Musings on Happiness

Isn't it strange how you only think about happiness when your not happy? When circumstances alter and things go bad, now matter how slight, it acts as a trigger into thinking 'how can I make this better?' Perhaps we should take a Chinese-like approach to their medicine. Instead of trying to solve it after it has already gone bad, why not think constantly about what is making us happy and then doing what we can to maintain it. This is something I need to do. Hard work and a lack of sleep drives a man to unhappiness surprisingly quickly, especially when s/he's not used to it. But now, instead of thinking before, 'why am I sleeping well' so that, with hindsight I know now what to do in order to correct my new found innsomnia, I am left clueless about what to do to repair myself. The moral of the story then is to be actively conscious of all your emotions, it might just lead to stabalising personality. And the link to utopia (as I haven't really talked about it so far (!)) . . . consistency in our lives gives us a firmer grip on what we have, and so potentially what we can do with it, which is always a sign of hope for change.
rik

Ursula Le Guin

Oh, dear, think I bored Polly a lot as on the way home from the pub spent a lot of time babbling away about what a wonderful author LeGuin is. I was on the rocks with her after "The Dispossessed" but, looking back, I enjoy it far more with hindsight than at the time of reading. And then there is "The Telling" and Always Coming Home" which are just masterpieces in utopian fiction. Critical utopias are a good place to be in utopian literature at the moment I think :) Finding a medium on which to connect a critique of everyday society within a living breathing utopia, and then still finding time for a reflexive argument on perhaps not just the utopia itself, but the nature of utopia more generally as well, and all encased in a good plot? That, will be something worth reading.
rik

Energy . . . cont

Must get out into nature more often. Far more energy out that. And I need to get going with the Tai Chi again, my energy has risen far too high since I stopped doing it. I've been thinking consciously whenever I'm walking somewhere to concerntrate my mind on sinking my energy, but it's no replacement to properly sinking my Chi. Must continue to be mindful of my energy levels over the next few weeks. At leasy my new house has a garden and grass :) Yey! Last house was all concrete and too stifling :( With that in mind, I'm off to continue the new Potter book, and get some washing done. Exciting times indeed!
rik

Energy

Talking with Rach today about energy, and about my beliefs that we all emit energy that others around us can feel. Is this really the case? I think so, I know when there's a lot of energy around a person and when there isn't. I also think you can distinguish different types of energy depending on a persons mood. Moods alter your energy an aweful lot I think. More to come on this subject in the following days I think.
rik

Welcome!

Hiya,

and welcome to my new blog:

Be Realistic, Demand The Impossible!

a blog about all things utopian and sociological. For a blog of what I've be up to for the last year, go here http://yorkstudent.blogspot.com otherwise, sit back and enjoy my musings on life, the universe and utopia . . .
Write soon,
rik