Again, I had a hard time maintaining this. I'm hitting that slump where the enthusiasm is gone, and only self-discipline and habit are forcing me to hold the course. The good news is, I recognise what is happening. This awareness represents growth for me, and instead...

This week, in light of really overdoing last week, I'm scaling back. I'm still doing repetitive motion, but this week I focus on being more gentle. I'm going to walk at an easy pace on my treadmill. This means about 3 mph, doing about a 20-minute mile. We'll see how...

I really didn't think I was going to have a problem maintaining this... but I did. It also points out how badly I need physical exercise right now, and how easy it is for me to overdo it. I really struggled; in fact, I'm having to visit the chiropractor this week,...

For this week's work, I'm going to start exploring repetitive motion. I like repetitive motion... I have always loved exercise, and never missed a workout for many, many years, until I fell very ill and had trouble with exercise. It's been the bane of my existence...

I really like this. Although I didn't do the chant on a daily basis, in the act of studying the concept of self-compassion and lovingkindness, I wound up finding an important piece of the puzzle. The whole ability to practice mindfulness, bring awareness to suffering,...

For this week, I want to explore something I've been toying with anyway, an apparently Buddhist-practice called Metta, I think; I will do some research and post right here this week. It's a form of chanting / mantra meditation, and the focus is compassion. I have a...

Yes, holding perfectly still for 10-15 minutes at a time is woefully easy for me. It's one of those skillsets that I'm grateful to have now, but sad that I developed it the way I did. It falls under 'lemonade from lemons'. I don't have much to say about the week past,...

For this week's upcoming practice, I'm going to do a practice taught by the incomparable John Michael Greer, in his book, 'Learning Ritual Magic: Fundamental Theory and Practice for the Solitary Apprentice'. I am actually fairly successful with this practice. I like...

I had some very interesting experiences, one of which was a surprise encounter with what others would tend to think of as an 'imaginary' character from a TV series. I've had these sorts of experiences before, and I don't discount them. TV and movie characters tend to...

Even though I spent time this past week trying to work through it, and did obtain some interesting results, I feel I have a lot of work to do on this. Also, I was disappointed I couldn't seem to 'get hold' of the mp3 on the website.... I even searched through and...

For this week’s meditation focus, on a daily basis, I’m going to do a shamanic journeying technique to my Sacred Grove in the Upper World. This practice, more than any other, seems to be really workable for me. I've actually been doing this for the past month or so...

I did really poorly, as in, I did not do this meditation consistently. I think it is utterly lovely and moving, but, complexity makes me give up and avoid. There is a reason... my life is already too busy, too complex  and I have too many irons in the fire. This leads...

For this week's meditation focus, on a daily basis, I'm going to do the Two Powers Meditation from our ADF Handbook, and spoken of as the week 11 homework for Rev. Dangler's 'Wheel of the Year' programme. It's lovely and well-done, and I have precedent for it from...

The first week of my meditation, grounding and centering at the computer each day before work, is now complete. This is really sad, but I had to struggle to REMEMBER to do this. I know habits aren't built in a day, but, I found myself forgetting and saying 'oh wait!'...