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I did a quick search for toe blister prevention and didn't see a post that addressed my specific issue, so I'm hoping someone might have similar issues and be able to offer some advice.I had bunion surgery about 20 years ago. My bunions caused my big toes to lean in on and apply pressure to my second toes (as a result, I often had pressure corns occur between those two toes at the first joint down from the nails). The surgery largely relieved this for day-to-day walking activities. However, on long trail days the pressure between the two toes is still an issue. It eventually manifests as a long skinny blister that runs the underside, inside length of my big toes. Effectively, my second toe seems to be stepping on and pinching the softer flesh of my big toe (which is kind of ever-so-slightly pushed UNDER the second toe's path by it's inward leaning position).This happens independent of the shoes I'm wearing, and more toe space doesn't help, since this is the natural position of my toes even barefoot.I've tried taping just my big toe to try preventing the "squish" which puts that little bit of flesh under my second toe. And I've tried taping the big toe to the second toe to better control their positions (i.e. taping them so their undersides are flush, and so the big toe — in theory — cannot work its way UNDER the second toe.The first approach is a bit more successful than the second, but neither works particularly well.I haven't tried Injinji socks or anything like Hydropel yet, and I wonder if either of those might help?Anyone else have experience with something similar and might have suggestions?
http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=40408Someone suggested looking at footsmart.com, and I found this, which might be helpful: http://www.footsmart.com/P-Silipos-Digital-Toe-Cap-with-Toe-Spreader-Pair-40352.aspxI'd be a little worried about the spacer pushing my OTHER toes out of position and therefore just causing problems elsewhere...
Can you share the brand shoes you are using? That might be helpful. I would still explore different shoes as the first solution... other things are a "band-aid," but might be your only solution.
Sharon, I have something comparable happen with my smallest two toes. Years of wearing climbing shoes, though my case doesn't sound as severe as yours. I found toes socks like Injinji to be my silver bullet.
i have injinji's, and while in my case, that are not the cats asp for walking, they are just what the doctor ordered for sleeping.because, they keep my favorite toesies separated and nice and dry and not touching and rotting in the moist heat all night.so in the morning, i get up, and i have nice good rested toes. that's a fine thing.toe socks are kind'a weird for walking any distance in though. i think they made a blister or such, so i only tried it a couple of times.keepers as sleep/camp socks though, #1 good.hydropel = a good thing.it is not as oozie as it first might seem. be brave. go for it. i have not had it muck up my socks. although, it threatens to at every turn.later on, the foot issue has passed, and it's later in a trip, i still goop 'em and it feels nice.is like the feets heal faster... or something. but it does take a leap of faith (desperation ??) to slather that first load of goo onto your feet, and thence into your socks, being as we are out in the sticks and no method of properly cleaning the very rare and irreplaceable socks exists.hydropel sort of lubricates the sliding. at first, this feels like it makes the issues worse, but later on.. is all ok.for what trips cost, and for as thoroughly as bad feet can destroy them. hydropel is a Cheap chance to take.--i pack a little vial of scouring powder as well, occasionally to use as bleach to wash my feet. it kills everything bad.
I have a similar issue with my feet. I've worked with both tape and Injinji's over the years. My symptoms are highly mileage dependent. For my highest mileage days and when I can't afford any foot issues, I do the following.Pre-tape with Duct tape for good adhesion, low friction and low elasticity. Tape each toe with a half width of tape. This protects my big and small toes that are problematic. The tape on the middle toes avoids having tape to skin contact on these toes.
I have a pair of traditional Asolo hiking boots, which I never had the problem in - but I had other issues with (black big toe-nail from carrying WAY too much weight, and not having cut my nail short enough). By and large though, those boots did not allow for much foot agility, and so my toes were not bending and flexing as much in them (very stiff, heavy sole), and I think that this reduced the friction and opportunity for the one toe to step on the pinch of the other.The ones I've had issues with were all of the lighter weight ones. I have tried these three:Merrell Pace Glove (10.2 oz/pair)Salomon XA Pro 3D Ultra (26.6 oz/pair)Salomon Techamphibian (22 oz/pair)The Merrells seem to do the best of the three, and barefoot seems to do better than wearing very thin socks with them, which I find odd - maybe a roominess issue (since they are intended to be worn barefoot)? But it still eventually becomes an issue - just not as quickly as with the other two. The difference is maybe a matter of 8 miles vs 14 miles before a blister starts forming.If the Asolo's weren't 42 oz, and SUPER hot, I'd stick with them...And I haven't tried duct tape, only athletic tape and (I think) Leukotape. I just stuck some duct tape on the big toe to try it out. It might be stiff enough and slick enough to prevent the issue - IF it will stay in place. Other tapes haven't done well.
Edited by lithandriel on 02/29/2012 16:13:39 MST.
Sharon,I am not a shoe expert, other than I have bought a few pair over the decades I have hiked.The fact the boot does not cause the problem, may indicate it is a shoe size problem.What I would do is get a larger size light shoe (width or length or both) and try that. I suspect it might fix the problem. The other fixes are time consuming and aggravating. If just buying a larger shoe fixes the issue, you will be thrilled!One thing I can tell you is that not all shoe sizes are the same, they vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. The hiking boots I had bought in the past were normally size 10.5 or 11. Never had any foot issues other than the initial break-in period blues. A few years ago I bought a pair of running shoes from a specialty running store. I was surprised with the size 12 they sold me, and they were much roomier in the toe box than any shoe I had ever purchased, but the heel fit securely. Since then, all my running and hiking shoes have been size 12 runners and I have not had a single blister or problem, other than an impact injury from a pair that did not have a rock plate. It sure would be worth a try. If there is a competent running shoe store near you, it might be worth the time and cost to get a pair of shoes fitted.Good luck.
You may want to try tincture of Benzoin -available at Amazon , and at certain herbal shops. It toughens areas . It is also widely used to improve the adhesion of tapes. I actually used it before hiking where I developed pain on the upper surface of my big toe and combined it with Body Glide after the benzoin dried( almost instantly). Result-no more problem.
Hi SharonThe shoes you list are not-very-wide (about D), and that is a problem for so many walkers. It pushes the big toe against the next one. This is a VERY COMMON problem. It is aggravated by the way many shoes companies do not even list the shoe width.I suggest you try some 2E or 4E width shoes. Not so many brands available, but New Balance have a wide range (if you will excuse the pun).With a shoe that is wide enough, you toes will tend to separate when your foot flexes under load. That eliminates the problem.Cheers
While my toe issues are different, Injini's solved all my inner toe blisters. It is all I wear when hiking. $16 to try them.....can't hurt!
"Injini's solved all my inner toe blisters. It is all I wear when hiking"+1
Used Salomon XA Pro Mesh Trail Running shoes for the whole A.T last year and coupled them with Injinji toe socks. Found that by doubling them up I actually got much longer wear time before they wore out. Over 3,000 miles with the toe socks and NOT A SINGLE BLISTER since I've adjusted to them. They will feel a bit weird for a few days, but it quickly passes. STRONGLY agree with the posts regarding having your shoe width and size looked at again. Most people get 1/2 size to small recommended to them - and since many stores don't stock wide widths in a lot of things the salesmen will push the regular width shoes on you.
I love my Injinji. I'm also using wider shoes. I have some Nikes and some Columbias that feel almost floppy to me (after my old favorites, Asics) but it's weird. I "hate" them, but my feet are really good.Re. blisters specifically, I did a summer of wet-foot fly fishing. I swear that a summer of walking around in wet shoes pretty much got my feet in shape. Since then blisters are rare.
Ok...for those that use Injinji's or other toe socks...do you struggle to get them on? I picked up a pair to try and I think it took me 5 minutes+ to put them on. Perhaps a case of practise makes perfect or the sock loosening up as I wear them but my first thought was that I would hate to take them on or off during the day. Wondering what others experience are with these?I generally expect, and am, blister free. Just the odd trip that I have developed a blister between two of my toes that I would like to address in advance of some longer trips I have planned.
Edited by PhilipD on 03/01/2012 10:24:27 MST.
I think it's a combination of the sock taking your shape and getting the technique, but putting them on is quick and pretty stress free for me (I've worn out 2 pair, so I guess I'm an old-timer).(Get each toe started and then grab the sock half-way back the foot and pull.)
Edited by JohnJ on 03/01/2012 09:29:44 MST.
I hear all of the suggestions to have foot width and shoe size checked. I mean, I suppose I can look into it again, but I really am very careful with these things because of the surgeries I've had on both feet. I don't let sales people push me into shoes that I don't think fit, and I've been professionally fitted a number of times by multiple sources.I think the issue here is that my toes are naturally in this position even barefoot because of my bunion history/surgeries—and potentially due to improper healing after surgery (I was supposed to wear toe separators during the healing process and my first surgeon didn't tell me that, and THAT is the foot I have the most trouble with).Some things I am going to try:- Keep an eye out for roomier toe boxes to see if that helps (I have a pair of Asics I love that I don't normally use for hiking because of all the foam padding everywhere—they'd take forever to dry if they got wet)- The tincture of benzoin, and/or duct tape to stiffen that side wall of my toe so that it can't slip under the other (idea here being that duct tape is a lot stiffer than althetic/Leukotape and so might reinforce the side of my toe better- failing those things, try the Injinji socks (or similar, i.e. like Smartwool's version)
there is made device known as a Bunion Stretcher, this very useful tool can make a bit of extra room about anywhere you it want in a shoe. it's not a problem. they can be had off ebay and amazon for around 30 bucks.you only need buy one once. you're not going to wear it out.is a fine thing to have if your feet hurt, because now you have a tool to make the pain stop. sometimes.peter made a stretcher that uses the pack stays and adds only 1.8oz to the load so he can modify boots on long trips.cheers,v.
You get used the socks and you get faster at getting them on :-) Practice makes perfect lets just say - even my husband with his odd toes got used to them - although I often put them on for him. I take mine off and on pretty easy during the day if cooling off my feet.Only downside? The socks are thin so with high cut boots you might be loose up there where you won't be with regular hiking socks. Since all I wear now is low cuts it isn't an issue.I might add I went to Keens a couple of years ago due to the wider toe box. Love those.
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June 08, 2012
WHAT A SPELL of cultural miseries. Oprah Winfrey commended "Pierre de Chardin" to the graduates of Spelman College and exhorted them to "let excellence be your brand." Yale University elected to have its commencement addressed by Barbara Walters. Al Sharpton appeared in the pages of The New York Times Book Review, which warmly noted that its reviewer has lost a lot of weight and eats fish twice a week and many vegetables. And Daniel Bell was made responsible for the Iraq war.
Close To Zero
May 18, 2012
The problem with a moral vocabulary about politics and policy is that it not only makes politicians and policymakers feel bold, it also demands that they act bold. Eloquence creates expectations; and so in Washington, even for America's first black, Jewish, and gay president, the goal is often to separate the high ground from its practical imperatives, so that an aura of rectitude may be acquired without recourse to significant action. Washington is the capital of idle talk about justice.
"The Tao Jones Index"
May 04, 2012
"Even though I am still very shy, I find myself able to project a quiet but unmistakable self-confidence, whether I am meeting world leaders like Barack Obama, speaking to a large audience, or dealing with a traffic police officer. ... In most situations, when interacting with people, I let my ego become small, humble, and mostly irrelevant, while focusing on bringing kindness and benefit to whomever I am interacting with. ... I am amazed by how much my simple aspiration for world peace has resonated with so many people." The man who wrote those words must be insufferable.
The Lost Art
April 20, 2012
By the standards of contemporary atrocity, Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner's striking Andreas Ias in the face with the butt of his M-16 was a trifle. Eisner was the deputy commander of the Jordan Valley Brigade of the Israeli army, and Ias was a Dane on a bicycle who supported the Palestinians. The video of the incident depicts Eisner screaming in Hebrew to a group that does not understand Hebrew to go home, and holding his rifle horizontally, like an instrument of crowd control.
The Confidence Game
March 29, 2012
Thirty years ago I wrote a tiny book in defense of nuclear deterrence. Against the nuclear freezers and the nuclear war-fighters, deterrence was not hard to defend: my argument was drearily sensible. But I was nervously aware that I was urging good sense about a strategic situation that was senseless, because it was premised upon the credibility of a threat of holocaust. I was careful to note my discomfort in my book: deterrence, I said, may be supported but not celebrated, because it is another term for an unprecedentedly lethal danger, which it elects to manage rather than to abolish.
Specks of War
March 14, 2012
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and so the other day I read Rachel Maddow's new book. It is called Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, and it is an anthropologically useful document of the new American disaffection with American force.
February 22, 2012
The oldest book in my library was published in 1538. It is Sefer Hasidim, or The Book of the Pious, the first edition, from Bologna, of the vast trove of precepts and stories, at once severe and wild, of the Jewish pietists of Germany in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Next to it, and towering over it, which is as it should be, stands Moreh Nevuchim, or The Guide of the Perplexed, the handsome Bragadin edition from Venice in 1551.
Damascus Calling
February 08, 2012
When the sordid Sergey Lavrov demanded to know "the endgame" of the Security Council's attempt to interfere with Bashar Assad's atrocities against his people, Hillary Clinton replied that "the endgame in the absence of us acting together as the international community, I fear, is civil war." According to many press accounts, there is already a civil war in Syria.
January 25, 2012
"The list of controversies grows weekly," Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner, filing from Jerusalem, write in The New York Times.
Going to Melody
January 11, 2012
In a country as injured as ours, there is something unseemly about all this sagacious talk of creative destruction. A concept that was designed to suggest the ironic cruelty of innovation has been twisted into an extenuation of economic misery—into capitalism's theodicy. Where there are winners, there are losers: praise the Lord and pass the Kindle.


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Overview of Mustang Daytripper Seat - 76226Mustang Motorcycle Products, Inc. is a world leader in the design and construction of motorcycle seats. Since 1980, Mustang has been proud of making the highest quality, most comfortable seats available and offering them at reasonable prices. Mustang motorcycle seats are designed for all-day riding comfort for both the driver and passenger. Every Mustang seat is made in the United States by true craftsmen who take pride in transforming the highest quality, raw materials into a finished product.
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Perfect Fit!!!
I have a 1988 Honda Shadow 1100, this seat fit perfectly on my ride, an exact fit, no modifications or altering needed. Shipped super fast and overall a sleak, smooth comfortable seat.I would recommend this item to a friend.
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I spoke with Mustang and was advised this seat would fit my 2011 Honda Shadow Phantom, but the description on website dennniskirk.com advised it would not fit. Since the manufacturer assured me it would work, i ordered it. Installation was a breeze and it fits like a glove. Extremely comfortable and no fatigue on my bum after driving for several hours. Definitely would recommend this seat and the online store may want to update the fit to include Honda Shadow Phantom..... cheers!I would recommend this item to a friend.
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This seat causes numbness in butt and legs within 15 minutes vs the stock of 45 minutes. If this is the most comfortable yet just use concrete to ride on.I wouldn't recommend this item to a friend.
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For the uninitiated, there are five complete seasons in the Digimon Franchise (not including the sixth, soon to launch as "Digimon Fusion" on Nickelodeon later in 2013), but fans consider Seasons 1 & 2 to be the original, classic episodes. It is these episodes that have never been officially released in the U.S. until Flatiron unleashed them in all their digital glory. Season 1 found seven kids who, while at summer camp, discover seven "Digivices" which transported them to a strange digital world. It's here that these "DigiDestined" befriended Digimon (short for Digital Monsters) who were born to defend their world from various evil forces. After learning they have the ability to help their new Digimon friends "digivolve" into different monsters and fight as a team, the kids form a pact and hope the digi beings can ultimately help them find their way home.
THE OFFICIAL DIGIMON ADVENTURE SET: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON is the direct sequel to Season 1, and takes place four years after the original series. Commonly referred to as Digimon Zero Two, it finds most of the original characters now in junior high school, with the Digital World supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in the form of the Digimon Emperor, a human just like the DigiDestined, who has been enslaving all Digimon. Four new children -- Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken -- are chosen and along with T.K. and Kari, make up the new generation of DigiDestined, charged with saving the Digital World. Together they journey back to the Digital World to battle the villainous Emperor and free all the Digital Monsters from his control. For the first time ever, THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON is unleashed onto digital and DVD and will include all 50 exciting adventures never before released in North America. Fans of the series will also thrill to bonuses including a full-color 36-page character guide book and a gallery featuring more than 40 villian Digimon sketches.
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After years of charge upon charge, the world knows quite well that former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi loves 1) tax evasion and 2) dangerously young women. What we didn't know was that his love for women went beyond simply courting and bedding them. In a court document from his current trial for soliciting underage prostitutes, Berlusconi is described as the "director of the young women's sexual performances" at his notorious Bunga Bunga parties (we're unsure if Bunga Bunga is a proper noun or not, so we'll capitalize just to be safe).
Hearing this statement, it's hard not to picture Berlusconi standing in his living room with a megaphone and waving his arms affectively at a bunch of underage girls who are trying to dance according to his directions, only for him to get frustrated at their ineptitude, throw the megaphone on the floor and walk out of the room. Beneath the layers of corrupt politician, sexual deviant, and all-around sack of garbage, Silvio Berlusconi is a creative. Though he's been trapped in the drudgery of politics and all the scrutiny that comes with it, he's known all his life that his true calling is directing sex parties. And he's good. In fact, he's the best. In several instances, the court document quoted what it considered to be incriminating statements, but what any student of cinema would recognize as directorial genius.
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Just before midnight on February 23, Woodville police Sgt. Jathan Borel was called to the 700 block of North Beech Street on a narcotics call. While at the residence, Sgt. Borel was given information on the whereabouts of one of Tyler County's top most wanted fugitives. Cofashsheia P. Raville, age 32, was arrested without incident on a warrant for motion to revoke probation, was taken to jail and later released on a $5000 bond. Raville was originally charged with felony forgery by financial instrument. Six fugitives remain on Tyler County's most wanted offenders list. They are: Haley Nichole Ensley, white female, charged with possession of a controlled substance/ felony; Arthur Randall Monroe, black male, charged with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle/felony; David Ross Gardner, white male, charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon/felony; Juan Jesus Davila, Hispanic male, charged with DWI third or more offense/felony; Gregory Floyd Jacobs, white male, charged with possession of marijuana 4 oz. to 5 lbs./felony; and Earnest Franklin Kizer, white male, charged with burglary of a building/felony. If anyone has information about these fugitives, contact the Tyler County Sheriff's Department (409) 283-2172. Law enforcement officials recommend that no one attempt to apprehend a fugitive alone. Fugitive photos on Page 9A.
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In her scathing review of the show, Peyser calls Lena Dunham's Hannah a "fat chick" and the show itself "cringe-worthy" and "miserable." Sure, there are moments that make us, in fact, cringe, but more in that protective "oh no, babe, don't do/say/wear that," way. We came at these girls like careening best friends who reminded us of ourselves at times. And we're thinking we're not alone in that, so back us up in the comments? For Peyser, worse than the women of Girls though (who ask to be treated like "pond scum," apparently) are the men. "They are abusers, date rapists, or pathetic doormats. Ex-boyfriends, and even fathers, are explicitly gay, which seems a 1950s method of bringing them down — by making men sleep with other disgusting creeps." In our minds, the men's "pathetic-ness" may very well be the product of the same modern-day, post-collegiate blah-ness that Hannah and her friends suffer from — they're no worse off, but we do agree that they are often more difficult to watch. Unfortunately, many New Yorkers are the victims/perpetrators of this kind of behavior. No, not everyone in Manhattan is a jerk. The dream is not dead. But characters like this do exist, and poking fun at them brings them to light, and clearly resonates with a lot of men and women around the city (and outside of it, too). And that makes the story of Girls a story worth telling, as far as we're concerned.
Plus, it's funny. We laughed a lot when we watched the first episode. And while we're not arguing that Lena Dunham is the only voice of this generation, we find it hard to understand the people who think that hers isn't a relevant voice at all. (NY Post)
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Burning through Obstacles in Yoga. ~ Kino MacGregor
Burning through Obstacles (Samskaras) in Ashtanga Yoga.
"Almonds," Agni & our Attachment to our own Suffering.
Each moment we have the possibility of being fresh and new.
But very often we live of our lives from a habit pattern established in the past. Once these patterns are established the flow of human consciousness gets organized into certain repetitive patterns. The Sanskrit word for these repetitive patterns is a samskara. These are essentially habit patterns of the mind that have been practiced so much so that they run on auto-pilot, unconsciously generated the same cyclical type of interactions in the world.
There are positive and negative behavioral patterns that a person can accumulate and the choice about what thoughts, emotions and actions you take will determine whether you like will be peaceful or painful. A common analogy used to define a negative samskara likens them to lmonds implanted in the field of consciousness that when given the fertile ground of attachment and aversion ultimately bear the fruit of suffering. There are three things that are important to know about the negative samskaras. First your personal storyline, the narrative of you generally feeds the already established patterns. Second, the more you fight and struggle against them head on, the worse it gets like a constrictor snake. And third, the negative samskaras pull you down like a riptide into the sea of emotionality and you can feel like your drowning suddenly. This feature usually can be seen as a relapse, a kind of slippery recidivism that pulls you down just when you think you are past that particular issue.
In some ways the negative samskaras are like an addiction. But instead of being addicted to a substance, you get addicted to a particular emotional state that leads to suffering and pain. The samskaras have a familiarity to them and even though they lead to suffering, it is also somehow all you know as life. Their familiarity is also their temptation, because the pattern is so well established and you are so attached to its righteousness that it actually hurts to let them go.
The more you unknowingly let the negative samskaras fuel your life course, the deeper they pull you into the dark spiral.
The practice of yoga offers a way out. Instead of fighting them from an antagonistic place, the practice of yoga seeks to burn through the samskaras with the light of pure awareness. This is done with actual physical and spiritual practice that cultivates the fire of purification, known as agni in Sanskrit. Once the inner agni is ignited it has the power to literally fry the negative samskara almonds until only their shell is remaining and they no longer have the ability to grow and bear their painful fruit.
All amazing photos by Aneta Kot, click here for more, used by Kino's permission.
When you practice yoga you are in some ways working a 12-Step program. You go deeply within yourself and make peace with all the ways that the negative samskaras have harmed you and all the people in your life. Once you see the patern clearly, you naturally want to make amends for the suffering that you've generated through the familiar pattern of the samskara.
The fire of purification in the practice of yoga is also, ultimately, the light of clarity. Once you come out of your denial and see the negative samskara's effect in your life, your heart breaks. The tender achey quality of your heart opens in that moment of realization because you see clearly how your actions have harmed those whom you love and you feel empathy for their pain. In that moment of direct revelation, you yearn to go and apologize for the harm that you've caused—and you make a firm resolution to never repeat that same pattern again.
The best yogi is not one who is perfect from day one, but one who sees the patterns of suffering that they have contributed to and then works tirelessly to burn through those negative samskaras every day of their life.
One step along the way toward living a more peaceful is to change the negative samskaras into positive ones. Maitri, which means friendliess and karuna, which means compassion, are two important states of mind that can be actively practiced by yoga practitioners when they strive to burn through their negative samskaras.
By consciously seeking to establish the flow of consciousness in friendliness and compassion the yogi is building the foundations of a healed life and a more peaceful planet. If each time you feel the tug to lash out in aggression, fall into depression or give into anxiety…you pause long enough to break the cycle…you might then be able to go one step further and practice living a more positive, healing life.
If each person on the planet commits to this slow steady process of awakening, we will leave the planet a more peaceful place.
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Loved the analogy of a deep yoga practice being like a 12 step program. It is very true, especially in the case of an intense practice like ashtanga, that we at some point realize we are powerless over certain poses (step one) but come to believe a power greater than ourselves can help us! And of course the asanas are just symbols for the obstacles in our lives, just very vivid one.
I feel that as practice continues and more awareness ripens the desire to make ammends does come, to be indifferent towards the wicked and happy for the happy. It is a great way of transformation.
Time for me to get on the mat now, and notice those samskaras trying to get in the way… then just observe and release. Thanks Kino
Thank you Kino~ samskara talk is one of my favorite things. Thank you for all of your insight… and for elucidating the reason why yoga works!
A pattern is no more YOU than an unpleasant mess which has stuck to the bottom of your shoe is you.
Thanks you Kino-We need to master the distinctly separate skills of dealing with human and of dealing with pattern.
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Kino, this is awesome! After really coming face-to-face yesterday with one of my own samskara's I was just about to write a blog on it when I saw a link to this article. Thank you so much for your awesome insights!
Hi Kino, I am glad to see you out here sharing this important message. Here's to identifying and not repeating some negative patterns in the new year!
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By Emma Rawson on 25th May 2013, in Kiwi celebrities, The X Factor NZ
With his slick side part and tailored suits, singer Willy Moon is a man that wants to be noticed.
His leg-shaking, energetic performance on The X Factor NZ may have surprised some Kiwi viewers, but the Wellington-born 23-year-old, whose single Yeah Yeah just went gold in New Zealand, knows how to make an impact.
And it's not just Kiwis who are taking notice – The White Stripes singer Jack White released Willy's song Railroad Track on his Third Man Records label, Apple picked up Yeah Yeah as the theme tune for its iPod commercial, he was named "One To Watch" by UK newspaper The Guardian, and was profiled in Vogue UK and the New York Times.
"I've never really cared about what people think of me. I've always been inspired by people who give everything, like James Brown and Iggy Pop – these freaks of nature who are so electric," Willy explains.
"I think even the shiest people in the world on some level would want to walk into their office, stand on their table, scream and let go of life – my job as a performer is to do that for people."
But Willy's confidence didn't come easily and stems from the love of one woman who helped him turn his life around. Born Willy Sinclair, the singer almost gave up music when his mother, Elizabeth, died of breast cancer at age 12 – she encouraged him to explore his talents and used to sit with Willy when he practiced guitar.
When his father was forced to take a job overseas to make their mortgage payments – leaving a teenage Willy and his sister without much adult supervision – he began taking drugs and dropped out of school at 16. A move to London at age 18 saw him fired from several minimum wage jobs and he relied on stealing bread to survive.
"It was a disaster – I was completely ill-equipped to deal with London. I had no plan or anything to fall back on, I was completely adrift. It can really crush you emotionally and physically. I had no purpose, I spent a lot of time doing things that weren't necessarily good for me.
"I think I just wanted to go to the biggest, dirtiest city I could get to. I grew up in Wellington, which can feel quite small, and I always hated that thing of running into people I knew and feeling like I was trapped within an identity that was built for me. I was obsessed with having the freedom to be in a place where nobody knew who I was and having the power of anonymity."
But Willy's dire situation changed when he met his girlfriend – fellow Wellington expat, photographer and filmmaker Sasha Rainbow.
"She moved in with me the second day we met and then two or three months of living together we moved to a different city. It was very, very fast. We were both in the same position and had the same feelings about things – neither of us wanted to be in London, we hated it and were frustrated with our lives and so we moved to Berlin together."
Sasha introduced Willy to vintage music greats such as The Andrews Sisters, Buddy Holly and Bo Diddley, and while living in Berlin he began experimenting with making music again.
"I had the time to sit down and think about things like what I wanted to do, who do I want to be, what do I want to create, how do I express myself? – how can I put myself in a position where I can make music that I'm proud of. It's the beginnings of Willy Moon, that kind of thing, where I was taking this music from the past and resynthesising it for the modern day.
"Even though life wasn't always great, I could come home from work and work on something I was proud of," says Willy
Sasha directed the music video for his first single I Wanna Be Your Man – written about Sasha – on a shoestring for £100. The black and white video, which simply has Willy dancing in front of a spotlight, has now had more than one million hits. The duo worked together again on his heavily stylised video for Yeah Yeah. Willy can't imagine what his life might have been like had he not met Sasha, who he has now been dating for six years.
"She's been a very big part of my life. She's my best friend and the person I bounce ideas off. I don't know what I would have done without her support. There were many times when I felt like giving up on music and I was thinking, 'This is ridiculous, what am I doing with my life?' but she encouraged me to keep going and not to give up."
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Fire burning north of Alligator Alley grows to 3,800 acres
A massive fire burning in eastern Collier County has grown to 3,828 acres and is now 80 percent contained, according to the Big Cypress National Preserve.
The Orange Blossom Fire, which was ignited by lightning last week, is about three miles north of Interstate 75 at the Florida National Scenic Trail. The nearest residential development is about eight miles to the east.
More than 160 personnel, including local resources and state and national firefighters, continue securing the east, south and north lines, according to a news release. No active fire was seen on the western edge of the fire.
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On Monday, evening, a manufactured mobile home on the 200 block of Chisum Trail in Fritch was claimed as a total loss due to the extreme amount of damages caused by fire. Fritch Fire Department received the 911 call around 4:40 p.m.
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According to Hutchinson County Fire Marshal Danny Richards, witnesses reported an explosion, which explained the blown-out windows.
Credit and debit card abuse is on the rise in this area.
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