100 Days

Day 78

My mind and body were a little less solid today, so I used some tools to help them out – things like, when my body was getting sore, reminding myself that I’m not my body (my body is not me, it’s mine). The fatigue of the past few days from going to bed late affected my practice today, so I decided to actually get to bed early tonight. (As I write this at 10pm, I can tell you I could easily have gone to sleep two hours ago!) It’s funny… in my life, I usually give preferential treatment to my flexible bedtime than I do to a particular waking time. Thus, I’ll wake up whenever I need to after having gone to bed, well, whenever it was I needed to. But now, since I’m choosing to give preferential treatment to my waking time, my bedtime has necessarily adjusted itself.

Tonight marks the first night I will have gone to bed well before midnight in many, many months. May it be the new beginning of many longer, happier, more conscientious days to come

Fyi, Zen Habits has an interesting article on the benefits of rising early (or earlier) and offers some nice tips on how to do it, if you’re interested!