Mindfull of myself

At minyan on Friday night (I'm a participant in an independent young-adult minyan that meets at least monthly for Shabbat services and a potluck), a good friend of mine told me that something I had said earlier that night--probably in connection with my explaining why I am on a raw food diet and referencing this blog--made me sound "mind-full of yourself."  "What?" I said.  "I don't remember," he replied.

"I was simply responding to your
erroneous statement."

This seemed horribly unfair.  I had received information that I had apparently done something wrong, but that there was no way to remedy it because he couldn't remember what it was.  I, of course, proceeded to chew my friend out for what I perceived as his meanness in this regard and remain rather snappy toward him for the rest of the evening.  My friend, of course, had probably only mentioned it because he wanted to make the pun "mind-full of yourself."  S, if you're reading this, sorry about losing my sense of humor.  Hopefully it was temporary.  I am like a Vulcan, but with Klingon emotional regulation issues.

Not exactly what my minyan friend meant by the word, but I *have* been a bit "mindfull of myself" in the sense that I am ODing on mindfulness training (perhaps in the sense he meant it too, although I do not intend for that).  I have set up for myself a regimen in which I aspire: to meditate every day (for an hour!), drastically alter my diet, quit facebook cold turkey, blog, stop losing things, cut down on multitasking, incorporate Judaism into mindfulness, possibly take a mindfulness class... leave it to me to make even mindfulness frenetic!

But my blog - and perhaps my sanity - could use a little easing into this.  So let's set some sort of a structure/ order to this mindfulness gig, happiness-project style.  I will plan to focus as follows:

-Now until Tu B'Shvat (2/8) - mindful eating/raw foods
-Tu B'Shvat to Purim (3/8) - Kabat-Zinn formal meditation and yoga
-Purim to Pesach (4/6) - informal mindfulness - stop losing things, decrease multitasking
-Pesach to Shavuot (5/28) - mindfulness through Judaism
-5/28 - end - TBA, exercise, or perhaps just trying everything again.

Inspired by my focus on eating during this section of my six months, I splurged for a vitamix.  And some other raw-food-enabling appliances.