Thanks Cohesion.. I suggest mantra meditation.. I am able to get to a place that not only rivals smoking but it is better because my mind is still clear so give it a try as a way to supplement the use and may provide a way for you to become an occasional smoker. Hang in there and get some exercise
You're right, you're right.
Mantra meditation is *the* liberating practice that has helped over the years. It isn't only something that I've tried once or twice, but taken advanced lessons in from a yogic nun. I attend meditation retreats (on and off for 9 years) and I keep the diet. It is a way of life. Unfortunately, pot can happen in-between and has also become a way of life. Clearly it is a life I do not want to identify with or engage anymore. Some people can use it occasionally or in a regulated way, but I cannot. If I have it and I'm awake, I'm high.
This evening I called my friend and asked if she could "help" out. She said she could, but she had to teach yoga class so time was tight. I ended up at the class and she ended up not being able to help. So here I am, on the Path..
She said she will help tomorrow but it seems that I should roll with this momentum.. I have ONE day!! It took a lot to get here. If I buy another 1/8, it will take me another 9 days (time it takes to smoke it) to even have the opportunity to try sobriety as I have now in my hand.
Food is completely uninteresting today. God I feel nauseous with my 1st world problem.
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I have been through this night a few hundred times. I feel all weepy and emotions run thick. As I got into the shower I felt something heavy in my chest and I realized that this pain and raw I feel will actually coveted by my future self. Who wouldn't want this human experience? It seems that my strikingly sober nights are painful but have always wrought forth something more memorable, more alive, more human, than any of these 10 weeks of stony stunted bliss.
I found a new band on Spotify. They're called First Aid Kit. It's lyric-rich. I should manufacture something that looks like bedtime and perhaps melatonin will drop anchor.
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*Passes off bag*