Sunday morning on the Porch
In the last post, I promised a surprise re meditation. SusanB and I tried for a 20-minute sit in the Yogatorium yesterday. I set the kitchen timer and we sat - and we sat - and we sat - and we sat. Finally, I gave up and released my right leg tp a bemt knee upright position and held that for maybe 5 minutes or so. Eventually, I gave up completely and picked up the timer and it was still on 19! I had set it for 20 hours rather than minutes. So, when we got back to the cottage, Stacy said she had been just ready to walk out the door and come find us - we had been sitting for 45 minutes!!!! I'm not sure what the message is here. All I know is I have never sat for more than 30 minutes before and I don't truly remember doing that - 20 has been a max I think.
It's now the day after one full detox day (actually 2 for me and Stacey) and I feel great - empty but great! Had black bean soup SusanB made, humongous salads - sp[inach, lettuce, cranberries, toasted pumpkin seeds, bell peppers, onions, carrots, etc. using a dressing Stacey concocted of olive oil, peanut butter, and garlic - (my garlic powder is OLD - even double amounts didn't domuch, so she added some minced garlic from the fridge. Kiwi, oranges, figs, apples, blueberries, walnuts, almonds, quinoa, buckwheat, and the winner so far is Stacey's chocolate dessert - cake I guess you'd call it - but no flour - chick peas (garbanzos) egg, chocolate chips, cocoa, honey and I think baking powder. We'll preserve the recipe for sure! This morning Susan T is to prepare waffles - I'll have to write about those later. I rpesented each team member with a pint jar for water and we each wrote our names on them and are using them to drown our insides and I can't recall having felt so clean. Well, I do too - anone who's had a colonoscopy prep day does! At any rate, this is a much more pleasant way to achieve the cleansing. And, presumably we're cleansing the inside of the clls as well as the inside of our body.
This is our second detox weekend (first one in Febuary) and so we're getting more proficint at it, whatever that means. Anyway, we're having FUN too. Last night we watched Shirley Valentine movie together and got lots of chuckles. We also did an exercise from Parker Palmer's "Hidden Wholeness" book to discover values - which sounds boring as the devil, but in fact was revealing to each of us and fun, too.
Stacey and SusanT cleaned off my home page and got me into Facebook. Now, the work is to figure out what to do with it now that I'm on it.
One small glitch - the heat in the Yogatoriumwent out - so we're using it with heaters, but not very satisfactorily. Perhaps today will be warm enough that we can do more than short morning stretches in sweat clothes.
Enough for now. Time to wake up Stacey and get on with the day!