2-11-2019
Actually Monday, early, up late, seem to have some sleep issues.
Yoga Teacher Training was long and difficult - fourteen hours today.
I feel good, but sore.
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2-13-2019
Day 12 of sadhana.
Been too busy to get to the gym, heading to Arizona on Friday to watch some college baseball and to hang out with my brother and parents. Ready to relax.
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2-14-2019
Day 13 of sadhana.
I fly tomorrow, Arizona. Shut down the shit with Gwen, just tired of being shit on.
Looking forward to some college baseball, Go Beavs!
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So, @dchris, what do you think about my brother buying Corvallis Country Club?
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Iāve never actually been. Iām reading about it now.
Wacky shit.
If I told you how that deal is structured your head might explode.
If itās remotely as weird as Creekside, I wouldnāt touch it.
Not familiar with Creekside, might have to google that.
Well, heās out $1.2M to fix the club house, so it better work out, lol.
By the way, they are offering out of town memberships for $75 a month, you should sign up.
2-23-2019
Day 22 of sadhana.
Just got back from Arizona, bittersweet. My 81 year old father is not doing well, my 80 year old mother is rocking it.
My brother is doing well financially and personally.
Went to several baseball games, Oregon State, as expected, is really good. Believe they are 7-0 after thrashing Nebraska tonight. Itās 17-1 going into the ninth.
Ate like a pig, got to the gym twice, typical 5x3 full body schizzell. Getting used to being off testosterone and kind of like it, for now at least. Will stay off for a while.
Forgot my supps, so looking forward to getting back on them - particularly pregnenalone and seeing how that helps my mental clarity.
Got a great deal of clarity for the future.
Good trip.
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Just looked this up. Sounds really cool. How are you feeling on it? I really like savasana too by the way. In the yoga classes I go to, we do this at the end & they play relaxing music (itās the sort of thing that makes you want to take a nap)
For me, and most Kundalini freaks, Sadhana is a daily yoga practice with meditation. I typically do between thirty and sixty minutes a day in the morning, more meditation throughout the day and before bed, but it could just be a practice of a five minute breathing exercise.
In Kundalini, we do a particular kriya (or sequence of movements) as specified/approved by 3HO and these kriyas have a specific purpose - like liver cleanse or for resetting the adrenals. The idea is to complete the sadhana for forty days to affect lasting change.
There is also Aquarian Sadhana, which consists of listening to the poem Japji Sahib (23 minutes), a kriya (about an hour), followed by another hour of meditation (chanting mantras).
I too feel like a master of corpse pose (savasana). In the studio I attend, they play the gong instead of music and it has a noticeable affect. Another note about Kundalini, everything (the postures, the savasana, the gong) is intended to prepare you for the meditation. The meditation is where the money is.
As far as how I am feeling, well some days, feel great. Others, feel pissed off. However, the sadhana seems to help keep me balanced. Itās best to do it in the AM, during the Amrit Vela - the ambrosial period 2 1/2 hours before sunrise - but sometimes I just have to hit snooze, and then it seems to be hanging over my head all day.
Ah well, shiz happens.
I realize this was probably more than what you were asking, sorry bout dat.
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Not at all my man, I really appreciate you taking the time to write your thoughts
3-8-2019
Day 33 I think of sadhana.
I have decided to go work with my brother, which means moving 3000 miles away from my kids, and my estranged wife is not happy.
Tough times.
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Are you happy? Thatās the important question.
Yeah, not really.
Itās tough right now. But I feel like I need to chase a dream, making some cash, and running a business.
Wife is not happy at all, but I feel a need to do it.
Tired of teaching. Want to blow something up and the pallet job is an opportunity to blow up. Iāll be an owner of a pallet manufacturer, weāll make about 500,000 pallets a year.
So not happy, will be 3000 miles away from my kids, but chasing a dream.
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Honestly, it sounds like a decent starting point.
Happiness is overrated and fleeting. The satisfaction of chasing something important is longer lasting and more permanent.
Hell, Iām 34 and got married just over a year ago. I had a stable government job paying reasonable to good money. I quit in August 2018 to start a cabinetmaking apprenticeship because I knew the government job was dead end and was slowly killing my mental health. Major pay cut for four years. Wife is not happy, the whole thing puts strain on the marriage. Except Iām more satisfied than Iāve ever been. By the end Iāll have a trade that gets me work anywhere in the country.
Good on you for taking the plunge. Itās never too late.
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So if you make like a buck a palette youāll do pretty well!
3-18-2019
Day 43 of Sadhana.
Time to change my kriya, have to figure out what is next.
No gym, just the yoga. This was my sixth month of Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training, and the shit is getting hard. Ten hours Saturday, thirteen on Sunday, lots and lots of meditation, with a little instruction sprinkled in. This month it was the positive mind, the neutral mind, and the negative mind, mixed in with more work on the chakras.
The only noticeable effects are that I am still skinny AF, but getting more flexible and more grounded (itās a daily thing).
Of course, the skinny thing may have more to do with not lifting and being off of T for ten weeks. Iām probably going to stay off for a while. I get blood tested again in a few weeks and weāll see what my levels are - suspect very low, but am embracing it for now. When I dig myself out a bit, and start going to the gym again, I will probably go back on.
However, my yogi has a saying, āEat less, sleep less, meditate moreā and thatās what I have been doing, so there is that.
ITāS ALL ABOUT THE PRANA BITCHES!
Think Iām going to make a t-shirt with that, maybe a website.
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Lol, thatās actually right about what my compensation plan is. Of course, itās based on sales and not on manufacturing.
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