Wandering Mind

There is something to be said for just making it to the mat. Surya A's last night before bed, Just standing this morning. It's not ideal but I guess I shouldn't have ideals when it comes to my practice. While trying to observe my limitations without focusing on them I ended up focusing on them the whole time. My biggest limitation was the wandering mind going every which way but quiet. But I had the mat under my feet and that's more than many other days.

I had a pinched nerve in my back about a week and a half ago that was causing some major back spasms. Ended up at the chiropractor for the first time ever last Monday. I must say being able to sleep through the night was a glorious thing. I went again on Wednesday and Friday and once we worked through the pinched nerve we moved on to the tight lower back, tight hips, and the left knee. I'm may try to keep going once a week for a while to keep working through some of this stuff. I figure as long as the insurance is helping to pay for it I may as well. I was most surprised about the improvements to my knee. I haven't been able to even look at someone in lotus without my knee hurting but since the visit on Friday I can actually get into half lotus. I think my fear of messing the knee up worse is holding me back, but I'll still take my time coming back to it. It's just nice to work that hip again.

Work is N.U.T.S. It's amazing what kind of havoc the lack of planning can create. I'm trying not to let it spill into what little free time I have carved out for myself, but it did have a hand in only doing Surya A yesterday. Either way it will be over in a month and I've made it through worse.

Wish I were writing more but have been either lacking time or inspiration. It's definitely different with L living here. I find that I would prefer to spend my free time with her vs. all the things I used to do with it before when we were basically just seeing each other on weekends (which includes blogging). A lot of things we've been doing together and we've even started being more active in the evenings instead of my sedintary ass in front of the computer or television every night. It would be nice to work back into writing regularly again... We'll see.