All, I've been lurking for a while again and reading your comments each day; finding them helpful, moving, confounding ...on day one I'm hoping that things are beginning to improve for those of you who've been struggling with either physical or emotional unease (or both!). I've had a strange on/off virus and a really sore stomach (too much tea drinking) and so have been finding it difficult to maintain any kind of regular practice ...a serious and probably permanently changing eruption in my personal life hasn't helped ...I'm often perplexed that despite knowing how much meditation helps I so often don't get round to allowing myself the time and space to do it. Sometimes it feels a bit like sulking ...anyhow today as day one feels like a good time to renew the promise to myself that I will try to meditate at least once each day and to let it be whatever it is ...love to all
Had a really really early start this morning but back home now ...
My meditation commitment is to 5 minutes in the morning for the next 100 days... more would be good but not mandatory. This feels comfortable and "do-able"
Beth: thinking of you at this difficult time.
Janice: thank you for those quotations, the second one is particularly beautiful I think ... and thank you too for passing on the message on your library account ;-) .... hope you enjoy the book.
MB, Barbara and Nicole. Glad you're all still here ...
I felt very happy sitting this morning and knowing it was 'day one'. Not much else seems to make me happy at the moment, so I very much appreciate it. I committed to continuing to sit every morning and to trying to sit in the evening too - don't know how this will work out, I'll have to see.
Actually there is much to feel happy about: holiday from work, exciting possibility of moving etc, but it mostly seems to just make me feel tired and stressed. I get migraine very badly too - goodness, does meditation attract people with migraine? Medication mostly controls it, but what really helps is diet - when I drastically changed my eating habits last year - no bread, sugar, potatoes, processed food... and lost quite a bit of weight, I almost stopped getting migraines and headaches too - so why don't I stick to it? Although I've been sticking at the meditation, in my case I've been having the same issue with food as Nicole mentions around meditation: why is it so hard to do something that makes us feel good!?
Wonderful that so many of you are still here and finding this helpful.
Here we are again at the beginning of another 100 Days … and happy to be here
I’m renewing my original 10-10-10 commitment that will be increased gradually to 20-20-20 and then 30-30-30. That means 10 minutes yoga, 10 minutes meditation and 10 minutes walking … every day.
I’m very good about keeping up the longer walking (5 or 6 km) and yoga sessions of 1 or 2 hours three times a week, but fall down with this everyday minimum stuff. Feeling a lot of uncertainty here about whether I’ll keep it up, but being here with you each day helps me along. I thank you all so much.
Pasting up in the bathroom and kitchen, the places I visit first thing each morning, copies of Kwong Roshi’s calligraphy that says
barbara, i think i had the same bug. knocked my tummy for 6 for 2 weeks and also terrible headaches and fevers about 5 every evening. I was not drinking coffee - could it really have been such a strong reaction?
anyway, here i am again, day 1, having travelled back from Annecy with my friend and having not sat today but very much IN with y'all for the next 100. love to everyone and here's to renewal and rebirth.
Well, since my larger commitment, for the second hundred days, went to hell in a handbasket, I'm back to the commitment I made for the first hundred days -- three minutes every day.
I usually sit twenty minutes, if I sit at all, but it seems the larger the commitment, the more reluctant I am to resume it once I've missed. And since the odds of missing are up near 100%, I think the smaller the commitment the better for me, at least for now.
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All, I've been lurking for a while again and reading your comments each day; finding them helpful, moving, confounding ...on day one I'm hoping that things are beginning to improve for those of you who've been struggling with either physical or emotional unease (or both!). I've had a strange on/off virus and a really sore stomach (too much tea drinking) and so have been finding it difficult to maintain any kind of regular practice ...a serious and probably permanently changing eruption in my personal life hasn't helped ...I'm often perplexed that despite knowing how much meditation helps I so often don't get round to allowing myself the time and space to do it. Sometimes it feels a bit like sulking ...anyhow today as day one feels like a good time to renew the promise to myself that I will try to meditate at least once each day and to let it be whatever it is ...love to all
Had a really really early start this morning but back home now ...
My meditation commitment is to 5 minutes in the morning for the next 100 days... more would be good but not mandatory. This feels comfortable and "do-able"
Beth: thinking of you at this difficult time.
Janice: thank you for those quotations, the second one is particularly beautiful I think ... and thank you too for passing on the message on your library account ;-) .... hope you enjoy the book.
MB, Barbara and Nicole. Glad you're all still here ...
Wishing everyone a peaceful holiday weekend.
I felt very happy sitting this morning and knowing it was 'day one'. Not much else seems to make me happy at the moment, so I very much appreciate it. I committed to continuing to sit every morning and to trying to sit in the evening too - don't know how this will work out, I'll have to see.
Actually there is much to feel happy about: holiday from work, exciting possibility of moving etc, but it mostly seems to just make me feel tired and stressed. I get migraine very badly too - goodness, does meditation attract people with migraine? Medication mostly controls it, but what really helps is diet - when I drastically changed my eating habits last year - no bread, sugar, potatoes, processed food... and lost quite a bit of weight, I almost stopped getting migraines and headaches too - so why don't I stick to it? Although I've been sticking at the meditation, in my case I've been having the same issue with food as Nicole mentions around meditation: why is it so hard to do something that makes us feel good!?
Wonderful that so many of you are still here and finding this helpful.
Here we are again at the beginning of another 100 Days … and happy to be here
I’m renewing my original 10-10-10 commitment that will be increased gradually to 20-20-20 and then 30-30-30. That means 10 minutes yoga, 10 minutes meditation and 10 minutes walking … every day.
I’m very good about keeping up the longer walking (5 or 6 km) and yoga sessions of 1 or 2 hours three times a week, but fall down with this everyday minimum stuff. Feeling a lot of uncertainty here about whether I’ll keep it up, but being here with you each day helps me along. I thank you all so much.
Pasting up in the bathroom and kitchen, the places I visit first thing each morning, copies of Kwong Roshi’s calligraphy that says
JUST DO IT!
just be here, janice; That's already good!
barbara, i think i had the same bug. knocked my tummy for 6 for 2 weeks and also terrible headaches and fevers about 5 every evening. I was not drinking coffee - could it really have been such a strong reaction?
anyway, here i am again, day 1, having travelled back from Annecy with my friend and having not sat today but very much IN with y'all for the next 100. love to everyone and here's to renewal and rebirth.
..and roast lamb.
happy easter.
Well, since my larger commitment, for the second hundred days, went to hell in a handbasket, I'm back to the commitment I made for the first hundred days -- three minutes every day.
I usually sit twenty minutes, if I sit at all, but it seems the larger the commitment, the more reluctant I am to resume it once I've missed. And since the odds of missing are up near 100%, I think the smaller the commitment the better for me, at least for now.
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