Leaning and Gripping
Oct. 21st, 2011 03:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
…leaning into what is gripping us will allow us to work our way free.
I came back to the UK with the full intention of being good… not going to bed too late, and not keeping Mir on the phone all night long once we got off the computer. For a little while, I was doing okay… bed on time, within half an hour of 7pm (midnight UK time), and actually using Skype to say goodbye, so that we didn’t talk for hours on the phone, though I missed talking on the phone, it's different somehow…
The other night – epic fail… midnight came and went and were still typing together, something that I didn't feel like dropping and I was there, on the ball with the typing the whole time. I recognise that's not always the case, but I won't take the blame for that being the case all of the time. As was pointed out to me before I used to be able to keep up with multiple rooms on Moo all the time, and I know I can keep up. What's changed I'm not sure, but… anyway, in the nature of leaning in to what is gripping me, instead of pulling against not getting to bed on time with excuses and all, I'm just going to have to go to bed on time… within half an hour of midnight… no matter how many rooms are on the go.
Few situations can be bettered
by going berserk.
--Melody Beattie
…leaning into what is gripping us will allow us to work our way free.
I came back to the UK with the full intention of being good… not going to bed too late, and not keeping Mir on the phone all night long once we got off the computer. For a little while, I was doing okay… bed on time, within half an hour of 7pm (midnight UK time), and actually using Skype to say goodbye, so that we didn’t talk for hours on the phone, though I missed talking on the phone, it's different somehow…
The other night – epic fail… midnight came and went and were still typing together, something that I didn't feel like dropping and I was there, on the ball with the typing the whole time. I recognise that's not always the case, but I won't take the blame for that being the case all of the time. As was pointed out to me before I used to be able to keep up with multiple rooms on Moo all the time, and I know I can keep up. What's changed I'm not sure, but… anyway, in the nature of leaning in to what is gripping me, instead of pulling against not getting to bed on time with excuses and all, I'm just going to have to go to bed on time… within half an hour of midnight… no matter how many rooms are on the go.
