Day 7

So today marks the end of Week 1 of this adventure.   Baron reminds us that even God rested on the 7th day, so each week we are allowed to take a one day reprieve to rest and relax.  I choose to skip my routine on Friday thinking I would be tired from everything this week - in retrospect I think that was kind of a mistake.  While I have not been very good at getting up early and doing my yoga and meditation first thing in the morning, weekdays are a bit more conducive to alarm clocks than the weekends are - or at least I listen to my alarm clock somewhat on the weekdays.  I almost felt badly lying in bed on Friday morning that I was not even trying to convince myself to get up.  Whereas on Saturday I didn't even move from bed until 11am and by then thoughts of early morning meditation and yoga were far from my head. 

While I was delinquent yesterday in updating my blog I did get my yoga done.  I forced myself to do it before we headed out to the So You Think You Can Dance concert in Richmond -- no judging -- it was awesome.  (If you don't believe me go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHDXC7dj0dg&NR=1 and watch Phillip Chbeeb do some locking)  Because I insisted on doing my yoga before we left we were almost late to the concert but made it into the Richmond Coliseum just in time!  It was a fun concert which we followed up with a late night trip to Waffle House -- which reminded me that I am perhaps a bit too old for Waffle House at midnight. 

I am finding this whole process hard not as much because of the actual yoga or meditation.  The time commitment to each activity isn't too cumbersome at the moment.  Perhaps by week six, when I have worked up to a half-hour of meditation and an 1 1/2 hours of yoga each day, I will have a harder time actually finding the time each day.  But currently, I am struggling with the lack of routine.  I have found that as my life has gotten more and more out of alignment with what I would like it to be I get more and more stuck in my routine.  I find it distressing that I might not be able to watch my TV shows mostly . . . it sounds pitiful to say that aloud . . . but I am struggling with how to integrate the yoga and meditation into my life in a way that doesn't cause me to give up those things which I am clinging onto, such as my TV shows.  I think I just need to put more effort into scheduling things so I don't get all pissy and resistant to doing my yoga because I have Biggest Loser episodes to watch. 

My math teacher in junior high used to say "prior planning prevents poor performance" so I guess my goal this week is to just be more committed to the prior planning part of this journey . . . that being said, I am going back to the football game :)