"I still don't no why." "I should just leave you instead of deceive you, but I don't, night after night..." :D Umm...yeah...lol.
I might say that you present a convincing case for reincarnation, in my humble opinion. :)
Three albums into this talented young lady's career we have some pretty relevant data about her consistency, fortitude, precocity, sensuality, and lock-step lyrics that make for a rather organic voyeurism. "I'm not confessional", she has said in interviews, but we are...:)
Thanks Laura!
This is my chronicle of life with Sungazing. I am a forty-something female. I would not have found SG unless I was looking for it. :) Thanks to all the mediums that have proceeded you.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Day 75 SUN!!
So the weather has continued to be awful...I have probably gotten about 30 total minutes in the last 6 weeks! Booooooo!
BUT, this morning I was able to get a solid 15 minutes in from my porch :D. That was awesome! The fact that the trees have lost about 75% of their leaves in my front yard definitely contributes. The other lovely new discovery has been that due to the shortened days...I was actually able to get about 5min of Sun SET last night. On a random walk with the dogs I looked up at the sun about 6:25 ish, and noticed that I could look almost directly at it. I ended up looking just about 3 or 4 degrees East and West of it and felt very comfortable. So it is occurring to me that I should be able to get some decent Sunset Sun in the next month or so.
It's just interesting to me that the quality of the Sun is so different now! Maybe it is b/c the weather totally interrupted my momentum, but it seems like the 'delicious' is still there...but not the vitamins that I sensed back in August. Maybe they will show up in the Sunset instead. That's what I am thinking. : )
Regardless, the urge to do it remains the same, and I still feel like my hormones... mood swings, aggravation, crankiness...have all taken a back seat. Before I started Sungazing, I can assure you I would periodically go through FITS of depression and aggravation...lol :P Oh yeah, that was GRRRReat. I thought to myself...wth?? I finally get to a place where I am comfortable with myself and my body turns on me?? Noooooooh. That's not possible.
My health and fitness have always ruled the roost. It has gotten me out of some pretty deep holes, ended bad relationships, and basically it has been the filter through which all of my other interests have been distilled. So, I thought, no way...lol... there has to be a mechanism for this. It is a litmus test to a certain degree, no?
Consequently, the first second I heard about Sungazing...rather, saw the documentary 'Eat the Sun'... it clicked. I thought, EXACTLY. Reading about it, and other ppl's Blogs, the science of the Eye and Pineal Gland, Photo-receptor activity, etc., confirmed a physiological process I thought reasonable. Now off to collect some empirical data...lol.
Here we are, 70+ days in and I feel like I have just scratched the surface of a tremendous adventure. I deeply aspire to be a better friend and co-worker; to recognize when I am stepping in it b/c of past learned behaviors, so I can CHANGE the way I do business when it becomes a dance instead of a dialogue. You're morphing or your dying they say. I believe that Sungazing is a process that achieves just that, new movement.
'Someday I will sit under the tree like Buddha showed us, summon the past and future, and vanquish them both.' _*_
Happy Saturday ! ~ Elle
BUT, this morning I was able to get a solid 15 minutes in from my porch :D. That was awesome! The fact that the trees have lost about 75% of their leaves in my front yard definitely contributes. The other lovely new discovery has been that due to the shortened days...I was actually able to get about 5min of Sun SET last night. On a random walk with the dogs I looked up at the sun about 6:25 ish, and noticed that I could look almost directly at it. I ended up looking just about 3 or 4 degrees East and West of it and felt very comfortable. So it is occurring to me that I should be able to get some decent Sunset Sun in the next month or so.
It's just interesting to me that the quality of the Sun is so different now! Maybe it is b/c the weather totally interrupted my momentum, but it seems like the 'delicious' is still there...but not the vitamins that I sensed back in August. Maybe they will show up in the Sunset instead. That's what I am thinking. : )
Regardless, the urge to do it remains the same, and I still feel like my hormones... mood swings, aggravation, crankiness...have all taken a back seat. Before I started Sungazing, I can assure you I would periodically go through FITS of depression and aggravation...lol :P Oh yeah, that was GRRRReat. I thought to myself...wth?? I finally get to a place where I am comfortable with myself and my body turns on me?? Noooooooh. That's not possible.
My health and fitness have always ruled the roost. It has gotten me out of some pretty deep holes, ended bad relationships, and basically it has been the filter through which all of my other interests have been distilled. So, I thought, no way...lol... there has to be a mechanism for this. It is a litmus test to a certain degree, no?
Consequently, the first second I heard about Sungazing...rather, saw the documentary 'Eat the Sun'... it clicked. I thought, EXACTLY. Reading about it, and other ppl's Blogs, the science of the Eye and Pineal Gland, Photo-receptor activity, etc., confirmed a physiological process I thought reasonable. Now off to collect some empirical data...lol.
Here we are, 70+ days in and I feel like I have just scratched the surface of a tremendous adventure. I deeply aspire to be a better friend and co-worker; to recognize when I am stepping in it b/c of past learned behaviors, so I can CHANGE the way I do business when it becomes a dance instead of a dialogue. You're morphing or your dying they say. I believe that Sungazing is a process that achieves just that, new movement.
'Someday I will sit under the tree like Buddha showed us, summon the past and future, and vanquish them both.' _*_
Happy Saturday ! ~ Elle
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Day 69 Epiph...
Okay, so, I realized over the last week b/c the Sun is rising so late..after 7:3o ish...that the normal hour window doesn't really apply. And that last month of 3 weeks of straight rain got me completely out of my 'zone', so to cheesily speak... That wasn't even a sentence I'm pretty sure. But I stand by it. : )
But here's the thing...I have never looked FORWARD to the trees losing their leaves before. :D What a revelation! The way the Sun is crossing the sky in the morning is excellent from my porch. I am actually so excited to notice for the first time how the Sun moves across my day. Let me state for the record that I live in a very old neighborhood, so the trees just overwhelm the sky. The past three years have birthed at least 12' of growth on all of the trees around my building, which is a smidgety-smidge unsettling. :| As were the swarm of flying red ants the other nite.. ahem.
Further signs of the Apocalypse: discovering a love of Winter..:P
Cheers! ~ Elle
But here's the thing...I have never looked FORWARD to the trees losing their leaves before. :D What a revelation! The way the Sun is crossing the sky in the morning is excellent from my porch. I am actually so excited to notice for the first time how the Sun moves across my day. Let me state for the record that I live in a very old neighborhood, so the trees just overwhelm the sky. The past three years have birthed at least 12' of growth on all of the trees around my building, which is a smidgety-smidge unsettling. :| As were the swarm of flying red ants the other nite.. ahem.
Further signs of the Apocalypse: discovering a love of Winter..:P
Cheers! ~ Elle
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Weather!! Day 59
Man! The weather has been no less than TRAGIC the whole month of Sept.! OY!
So naturally when the Sun came up yesterday, completely uninhibited, I was determined to get at least 15 minutes in. Which I was able to accomplish, no prob. I did, however, do them much later in the 'hour window' and lemme tell ya, it was intense! I have been catching the Sunrise literally as it comes up in my city so the amount of Sun or the quality, per se, has been quite different. I haven't been up to 35 min. from the start, so the type of Sunlight was really awesome.
I will say that the 'solar smudge' in my vision lasted all day. We had no sun at all this a.m. so I wasn't able to see if it would dissipate after another session. It's gone now. But I am definitely noticing the difference between getting 20 plus minutes in consistently, and going two weeks without any! I will say again that I wish that I had started this in the Spring...if only. Well regardless, I look forward to it everyday, and hopefully we will have some consistently sunny weather this month so I can continue to reap the benefits! :)
Ps. Dear October,
My dogs have gotten out 4 times in the last 7 days after being properly detained for 6 weeks. Can I PLEASE have another 6 weeks peace-of-mind?
Cheers ~ Elle
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