I’m amazed a third of the Way Mental summer is already over. Incredible! There really is a lot of shift happening in my Life right now, and I’m excited to see MOVEMENT! Tomorrow I start my new full-time job, and I can’t help but think that the consciousness of knowing my first day was fast approaching got me taking action on other things in my Life.
For starters, my roommate is out of town, so I decided her absence was an ideal time to use the space of the apartment to pull every single item out of my room (save for furniture) and reset everything exactly they way I want it, ONLY putting back into the room what I need for my time here. I don’t want there to be any kind of mental or physical clutter in my world anymore – especially working a full-time job – and my room had gotten to an overwhelming place. How does this happen?! I don’t have that much stuff!! I want simplicity and clarity. If I don’t absolutely love it, I don’t want it. If I don’t see it as part of my now Life now, or part of the Life I am co-creating for myself, it’s gotta go, and I know there will be some tough decisions. I want my free time to be filled with relaxation, creativity and fun, not dealing with clutter of any kind – mine or anyone else’s. I’ve been moderately successful with this venture so far, but Diane doesn’t come home for another 9 days, so there’s still time to get through all that’s left.
In addition to the new job tomorrow, I’m starting 30 days of living foods/raw food eating with two friends of mine. I’ve been through this raw food thing before, so I know what to expect and how it all shimmies down. I also know resetting my food intake to raw foods only will have a clutter-clearing effect on my digestive tract and my gut. Yeah! Sing with me now: “I am letting go of the things that no longer serve me…”
This week I also started a new exercise thing which is seriously kicking my ass (more on that in another blog entry). I’ve noticed it’s helped me get into a quasi-normal sleeping pattern, albeit one that is still skewed to a late-to-bed-late-to-rise cycle. I’m sleeping more deeply and feeling more rested. Just gotta shift the time block a little bit.
I did GREAT with my morning pages this week (every day!) and my Mental Muscle “Patience” directive. I can honestly say I’m a very patient person, and that the one thing that tends to make me lose it are those who are unaware of the world around them, and I typically encounter these people while driving. I had a fantastic time finishing up my performances in a play in which I was an understudy, and am very pleased with the work I did. However, I still did not get to my Artist Date. I think I’ve done one “official” artist date since I started this thing. Not a great success rate. In a relationship book I’m reading (another aspect of Way Mental summer!), the author speaks of noticing how we treat ourselves as insight to how others show up in our lives and treat us. Well, crap. I can’t even take time to take myself out for a date once a week. This may explain the relative non-existence of my dating life. All part of the shift, though.
Way Mental summer continues next week with “Recovering a Sense of Possibility” with Artist’s Way, and a hum-dinger of a Mental Muscle week: Listen/Resolve (also referred to as No Procrastination week), where we are directed to leave nothing unresolved at any moment. Gonna be a busy week.
