awareness; drishti

awareness is the topic for today considering that i almost whacked my finger off last night with a serrated knive. thank god the knuckle was there to stop it. i realized i do many things like that, in a hurry and not really paying attention, just on auto pilot. this is another reason why it's important for me to enlarge my practice. there are many days when a physical practice is damn near impossible, but chanting and praying and reading/ studying, contemplating, pranayama, etc. are available, for the most part, always. regarding cooking on autopilot, in "healing with whole foods" paul pitchford comments that when cooking, we should be in tune to each item as we slice it, considering the energy of each will be unique. i love to cook, so i am going to employ this new little tidbit so i won't kill myself in the kitchen.wonder how this will go when shelling 15 lbs of limas?