Applying what is Learned

Okay, tomorrow is my first shot at meditation. Tonight I will read my guides again. They say not to use the bedroom, but when that's the best place, and it is, it will be the place I use. When Deuce wakes Will and I up and he takes him out, I will put on my meditation CD and go for it. I have read that meditation takes time to get the hang of and not to get frustrated. So I will give myself a 10 minute limit and just practice hearing my breathing. I know that the more you use meditation the more you can receive from it. But frustration can be an issue. But as they say 'Forewarned is forearmed.'

As I said in an earlier blog, I have set up a loose schedule for my day: meditation, work, walk with Deuce, write my blog, write in my diary. I have other items that I will add to it, but I don't want too much too soon. Like learning to swim I'm not hitting the deep end right off the bat. But I am proud of myself. I have written my blog everyday and have walked with Deuce at least once every day and written in my diary. Plus work, of course - gotta love the paycheck.

Writing in a blog everyday isn't always as easy as it would seem. I don't want to just type drivel, I want to make statements and confront issues here. One thing I really know I am getting from blogging everyday is being confronted by what I have said I will do. I can't say - oh I forgot - because it is here, in words, reminding me to go forward and not to let my life become stagnant again.

Walking with Will and Deuce has been beneficial. There is nothing that will put a smile on your face faster than the unconditional love of a dog. Deuce was a stray when we found him, or rather he found us, the first part of November, 2009. The joy and happiness with which he has enriched our life so much more than makes up for the cost of food and his toys. We usually wake up each morning with a smile and more often than not, laughter. For a 85lb pit bull he is a snuggler and so giving of his sweetness. And he is very handsome, all tan and white, he is filling out too. But what always comes through is his sweetness. And he is so much more smarter than he lets on. But aren't most of us??

I am trying to apply what I am learning. It is kind of hard during the week. Other than the meditation on Wednesdays and Thursdays, work days are kind of hard to apply what I am learning. My job, thank goodness, is a great job and pretty much all goes very smoothly and I only have a half hour for lunch so I just stay in and read my book. But on my Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays I need to practice, when I go out and about, to really look around me and see what is going on in Life. Not just my life, but life in general. One never knows when a lesson will pop up.

This weekend I am taking my friend bev and getting the second hole in my ear done. I have wanted it for so long, but like so many things, just put it off. I am not going to just put things off, when I say something, I want to follow through and achieve my goals. And here again comes Dr. Weiss - Lip service without the behavior has no value. And believe me I had been a queen of lip service. So forward I go. A baby step at a time, but I will be happy with that, achievement, no matter the size, is still achievement.