Reset Button
Posted by Chris Young on 09.14.05
So this month I am going to dedicate to a healthy lifestyle - this means:
Eating (completely) right (meaning not eating for taste and out of mundane habit) (no nicotene, no sugar, no caffeine)
(always) Going to sleep on time and keeping a schedule
Focusing on work (don’t laugh) and yoga
Spending Money Wisely (eating right will be a big part of this, but no impulsive buying)
Always keeping a clear mind (keeping my head free of gossip and idle drifting)
30 days! Will I become a weirdo?? What new disciplines will I keep and what will I disguard?
Snackrabbit said,
09.14.05 at 12:28 pm
You are assuming that you are not already a weirdo, which I think is quite an assumption. But being a weirdo is fine. These practices won’t make you weirder in any negative way unless you become obsessive about them or righteous.
So try not to go on and on about how you found the best way to go to sleep on time or how easy it is to be sensible with your money because you decided you’d try it out for a month (or days as it may be…
) Everything seems easy when you do it or have done it.
I’m assuming you’re writing this down here to make a little bit of a public commitment to help you with your goals. So good luck!
p.s. what makes you choose 30 days? It seems like a diet of sorts.
p.p.s ‘Not eating for taste’? Do you want astronaut pills? There is nothing better than tongue fucking a roast beef sandwich and you know it, which is why you’ll be back shoving grease into your gullet in no time.
But really I think that what this means is that you’ll be eating soley to confirm the existence of your food.
beesucker said,
09.14.05 at 12:44 pm
As far as blogging this, it isn’t to have a public commitment, but rather to put a marker in the ground - otherwise I will forget that I have even committed.
Reset Button meaning to cut through some bad habits - the machine hits a glitch and goes into a weird pattern. Cleaning out my guts and mind will help to undermine some bad habits. This kind of regimine seems to help to loosen up the stuck parts.
So indeed, it is a diet of sorts - in the end i will see what I want to keep and what I want to toss.
Not eating for taste means instead to eat for fuel. I don’t eat a cheeseburger for any reason but ‘YUMMY!”, so its out.
I don’t know what you mean by eating to confirm the existance of food. I will be eating soley to support the organism.
Snackrabbit said,
09.14.05 at 1:03 pm
I didn’t think I was being obscure: What is real is what you can eat, therefore, I suspect that the reason for eating will be simply to confirm the existence of your food.
beesucker said,
09.14.05 at 1:12 pm
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH . . . yes!
Because the taste of food can not be said to be edible, it also can be said to be un-real.
Which is why eating for taste is an un-real endeavor and therefore is an action born out of ignorance.
Forgive me for my dullness.
travis..... said,
09.14.05 at 8:52 pm
you are a reset button. Why don’t you just do that for awhile instead of setting an exact day… and quit being gay….. so instead just eat hay ….. today ……do you hear what I say?…..
kage said,
09.15.05 at 5:53 am
good luck.
beesucker said,
09.15.05 at 11:57 am
Thank you for your excelent advice, Travis. This is meant to be a cleanse, not a lifestyle change. What is wrong with an exact day or number of days? Luck isn’t needed because I am only playing - there is no goal. Just setting a focus for a few days.
Setting a limit on a practice helps to avoid tightness - which I am prone to. When I go on retreat with Rinpoche, we wake up every morning to take the ‘One Day Mahayana Vow’. Now one could criticize this saying, ‘why put a limit on it?’. But it can help to focus on something for a period of time - to test it out - a test drive.
So . . . gay is as gay does . . . hay is for horses, buds . . . washing my belly out with soapy suds . . . all yo squakin like elmer fudds . . . chasin da rabit in da girly duds . . . oh yea oh yea
Firefly said,
09.19.05 at 6:45 am
Focus schmocus
beesucker said,
09.19.05 at 10:00 am
Firefly, your taunts only make me stronger!
Each day I seethe with only thoughts of your destruction.
Your taunts only fan the fire of your ultimate demise!
Don Livingston said,
03.27.06 at 4:56 pm
The other good thing about a short time limit is this: when we make a commitment to do something long term, we may generate so much anxiety over the change that we fail to perform it. If we set a short time limit, we can more peacefully experience the experience itself instead of stressing over the potential stress of the experience, and we don’t feel like we are setting ourselves up for failure.