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Starting the day right

If I could wake up in the morning to the gentle sound of music, uplifting my spirit and guiding me on an inner journey to my loftiest thoughts, how different my life would be! Like a prayer or sacrifice, this would be my first ritual of the day, with the firm intent of setting small goals for myself to live with virtue and act with virtue on the lofty heights of inspiration and hope.

The days will come when my body is tired, but wouldn’t it be a lovely experience if the pure power of habit could softly lift my soul to a new level of the next phase of existence? Simply smoothing the soul with the sharp rise of mellow thoughts. Yes, I am setting myself a new goal for my automatic writing: to uplift myself and cultivate the crafty skill of simplifying my morning routine so that I can rise with the habit of being positive, energetic, and in harmony with my inner world.

Now, in my time of luxury, I have the space, time, and convenience to cultivate a habit that can serve me well until the very end. Isn’t the first hour of my humble day an opportunity to live with honor and insight? My spiritual and philosophical journey has led me slowly to the sacred moment of realization: to declare the first few waking minutes sacred and holy.

The Sabbath is not only the seventh day, but also the first flimsy hour of the day.

I feel life pouring through my body from my human soul. I grasp life with enthusiasm. I deal with it gently, making each thought conscious and a deliberate expression brought into inner harmony, and expanding it into hope to put action behind the dreams I still hold dear as I awake.

Copywrite Jurgens Pieterse, 2023

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Habits for a new year

The day started of well. I have a new vigour for my spiritual or self development. It will be wrong to call is spiritual development since I have lost the distinction made between body and spirit. It is one self and one continuum of being. When you act on the body the spirit is impacted and when you act within the spirit the body is impacted. They are interlinked, fused together for as long as I live the life of a human being. The seperation will only come after “death” when it is time for the big transition where body and spirit seperate ways. But the spirit will yearn again to merge into the material world in order for it to become perfect as a unity that is part of the Unity. It will be arrogant beyond measure to claim that perfection or to think I can find a highway in this life towards that point of perfection. My life is not a pure ray of white light but through virtue and focus the light has become more focused and it is growing in its brightness.

I had become convinced for some time now that to plan in terms of goals and objectives are a bit of a weak strategy if it is devoid of being supported by habit forming. It is habitual action performed consistently that sets the course for achieving objectives and goals. While being on holiday I had the time to play around with different applications on my cell phone and I discovered an app that tracks habits calle habits. It is a simple app where all the things I do want to do is listed and one can keep track of when you have done each habit. Being able to tick of a habit is a boost of good feeling endorphins. Since a habit is different from a task being completed it is also more predictable that a habitual action can be completed. The discipline developed will result in the stanima needed to address the tasks at hand that must be addressed to achieve our objectives and goals.

So my day began with the feeling of success as I could tick of having done my dose of Tai Chi for the day as well as some mystical experiments. They do not only boost my own inner effectiveness for my work enviroment but they form part of the internal alchemy that changes the way I think and act in the world. Developing healthy habits are a powerful way of changing behaviour and I am looking forward to experiment with techniques and methods to develop the habits that have a positive impact on both body and spirit.