Week 7 - Integral Naked Seminar @ my place

This weekend I hosted a seminar for me and my wife. It was held in the comfort of our house, based on a series of videolectures by mr. Ken Wilber. The topic was "Integral Buddhism".

I love organizing it as if it were a "real" seminar I'm attending. I always make a brochure for it with Microsoft Word and print it out. It's the next best thing to flying out to one of Integral Institute's gathereings. And besides, it suits my budget.

Besides the seminar I've continued excercising daily, getting up at 6 am, and continuing with my studies and the translation of Wilber's book. I have noticed the power of ritual: yesterday I got up late, at 9 40 am, which meant that the rest of the day was spent trying in vain to get my mind back to decent tracks. Eventually I eneded up renting Saw & Saw II, and that gave me some rest. Desperate measures, indeed, are sometimes needed.

So what I've learned is that I really do tend to get the 80% of my good cheer for the day from the 20% (or less) of my time that  I use with my morning rituals (getting up early, reading some good blogs, exercising + today I added meditation, and writing a blog). I guess as human beings we are always addicted to something. What we can choose is what it is we're addicted to: bliss, sorrow, good mood, sulking, whatever. I choose happiness!

And if that doesn't work, I'll go for horror films.