100 Days

Possible future trainings…

Growing my energy body I’ve been told that in order to really change my mental and emotional habits, I need to have a strong center and a strong energy body. The reasoning behind this is that we need energy to fuel everything, from our bodily functions to spiritual growth, and that having more energy makes everything we do easier, better, and stronger. To grow my energy body, I would probably do a lot of physical exercises to open up my meridians and pull from such sources as Tai Chi, Qi Gong, Aikido, Dahn Yoga and Mantak Chia.

Improving my vision My vision currently requires that I wear decent-strength corrective lenses, and I’d love to be free of this requirement and be able to keep the $5k it would cost me to have laser eye surgery. There are two lines of attack that I know of for improving my vision, one eastern and one western. The eastern method involves opening up the meridians associated with vision (the liver and bladder meridians, I believe) through exercise. The western method involves working on the eyes directly via eye exercises that will help increase my eyes’ flexibility.

60-90 minutes of asana yoga I’m pretty confident that doing 100 days of asana yoga would result in some big changes on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual levels. My friend and teacher Tanya Kaps was so convinced of this truth that she almost made a documentary in which she would follow a group of beginner yoga students around for 90 days just to see what happened to them.

Do three nice things for other people every day I’ve found in the past that when I shift my focus to doing nice things for others, which usually entails feeling and acting very positively, then my life feels divine. Usually sharing nice things with other people creates a very positive energy around me, and my life brings me positive things in return. Really, doing three nice things is just a physical or active manifestation of the intangible goal of ‘be nice’, ‘be positive’, or ‘give love’, but from what I learned in my trusty Edgar Cayce book, it’s the action we take that are most important, not simply the beliefs or attitudes.

Gratitude reflection each night I think if I reminded myself each night of all the things that happened during the day that I was grateful for, I’d be a much more grateful person all-around. My old habit is to see the things I’m ungrateful for, the things I wish were different. But focusing on those things only makes me unhappy! So why not try to counter-balance my thoughts, or shift my focus altogether?

30-60 minutes of meditation I’ve meditated in the past and it was wonderful when I was doing it. I remember that it got easier the more I did it, too. I think this would be a very fulfilling practice to do.

1000 intestine exercises in eastern medicine, it’s understood that we store a lot of emotional baggage in our organs. The intestines, in particular, are tied to stress. When I had a regular practice of intestine exercises, which are very specific abdominal exercises that target the intestinal area, I was having extremely regular bowel movements (meaning I wasn’t storing anything up, emotionally or physically) and I was feeling emotionally quite great.