Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
AVAILABLE HERE
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Loving every minute....
I received a lovely email from my 80 year old Dad this morning. He's been re-reading Creative Visualisation by Shakti Gawain having previously done so several times over the last few years. He says "I still feel that I'm just at the beginning of this subject, there's so much to it!"
It makes me feel really proud to have a Dad who is so positively 'into life', happy in his activities and using creative visualisation techniques to manifest what is in his heart. He enjoys the moment and he also looks forward to new things. He loves change. How many older people love change?
Having been a professional flutist in the Scottish National Orchestra (now the Royal) he says that he's getting a better sound now from his instrument than he ever did in his whole working career. I've written before about Dad and his visualisation technique to help him achieve a wonderful ethereal sound.
Now Dad is surfing the Internet and uploading photos from his digital camera. But his main hobby is building a model opera house on which his puppets perform Verdi and Puccini. It's magical when the curtain goes up and the stage is set for the attic scene in La Boheme. The moonlight shines through the skylight as Rudolfo and Mimi, searching for the dropped ring under the table, touch hands and fall in love with one of the most beautiful arias in opera. His three inch high puppets, walk, bend, raise arms in gesture and can dance. Model opera is a hobby he's had since he was seven and has built several opera houses of varying sizes over the years, given live performances to various groups as well as appearing on TV. So in between designing, constructing and performing opera, he plays the flute and uses the Alexander Technique to help his posture, balance and general health.
With so much to look forward to and so many enjoyable things to do each day he's always on 'the up', thinking positive and being happy.
Good on you, Dad! :-)
Comments
Hi Noel, You are truly blessed to have such a wonderful father and he is also very fortunate to have a son who recognises his father's fine qualities. Best wishes, Jilly.
Posted by: Jilly | September 20, 2006 9:09 PM