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muck_a_luckNose pressed against the SAD light.
I think it is working. SAD much much less than last couple of years, but I think it is finally coming to roost. I am not so much depressed, as quite irriationally hair-trigger irritable, with a side of sentimental tearfulness that is over the top even for me. Still, better than the flat out depression that I wallowed in for three and a half months last winter. Even if I do get that low, it should be for a lot shorter time this year.
Do you know what a mother's love smells like? Brownies coming out of the oven at 6:30 am so that you can have a couple for your lunch box.
I have more or less kept my New Year's resolution to do at least a little bit of yoga every day. I think I have only missed three days since January 2.
I have been thinking a lot about ahimsa - non-violence toward self and others. And yes, this Yoga Journal subscription is likely to push me much farther down the path of granola flake than I already am, though I'm still not about to be come a vegetarian, sorry. Compassion toward self is not really either a Christian nor an American practice, is it? Interesting to conceptualize yourself as fundamentally perfect - a dimond in need of a good shining - rather than fundamentally flawed. Not that I spend too much time sitting around thinking of myself as a sinner, exactly. Just noting the essential philosophical difference. Anyway, compassion and non-violence toward myself and toward others - it is in my mind.
My four-year-old and I are often at loggerheads these days. The my hair-trigger irritability is not helping the situation, and her moments of obvious regret and distress when she pushes me too far are part of why I am thinking about ahimsa.
The daily yoga is bringing results in my asana practice. Hip flexibility and core strength are at new plateaus. Core strength is contributing to new balance. I should renew my determination on shoulder flexibility so that I might be able to achieve some of the binds. Must remember to do those stretches a couple of times a day. It's not like they are parcitularly difficult to fit in.
*sigh* Orthodonture. And we haven't even really started it yet. Gah. The upfront cost. *sigh*
I think it is working. SAD much much less than last couple of years, but I think it is finally coming to roost. I am not so much depressed, as quite irriationally hair-trigger irritable, with a side of sentimental tearfulness that is over the top even for me. Still, better than the flat out depression that I wallowed in for three and a half months last winter. Even if I do get that low, it should be for a lot shorter time this year.
Do you know what a mother's love smells like? Brownies coming out of the oven at 6:30 am so that you can have a couple for your lunch box.
I have more or less kept my New Year's resolution to do at least a little bit of yoga every day. I think I have only missed three days since January 2.
I have been thinking a lot about ahimsa - non-violence toward self and others. And yes, this Yoga Journal subscription is likely to push me much farther down the path of granola flake than I already am, though I'm still not about to be come a vegetarian, sorry. Compassion toward self is not really either a Christian nor an American practice, is it? Interesting to conceptualize yourself as fundamentally perfect - a dimond in need of a good shining - rather than fundamentally flawed. Not that I spend too much time sitting around thinking of myself as a sinner, exactly. Just noting the essential philosophical difference. Anyway, compassion and non-violence toward myself and toward others - it is in my mind.
My four-year-old and I are often at loggerheads these days. The my hair-trigger irritability is not helping the situation, and her moments of obvious regret and distress when she pushes me too far are part of why I am thinking about ahimsa.
The daily yoga is bringing results in my asana practice. Hip flexibility and core strength are at new plateaus. Core strength is contributing to new balance. I should renew my determination on shoulder flexibility so that I might be able to achieve some of the binds. Must remember to do those stretches a couple of times a day. It's not like they are parcitularly difficult to fit in.
*sigh* Orthodonture. And we haven't even really started it yet. Gah. The upfront cost. *sigh*
