Update on my physical condition: My sciatic nerve thing is better, sort of. It changes. During the day, it's not too bad unless I'm sitting on the ground, which I rarely do, or walking for a long time, which is also rare. I am trying to ice it as much as possible and actually had two changes to do that during the day today, once in a meeting at work (first time I've actually been on my back for an entire meeting) and once for 20 minutes at the chiropractor. During the evening, it's excruciating.
I usually go to bed and it's so-so, then I wake up in the middle of the night, wincing. I have to take a hot shower, douse myself in Ben-Gay, take two Tylenol, then ice it and hope I can fall asleep again. This only happened once last night, so I'm thinking I'm on the mend.
The strain in my neck from Tuesday night was better most of the day. I had the chiropractor work on it, which seemed to help. But, now, it's back to where it was yesterday. I am tired and really want to go to sleep, but icing both injuries is probably the best course of action. Argh. Thankfully tomorrow is Friday.
Although, I have created coaching work for myself this weekend. This is wonderful, but I don't know that I'm going to be as prepared as I would like because I've not had a lot of focused time to work on particulars of these meetings.
What more?
My theater class ended tonight, but it's going to pick up again with the same crew of people in a couple of weeks. That's very good news. I'm really enjoying working with these folks. It's so refreshing, too, because it's mostly physical, non-verbal work that we're doing, there isn't a great emphasis on small talk with one another and, as a result, I feel like there is far less ego in the room than their might otherwise be. I have been meaning to post more about the content of these classes, because there are direct and pretty exciting parallels I can make between the content of this class and the rest of my life. I feel like it's my entire life distilled into a physical form - the body - and a finite period of time, three hours 2 night per week. It makes life tangible. I love it. Certainly much more to say on that. The important thing tonight was just to get some words out.
A book finally came for me in the mail today. It's called The Body-Speak Manual, and it's by a guy named Samuel Avital, who is a mime trained by Etienne Decroix and who started the Centre du Silence in Boulder, Colorado. I got a book of his a few years ago and really enjoyed his philosophical writing about the art of silence. I found it incredibly profound and, well, true. From his work as a mime and as a teacher, he developed a method of developing "kinesthetic intelligence." It's all about being present in your body in order to experience life more fully.
Pretty simple, actually. And yet SO incredibly rare. I'm psyched to dive into it. Maybe I'll start now, while I'm icing my back.
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