Internet Semi-Fasting Day 7 : I feel like a whole new person

I broke a lot of rules today but it was cool.

Yesterday I offered to give a free coaching session to a friend for practice. It just occurred to me suddenly. She said she wasn't feeling well and I wanted to practice trying to work with her as if she was a client and try to pull her out of her funk. I worked on helping her recognizing micro-trauma, beliefs that don't serve her, self-destructive patterns and what she really wants right now and how she can work towards it productively.

Needless to say it worked and she said she felt fantastic afterwards, "like she pooed out all the dirty stuff in her heart". That was encouraging. I asked that she help me to advertise a bit and so she helped me translate my advertisement and gave me some valuable feedback. She said she thinks I need to give a free session so people know what I'm about and as long as I figure out a way to attract the right people, many of them will probably pay to continue.

That was all super super encouraging.

I tried on some apps to find people to give free sessions to. I found two, one was just messing around trying to kill time and the other was a black hole who did not want to change anything, just wanted to complain. I felt a bit drained after that so I slept early.

I wasn't discouraged though. Today I finished designing the ad and made a list of friends who I could give free sessions to. I realized I need to make a limit of 1 free session per day, because working for free longer than that feels way too draining and I'm not able to keep myself clean when people show me their trauma. Perhaps I will be able to do more in the future but for now, only one free session a day maximum.

I contacted a lot of people with regards to this. Then I had two regular classes in the afternoon and then I went to the park and wrote for 30 minutes and did what I'm told is mindfulness for another 30 minutes and went somewhere else. It was nice.

Nighttime I had a long chat with a friend about the future of the world. I realize I enjoy these conversations when I have them once a month. Any more than that is distracting.

Just got back now. I was planning on doing the #ecotrain question of the week but I didn't have it in me so I thought I'd drop a blog instead. #ecotrain tomorrow!

Look at that Hive move!!!! I wanted to buy some more but with this kind of a jump, I think I'll wait until BTC moves and try and get a better rate. I managed to power up to 80% of my original goal. Good enough! I can't wait for my vote to be worth over 50 cents! I believe once everything adjusts to the new price it will be :-D

Got a class early tomorrow with a new student.

I feel a whole bunch of new energy. This idea of setting aside a small amount of time and energy every day for a certain task but not putting any pressure on myself about how much longer beyond that minimum is working wonders and I'm applying it to other aspects of my life like the amount of "free work" I allow myself to do. I feel like all the juice is flowing to the right places and not leaking nearly as much. I'd say I've reached 45% full power right now. If my back wasn't so sore I'd be past 50% but even that will change soon, I believe.

Things are moving!

What happened to that shirt?