Normalizing

I've been working on making my life just a little bit more normal. I don't mean "no longer a flaming weirdo" normal -- how could that possibly happen? -- I mean "allows more than 3 hours of sleep a night, doesn't work on something every waking instant, actually takes a little time for herself" kind of normal. I have managed this approximately two days in a row. This would be two days more than the last ten years or so, which means it must be a big deal to me.

As part of this, I instituted Martial Law in my household: also known as "lights-out bedtime". 10pm for the kid (who turns 13 tomorrow), 11pm for me. Ideally I'm in bed at 10 too but meditating or something... but worst-case, I must be by 10:30pm. If something is not done that should be done -- the story of my life! -- it is just going to have to wait until morning.

So the night before last I decided to do an archetype meditation on my job, certain aspects of it. That went ok. Not real exciting though at the end I did get a small rush. What was more interesting was that later, I was still awake but starting to doze, and I was going through a sort of chaotic spontaneous visualization sequence. At one point I found myself in the air above and out from something on a cliff wall, I wasn't sure what but it looked like a sort of balcony had been built into the cliff wall and there were people, maybe asians, standing on it. I zoomed down there in interest and flew over there and into the darkness of the cliff opening and the minute I went in, I had this HUGE body-rush, like a really good archmed. I've never had that happen from spontaneous stuff vs. meditating before.

Last night I decided to do an archetype meditation on today -- on getting various things worked out I needed to for Ry's birthday. I needed to renew my license; it took eons to get my certified birth certificate from another state so I could do so. 22 years ago I changed my name and I don't have any certified document for it which I figured they'd want, dang it. I was borrowing a car I'd never driven, a van no less, for the driving test. And they didn't even HAVE the book to study for the written test, how dumb is that ("we're almost always out of them" - the DMV!). I needed more time than my dad probably had in order to get to walmart and order her cake and get a few things... and I needed to work out the car rental and was so worried about money, wanting it to be ok, since I loaned some to my bleeping ex (kids' dad) who still has not repaid me two weeks after the promised time. Not sure how I could do it, it'll be like $100/day and paypal refuses to let me promptly transfer money from my bank to them (though they will let me promptly transfer it to anybody else. Go figure!) and I don't have enough in paypal for the car and they won't let you use a visa-debit, only a visa. So all in all I just wanted things to go well.

This morning, I remembered what Nero has shown me about believing with faith, about suspension of disbelief, about a specific WAY of thinking about things that actually assumes and accepts that there IS an answer/solution, and that it's nearly tip of the tongue, and it's totally obvious, and any-second-now it is going to become clear. It isn't merely that you are allowing for it; you're actually forcing the space for it and pressing on it to manifest, but not by wishing, not by hoping, not by fear, but by 'expectation'.

The archetype was Jayne. This is a character on the science fiction show "Firefly". He's actually a funny character; completely untrustworthy, oblivious and sexist and more, yet he is a mercenary and ridiculously tough and good with weapons, and often funny (usually by accident) and sometimes a little touching (like many men-boys are, even the worst ones). But the thing that got me is, I have NEVER had an archetype be anything, anybody, any character, that I knew! Never! I didn't even know that COULD happen, although once I pondered it I couldn't come up with any good reason why not.

I said, "Why would YOU be my arch??" and he said, something like (I don't remember exactly now) it had to do with the 'untrustworthy' element more than anything (me not trusting how the day would go) and I had just watched an episode of the show earlier so it was a good 'symbol'. Anyway, I was ridiculously unfocused, it took like 90 minutes to do what I should have done in like 8, and the merge at the end was very small.

But today, the DMV lady actually remembered me from 11 months ago, accepted my daughter's birth cert I happened to have in my wallet (for other reasons) as a secondary form of ID, solving that problem entirely. Then it turned out I did not have to do the driving test which solved the van problem. Then it turned out I did not have to do the written test, which solved that problem. Then because of those two points we had a lot more time, so I was able to go to walmart and order her cake and get some stuff, solving that problem. Then, the guy at the car rental place tells me it's way cheaper online and so I do that and it turns out they only have to charge the car against the visa, I called him and he said we could charge the insurance against my debit card, whew, perfect.

As if that isn't enough, on the way to do all this I was looking in my old (not used anymore) purse to see if I could find our social security cards, and I found a $500 check from a client from the end of April that I had never deposited! And it didn't have a 90 day expiration on it. I couldn't believe it! (He will git me for waiting this long, but oh well!)

I was just stunned at how well everything went. I can't prove the meditation helped, but it certainly didn't do any harm.

I have been meaning to outline a series of archmeds on body parts. I don't mean like my elbow, I mean like my liver, thyroid, amygdala gland, the nervous system, fat cells, etc. I've been reading endlessly on health stuff and I think it would be interesting to do a series like that.

Now that I am "normalizing" my schedule to allow at least one little meditation time per night, I think I might get back to more of it.

PJ
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