Every moment in my life I found myself mentally in disarray it was when my Routines were shattered, and I lost focus.

Raise your hand if you loath building Routines

All living creatures crave Routine. Whether my huskies wanting to go for a walk at 7am or plants opening up to the sunshine to welcome the morning worker bee pollinators. Routines help bring stability and a sense of accomplishments.

Then why do most humans resist the idea of routines when all other creatures don’t?

It is specifically caused by the Maya Express Illusion of Time. We all have seen the effects of The Illusion of Time. The Maya Express Plunged everyone into the Path of Complacency during the Path of Lockdown and the months and years of restrictions.

Now timelines seem quicker, and the Illusion of Time was deployed with great accuracy. The favorite phrase of the Illusion of Time literally is

“I just don’t have the time”

“I could never add that to do before I leave in the morning, I just don’t have the time”

“Just what I need, MORE responsibilities, I just don’t have the time”

“You expect me to take time away from my job, my kids, my spouse, my dogs, my cats just to do 15 minutes of Yoga? I just don’t have the time”

“I have _{^{RESPONSIBILTIES}} my mom, my dad, my car, my house, my laundry, my dishes, I just don’t have the time” to make myself a priority.

The Maya Express has us chasing all kinds of material world currency. Likes, Shares, Money, Bitcoin, Video Game Gold, Toilet Paper, Eggs.

All the while, the currency of Time is what it costs us to chase the material world currencies.

You notice none of the material world currencies provided by the Maya Express offer the currency of Personal Health.

Sure the tables of “pills for potbellies”, “manic fad diets for muffin tops”, “eating manly for manly men”, and “cursing to the oldies” will provide you with some type of currency you think is your Personal Health. Until life gets in the way and you back to your old routines, we call them “bad habits”

Funny how calling something a “bad habit” gives us feelings that we can accomplish the task, if we beat it or use it as an excuse when we fail. Yet, “building a routine” makes us shy away from wasting our time. It’s that material world mentality that “if it isn’t affecting me right now, it isn’t something i should concern myself with”.

Westerners, especially Americans have grown up with this sense of needing to always be accomplishing something or you are a failure. That if you aren’t seen as a “physically” hard worker you are “lazy”. That sitting and meditation isn’t accomplishing anything nor is it manly.

Have to keep up with Smiths and Joneses, can’t worry about your Spiritual Path.

The Maya Express Illusion of Time is going fast, you need to KEEP UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*panic* *anxiety* *panic* *anxiety* *dread for Mondays* *annoyance for our jobs* *panic* *anxiety* *financial issues* *panic**anxiety* *panic* *anxiety*

It never stops. The Maya Express Illusion of Time ticks away every second we are on the train cart.

Spiritual Path Routines

Whereas if we can just take that time and shift some towards our Spiritual Path, we find time slows.

That 15-minute meditation feels like an hour of calming and your focus for the entire day is set.
That 15-minute Yoga workout makes the muscles at 3pm not so sore.
That healthy breakfast breaks the 10am candy bar indulgence that always kills your diet.

Breath Deep.

No matter how much time you set aside to your morning routine; rest assured, all the other things in the material world will still be there when you step back on the Maya Express.

Start small.

Spend 5 minutes sitting, breathing in the dark
Write down 3 grateful things
Make your bed
Stand for 5 minutes with your feet in the grass.
0.5 km walk (trust me km’s are so much easier to increase .5 at a time and less stress)

Whatever one thing, for a month just that small thing. Then add something else. Work with it.

If you find you start to dread your routine, change it. A routine should make you feel set and ready to go, not stressed and dreadful.

But give it a month before adding more.

Just remember to keep the path flexible and not too rigid.

We can all keep the Path of Complacency at bay and avoid the Path of Maya with a solid but living, breathing, Path of Routine.

Yours Forever Grateful.