December 16 – Detachment from Expectations: List three (3) expectations you have for your own behavior/performance. Now write a letter to yourself releasing you from those “demands” & mail it today… List three (3) expectations you have related to the behaviors or performance of three “major players” in your Life. Now write notes to each […]
December 15 – Space-Cleansing: Gather all the used catalogs, magazines and newspapers in your home and take them to be recycled. Bonus Activity: Cancel your subscriptions to all paper-based periodicals. For a Peace Pilgrim who neither regularly reads nor subscribes to any such periodicals, I had to get a bit creative here. And yet it […]
December 14 – Empowered Giving: Take a few moments this morning and identify three (3) of your most frequent &/or most powerful cravings … Instead of fulfilling them for your self today, attempt to give them to (or fulfill them for) someone else. For someone who has been consciously working on removing all addictions and […]
This was a very nice week-long adventure to a part of the country which I had yet to visit. While here, I was able to soak up the energy of the Rhode Island coast while helping a good Friend prepare for her own upcoming journey into a life of selfless service (she’s heading to Papau […]
December 13 – Self-Awareness: Start the day by getting to know yourself anew. Pause this morning to really look at yourself in the mirror (naked is best, looking slowly and neutrally from head to toe). Avoid judging what you see, simply noting that “This is the body I have been given” … Put on some […]
December 12 – Willingness: At least for today, choose to willingly do everything you do. Do so especially during those activities you feel that you “have to do”; activities that your ego normally detests but that you engage out of a sense of either obligation or fear … Don’t want to get out of bed? […]
December 11 – Delayed Gratification: At least for today, Purpose-fully wait five (5) minutes before fulfilling any desire or wish … Hungry? Wait five minutes before going to get food. Thirsty? Wait five minutes before getting a drink. Have to go to the bathroom? Wait five minutes before going. Want to listen to your I-Pod […]
December 10 – Being Conscious: Every moment of your life is filled with stimuli that allow your “ego-self” to encourage you to engage in impulsive, emotional reactions. Your “reptile brain” (home of the defense mechanisms of “friend or foe” & “fight or flight”) is working constantly to keep you “safe”. And because the neocortex (home […]
December 09 – Status Check: Today, every hour (set an hourly chime-alarm if you wish), stop what you are doing and ask yourself either “What Time is it?” (Answer: “Now”) & “Where Am I?” (Answer: “Here”). Alternate the asking of these questions and keep it up for one full day … Be sure to pause […]
December 08 – Getting to Know yourSelf: In order to set your True Self free, you must have the Courage both to acknowledge It and Care for It. So this morning, take 3 minutes and listen without interruption to your own heartbeat … Then, go to a mirror and look into your own pupils without […]
December 07 – Honoring the dead: In succession, visit a local hospital, a city morgue, and a cemetery … For this task, it is enough to silently visit the first two and observe them in reverence (though leaving some flowers in the lobby of each would be a nice bonus). Then, take a few gardening […]
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