20 Minutes of Meditation: Everything Excites

I know what your probably thinking... "A post about meditation is the MOST boring idea ever." But, I have actually had just as many great life altering inspirations and realization from sitting for 20 minutes as I have had from college or therapy or sky diving. A few days ago I started to meditation again. Over the past year and a half I have been meditating and quitting and meditating and quitting ad naseum. I try to stay consistent but to sit in silence focusing on my breath for 20 minutes everyday must be the hardest thing ever. I remember when I first started, terror would enter my mind after about 10 minutes. It was a strange experience, but it felt like for the first time I came in contact with my true naked self, and that self was scary. For 21 years, thoughts, experiences, sensations clouded my mind and kept me occupied and distracted from the truth, and coming in contact with that truth was like getting pulled out of the matrix at too old an age.

Anyway, after starting again, I realized that everything excites. Every thought, every feeling, every physical input seems to excite. Of course your mileage may vary, but once I finally settled into a relaxed state of concentrating on the breath, for the first time, instead of watching a thought arise in my head and following that thought, I noticed what happened to my body as the thought arouse, and it turned out that my breath quickened. I watched my body instead of my awareness several times, with smells and sounds and random thoughts, and almost always, my breath quickened. It made me wonder if our entire life is filled with constant bombardments of excitement, because for some reason it doesn't seem healthy. It made me wonder if, since we do think when we sleep, are we still excited at night? Anyway, back to the "real" world.

Cancel T-Mobile With No Fees Thanks to Rate Hikes Several Months Ago!

If your were like me, you probably saw an article in March telling you how to cancel your T-Mobile service because of the new 15 cent price for SMS, but were too late. I just saw this article two days ago, and was seriously happy until I read the TMobile Terms and realized that if the article was posted on March 22nd, and TMobile says you have 14 days to get out of the plan from the time of the notice I was seriously out of the time frame. Anyway, I decided to give it a try, and sure enough I was told that I missed the boat. But I didn't stop there. I asked the rep how I was informed and he said through my normal monthly bill. I then said that I got electronic billing and had no paper bill. Apparently, TMobile never told use tree hugging techno junkies who do all their billing online that there was a rate hike.

So if you want to get out of your tmobile contract, maybe to hop on some of that tasty tasty EVDO, and you get all your bills electronically, give it a shot, it's not too late!