Equilibrium...on and off-balance

Even though it is Sunday, and I tend to blog Monday through Friday, I felt compelled to write today. 

I tried the first Feldenkrais podcast lesson about the line of effort and wanted to write about the experience while fresh in my brain.

Much of the lesson was spent on my front, with arms extended overhead.  In this position I am always uncomfortable.  Amazingly, while following along with the audio-cast, my comfort level increased.  By the end of the 48 minute class, I was both feeling elongated in my skeleton, but also with high level of equilibrium.   Almost as if I was a very wide and stable letter "X".

In life I am often out of balance.  Too quick to do some things, too slow at others. Procrastination versus haste.   

Procrastination is the thief of time. Edward Young

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Henry David Thoreau 

I jumped into joining the PD team at the end of the year at school, and felt not as ready to function effectively on that team.  Timing is everything and I will try to pay attention this year, using my instincts to guide me.

I am ready to start school mainly because I did have time to play this summer.  This equilibrium needs to be nurtured during the year in order to allow myself a personal life in the midst of professional requirements.