My perfect record is broken, darn!

For three weeks I've been meditating 8 minutes a day, every day. Except yesterday. I kept thinking, I'll do it later. Well, later didn't come. Woke up this morning and realized that I forgot to meditate yesterday. You would think that this is no big deal, it's not like forgetting to medicate. Or is it. I'm feeling off. Kinda of like something is missing. What to do, what to do...

Well, I'm darn sure gonna make sure that I meditate today, and get back on track. And I'll forgive myself for slacking off.

Been busy painting our store for the grand opening on January 14th. It's a small space, in Byron (part of London, On) and you would think that it wouldn't take long to paint. Wrong. All the walls are retail slat walls. They have been painted a dark red. I don't want them to be a dark red, would prefer a soft mauve. So on goes the primer. I am currently painting all the grooves in the slat wall. It takes time. A lot of time. The fun has gone out of it.

Mephestopheles has painted the ceiling, bless his heart. He has been totally helpful, and so far he hasn't fallen off the ladder. He did however get an eyefull of paint. He said that it stung pretty bad.

Good ole Meph. tends to be accident prone. He recently won an electric drill at a Christmas party. My first thought: "Better make sure the first aid kit is up to date".

Still meditating

Meditating is fun! And relaxing. And good for you. No I'm not being sarcastic, it really is all that. I finally read a book that I had bought eons ago about meditation, and it really works for me.

You are instructed to meditate for 8 minutes each day for seven days just doing one thing, for example: the first week all I had to do was really listen to my breath, feel it in my body, my nostrils, going down the back of my throat etc.

Sure my thoughts ran away with me constantly, but, as the book advised, I allowed them to come and gently released them. It actually works, I bet out of 8 minutes, I had about 10 seconds of pure meditation. Ten seconds is better than nothing.

This week, my 8 minute meditation is focussed on hearing the sounds around me. Not judging them, just listening to them. I am finding more space between my thoughts than last week. I'm probably getting about 20 seconds of pure meditation. Major improvement.

Any meditation is good meditation. The only bad meditation is no meditation. So, if I sit still for 8 minutes every day and have a thought fest going in my mind, it's still all good. Things will chill after a while, I can feel it.

I'm going to meditate on that right now. (You could see that one coming, right.)