We are gearing up for the new routine. Richard goes back to work on Monday, Jan. 3, so we are beginning to implement our new desired activities. I've also begun entering more recipes into My Food Diary to make the activity of entering the food I eat as easy of a process as possible when my classes begin again on January 10.
We've agreed that we will start each morning with A Course in Miracles Lesson (we've been working on these slowly over the last few months), and our Five Tibetans and alternate nostril breathing. This means we get to get going around 5:40, so that there's time for him (or both of us) to get ready and a relaxed breakfast before he's/we're out the door for the day.
My plan is to begin my aerobic exercise, whether it is walking or the elliptical, at 6:45, for 30-60 minutes, do a few EFT rounds on whatever is pertinent, shower and feel fully energized for the day of lectures, studying, patients, or whatever is to come my way. Throughout the day I will track what I eat, and stay alert to cues, emotions and triggers and use a version of EFT to work through them.
We've agreed that we will start each morning with A Course in Miracles Lesson (we've been working on these slowly over the last few months), and our Five Tibetans and alternate nostril breathing. This means we get to get going around 5:40, so that there's time for him (or both of us) to get ready and a relaxed breakfast before he's/we're out the door for the day.
My plan is to begin my aerobic exercise, whether it is walking or the elliptical, at 6:45, for 30-60 minutes, do a few EFT rounds on whatever is pertinent, shower and feel fully energized for the day of lectures, studying, patients, or whatever is to come my way. Throughout the day I will track what I eat, and stay alert to cues, emotions and triggers and use a version of EFT to work through them.
I entered into My Food Diary (getting into practice) the yummy French toast recipe I just posted and sliced fresh pears I had for breakfast. The homemade pumpkin spice latte with Almond Breeze has not made it into the diary, and then eating out at Red Lobster this afternoon is probably the last time, for awhile anyway, I will not track everything I eat at a restaurant.
It is looking like January 1st is going to be the grand start date with weigh-in and everything. Why not? First of the year, new beginnings. In the past I have not made New Year's Resolutions, but rather have set Winter Solstice intentions after having released the previous year. I am looking at this as a combination, however it's not JUST a resolution for the New Year, it's a lifetime alteration in my relationship with my health and my self. I did the Clearing and Cleansing meditation with the one goal in mind of releasing 2010 with all of its wonderful events of weddings and graduations and great happiness, and all of the horribly sad events with the losses of so many young people and immediate family members. All of this to help clear a fresh path for new and awe-inspiring events to be welcomed in.
Five Tibetans: 9 repetitions, we are gradually increasing our repetitions
Meditation(s): IAMU Clearing and Cleansing Meditation and
ACIM lesson 52, which is as follows:
I am upset because I see what is not there.
Reality is never frightening. It is impossible that it could upset me. Reality brings only perfect peace. When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion. Nothing in God's creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. I am always upset by nothing.
I see only the past.
As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon. I call this seeing. I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my enemies. When I have forgiven myself and remembered Who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see. There will be no past, and therefore no enemies. And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. What, then, can I see as it is? Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.
I see nothing as it is now.
If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing. I can see only what is now. The choice is not whether to see the past or the present; the choice is merely whether to see or not. What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. Now I would choose again, that I may see.
My thoughts do not mean anything.
I have no private thoughts. Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. What can these thoughts mean? They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless "private" thoughts?
ACIM lesson 52, which is as follows:
I am upset because I see what is not there.
Reality is never frightening. It is impossible that it could upset me. Reality brings only perfect peace. When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion. Nothing in God's creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. I am always upset by nothing.
I see only the past.
As I look about, I condemn the world I look upon. I call this seeing. I hold the past against everyone and everything, making them my enemies. When I have forgiven myself and remembered Who I am, I will bless everyone and everything I see. There will be no past, and therefore no enemies. And I will look with love on all that I failed to see before.
My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.
I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. What, then, can I see as it is? Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.
I see nothing as it is now.
If I see nothing as it is now, it can truly be said that I see nothing. I can see only what is now. The choice is not whether to see the past or the present; the choice is merely whether to see or not. What I have chosen to see has cost me vision. Now I would choose again, that I may see.
My thoughts do not mean anything.
I have no private thoughts. Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. What can these thoughts mean? They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless "private" thoughts?
There is lots there to contemplate for a long time!
Blessings to All and Much Peace!
Wow, whee!!!
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