100 Days

Day 2

So much of this training is about what you do when you’re not doing the training! I have chosen to do my bows in the morning, because I’ve learned from previous experience that a) if I don’t set a time to do it, I’ll forget about it or put it off until the end of the day, and b) doing a training like this at the end of the day (read: 2am) is really dreadful. Thus, to do my bows in the morning, I need to go to bed early enough so that I can finish my bowing before I start my day. To get to bed early, I need to finish my work at a reasonable hour (yes, I’m a nightowl freelancer), eat dinner earlier, etc etc. I’m finding that this training is not simply an acute, 1-hour commitment that I don’t think about during the other 23 hours in the day; it’s more like an all-day training, where my commitment lives in at the edge of my awareness all the time.

And that makes so much sense… when you really want something, it’s always on your mind. What better way to change than with your full consciousness?