I had a good day today. This was the first day of my new routine. I set the alarm for 5 am and got up when it went off! After warm-ups, Tai Chi, sit crunches, leg lifts, arm exercises and wrist ones for the carpal tunnel symptoms, a few lunges, squats, and various stretches I headed out to walk the driveway again. It was about 20 degrees and very windy, which tends to decrease my motivation but I went out anyway. Then I did a self-hypnosis session, which went well. Just as I was coming back up to waking consciousness the phone rang. Tom got it for me and told F. I would call him back in a few minutes.
F. had just gotten in from the Gemini Manor party the night before. It sounded like he had a lot of fun. Alex, the owner had to call the police though as some woman was fighting. Apparently no one knew her. Heck I missed all the excitement! As usual though he was very tired and needed to sleep so shortly he became a lot less coherent and finally got off the phone to sleep. What was unusual was that I didn't have to tell him to hang up because he had drifted off:)
My todo list didn't include putting away the ritual paraphernalia from Saturday but since I didn't do it Sunday… As long as I was doing that I decided to wash off the altar with wood soap and re-oil it. Then I attacked my list and have finished everything on it. Yay! The major thing on it after exercises and walks was beginning to clean off my desk in our bedroom. I haven't used it in years at least partially because it had become buried in about a foot and a half of papers, and envelopes of photos, and stuff. Facing the clean up and filing of it all, was just too depressing a thought. But I began it today by taking a pile off one corner and going through it. I succeeded in finding the wood top too although it will probably take several days to dig it out completely. I created piles of various categories but ended up just stacking them up again rather than filing them but not on the desk. Instead they ended up on the end of the dining room table. That isn't as bad as it sounds though as I will be filing them once I have all the papers on the desk in their appropriate categories.
It was kind of amazing to find a note that my brother wrote to me on Valentine's Day when we were young. It isn't dated but from the tone and handwriting it had to be something like 40 yrs. ago. I have no idea what it was doing on my desk. There were pre-op photographs of a friend before she was able to have her body more closely reflect her internal gender, various photos of our nest from early days to now, pictures of my children in their early teen years. I set them all aside for possible scanning later.
Before lunch I went out to walk the labyrinth and I realized I need to decide whether or not I am going to maintain the project. If I am then I want us to focus on it more, possibly rototill the central couple of paths, decide and obtain whatever hedge material we are going to use and plant the walls, etc. We have been kind of lackadaisical about developing it and I feel that if we are going to keep it I want to see it progress at a rate that would actually allow it to ever get finished. Later F. called again and we talked for some time.
I also read a book titled, "Metacreation of Personal Realities in Space and Time", by Victor J. Gibbons. To me, it sounds like pseudoscience mixed with meaningless gobbledygook wrapped around some very magickal ideas. I actually think he makes some good points but it could have been done in 1/2 the pages in my opinion. I am only 1/3 of the way into the book but I have the feeling that it probably never gets to application of the ideas. I hope that I am wrong about it though because the ideas are very magickal with similarities to hypnosis, and relationships to Neurolinguistic Programming from what little I know of it. One book I am very interested in reading though is "Timeline Therapy" by Tad James. It seems very promising from what I have heard about it. Anyway it was quite a good day.
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