Sunmage and the basics of light

[Sunmage]

"Winter is coming!"

 

I already had my winter. I did not treat myself well and got pretty sick for about 3 weeks. Long enough to loose some great habits and fall into old bad ones. And I have a TV again. Nice but time consuming...

Since I will graduate next year and want to be prepared for the awesomeness of life(And the jump to becoming 30 soon) I cannot continue that.

And I want to be prepared for my second 10 day vipassana meditation course starting after christmas, Prepared means be able to meditate 1 hour again and get used to kneeling one hour without pain again.

 

My main goal: Become a warrior of light!

Addition: Figure out what that means at the moment.

 

Goal 1: Meditate

A calm and free mind feels awesome. And it is so much easier to think, feel and know "Everything will be fine" if your are not worrying about 1000 things every moment. 

• What: Vipassana
• How: Kneeling, sitting, lying
• How much: ramp up to 1 hour a day
• Stations: 20 minutes of Anapana; 30 Minutes meditation kneeling, 35, 40... 5 to 10 Minutes of Metta meditation in the end.

 

Goal 2: Matter matters

A well trained mind still needs a good treated body

• What: Workouts, Flexibility work
• How: Figure out
• How much: 3 Sessions a week
• Essentials: "There will be blood" uhm Burpees. And pushups. And Pullups.

Goal 3: Get some Energy inside

I need more power in many ways. At the moment I feel weak and lazy. I can do better. And Im not sure that energy and food are not totally different

 

Goal 3a: Fuel the body with food

• Cook 4 meals a week
• Just 1 breakfast out
• 1 fast food dish a week
• At the moment I do eat everything. Goal is to reduce gluten again and get some goof breakfasts that neither include bread nor eggs and still last 3 hours.

Goal 3b: Fuel the body with energy

• Kunlun, Qigong, Kotodama
• Try Yoga
• Think positive!

 

Other goals: Try to learn dancing for the third time. Get the university stuff done. 

 

I will write this out later. Or procrastinate it

 

[faraxk]

Ooo, 10 day meditation course sounds pretty interesting.  I hear you on the falling back into old habits.  It took an injury, a cold, and some visiting friends to knock me staunchly back into old ways.  But a new challenge, a new chance right?  All great goals you've got and I like the parameters you've set on your eating.  Good luck with it all!

[Arilian Princess]

Are you allergic to eggs or you just don't like them?

[Sunmage]

Ooo, 10 day meditation course sounds pretty interesting.  I hear you on the falling back into old habits.  It took an injury, a cold, and some visiting friends to knock me staunchly back into old ways.  But a new challenge, a new chance right?  All great goals you've got and I like the parameters you've set on your eating.  Good luck with it all!

 

A new challenge is a chance, yes. But there is a pyramid. Some weak seconds make an unsmart decision. Some of that make a bad day. Some of that a horrible week. And external influence isn't considered here yet.

 

Compared to earlier challenges my eating goal is super easy. But from the moment it looks pretty challenging. How did crawling back up to the "before the crash" peak work for  you?

 

 

Are you allergic to eggs or you just don't like them?

 

I was, but I dealt with it. I can eat them in cakes and stuff, but cooked and scrambled isn't good for my gut most times. 

At the moment I would call it don't like them for breakfast...

[Arilian Princess]

Eggs is actually one of the most common allergies out there, my boss is allergic to wheat and eggs. I will find out what he has for breakfast, more ideas for you

[livingroovy]

Right there with you at falling into bad habits... I love your approach for coming back to it. You've got it!

[Ahyar Dreamspark]

Meditation and kneeling for one hour? /spitscoffee Jeeezas! I have a hard time with 5 minutes lol.

 

You, good sir*, are an inspiration. With the meditation, I mean. Not the university procrastination. I've got plenty of levels in procrastination already.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I apologize if I got your gender wrong.

[Sunmage]

If you use a pillow or a bench designed for that it is ok. I have to work myself up there, too. 

 

I was making good progress with meditation until I strained my ankle. Aktually I didn't step wrong or do sports and had no accident. Just the Injury...

I did no Sports yet, but cooking went quite well.

 

Life is so much easier when you are calm and believe that everything will be fine!

[I am Eve]

Namaste!

Again - with your own special twist to it all. And yoga-that is great!

I also like the "finding out" parts of your challenge.

Lets do this!

[Wandern]

Hi SunMage! You are always an inspiration. If you can fit in an hour of meditation, surely I can find 10 measly minutes...

[Sunmage]

Hey,

 

I'm alive!

And I was pretty sick again.

 

My main priority is to figure some things(health) out for me and find a new place.

 

I do meditate and I do work on my goals.

And I practiced QI again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9-qhGVFBcA

This guy is awesome. And I can do some of those effects now.

 

This leads to a conflict because with working towards QI I do not need to run after 6 week goals.

I will see what happens.