of consistant practice since I've been sick. Home tonight and a quickly to the mat. The cough is still with me, but has diminished a lot. Except for at night...makes falling asleep a huge challenge...difficult to let yourself drift off to sleep druning a coughing fit. I long for that falling into sleep feeling, the relaxing of the muscles, the quieting of the mind, the start of the dreamscape, the sinking, the drifting into slumber...
The two days which offered the most improvemnt came after I practiced. So I'm going to continue tonight...perhaps I won't have to maintain a perpetual practice to burn this thing off...but I'm confident the heat and sweat and intense breathing are only doing me some good.
slumber
n 1: a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
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