Day 2 of the 30 Day Mindset Detox
Today was wild!! and I’m totally exhausted to the point of retardedness :-)
A little background would be in order – for a couple weeks, I have been working late or simply unable to sleep (to the wee hours of the morning, sometimes past sunrise) , and then I would crash later on. Part of my plan for this “realignment” was to fix my sleep schedule; so I stayed up all night, slept for two hours, then went to a 4 hour meeting! yeah… later, my house & roommates had a party planned: Live music from the amazing Paul Metaxas & his lovely vocalist Rebecca, good food, good people … and me…. half awake and slightly antisocial (not a normal state).
So what happened today?
I had an amazing conversation that brought up all sorts of deep seated beliefs to look at (I mean big), experienced another event that triggered those beliefs, music that triggered emotions and to top it off, a whooole lot of introspection. I should note now that one of the unsaid intents of this whole cleanse is to bring up those dark spots in my mind and deal with them (so not totally unexpected that they are coming up).
How did my commitments to the challenge go?
My busy day didn’t appear to leave much time for my commitments for the cleanse, or anything else, so I naturally went to ‘oh crap’, then solution. After the second set of music, I stole away upstairs to complete my 30 minutes of exercise, which ended up to be yoga, push ups, sit ups and upper body isometrics. Awesome. 1 down.. quite a few to go.
After rejoining the party for a bit, I realized I was fading fast, so back up to my room to knock out a few more. The book of choice today was “The Dark Side of the Light Chasers” by Debbie Ford, chosen for it’s focus on those dark spots that were bubbling up (as mentioned earlier). Afterwards, I sat in contemplation and wrote in my journal… I’m happy to say that putting the dark into perspective created the space to see how many amazing wins I actually had today & how grateful I really was.
Overall, today was really amazing, and I’m openly accepting both the light and the dark that is coming up for me; I’m as ready as I will ever be to face that which is limiting me, shake hands with it, possibly mourn with it, and let it go. Today was a great start.
~Zachariah