I've been back home now for 2 weeks and seem to be able to keep up with my 3:30am wake up call. I've had a few snafu's after nights out visiting and eating late with family and friends. But, for the most part I'm in bed by 8:30 or 9pm and able to rise pretty easily for my early morning alarm.
There is so much beauty to the early morning time. I really enjoy waking up before the city and getting to practice with the sunrise, or before. It's quiet and lovely. The best part of it is that I'm finished with my daily practice (7:00am ish) long before most people are even out the door. I'm tired early at night which keeps me from participating in some social engagements but I prefer it this way. I would rather be left out of the evening time fun and continue to stay dedicated to my yoga practice. I feel good about myself and alive when I am practicing regularly in the early mornings.
I continue to chip away at the culture shock of being back home and I know that having a daily dedicated asana practice is helping my assimilation.
Life is good.
There is so much beauty to the early morning time. I really enjoy waking up before the city and getting to practice with the sunrise, or before. It's quiet and lovely. The best part of it is that I'm finished with my daily practice (7:00am ish) long before most people are even out the door. I'm tired early at night which keeps me from participating in some social engagements but I prefer it this way. I would rather be left out of the evening time fun and continue to stay dedicated to my yoga practice. I feel good about myself and alive when I am practicing regularly in the early mornings.
I continue to chip away at the culture shock of being back home and I know that having a daily dedicated asana practice is helping my assimilation.
Life is good.
Hey L.. Happy Assimilating. There is something great about having everything to yourself in the "wee" morning hours. I'd have to go to bed at 7pm at the latest to get up at that hour every day though :) Is the culture shock the same comming back to something you already have known, or, different if going to something completely new?. What are some things that are shocking you comming back?... you now, aside from Charlie Sheen and stuff..
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I think it's easier when its a new place because you have no prior self to compare all your reactions to. I'm not shocked by anything per say it's more like noticing things differently. The only thing I can think of specifically is the mild stress and aggression that everyone seems to be experiencing here. I get it since I've lived here a long time but I notice it more after coming back from Thailand especially. In India aggression is allowed in a more open way in Thailand, it's not. People get angry sure but it's expressed differently, quietly. Does that answer your question?
ReplyDeleteI think it did... Are you saying that "culture shock" may be more accute upon returning to a familar place, that discovering a new one?. Because there is the distraction of the excitement of dicovery that distracts one from focusing on evaluating the differences while in the new place, and now that is gone upon return to the familiar place so, you have to evaluate the diffrences and make choices in your mind?... cause, I would agree along those lines.
ReplyDelete..thanks for the afternoon work break.
Cheers,
B.
Yes, exactly. That's the beauty of travel. You can still have all your bizarre ideas about what's going to happen when you get somewhere totally new but, there will still be the elements of the new place that hit you (emotionally, physically, visually etc) in ways you couldn't imagine. I think you can apply that to any location--some more than others maybe? When I got home I didn't realize it was me that felt different. (you never do) So, again yes I have new eyes and old expectations of my home place. It's weird. But, okay.
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