Dear JMG Over the years my internal clock has varied between night-owl and early-bird. Currently I'm looking to swap back to early-bird and am trying to wrap words into something layered so that immediately on waking, at it's most prosaic, it is a prompt to get out of bed, but also encapsulates the potential for more.
By the grace of the divine I am Here In gratitude and awe May the virtues be the stepping stones To do what needs to be done Now Arise
Then again, maybe too flowery and I should get my head out of my backside and go with Sgt Apone from Aliens:
All right sweethearts, what are you waiting for, breakfast in bed? Another glorious day in the corps. A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm. Every meal is a banquet. Every paycheck a fortune. Every formation a parade. I LOVE the corps! Alright sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill! A**holes and elbows!
Since it is a matter of Will, maybe a simple affirmation might suffice, or I could simply go with 'get up' as soon as I wake, but that doesn't engender either the energy states or the focus to action.
Basically I am trying to change patterns of habits to be more adaptable/flexible to a world in flux. You have written before about replacing one thing (habit) with another so that there is not a void; but as we head into the darkness of winter and what looks like some extraordinary times, the desire to hibernate is there but this feels like a time of quiet action not hibernation.
Recent years seem almost designed to fragment attention and put people in a mental funk. Sorry - this is a probably a request for entire essay not a Magic Monday question, but any brief thoughts most welcome!
Seems like there are thrust-blocks aplenty and of many sizes and flavours; obviously personal spiritual practice/work is the answer, but what advice is there from the occult classics on maintaining dynamic equilibrium in times of seeming confusion and chaos?
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Over the years my internal clock has varied between night-owl and early-bird.
Currently I'm looking to swap back to early-bird and am trying to wrap words into something layered so that immediately on waking, at it's most prosaic, it is a prompt to get out of bed, but also encapsulates the potential for more.
By the grace of the divine
I am
Here
In gratitude and awe
May the virtues be the stepping stones
To do what needs to be done
Now
Arise
Then again, maybe too flowery and I should get my head out of my backside and go with Sgt Apone from Aliens:
All right sweethearts, what are you waiting for, breakfast in bed?
Another glorious day in the corps.
A day in the Marine Corps is like a day on the farm.
Every meal is a banquet.
Every paycheck a fortune.
Every formation a parade.
I LOVE the corps!
Alright sweethearts, you heard the man and you know the drill!
A**holes and elbows!
Since it is a matter of Will, maybe a simple affirmation might suffice, or I could simply go with 'get up' as soon as I wake, but that doesn't engender either the energy states or the focus to action.
Basically I am trying to change patterns of habits to be more adaptable/flexible to a world in flux.
You have written before about replacing one thing (habit) with another so that there is not a void; but as we head into the darkness of winter and what looks like some extraordinary times, the desire to hibernate is there but this feels like a time of quiet action not hibernation.
Recent years seem almost designed to fragment attention and put people in a mental funk.
Sorry - this is a probably a request for entire essay not a Magic Monday question, but any brief thoughts most welcome!
Seems like there are thrust-blocks aplenty and of many sizes and flavours; obviously personal spiritual practice/work is the answer, but what advice is there from the occult classics on maintaining dynamic equilibrium in times of seeming confusion and chaos?
It is a theme I have been meditating on! ;)
Thank you.
[earthworm]