So I have only shaved a couple of days with my new DE, but I have been into meditation for a long time and find that shaving the "old fashion way" or wet shaving is meditative, more than that, all of the lost manly arts are such.
The time of personal concentration and the smells of the soaps and oils wafting through the steam filled room as you stand, just you and and your God, a few minutes quietly introspective as you do something nice for yourself, which expresses care for a community in that you are reaching for a higher standard, is very self expressive and introspective at the same time. Its balance and it is a nice quiet morning meditation I have found.
I think this extends further in the lost arts of being a gentleman. The wearing of a hat, for instance, comes with certain social interaction requirements if you are going to wear it properly and allows for a reflective kind of meditation wherein the outward is an expressive of respect from the inward. You doff your hat for ladies, take it off when entering a room, before sitting at your desk (a nice outward expression of lets get down to business). All these things are a powerful symbol from within that remains in the conscious, purposely brought forth from the subconscious, by simply wearing a hat. A powerful symbol to self.
Chivalric exercises such as holding doors, sparing ones language in front of the ladies, and taking the time to draft a thank you note with a real pen, better yet a quality fountain pen of substantial wieght, a reminder of the potency of words. A lesson, in the age of quick delete and e-Courage that we have lost, believing the anonymity that the Internet affords somehow makes us less responsible for our actions.
All these things allowed for meditation, they allow for meditation. Quiet, personal introspection, that, in the end, is a potent outward expression of a self confidence rooted in action instead of ego and personal persona.
The time of personal concentration and the smells of the soaps and oils wafting through the steam filled room as you stand, just you and and your God, a few minutes quietly introspective as you do something nice for yourself, which expresses care for a community in that you are reaching for a higher standard, is very self expressive and introspective at the same time. Its balance and it is a nice quiet morning meditation I have found.
I think this extends further in the lost arts of being a gentleman. The wearing of a hat, for instance, comes with certain social interaction requirements if you are going to wear it properly and allows for a reflective kind of meditation wherein the outward is an expressive of respect from the inward. You doff your hat for ladies, take it off when entering a room, before sitting at your desk (a nice outward expression of lets get down to business). All these things are a powerful symbol from within that remains in the conscious, purposely brought forth from the subconscious, by simply wearing a hat. A powerful symbol to self.
Chivalric exercises such as holding doors, sparing ones language in front of the ladies, and taking the time to draft a thank you note with a real pen, better yet a quality fountain pen of substantial wieght, a reminder of the potency of words. A lesson, in the age of quick delete and e-Courage that we have lost, believing the anonymity that the Internet affords somehow makes us less responsible for our actions.
All these things allowed for meditation, they allow for meditation. Quiet, personal introspection, that, in the end, is a potent outward expression of a self confidence rooted in action instead of ego and personal persona.
