Wanderings and Musings

Drawing

Meditation

Workout

For the month of January I have chosen 3 places to focus my efforts on my 30 day trails. Usually I would want to focus on just one item, but I’ve done these 3 before. Namely: Drawing, Meditation, and working out.

I want to really establish these activities as part of my daily practice, along with testing out what kind of physical shape I can establish with a full 30 days of working out.

I’ll be consolidating the reports on each day into batches of 5 days or so.

Day 1

Drawing - Drew for 25 minutes the outlines of a Hayabusa. Not very original, but I wasn’t prepared so I grabbed a model off my desk and started drawing.

Meditate - Did 20 minutes of deep meditation. No strange occurrences or even drifting off to sleep. Just sat and focused on the mantra.

Workout - Worked out with Rickey for about an hour doing chest and triceps. Right shoulder hurt a little when we were doing heavy dumbbell presses. Otherwise felt very good.

Day 2

Drawing - Drew for 20 minutes. Continuing on the outline of the Hayabusa. Drawing the wheels are particularly hard for me as I can see the inaccuracy of the circles so well.

Meditate - Did 20 minutes of deep meditation. I went pretty deep by the end, and the watch alarm startled me out of it. Lots of thoughts were flowing and had a hard time focusing on the mantra in the beginning.

Workout - Worked out alone doing legs. Made them burn for the upcoming ski season.

Day 3

Drawing – Drew for 20 minutes. Started work on an African Luna Moth.

Meditate -Did 20 minutes of deep meditation. Interestingly I was feeling very sexual during the meditation. One of the strange side affects I have heard about.

Workout – New Years Eve, but I still made it into the gym for an hour between work and heading out to dinner and the night. Flew through back, shoulders, and biceps. Feeling a tiny bit of a sore throat, not sure why though.

Day 4

Drawing - I have previously been drawing in the morning after getting up, but today being a holiday I had no schedule and didn’t get around to it until the evening. I continued on the African Luna Moth drawing for 20 minutes.

Meditate - Did 20 minutes of meditation right after drawing. No effects to report.

Workout - Went alone and worked on chest and triceps. My body is feeling pretty tired after 4 days straight but it will get used to it.

Day 5

Drawing - 20 minutes of drawing in the morning, again on the Moth. Here is how it currently looks.

Current State of the Drawing

Meditate - 20 minutes of meditation. I felt some different energy pulses through my body today. One was in my left thumb as it was touching my leg… when I raised it up off my leg it went away and came back when I lowered it again. Then I felt a deeper core of energy for a minute or so which went away.

Workout - Legs again at the Valley gym during lunch. Didn’t feel strong or much like being there, but I made it in.