Conserving My Energy

Well, today is Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Gray is beside me. I just put up a tweet and a facebook post about slowing down, calming down, and quieting down. I think it should have some positive impact in the world today (it is now 5 a.m.). I’m thinking of the song ‘In My Time Of Dying’ by Led Zeppelin, where he makes the crucial point that to be prepared for dying, one must do good deeds in this life (‘Must’ve treated someone right. I believe I have. Saw some smiling faces...’). This shouldn’t be anything new to anyone. This is just kind of common sense. This kind of information is within ourselves, if we just unearth it. So many of the things we need to know are already inside us. This is the kind of thought I had in my head when I said (on X, earlier today) that when we read, it should be partly to corroborate what we already know. 

I am trying to talk as little as possible today, and from now on. 

Thich Nhat Hanh talked about 3 kinds of energy which we should preserve to the best of our ability: our sexual energy, which is dissipated whenever we have sex, our spiritual energy, which is put to waste whenever we talk too much and breathe too little, and our mental energy, which is wasted whenever we don’t sleep enough, and worry too much. 

I am trying to learn how to conserve all 3. 

To direct all 3 toward the living of my best life. 

I hope to reach the age of 76. I have about 36 more years, to go. God willing. 

I would like to practice music in some form or fashion, every day, and practice literature, in some form or fashion, every day. Art, gardening, exercise: other interests of mine. Mastering the art of eating.

If I dedicate much more energy towards the latter, I might get better at it. 

O that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from the evil, that it might not grieve me.