About a month ago or so, I started working my way through the book the 21 Day Consciousness Cleanse, by Debbie Ford. After getting through the first 14 days in two weeks, I thought I’d managed to drive a stake through the heart of most of my bad habits. Taking another 2 weeks to get through the next 2 ½ days convinced me otherwise. (more…)
Last week I had a cosmic reminder about how synchronicity and coincidence appear as we realign ourselves with Higher Power. In this particular instance, it took the form of music. (more…)
Lately I’ve been on a journey of self-discovery and cleansing, attempting to break old bad habits and dissolve limiting beliefs while building positive new ones. During this process, which is ongoing, I have discovered one tool that has proven to be more useful than any of the others I have tried so far. Meditation. (more…)
I’ve been on Twitter for a while now. I think I ‘get it,’ at least part of it, anyway. I do have questions about it still, and I am curious about some of the people on it. There are a couple people on my list that have a huge number of followers and follow a huge number of people in return. I can’t help but think, how in the world could you possible know so many people in anything other than the most superficial manner? Celebrities obviously don’t, or they would not have time to do anything that made them a celebrity. Then again, most real celebrity twitter users only follow a handful of people, likely their friends and family. So here’s my idea. (more…)
Lately I’ve been paying more attention to the quality of things that surround me, both at home and at work. For example, last year I started using an all natural, handmade bath soap rather than something mass produced that I can pick up in almost any store. Correspondingly, this handmade soap costs me 3 – 4 times what I would pay for soap in the store. I’m ok with this – it’s a small price to pay for something that I consider to be far superior to the scented chemical bars the store carries. Well, that’s started spilling over into other things, and other areas of my life. (more…)
I completed day one of logging my activities, food, and spending. Interestingly enough, I’ve already experienced one side effect, or perhaps desired effect from doing this. As I mentioned yesterday, due to poor food choices over the weekend, my weight had gone from around 208 to 212. Since I didn’t get all my food prep done over the weekend for various reasons, rather than buy food at the cafeteria as I would have a couple weeks ago I decided to improvise and see what I could do. The result was I wound up eating quite a bit of watermelon yesterday, more than I woud have preferred. Just out of curiosity I stepped on the scale this morning. I weighed in at 208.2 lbs – I dropped nearly 4 pounds in a single day! (more…)
I’ve known for a while now that I have the tools to make my life into something pretty special. One of the things I’ve always noticed about the people I admire that seem to have their act together, is that every single one of them acts from a solid personal base. What I mean by that is, they have things lined up – finances, relationships, mental/emotional/physical health, and their actions at least publicly, support what they want to do. So, today is the first day in getting my collective act together.I have been through self-help programs before where one of the things you do is observe yourself during the day, and later at night or at one time during the week you go back and look over all the stuff you write down about whatever you were tracking. Almost inevitably, what happens is that the simple act of observation changes my behavior. This is actually a typical response to this type of situation, even when the results will only be seen by that person. (more…)
Here we are, June 21st, the longest day of the year, and the official start of summer on the Gregorian calendar. Today was a day I had targeted as the to doing certain things I wanted to do – ritual, meditation, yoga, jujitsu class, and healtghier eating. Instead, here I am once again writing about my catastrophic failure to do any of that, despite putting things in place that would make this a fairly easy transition. (more…)
Last week I went to a meeting of pagans, a meetup group that gathers once a month at a local restaurant to eat and talk. A few weeks ago, someone in the group floated the idea of having a midsummers ball to celebrate the change. At that time I thought it was a great idea, though I didn’t really expect anyone to pull it off. Well, here we are, a little less than 2 weeks away from it, and I’m less than enthused. (more…)
Last month I flew back to Colorado to visit my family. It was long overdue, as it had been several years since I’d been back, and even longer since I’d seen my daughter. Since the last time i’d seen her, she’s gotten married and had two beautiful daughters of her own. Still, I felt ambivalent about going back for a visit, for reasons I won’t go into here. I’m glad I did though, it has rejuvenated me in a lot of ways. (more…)