Language of My Body

Just as there is a language for communicating with our animals, e.g. dogs.

There must be a language for communicating with my body.

A great example is the urge to go to the bathroom, to pee.

I drive a long distance, drinking coffee.

I come to a place where there is a restroom.

My body, suddenly lets me know, it is time to go.

The door to the rest room is locked.

I try to tell my body with words, thoughts, images that this doesn't work, wait.

My body won't hear it.

Yet it does recognize that the opportunity should be there. 

Communication is happening, it is just as not refined as speaking to a person.

Bio Feed back

One of the most interesting new experiences for me at my advanced age of 59 it discovering the feedback that my body gives me.
I wake up in the morning, and I don't want to exercise.
I sneak up on the exercise slowly, wash my face, shave, start stretching on my yoga mat …
Soon I am doing the full work out, pushing my self to failures, embracing the cold early morning air before sunrise, letting my self imposed deadline for starting my job for the day slip by because I am working out!

And my body gives me the feedback to keep this going.

Then on other days, I find the my body wants to do stuff, so I listen to what my body has to say, "exercise," "study," "do chores." and I find that my life is so much smoother if I cooperate with my body.
On the other hand, my body does need to be trained in much the same way I have trained dogs in the past.
The parallel between my body and a dog is amazing to me.
Reward it and it works.

Writing Style for Web Log, AKA BLOG

My experience with logs started with deck logs in the US Navy. Each entry starts with a time and a brief description of note.
That is what I need to do with this blog.
I have fallen into the habit on only posting lengthy, edited items.
This takes time, and results in many potential posts falling by the wayside, because they never get through the editing process.
I know from past experience with paper journals that insights can come and come again, without recognition that they are "old" insights, unless the record is checked.
Interesting to me, is that Karen Horney described this phenomena in one of her books, and she described the remedy to it. (Finding this remedy is left as an exercise for the interested reader.)
So hence forth my web log, will be more of a log, than a well written exposition.