Dear Mr Lim,
Good morning! I usually sleep very earlier between 7.00 pm to 9.00 pm in my normal time table. I never or hardly go over 10.00 or 11.00 pm at all. During dialysis days I sometime go back home & shower & straight go to sleep without dinner as I am on 1-3-5 noon shift. But I only sleep for about 5 to 6 hours is enough for freshening up again. However, I also rest (meditation I mean here) or sleep during the day too about 2 hours or so depending upon whether I am tired or not. If I wake up early then I usually have a cup of hot drink & something to bite do some online connection work. Then after 1 or 2 hours later I probably go back & rest or sleep again. My charging of body & mind only need sometime to refresh again too. Sometime only for half a hour to charge up is good enough for refreshment. This depends upon the leakage energy through our six sensual organs (eyes ears nose tongue touching & mind 眼耳鼻舌身意).
When I am talking rest here it is Meditation of Mindfulness about breathing in & breathing out phenomena in the most natural way or path to calm & feel peacefulness internally. It is a way to rest as far as traditional meditation is concerned.
I picked up the traditional Buddhist way of Meditation (止觀内觀禪）years ago but I am still struggling & learning about it. It is called Vipassana of Burmese style watching belly arising & falling phenomena. Each retreat usually lasting for 10 days. This is my first & beginning of Meditation experiential experience/exposure years ago. I approached it due to my heavily fell into a deep deep valley of anxiety & depression that no Chinese & Western scientific medical field could cure me at all. I had a car accident seriously injury with my head impact & broken 3 ribs. That was during my earlier career engagement at my birth place of Sabah in Eastern Malaysia. My initial Vipassana Meditation began at one of the foot of Mt Kinabalu ~ a rural village ( 神山脚下一個村落的禪園地 ).
Later of the years my family with 3 small children still moved over to Singapore because my wife was originally born in Singapore by birth & thus we started a new way of living lives in Singapore again. This is a big move & a very long story, indeed!
The second part of journey is traditional Chinese culture or value of Zen Mediation （禪宗法脈 ) when I gradually lost my hearing sensual organ （聼覺障礙）capability ~ so very serious that no one will employ me in the working industries anymore. So I happened to pick up Zen Meditation in SIngapore. Nowadays I am totally deaf of dialysis patient by the way!
The first incident of meditation about mindfulness is close to your way of teaching SCIENTIFIC MEDICAL mindfulness on breathing exercise by applying 4-7-8 method(s) during our first session of Zoom Workshop. To me it is considered as modern way or path in scientific medical field. Very interesting & very good! I am very lucky once again to be able to refresh my body-mind-game/system in this Zoom Workshop program or project organized by NKF Singapore. This is actually a way a path without attachment to any religion whatsoever! Hence, I like & love to see it is to be introduced & applied accordingly in our NKF Singapore multiple communities as my 2nd home! I strongly care share & support its implementation as long term educational culture & value for healthcare system! It is truly meaningful!!! I hope we can continue this project or program from here onward & I will definitely & surely make up my free time to participate in this kind of project/program too even though I may be at handicap pace with deafness handicap. So far I joined in in your Zoom Workshop as an audience only because of my very poor following up approach or attitude during the session. Well this is unfortunately case but I am happy enough with the chatting box available there plus the video screen illustration with photos or pictures wordings etc.
Next I will be keen & interested to follow up & touch on stress management + sleep hygiene + self-compassion topic outside the Zoom workshop too as per your mentioned. If can we will continue to mutually communicate & interact running in parallel about our healthcare industries services or business in Singapore too. With your guidance as a qualified teacher I am sure I will be able to further improve own abreast by learning modern physiotherapy + psychotherapy in medical modern knowledge in order to further care & share my part as a meditator or yogi in one way or another so that I can gradually move away from attachment of any religion on my earth-journey. It is very suitable to NKF Singapore as a Multiple Communities too. Together we surely excel for better tomorrow!
I was basically a Chinese educated from primary to secondary school & therefore I polished my English through my wife who was English educated while she picked up Chinese from me at same when we met each other while still studying for our tertiary academic education.
If you are Chinese reading & or understanding & do kindly allow me sometime or occasionally use Chinese to mix-talk due to my poor command of English Expression. I will be very appreciated indeed!
So sorry taking much of your time during this emailing conversation & interaction!
Thank you very much for your kind guidance in due course!
With best regards always!
SengChen ~ 3rd Dec 2021.
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