Personal Meditation No. 6

“My freedom doesn’t require your freedom; why must your enslavement require mine?” Embrace the Within.

So how do you start working on getting free? The first step is getting healthy physically, mentally, and financially.

My normal routine includes waking up from a healthy sleep of around seven hours and exercising. I take a multivitamin and vitamin D along with my blood pressure subscription. I then get over here on the Google machine and tap-tap-taparoo out something. I drink water with salt added for electrolytes and try to get around a gallon of water a day. One of my daily goals is to achieve hydration. I break my fast around ten every day and begin with eating foods that aren’t processed or cooked in seed oil. My diet is mainly meats and vegetables and my only fruit is tomato, whether sliced or made into salsa. I work on keeping my food window open until about six in the evening and then begin my fast again until the next morning. This means getting to bed somewhere before ten.

Cleaning your body and getting sleep does wonders for your mental health. My critical thinking is great now that I’m not tired and eating garbage. I read mainly nonfiction and avoid watching, reading, and hearing the news as much as possible. I have a few folks that tend to keep me up on the goings on outside my community but I can’t say I’m impressed with anything I hear.

I spend as much time as I can outside. If that means I’m in the garden after work or taking a walk outside the building during work or just sitting on the porch or in a lawn chair. Being out in nature is important for your mental health. So take the time to find a little patch of green and soak it in as much as you can.

Financial health is not worrying about money. And I can’t think of a time in the past year where I was worried about that. My main source of expense is working on gentleman farming. I learned that as much money as I spent on dirt in the last year, that I can’t pretend to be poor. But, I am putting my finances into something that is going to benefit myself and my family in the long term. Farming on the small scale generates a tangible reward in food and the intangible reward of being out in nature and exercising. Bags of dirt and feed aren’t light. Building planting boxes and wire fences comes with the sweat equity of swinging a hammer.

Getting yourself free isn’t a one and done. It’s a daily process that you have to embrace every morning. Anyone can do anything for a day and each morning you get that day, that chance, that change. I hope you find whatever you’re looking for. Have the day you want.

@embrace_within

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