“lumiit ka na” (you got smaller), my regular masseuse who hasn’t seen me in two months said yesterday. She makes a square knot with my arms, across the front, reaching to the back, then pulls them in opposite directions until my back makes three clicking sounds. She’s so good she has  private practice elsewhere (when i walk in, she’s with clients outside).  It’s good to meet  with “optimistic” people — they always tell you…the truth!

Even if they’re half-truths, as long as you know how  to verify the other half of it —  take it any day of the week without being delusional — my health advice for the week.  And always verify. (Don’t sit, even for ten seconds, with “miserable” people. Avoid the following (don’t even be in the same room with them): those who chronically dump on you petty complaints about personal careers by trashing others;  those who are  “depleted”,  or constantly asking you to do favors for them; and creepos  who stare at you for no reason and you don’t like them  — get away from them) — health advice.

(oh, pray, too,  that magazine-writers who steal ideas from the blogs would someday grow a brain.)

took a look to verify the “half-truth” ( double-check) —

freeze-frame, after work today, chin to shin, prayer pose at the back, straighten the angle of your arms and hands. Without a warm-up, however, not a good execution. (or maybe even if with warm-up, during practice) go through the entire length of standing poses before getting here. 

This is called the pyramid pose. Good for your wrists (blog has never posted a full execution of this before, only half, without the bent, in the first original  photos on ashtanga poses. Blog admin tries to execute the pose herself for you so you can see that it can be done by an ordinary person, and always tries to make an original production)

 

Without practice for  two weeks after resuming for two weeks after stopping two months, (in other words, i’m in that place where i’ve stopped), clunky like rusty chains (the stance/ step of this pose should be narrower;  executed only once right before closing time at work, no time to repeat )

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If you don’t practise  (your profession), you will deteriorate –

if you  practise your profession without theorizing on the other hand (or without raising your  practice or experiences to theory), you keep  repeating mistakes.

If you don’t practise, you cannot answer the “how”; you can preach,  but cannot show –

if you don’t theorize, however, you cannot answer the “why”; you cannot define existence or tell us where we’re going.

If you practise, you can help change and build –

if you practise without theorizing, you won’t be able to teach and write, or give direction.

But if you theorize without practice, you will be found out and dismissed as a phony.

Practise and teach —

theorize and build.