Starting Off in Style...

...

and by 'in style,' I mean procrastinating. I'd like to make excuses for myself: I'm busy! I have a job! I have a Senior Thesis to write! I need to sleep (sometime)! But really, how much of my time is taken up with watching The West Wing on Netflix or surfing the internet? (Answer: a lot. And I do mean a lot.)

But this is something that I want to do, something that I think is important. And so here's my (belated) September discipline: meditation, and, I suppose you could say, spiritual focus. That may sound redundant (since this is a Year of Spiritual Discipline), but this month I'm looking not only into traditional meditation (reading works on meditation by the scholar Thomas Merton) but also investigating Reiki, an alternative, yet increasingly common, method of spiritual meditation. Some call it energy healing; it's unusual for me. yet I don't think I'll find that it clashes with the precepts of Christian meditation.

And we could all use more peace in our lives, right?