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7/4 Friday Check In
I’m in hour 58 of my fast 🤪
My caloric intake has been 15-30 calories per day (lemon juice and spices)
Cold showers and my first plunges: one 2 minute, one 3-? Minute (Josh wandered off 🙃)
My steps have been over 10k. Running and light strength training mixed in.
I took a strike for starting my fast around 1am July 1st as opposed to before midnight on the 31st.
What I learned about myself this week is that internal motivation for me is a mixed bag- I’ve been wanting to return to a greater caloric deficit to eliminate my remaining chub layer, and I likely would have…but every freakin day?! That required a push. I found it here 🙏🏼 I’ve also rediscovered a happy place for me- being entirely relieved of my own and others perceptions. I found this in meditation, and when my bums were high during runs. A special kind of NGAF.
What has been a struggle, this week at least, has been steps- I was mostly in the office this week, 10k is easy on site. Also, my AC going out. So fun! GOOD. I can grow in my commitment, and determination, and the unit was old as hell anyway. Plus I’m getting to reconnect with my hvac guy whom I really like.
What has been easiest for me thus far is keeping my mental state regulated. I have a lot of sh💩T on my plate right now, but I’m embracing the friction. I see this as a continuation of evolving perception that I’ve earned with the aid of committed meditation practice, which has gradually led me to greater live and compassion for myself and others, more truthful and insightful discernment, more attention and awareness to right thinking and thought control, gradually expanding awareness in general, all leading to better action and greater mental peace. One of my favorite things I say as part of my metta -
‘🙏🏼May we each experience a deep and meaningful mental peace thay leads us back to our strength and joy 🙏🏼’
One thing I have learned from the book I’m reading- we all have the potential to, and at times will, embody our best *and* worst self. Facing our worst self, accepting it, forgiving it, may be the only way to best overcome it, and embrace our better versions. And is up to each of us alone to recognize this- no one truly knows another’s greatness or lack thereof. It is forever obscured because it is only we who look out from within. Even if we are to be admired or exalted- all that is ultimately as much a reflection of others wants or needs as is it our own greatness. We must know these things within ourselves.
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