“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things” – Leonardo da Vinci
The countdown had started, 3 more sleeps and back to where I currently belong. I woke up twice last night so that was a progress from the other nights and slept sound too. My nightmares had gone, surely the bitter syrup was working 🙂
Today yoga was painful, in a strange way. Like every part of my body was complaining with all these changes or complaining as the countdown had started, I wasn’t sure. Either ways, I did what I could without stretching myself and called it an ‘OK’ start to the day. When I met the doctor, he asked me and I shared the language in which my body communicated and he suggested to change the main treatment at 9.30am to give my body a break. Later in the consultation he explained that since past few days I was receiving milk for nourishment, it seemed my body had taken it otherwise and made it more stiff. So moving forward, it would be same treatment for the same benefits, without milk. Today we had 2 Anu’s in the room as Shruti had left and the treatment left me feeling very warm so the entire day I decided to stay indoors instead of sitting outside. If anything, with my Dosha I prefer cold temperature than warm, this was revealed to me.
Even though today wasn’t a cleansing day, I still got the tea outside my door and after the treatment I was happy to sip the same in the comforts of the fan and finish the book in hand as I had only 100 pages left. Lunch was good, I took more veggies than rice as usual and now we were 4 in the room, this meant more chats. Post lunch I was determined to start the other book to avoid sleeping and with the context, I think I didn’t move until it was time to be present somewhere, whether in the treatment room for the afternoon session or for tea. I skipped yoga too as felt I wanted to give my knees a break to rest it out in the evenings, I am grateful enough to be able to do my morning sessions.
For some reason, I felt heavy today as if I had a lot of food inside me, maybe it was mental as after 3 days of cleansing, everything felt stored. So during dinner, instead of 2 bowls of soup I decided to go with one. As I saw Vishnu, it hit me that I had forgotten to carry the Rubik’s cube out today for his practise, so I requested him to get it from my room. After a bit of hesitation, he smiled and took the key. I didn’t see much of him in the evening and assumed he was busy when I was told by the other ladies that in fact he was there, somewhere doing the task. Bless him, he was even referring to my video from last night so I suggested him to go to YouTube instead, as mine had errors that I fixed so not the best version to follow and that YouTube had proper steps broken down for anyone keen to learn. He nodded and I told him to keep the cube for the night, I had 10 pages left from the new book I started by an iIndian author and sat outside the dining hall to finish my bit. It’s amazing how passionate and committed we can be sometimes to achieve something, as I walked back in the hall to return the book, I saw Vishnu still with the cube. I wished everyone goodnight, smiled and left. Am sure with patience and perseverance, anything is achievable. We just have to visualise it in our mind first, if mind is convinced then the rest of us will do what it takes to make it happen.
