Goals/LIfe Update
Jul. 13th, 2010 05:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23I have been busy house and dog-sitting, but now I'm back in 'Ol Number 3, and back into my usual asceticism. I'm healing a new tattoo, and preparing for the Burn and my visit to CA pre-Burn. I'm preparing for the next level belt test that will put me into the intermediate classes and allows me to formally train weapon forms. I have been informally working my staff form (#12), and the strikes and the transitions are slowly improving. I have been performing 100 pushups (#5) in sets of 20, although today I was able to perform 50 consecutive pushups with less than perfect form. I have been sleeping well (#97). I've finished Dan Millman's Peaceful Warrior, a book I've read many times (#28), and I'm currently reading Burkan's Extreme Spirituality (#62). I'm writing haiku (#69).
Much of my meditations lately have been about food and eating, and people in my life are also working in this. I eat very quickly and I eat foods that are not very healthy. I have a high metabolism, and I'm very active, so I am not storing those unhealthy foods, but I am becoming more aware of the sugar and the empty carbs and how that changes my moods and contributes to congested chakras and unhealthy habits. I have a resistance to engaging in mindful eating ((#26), and that resistance needs to end. My current eating pattern has no heart, and does not make me strong or happy or at peace. I think that I am finally ready for what this path has to tell me, and I suspect this will be a necessary ordeal.
No more sweets or bread
only lean meat and vegetables
this will take practice
Eat with intention
Be aware of the fork and spoon
To know is to act
Why eat so fast, Grim?
Not every meal is before
the Zombies attack
Much of my meditations lately have been about food and eating, and people in my life are also working in this. I eat very quickly and I eat foods that are not very healthy. I have a high metabolism, and I'm very active, so I am not storing those unhealthy foods, but I am becoming more aware of the sugar and the empty carbs and how that changes my moods and contributes to congested chakras and unhealthy habits. I have a resistance to engaging in mindful eating ((#26), and that resistance needs to end. My current eating pattern has no heart, and does not make me strong or happy or at peace. I think that I am finally ready for what this path has to tell me, and I suspect this will be a necessary ordeal.
No more sweets or bread
only lean meat and vegetables
this will take practice
Eat with intention
Be aware of the fork and spoon
To know is to act
Why eat so fast, Grim?
Not every meal is before
the Zombies attack
