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Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Day 24

10:00 AM

This morning I woke up 30 minutes earlier than yesterday. Again, without the alarm, trusting my body. Normally we always have a clock close to our bed, or the phone, so when we first open our eyes in the morning, we glance at the clock and continue to sleep. Until the alarm goes off... Now you have to get up. You don't have a choice. So why don't we choose when to wake up...? Let our true self be the alarm... The key is not to have anything in the bedroom. No clock, no phone, nothing. Just the bed and you. Than, when you open your eyes in the morning, you actually have to get up to know the time. Once we are awake enough to wonder about the time, we should get up anyway. Because we are already awake at that point, our body is out of the deep, resting sleep. If we were dead tired, and in absolute need of more sleep, we wouldn't even wake up to check the time. We would be sleeping... Don't let your mind to make a decision of how long you need to sleep, make it yourself. Jump in the driver seat, even in this aspect of your life...
It is a snow storm outside... Snow, snow, snow... What did you expect, its Canada, eh....?

2:00 PM

Not even a snow storm can affect my journey. I still went to class, despite all the snow... Determination is everything... Once we set our mind onto something, truly set it, there is nothing that can shake our focus. No matter what happens, we will make sure we still do what we set out to do. Somehow we find a way, when we need it the most. The question is, why can't we be so focused and determined, all the time. Why does it have to be something high as a yoga journey to wake up the iron will we have...? Washing dishes, cleaning the house, cooking, shaving, they are all journeys. You do them every day. You clean, cook. wash, shave, more or less, the same way all the time. Same action and result... In a yoga journey I am doing the same postures every day... Take a dirty plate, wash it and dry it... Done. Go to yoga, do the postures, shower... Done. No difference, really... The only difference is in our head. You know, yoga is cool and washing dishes is boring. Yoga will bring out the true self and change your life from the inside. If we generate the same yoga energy and focus while washing dishes, how do we know that the dishes won't change our life. I mean, we never tried it, have never heard of anyone doing a challenge like that.  For a zen master, washing dishes is more important than doing yoga. Just because it is labeled in our head as boring. Apply your full focus and determination on everything you do, from the moment you open your eyes, untill you close them. You do that and it will never be boring, there will never be ordinary moments... It will be life only...

11:00 PM

I had a really good class today. One of the best classes since I started the journey. Deep postures, breathing, relaxing into the postures... It was a class...
My hamstrings and back were sore today for some reason. They felt better last few days, but today its back to being sore and tight. I don't know why, it can be from the yesterday's class, but it was the same class as always. It is weird, it just comes and goes like that...
24 days all over. In the past. Never happened... I have 76 to go...

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