12 Months to Enlightenment: Getting Ready!

Saturday, October 29, 2011

Getting Ready!

It's Saturday, October 29th, and I am getting ready for my 12 month journey to enlightenment, which will start promptly on Tuesday November 1st!
So, this should get me to enlightenment BEFORE 12/21/2011...I have some leeway. (phew)

I am going to add a few things into my daily schedule, to see if it can help me on my way!

I have always read that meditation is important. Starting today, I will meditate for at least 15 min every evening. Perhaps I will increase this 5 minutes more every month, until I reach 1 hour. (I have secretly really disliked this kind of meditation- where you sit cross legged quietly pretending that your left hip and leg isn't killing you. "Clear my mind! Focus on breath!" ...uh hem...my left leg is dying slowly!!!) I will definitely need to research different meditation techniques, and revisit why this might be important to achieve enlightenment.
Define enlightenment! - Super important -and I should probably work on this continually throughout the journey!
Body, Mind, and Soul. I have this idea that I must address body, mind and soul. I think meditation might help with the mind and soul, and maybe even the body too. But for my body, I quit sugar today. DAY 1 no refined sugar...I figure the next 3 days I might be pretty irritable and wouldn't want to begin Month 1 Day1 of my journey in a cranky mood! So, to prepare for the journey, I quit sugar. Going OK so far. Took a nap and didn't go near any people. Only the dogs and the cat have any idea that I am struggling.

I am sure there is more to do and say and think about, but I guess that's what the journey will show me.

Talk to you soon,

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Welcome Everyone!

I recently read an article that discussed the meaning of the Mayan calendar coming to an end and equating it to the magnetic field changes around earth.
I don't really know what they meant to say, and frankly, it doesn't matter.
MY understanding of the article was that KARMA is created in the magnetic field, and as the magnetic field is changing and shrinking, at some point, perhaps at the exact point that the Mayan calendar ends, 12/21/2012, all past Karma will be wiped clean and we have a chance to completely start over.

So, as the article pointed out, I have till then to become enlightened, and no longer create new Karma that I will then have to clear.
Now, all I can hear in my head is, I have one year to become enlightened...well, a little over one year.
How the heck will I do that?
Becoming enlightened has always sounded like a good thing. But now, with this deadline approaching quickly, I have used this as a catalyst to take my journey to enlightenment to the next level.
I have one year to become enlightened.
So - welcome to my journey.

My goal: to become enlightened by 12/21/2012.

I know little about this, despite the number of books I have a read, and surely part of the journey will be for me to define enlightenment.

Please join me, and feel free to share your honest ideas and loving thoughts.

I love humor, and I am serious about the journey. I believe humor is an important, wonderful aspect of life, and certainly of my character. So, please do not misunderstand my humor for sarcasm or disrespect of the process.
I certainly hope the journey is not mine alone; and by sharing it, I can help myself and others.
Again Welcome!