I had about two days where I failed to stick to the pattern, but now I’m used to it. :) The trial is a success!

I recently started meditating and then journaling first thing in the morning, sometimes between going to the toilet and eating breakfast. Now, since I can’t think of a better trial, I will meditate and journal as I have been doing for about a week or so already, except now it’s a trial.

Here are the rules:

• Meditating for as long as I feel like, gradually going longer as I get better. (I’m currently doing two minutes, but starting tomorrow, I’ll do at least three.)
• Journaling for at least fifteen minutes – constant writing.

That’s it. :)

An update about going barefoot, now that I’m writing anyway:

I’m still walking barefoot. Last Friday I jumped over the edge of the pavement thing at the parking lot by the Kiwi store at Kringsjå, and landed in the leaves. I also landed on a broken bottle neck, cutting myself, but I didn’t realize before I got home. I wore shoes for three days – when I did go out, that is. I felt like Minotaurus, wearing those hooves. :S I found it hard and uncomfortable to walk with shoes, so I will try to avoid it as much as I can. My wound is almost completely gone, so I walk without shoes, fearing no infection anymore. :)

I’ve already started this somehow, but now I’m doing it publically. I will get up at 6:30 for 30 days. This means I’ll have to go to bed at around eleven, or even earlier, although I will simply go to bed when I’m tired. I don’t imagine it will be very hard – I’ve been an early riser before, and as early as at 5:00 for a long time.

This is the return of my old project, where I wanted to first fix my sleep, then my diet, and finally exercise. This time I’m back with my diet in order, and a fourth pillar of health. ;) I’m exercising as well, but it has the lowest priority at the moment. The love seems to be fine as well, but I will probably do some sort of 30-day trial on that too. So, right now I’d say that my diet project is successful – one down, three left. :)

The detailed rules for this 30-day trial are:

• I am allowed to take naps. However, I have to wait at least 1,5 hours between waking up and going back to bed, except between 10:30 pm and 6.30 am.
• No matter when I take naps, I have to be awake from 6:30 to 8:00.
• At 11:00 pm, I am not allowed to stay awake if I’m tired, except if I just woke up from a nap, in which case the limit is pushed back 1,5 hours at most.

I have conquered the second pillar of health. Now I’m going for the first one.