http://ld2l.com/michael · life after touch · Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:50:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/11/in-kochi-%e9%ab%98%e7%9f%a5%e3%81%ab%e3%81%a6%ef%bc%89/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/11/in-kochi-%e9%ab%98%e7%9f%a5%e3%81%ab%e3%81%a6%ef%bc%89/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:50:50 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=295 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/11/in-kochi-%e9%ab%98%e7%9f%a5%e3%81%ab%e3%81%a6%ef%bc%89/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/moving-my-blog/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/moving-my-blog/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:34:20 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=290 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/moving-my-blog/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/ocean-denmark/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/ocean-denmark/#comments Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:04:36 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=286 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/10/ocean-denmark/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/08/thinking-deep-thoughts-on-a-cliff/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/08/thinking-deep-thoughts-on-a-cliff/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:13:58 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=275 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/08/thinking-deep-thoughts-on-a-cliff/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beach-in-scotland/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beach-in-scotland/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:44:34 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=272 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beach-in-scotland/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beautiful-place/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beautiful-place/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:17:46 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=265 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/beautiful-place/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/at-findhorn/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/at-findhorn/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:34:05 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=263 http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/07/at-findhorn/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/deliberate-practice/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/deliberate-practice/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:45:23 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=259
Most people would say it is impossible. That Mozart was a natural talent, who got his gift from God. He played when he was three years old! Wrote compositions when he was only eight!

It seems he must have been a genius from the moment he was born.

It’s true he wrote compositions when he was eight years old. But the thing is, they weren’t very good (and they were also “copied down” by his father, a composer and music teacher). He wrote is first masterpiece when he was 21, after almost 20 years of hours of practice every day under the guidance of his father, a famous music teacher.

And it wasn’t just any kind of practice. It was an uncomfortable kind of practice that challenged him constantly. It could be called “deliberate practice...”]]> http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/deliberate-practice/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/feeling-good/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/feeling-good/#comments Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:24:51 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=256
When my mind is racing with tension, when I worry about the future and feel sad or angry about the past, my body tenses up. It's like watching a movie in my mind, a scary movie, and my body follows the anger, worry and sadness. There is no peace.

But when my mind can return to the moment, my body can relax, my lungs fill with air, my skin can feel the fresh breezes, and all troubles disappear into a beautiful place.

When I am laughing with friends, when I have had a great massage, when I have danced and then relaxed deeply on the floor, Well Being rushes through me, like a wave rushing through me from my head to the bottom of my feet. Warmth circulates through my arms and chest, and my brain slips into a peaceful trance. Good memories from long ago rise easily into my consciousness....]]> http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/06/feeling-good/feed/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/05/you-are-beautiful/ http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/05/you-are-beautiful/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 09:08:57 +0000 michael http://ld2l.com/michael/?p=249
You may not believe it, you may not feel it, you may not think so when you look at yourself reflected in the mirror, but you are.

Every cell of your beautiful body vibrates with LIFE.

Everything you are is because of LOVE, of the love of your parents’ bodies, and the thousands of lives that came before them.

Before you were born, and you were beautiful. You lived inside the warm embrace of your mother’s belly, and the food she ate and nourished you. Her body gave part of its life to you, and you never had to ask...]]> http://ld2l.com/michael/2009/05/you-are-beautiful/feed/