{"id":808,"date":"2016-04-04T04:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelleristhejourney.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/04\/diary-of-a-perfect-day\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T01:15:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:15:30","slug":"diary-of-a-perfect-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/04\/04\/diary-of-a-perfect-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of a perfect day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a diary of a perfect, impossible day. One that epitomises, exemplifies, and trends towards my various goals, values, and desires for expressions.<\/p>\n<p><b>A Morning<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Wake up and whisper a personal mantra. <i>Paint the constellations. <\/i>This expresses my hope in transcendental significance, and drive to ascend ever higher, <i>to get to the place to get to the place.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Shower and shave and teeth, practising correct comprehension of deportment and hygiene, or freely participating attention.<\/p>\n<p>Pawanamuktasana attending to the body and proprioceptive aggregate and the breath.<\/p>\n<p>Meditate anapanasati, attending to relaxation of the body if tense. Attending in the manner of <i>The Power of Mindfulness <\/i>and <i>Dealing with Distractions.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Recording epiphanies, 3 grateful appreciations, and reflecting on goals.<\/p>\n<p>Taking supplements. Noting their value.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing breakfast with mindfulness of cooking. Eating with mindfulness of eating.<\/p>\n<p>Preparing tea and belongings with patience.<\/p>\n<p>Walking to library with mindfulness of deportment.<\/p>\n<p><b>A Workday<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Preparing for each activity with a review of protocols and referencing value and outcome goals.<\/p>\n<p>Writing: creative journal plus allocated task.<\/p>\n<p><b>An Evening<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Par<\/p>\n<p><b>An SOP for Thoughts<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Repeating social thoughts to myself<\/li>\n<li>Allocating planning to the evening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a diary of a perfect, impossible day. One that epitomises, exemplifies, and trends towards my various goals, values, and desires for expressions. A Morning Wake up and whisper a personal mantra. Paint the constellations. This expresses my hope in transcendental significance, and drive to ascend ever higher, to get to the place to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,90,128,108,121,106],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-blog-posts","category-journal","category-observations","category-out-of-the-darkness","category-the-traveller-is-the-journey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2016\/03\/09\/walking-towards-right-effort\/","url_meta":{"origin":808,"position":0},"title":"Walking towards right effort","author":"Pala","date":"March 9, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Samma vayama right effort is the 6th of the eightfold path. 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