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Time is almost up

I likes to get up at or around 0530. Once I’m up I look at the clock, look outside my window, touch my altars, light some incense and candles, and chill with a clove or two. After my smoke break I get my coffee and sit down to read: almanac and calendar. Afterwards, I talk with myself and give thanks to my ancestors, elders, and the family members on my mind.

By 0600 its time to get the kids moving and going. Sometimes I cook breakfast and some days I say, “eat some cereal.”

I’m a working mom so I’m out and about doing my “civilian” duties. When I get off I chill (read between the lines) then I check with my kids to see how their day went, holla at my moms, put a load or two in the washer, and start dinner. As I’m preparing dinner I go over the kids homework and what not with them, if nothing is jumping, the kids start on their chores, maybe outside to play with the dogs, or head to grandmas.

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My family and I are sitting down eating dinner, kids clean the kitchen, and head towards the bathroom. If they not bathing they in their rooms blasting that dog on music! I tell ya, I hear that song by Dolla, I’m Feeling Myself almost EVERY day! I even be humming it myself, I’m Feeling Myself! After we finish feeling ourselves its time for bed.

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I get my sacred time whenever I can! During this time I stretch, dance, chill, read, wash, clean, relax, and reflect.

I PRAY for the predators that hunt me.

My Sacred Schedule

I've actually been working to achieve a schedule starting at 5am for the past year or so - it's really been an ongoing thing for me. I have made myself into a morning person and now wake up hardly sleepy each day naturally by 8am if not 7am.

My (dream) schedule is as follows:

5:45am - wake, kiss my boyfriend, stretch, smile, give thanks
5:50am - listen to my downloaded Stin affirmations as I clean my kitchen and feed my animals (puppy and cat)
6:10am - meditate/flowdream/journal at my altar
6:40am - walk my puppy & flowdream/think/plan
7:00am - fix/eat breakfast & watch the news
7:40am - jump in the shower & dress for work
8:10am - out the door

That's my weekly morning dream routine and on Saturdays and Sundays I pretty much stick to it and maybe wake at 8am and give myself more time to eat and such. I do keep myself very busy on weekends since they are MY DAYS so I like to be up and ready for an adventure or 2 - which feels great!

BUT I don't always wake up at 5:45am!! Some days, especially when I spend the night at my boyfriends I don't get started until 7am and have to skip my mediation BUT that is really what matters to me right now so I'm working on getting my butt up NO MATTER WHAT :)

This book is really a good motivating factor with more additions for my altar and affirmations to read and candles to light and such - it adds to the experience and gives me more to look forward to then sometimes falling asleep meditating in the wee hours of the AM when my mind is telling me to crawl back into bed.

Not a early morning person!

I had to laugh when I beagn to read about time.. I don't how I'm goin to pull it off but I plan to began to get up early so that I can be one with myslef at the coorect time.. Most High help me I am not a am type! ATTITUDE GYAL

Hmm...

This is a good question because I don't really have a schedule at the moment, I've been leaving everything up in the air and I'm beginning to feel the effects of that. I do so much better when I set aside time to meditate, read and pray, but somehow I'm pushing away from that lately, I guess because I don't feel like putting the necessary work into myself. There are walls I'm sorry to say I just don't feel like taking the time to break down, even though I know there is peace, balance, and success on the other side of those walls. Actually, as I read over the scope of this book group, my brain kept saying, "I'm not ready, I don't have time." But then I realized, you make time for what's important, and anything worth having is worth making an effort. Thank you for inspiring me to sit down and take that time, to make that schedule and take better care of myself. And once I figure out what that schedule is, I'll post it here :)

My God! I don't know how to sum it up.

Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani

What is my sacred clock like? I'd loooove to say it is perfect and on point each and every day but not quite. I usually, when catastrophe has not hit, get up at 4am greet my ancestors, recite the laws of MAAT, exalt my ori, divination time and ancestral journaling, mother peace reading, greet Orisa, yoga followed by fire breathing, herbal tea, look over kids notes for learning, scan the newspaper, read a portion of anybook that pulls my soul, then meditate, then breakfast. The rest of the day is pretty much organizing learning activities with or for the kids, lunch, dinner and my own personal writing. I do find quiet time before bed to meditate again, it winds me down and settles my brain. At this time I may wind up in a cobra pose to help bring me to a place of immediate serenity then maybe I read a few cookbook ideas and off to sleep.

This routine fluctuates from time to time with, menstrual-earth rituals, walking to spend divine time with Yemaya at the pond Ochossi and Ogun down the wooded path, outside yoga, the seven days of fasting each month( during this time its an hour of deep meditation daily in corpse pose).

All in all I'd like to be more defined and consistent with my sacred clock. If routines do flip I'd like to have them flip after a certain amount of days. What I need to realize is I can't fit it all in one day so I should offer equal quantities to the entire week. I'll get better with time.

There is no way...

that I can get up that early! I wake up in quite a lot of pain. My mornings are horrible and I pray that this will change. I wake up @ 6:30 take meds and sleep for another hour and a half hopefully to get up somewhat painfree. This means that I wake up right in family rush hour! I am well organized thanks to my control journal our clothes are ready to wear and kids have been on the same scedule since they started walking so it's well "in their system" It's just that I have no time whatsoever for a little soul time I wake up say a thank you prayer and a days work starts. This leaves me completely drained by the afternoon I want to break this cycle so badly but I have no idea how! Maybe take my meds @ 4 but then I would have to change all medications hours wich would completely derange my scedule.

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good question...

i used to think that the "night time was the right time" for me, but i have found that when i first wake up, my husband is fresh off to work, the kids are sleep (hopefully for a good chunk of time)...i feel renewed and ready to create a beautiful day for myself.

i started this by taking my phone of the hook, and meditating for anywhere between 10-40 minutes (sometimes i was even able to do a whole hour)...i follow that with a few yoga stretches...and then get my day started.

i found this to be such wonderful sacred time for myself because it gave me the opportunity to start my day off right...it gave me the mindset i needed to create a beautiful day...and get clear on what i wanted from the day.

in addition to this i found that for some reason early morning (i'm talking 3 am) was also sacred for me. i had started a new meditation practice of meditating when i first wake up and then before i went to bed...that was working till i would just fall asleep before i could meditate...so i ended up waking up at 3 am to meditate (for like 10-20 minutes). during this time i've had some of my best ideas, dreams and personal discoveries come to me.

unfortunately my addiction to cnn lately has hampered seriously on my meditation for the past month or so. i wake up to it in the morning... in the wee hours of the morning and have been going to sleep with it. (seriously following obama)

despite my recent lack of meditation i still find myself finding the most time to myself during these hours...and it has been during these times that my mind is most clear and quiet and i can listen to myself and not the "noise" of the day. and for some reason my insecurities seem to still be sleep at this time too....you know all those thoughts of "this won't work...don't have enough time, energy, money....etc." all those insecurities seem to disappear at these times of the day for me...perhaps because i know it is just me there...

-ki
"I'm making room for my joy"

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