Day 3!

weight: 228.5

Morning.

Starting off great with a short walk (11 min.) at Lake Jocomo and then meditating in the car.

Meditation is interesting. This morning I felt an expansion of energy. It's subtle, feels like little jolts of energy that go beyond my body reaching out into the space around me while at the same time this energy coming into me and invigorating me. I silently ask, 'Who am I?' and in response I'm hooked up energetically to the whole Universe. The question triggers it. This whole field of subtle energy research is fascinating and is something to watch out for in the coming years. Plus it feels great: expansive, peaceful, and powerful!

Evening

Took a 20 minute bike ride.

MEDITATION - YES!

MOVEMENT - 31 minutes

LISTENING - no

Day 2!

MOVEMENT: Took a 16 minute walk around Unity Village. Dropped into the bookstore and was intrigued by the book Who wrote the New Testemant? The back cover said something to the effect that the mythology of the New Testament didn't have a lot to do with the historical Jesus! I'm going to put it on reserve at the library.

20 minute bike ride to the library and back.

7 minutes short walk with Lyra and Koko (my dog).

My goal with movement is to move an hour a day; a mix of walking, biking, strength training, or anything else that strikes my fancy!

Total movement = 43 minutes. Not bad.

Weight - 230

MEDITATION: Attempted a meditation at work but was too distracted by noise and sleepiness.

LISTENING: (1)Beatles - Baby Your a Rich Man. Great song with it's quasi mid-eastern florid oboe(?) solos. The Beatles are always interesting, especially from Rubber Soul onward.

(2)Haydn - Menuet from Sonata #32 in B minor. Played by Marc-Andre Hamelin. Really wonderful playing by Hamelin. Such grace and restraint. Beautifully done.

After having viewed the movie Julie & Julia I started thinking ... what could I blog about and why? The why was so that I could bring some discipline to some activities that I think I want to do daily but so far have been very sporadic doing. My thinking is that if I have to write about them daily then there's a much better chance that I will do them. So after thinking about it I've chosen three things that I would like to make regular activities: Meditation, Moving my body (i.e. exercise), and listening to music. Why these three things? (1)Meditation because I believe that through meditation one can know ultimate truth. (2)Moving my body because my body is about 50 pounds overweight and through regular exercise and eating wisely I can lose that weight and feel better physically. (3) Listening to music because music takes me on inward journeys that are amazing and I only infrequently listen now. So my plan is to daily blog on these three aspects of my life and report on my experiences doing them. I plan, just like Julia from Julie & Julia, to do this for a whole year, doing my best to meditate, move, and listen everyday.

DAY 1 - March 29, 2010

MEDITATE - NADA

MOVE - 1:23 BIKE RIDE. It was a beautiful day today so I took a ride.

B- eating day (39 points)

Weight: 230.5

LISTENING - NO

I feel fine about not meditating or listening today since today is the day I set up this blog. On to day 2!