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Date Posted: 17:05:14 03/19/09 Thu
Author: Michael
Subject: My meditation retreat

Well, Im back! safe and well..at least I am, the other 7 in the party have been pretty sick!

Funny really, I was the oldest, the one who least likes exercise and does do all the healthy eating fuss....i noticed that those who are the most health conscious got the most sick for the longest time. Those who are slobs (basically me) were the least affected.

i was actually the first to be ill, but only slightly one evening. Then all the rest came down with vomiting and the trots over the next 48 hours. Some were still suffering 3 days later....bu 'cos I got it first they kept referring to it as 'Michael's illness'.

I spent much of the last 72 hours acting like florence Nightingale. Running up and down stairs fetching and carrying. You offer a herbal tea to one, ask others then each time you bring one, it inspired another to think of something else. Could you do some ginger in the tea? some honey in the tea? Some tuli leaves in tea? Some toast? some honey on toast, some horlicks? etc etc

In spite of which it was a fantastic time. We visited the Ganges..beautiful..and meditated for an hour in a cave by a beach by the Ganges. Everyone was amazed when the hour was up, it seemed like half that time. I thought I got hit by bat in the face at the start, but it turned out it was just the person beside me throwing her shawl over her shoulder and missing her back as my face got in the way.

Wonderful time at the ashram, though.

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