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Friday, January 6, 2017

Friday, January 6, 2017
It takes longer than you'd expect to get your internal clock re-set.  I'm waking up at my scheduled 5:00am but I'm not liking anything about it and groggily shuffle about in my robe until my coffee has kicked in.

Today is Friday, however, and I've got a wonderful weekend ahead of me.

I'm going to continue with my primary series this morning but I'll be showering before and after my practice (a tradition....or so I'm told).  I typically don't observe this tradition but it helps shake off any lethargy that's still on me.

I'll hit my mat after my shower and post my Part II below......

Friday, January 6, 2017 (Part II)
Just before showering and hitting my mat, I was playing around online and came across an interesting site here that discusses some of the basic practices of yoga.  I'm going to use a Bruce Lee quote for a moment and say that one should keep what is useful and discard what is not, so please take anything you read online with an enormous pinch of salt (that includes any of the nonsense I write in this blog...lol).

The link above does discuss some interesting principles of meditation and the purpose and benefit of it; long story short, you're exercising your psychological health when you meditate and pray.  I typically try to shut down my mind completely as I move through my practice (nearly impossible to achieve for any stretch of time), but today I focused on a single object and kept my mind trained on that.  I was proud of the control I had over my mind.

I'm going to take that control into my day as I shower up and head into work and try and maintain the focus I felt when narrowing in my mind on something.

Namaste

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