Personal Updates

In all of the prosperity experiments, I'd forgotten to update on my life!  There have certainly been things going on too!

First, Carrie's health.  She is having very few seizures.  She's finally learning to relax into the moment when she feels them come on, so she can stop them before they start. Also, the tear in her spirit, which originally ran the length of her torso, and across her stomach is now about the size of a softball.  This has helped a lot also.  She's learning to take naps when she's tired, and resting when she needs to.  Overall, things are going much better.

 I've realized that over the past month or so, that I'm happy.  A lot.  I mean, I have my moments of frustration, typically when I'm tired.  But wow do I feel great otherwise!  I mean, at this point life is so amazing to me, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.  I feel like well-being is taking over my life, so that I don't want for anything.  And this is the goal of prosperity, really.  When you feel good in your life, you don't want for things.  You can desire them, but not want.  And the difference is between receiving and not.  Wanting is the experience of not having.  And even though there are things I don't have that I would desire in my life, I don't feel as if I don't have them.  Instead, I feel like I already have them, and just have to reach that point in time where I have them.  Does that make sense?  Hahaha, well, I know what I mean.  

Also, the other day I caught my first mentor online.  He's travelling, trying to land distribution deals and thus had internet access at the hotel.  It felt so wonderful to talk to him.  We have a pretty strong connection, so when we're talking it feels great.   His son is due to be born in about 2 months, which is exciting.  He said he heard his voice when meditating the other day.  Talk about suprising!  He also mentioned, before he left, that I felt different.  "you really strike me as a well rounded mature individual.. its.. strong."  He also said "damn you really have made progess old friend".  Hahaha, it's nice when someone else notices.  Of course, he caught me on a good day.  Well, actually any day I can talk to him is a good day.  But it's still good that someone else would pick that up during a mundane conversation.  It's just too bad I missed him friday because it will probably be months before I talk to him again.  But it's still nice to feel that connection again.  

And finally, I am officially done with my core courses, unless I get a B in stat mech.  And even if I do, I'll go talk to him to try to get a B+ out of it.  What that means for non UT people is that all I have to do is give a talk on my research next fall/winter and I'm a phd candidate.  Woohoo!  Also, I can focus on my research more, instead of worrying about those stupid grades. Plus, no more mandatory classes.  Everything is my choice at this point, which is also wonderful.  Hooray!

So that's my update for now.  I should put the clothes away and get Carrie to bed since she's asleep on the couch.  Take care everyone!