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ow would things sound if I stopped thinking?</li></ul><h2 id="9fa8">Somatic Field</h2><ul><li>Which part of my body is the least comfortable?</li><li>Which parts of my body are hardest to detect?</li><li>What happens when I concentrate on two body parts at once?</li><li>Do any bad emotions arise during the body scan?</li><li>How would my body change if I stopped thinking about it?</li></ul><h2 id="778a">Taste Field</h2><ul><li>Does the taste change as I roll it around my tongue?</li><li>How does the intensity compare with other things I have tasted?</li><li>How would it taste if I had never smelled it?</li><li>Does my feeling about the taste change between first contact and swallow?</li><li>How would it taste if I were asleep right now?</li></ul><h2 id="a87c">Olfactory Field</h2><ul><li>Would I recognize the smell if I had not seen it?</li><li>What adjectives are suitable? (Smooth? Bold? Sweet? Floral?)</li><li>How close must it come to me before my nose can detect it?</li><li>Does it improve my mood or worsen it?</li><li>What memories does it bring to mind?</li></ul><h2 id="5631">Cognitive Field</h2><ul><li>If my thoughts were rabbits in a yard, how crowded would the yard be?</li><li>If my attention was a dog, which rabbits would it chase?</li><li>How much of my focus three seconds ago was on the past?</li><li>How does a little circle make me feel?</li><li>What would I be dreaming now if I were not awake?</

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li></ul><h2 id="9690">Emotional Field</h2><ul><li>How easy or hard is it to turn each feeling on and off?</li><li>What changes will happen when I start to pray?</li><li>If I were the prow of a ship would my sea be bright under the sun?</li><li>Who have I shared this suffering with?</li><li>How deeply do I love you?</li></ul><figure id="ef74"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*31vXTbzWPAdDxN72iuu31w.jpeg"><figcaption>Photo by Author | Dancing with the Goddess</figcaption></figure><h2 id="1f17">Questions After the Scans are All Finished</h2><ul><li>Did I close my eyes for most of the scans?</li><li>In what ways are mental fields like maps?</li><li>If I were only allowed to keep one field, which one would I choose?</li></ul><h1 id="010c">Note</h1><p id="4022">To the best of my recollection, all the questions are in my own words. If I copied anybody from unconscious memory it was probably my first remote meditation teacher, <a href="https://www.thegreatcourses.com/professors/mark-w-muesse/">Mark Muesse</a>, a Therevada practitioner from Texas.</p><h1 id="d3c3">About the Author</h1><p id="f104">Tom spends his workdays asking people in a big store if they would like any information about heating and cooling. He often wears an Indiana Jones hat. A grapevine in his front yard convinced him to let her live and to even provide her with a little support. That’s all. :)</p></article></body>

Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry ‘Eudaimonia’ Prompt Submission

Tick Tick Boom

Alternatively, Boom Boom Tick

Tick, tick, boom, Or was that boom, boom, tick? Aristotle’s sitting in on skins in this tune, He’s laying it on thick.

Righteous quivers, Soulful shakes. I’m feeling rivers, I’m feeling lakes.

Paper and Pen, I’m hearing the call. Every now and then, I hear it in the walls.

Aerobicized thoughts breed coming attractions, Leads for my senses. Propagating chemical reactions, Breaking lyrical fences.

Cannot fence in, Cannot contain. Why pretend? There’ll be no reframe.

Writing ‘bout hills, ‘Bout lands far away. Employing the quill, A hard day’s pay.

Cognitive well-being, Put a pin in that there. Chronicle sight-seeings, Tastes in the air.

We’ll get there my friend, Just you wait and see. A profoundly enduring, joyful end, And a toast to the journey!

Boom, boom, tick, Or was that tick, tick, boom? It happened so quick, This harmonic, supersonic, eudaimonic, everlasting bloom!

Jeff Langley 2021

Thanks to James G Brennan for the nomination. I’d like to nominate the following 5 writers for the “What does Eudaemonia mean to you?” challenge if they are up to it. I very much enjoy their writing and look forward to reading their spin on this topic.

Patrick M. Ohana, David Rudder, E. Scott Alighieri, Shalini C & Terry Mansfield.

What does Eudaemonia mean to you?

A Literary Impulse & Paper Poetry Collaboration Prompt

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