Discipline, pt 2

I need a diet. A total mind/body diet. I’m sure everyone recognizes that nagging feeling when it’s time to reset/rethink/renew. Sometimes you listen, sometimes you don’t. I often put the moment off, because to really commit to excising the things I need to would put me uncomfortably out of step with the people around me. But I couldn’t be more removed from my loved ones, friends and peers than I am right now. Inside and out. So why not? Tomorrow morning I will start a 30 day behavioral diet and exercise program! From June 1 till July 1 I will forego: all intoxicants, meat (including poultry and fish), coffee, magazines & television (barring catastrophic world events or urgent local news). That’s the diet part. The exercise part is: 30 minutes of silent meditation daily; 30 min of running and/or calisthenics; 1 hour of musical play/writing. I’m interested to see what kind of changes might happen by following these rules for 30 days. What bad habits can be broken, and which good ones formed? How much extra time can be freed up by eliminating some obvious trivialities?How much viable music might actually come from a daily routine as opposed to “inspiration”? Tomorrow morning we’ll start finding these answers and more… (S)