I Can See Clearly Now...

I've noticed that today I'm not nearly as fixated on eating as I was yesterday. Yesterday it was mostly all I thought about after the 2 morning classes and today I am finding I have to remind myself to eat something or I won't make it through the classes tonight. It's like my mind has cleared and it's easier today to divert energy to other contemplations, not just my fixation on something crunchy and salty. I felt more primitive yesterday, whereas today I feel a bit more "evolved".

It's as if my food fixations yesterday represented the mental clutter that's usually present and the mindfulness we've been practicing with our food, our relationships in the kula, our practice, our meditation and our blog (or journal) is serving to carve away at that clutter. And by eating more simply, we're redirecting energy usually spent in processing complex foods.

These simple observations are important and beneficial to our spiritual evolution, which is why I highly recommend a journal or a few blog entries (and your OMwork if you haven't done it yet) during this significant week together. What you observe is perhaps not even as significant as the practice of observing. Slowing down enough to put it on paper will allow you gain some insight and may guide your future choices about how you nourish yourself and how you chose to live. During this cleanse and immersion we're practicing how to shift out of auto-pilot and become present in our experiences. Noting what we feel really helps us to learn from what we do, it forces the mind to slow down enough to pluck something and hold it for awhile.

May you view all your obstacles as workable :)

Love to all,
Gina