growingupartistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399714569663568902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-69154107375059693282009-04-28T08:49:00.000-07:002009-04-28T08:49:00.000-07:00Blonde wearing a Sony Walkman goes into a hair sal...<I>Blonde wearing a Sony Walkman goes into a hair salon. Before the beautician starts cutting, she says “Please cut around the headphones, and don’t knock them off my head." Beautician complies -- with, shall we say, mixed results. Next visit, same thing, Third time, the hairdresser’s had enough, removes headphones and sets them aside. Blonde immediately drops to floor, unconscious. Beautician picks up headphones and hears, "Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out...."</I> <br /><br />Y’know what I find extremely relaxing, strategic name dropping.<br /><br />In a prior century, I worked for the Boston YMCA, America’s first, and the one that actually <I>invented</I> exercise. Yes, it’s true. In the 1880’s, their phys. ed. Instructor was a gentleman named Robert J. Roberts, who, in addition to apparently having a healthy respect for economy of nomenclature, was famous for sporting “the world’s most perfectly developed back,” and also as the model for the Lexington Minuteman statue. Before Mr. Roberts showed up with his dumbbells, medicine balls and Indian clubs, people didn’t <I>need</I> to exercise. They got plenty of exercise already. It was called manual labor. They had also gotten to run around a lot – and duck with deep knee bends -- in the Civil War. Then everybody either took clerical jobs or went into some kind of management, and, well, we all sort of let ourselves go – ultimately resulting in the need for the Total Gym Fitness System ™ and Richard Simmons.<br /><br />As part of our fitness program, I had the pleasure of working with two legends at the Harvard School of Public Health. One was Dr. Herbert Benson – whose mind-body-spirit continuum fit in rather nicely with ours. (Although I have to admit, my favorite of all his studies was the one that showed third party prayer, even including a large group of people outside your friends and family, was of absolutely of no help whatsoever in getting somebody through a medical crises. In fact, Benson found that patients who knew others were praying for them, actually did <I>worse</I> going through heart bypass surgery than those who were receiving prayer without their knowledge. The thing I liked most about the research is not that Benson is still a spiritual being in the less conventional sense, but that the $2-million study was underwritten by Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, obviously hoping for a more fortuitous result.<br /><br />The other legend was Dr. Bernard Lown, Nobel Prize-winner and inventor of the defibrillator. Shooting a public service announcement for the Y’s new cardiovascular stress test program which had been developed under his auspices (or at least somewhere in the vicinity of his auspices), we had former Boston Celtic great Tom “Satch” Sanders, being monitored on a treadmill by one of Bernie’s assistant physicians. Suddenly it was, cut, cut, cut as Satch’s EKG started going ballistic. Turns out, irregular EKG’s are not atypical for professional athletes, especially those north of 6-foot-6, and our alarm was unwarranted. Still, I hate it when something like that happens.A. Buck Shorthttp://roger-burke.dailykos.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-77930236194990341112009-04-28T07:13:00.000-07:002009-04-28T07:13:00.000-07:00Earl, scanned through your bullshit as usual. Han...Earl, scanned through your bullshit as usual. Hang in there.growingupartistshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12399714569663568902noreply@blogger.com