Meditative physical work

[Christphr]

What are forms of work that are meditative and bodily?
One example is sweeping.

 

[JamalChristophr]

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This could almost have been a meditative exercise, but the poor chap chose to hop on CAF for the evening instead and unwittingly became a metaphor.

 

[anon91549587]

Doing planks , pushups , feeling parts of your body connect through neural connections.

Wide pull ups to experience a small percentage of the cruxifiction.

 

[JamalChristophr]

Mowing the law actually can be somewhat meditative.

I’m not a gardener, but I know many of you CAF’rs like to be “working” in your garden. That must be also quite meditative for many.

For me personally, I find my simple everyday task of hunting and fishing for my family and the building and upkeep of my nest, pretty meditative, too.

 

[christofirst]

I think there are many repetitive actions that could qualify. Things that you do over and over, and have repeated so often that they no longer require concentrated focus of the mind, so the brain goes on autopilot, so to speak. As an electrician, there were many such tasks, such as attaching rectangular fluorescent light fixtures to a ceiling grid with screws at each corner. On large jobs, I would spend many hours and days on end doing this, and my mind would wander all over the place. Sometimes I would enter into prayer, like the Jesus Prayer, but most often I would daydream elaborate fantasies where I was doing anything but attaching light fixtures to a ceiling with screws.