So maybe Polyphasic sleeping needs a little more time...
Ok.. I did the 'polyphasic' thing right through to about 5am, this morning, and then decided, I'd maybe get a bit of a lie in, until the 9.30am alarm, I'd already slept... Ended up sleeping right through till about 12pm... so wasn't quite on schedule.
I guess part of me was just not quite ready to go polyphasic during this coming weekend - especially as there's so much running around to do, and I was already starting to get tired, during just the first day...
I'm going to try to tackle this from a slightly different approach for now - instead of making my goal to go polyphasic - I'm going to aim at getting a little more balance into my life. Especially with the lack of exercise, and poor diet (what with constantly going from juicing, and being uber healthy - to going into a keeping up with the joneses mode, where I just go ahead and eat what everyone else is eating...) - I guess it doesn't help that I haven't structured my days, with any kind of regular routine in a while.
I remember the days I used to be 'organised', and I'd start my day at a fixed time each day, start with the same exercise, get some juicing, before going to work - and then coming back from work, it would be the same - some exercise, some food, and then some studying... But that was all living away from home - now trying to find something that works at home should be an interesting challenge... I guess starting the day with the same time each day should at least help.. If I make it a 5am morning every morning - that gives me at least an hour before everyone else wakes up to start collecting my thoughts, and focussing myself for the day ahead.
I guess life is all about focussing on someting, and then letting go - if you don't let go, then you don't allow it to appear into your life... Equally, if you don't focus - then you have nothing to work towards... I guess it's ok to spend your life without an aim, moving from moment to moment, but I don't think that's quite what the 'great' masters really alluded to when talking about non-attachment. Especially, the great wise Buddhists, and Taoists. I'm sure their meaning was more to not be attached to the outcome, or to what you accomplish. But without purpose, or direction, then how are we to know where to go, or where we come from?
Intrinsically, each one of us is a unique individual, and with that uniquness, comes a special purpose, a reason for being alive... Otherwise, we would all be born identical, and experience the world as the same. Yet we don't... Each one of us sees the world differently. Each one of us understands the world differently. It is these differences in understanding, in being seperate from each other, and looking onto the world with a specific lens, that we each come to create seperate worlds. If we were not meant to see things differently, then we wouldn't have been blessed with the diversity of being that we are. Just looking at nature - it is only in diversity, that life flourishes - in monotonous, or monotone replication of life, comes only death (even in our own bodies we can potentially suffer from cancer, which is the consequence of a cell replicating itself as a clone.) T'were we not so gifted to be able to see the path to health and prosperity, we might have something to worry about - but it's good to see that even if the cause is unknown - it's safe to say, "The natives are restless"...
I guess part of me was just not quite ready to go polyphasic during this coming weekend - especially as there's so much running around to do, and I was already starting to get tired, during just the first day...
I'm going to try to tackle this from a slightly different approach for now - instead of making my goal to go polyphasic - I'm going to aim at getting a little more balance into my life. Especially with the lack of exercise, and poor diet (what with constantly going from juicing, and being uber healthy - to going into a keeping up with the joneses mode, where I just go ahead and eat what everyone else is eating...) - I guess it doesn't help that I haven't structured my days, with any kind of regular routine in a while.
I remember the days I used to be 'organised', and I'd start my day at a fixed time each day, start with the same exercise, get some juicing, before going to work - and then coming back from work, it would be the same - some exercise, some food, and then some studying... But that was all living away from home - now trying to find something that works at home should be an interesting challenge... I guess starting the day with the same time each day should at least help.. If I make it a 5am morning every morning - that gives me at least an hour before everyone else wakes up to start collecting my thoughts, and focussing myself for the day ahead.
I guess life is all about focussing on someting, and then letting go - if you don't let go, then you don't allow it to appear into your life... Equally, if you don't focus - then you have nothing to work towards... I guess it's ok to spend your life without an aim, moving from moment to moment, but I don't think that's quite what the 'great' masters really alluded to when talking about non-attachment. Especially, the great wise Buddhists, and Taoists. I'm sure their meaning was more to not be attached to the outcome, or to what you accomplish. But without purpose, or direction, then how are we to know where to go, or where we come from?
Intrinsically, each one of us is a unique individual, and with that uniquness, comes a special purpose, a reason for being alive... Otherwise, we would all be born identical, and experience the world as the same. Yet we don't... Each one of us sees the world differently. Each one of us understands the world differently. It is these differences in understanding, in being seperate from each other, and looking onto the world with a specific lens, that we each come to create seperate worlds. If we were not meant to see things differently, then we wouldn't have been blessed with the diversity of being that we are. Just looking at nature - it is only in diversity, that life flourishes - in monotonous, or monotone replication of life, comes only death (even in our own bodies we can potentially suffer from cancer, which is the consequence of a cell replicating itself as a clone.) T'were we not so gifted to be able to see the path to health and prosperity, we might have something to worry about - but it's good to see that even if the cause is unknown - it's safe to say, "The natives are restless"...
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