Trying to build some habits ...
... before school starts to eat my life. The habits needed building anyway, the "let's get this automatic before school starts" is just a helpful motivator and deadline. So, chem class starts June 5 - there's the deadline.
And oh, won't the first week of class be fun, the Middle Eastern Dance Symposium runs the Thurs-Sun after school starts. That has me seriously wondering if I ought not to just write off the deposit and scrap it. But no, I should be able to manage it. I hope. Just it's a good thing I had already planned not to stay at Conn College for it, and I'll have to manage my time carefully so I don't end up leaving all of whatever homework for Sunday night.
ANYWAY, I need to get back on track building up some biking endurance. I should, in theory, be able to bike to both work and school anytime the weather permits. Once I have the stamina built up. This week ... I still feel weak. Which is bad, I probably need to haul my ass outside and just do a few miles and have done with it. The yoga and Reiki practice are all but instinctive, dancing almost equally so (though performances do kick up my resolve nicely, too bad the next one is at Relay or possibly the week before), biking needs to get there, too. And then necessity and the price of gas should make it nicely automatic. At the least, I should save some money and make my heart nice and healthy, possibly even keeping a normal rhythm. I can hope that will be aerobic enough and constant enough to finally burn some of this damned lard off me, too.
The other habits I need to work on are the religious ones. Planning the choreography of religious dances is one piece of that, but really only a small one. That's all well and good for certain celebrations, but it's the simpler day-to-day stuff I need to work at. And I know it. It makes all the difference in my outlook with patients and clients if I've been doing the work or not. When not, I burn out far quicker, lose patience far more easily, and just generally end up being the person I don't want to be. So, working on that, too. I dunno, if I end up feeling the need to talk about that part much, I might set up a "woo" filter for my weirdo religious ramblings. Generalized ramblings are all well and good for public posts, but the more specific and personal stuff ... eh, not so much.
I think the old "card a day" thing may be a good habit to resurrect, along with some simple morning prayers. Probably using the Osho Zen tarot. I like the Witches' Tarot, but I start getting too wrapped up in all the Qabalistic symbolism. That needs more time than a quick "flip a card and contemplate." The Osho Zen is more conducive to that type of usage, I think. Hah, and after a quick shuffle, I flipped "Conditioning." How appropriate.
And oh, won't the first week of class be fun, the Middle Eastern Dance Symposium runs the Thurs-Sun after school starts. That has me seriously wondering if I ought not to just write off the deposit and scrap it. But no, I should be able to manage it. I hope. Just it's a good thing I had already planned not to stay at Conn College for it, and I'll have to manage my time carefully so I don't end up leaving all of whatever homework for Sunday night.
ANYWAY, I need to get back on track building up some biking endurance. I should, in theory, be able to bike to both work and school anytime the weather permits. Once I have the stamina built up. This week ... I still feel weak. Which is bad, I probably need to haul my ass outside and just do a few miles and have done with it. The yoga and Reiki practice are all but instinctive, dancing almost equally so (though performances do kick up my resolve nicely, too bad the next one is at Relay or possibly the week before), biking needs to get there, too. And then necessity and the price of gas should make it nicely automatic. At the least, I should save some money and make my heart nice and healthy, possibly even keeping a normal rhythm. I can hope that will be aerobic enough and constant enough to finally burn some of this damned lard off me, too.
The other habits I need to work on are the religious ones. Planning the choreography of religious dances is one piece of that, but really only a small one. That's all well and good for certain celebrations, but it's the simpler day-to-day stuff I need to work at. And I know it. It makes all the difference in my outlook with patients and clients if I've been doing the work or not. When not, I burn out far quicker, lose patience far more easily, and just generally end up being the person I don't want to be. So, working on that, too. I dunno, if I end up feeling the need to talk about that part much, I might set up a "woo" filter for my weirdo religious ramblings. Generalized ramblings are all well and good for public posts, but the more specific and personal stuff ... eh, not so much.
I think the old "card a day" thing may be a good habit to resurrect, along with some simple morning prayers. Probably using the Osho Zen tarot. I like the Witches' Tarot, but I start getting too wrapped up in all the Qabalistic symbolism. That needs more time than a quick "flip a card and contemplate." The Osho Zen is more conducive to that type of usage, I think. Hah, and after a quick shuffle, I flipped "Conditioning." How appropriate.