Ok, gals...here we go! Let me start by saying you will be soooooooo glad you participated in this, and I am so excited to be able to share the wisdom of this book with you! Thanks for signing up to take this journey with me!
Secondly, please do not be frightened off by the first week's assignment. It is the most amount of reading and the most time consuming exercise that you will do for the entirety of our book study. It is about 60 pages of reading (easy reading), so if you start today, that's just 10 pages per day. You can do that!! The journaling exercise says to allow 1 hour to complete it. It took me 1 1/2 - 2 hours to complete I think. But I am a long winded writer...as you can see. Just giving you a heads up so you can plan for success accordingly. In a way, this demanding first assignment is good, it will help us separate from the get go those of us who truly want and resolve to put in the hard work to reap the immense benefits of this book, from those who do not. Which are you?
If you have not done it yet, BUY THE BOOK NOW! There really is no time to waste. Please do not put it off. Your entire experience will be determined by what you choose to do at this moment. Choose wisely. You can purchase the book at Barnes and Noble (that is where I got mine...only one copy in store though, so don't count on it), or you can go to Amazon.com or directly to Rod Stryker's (author's) website, parayoga.com .
As part of the book study we will also be practicing a different meditation from Rod's CD each week. If you are interested in meditation, I would suggest purchasing the CD as well. You can get a bundle deal if you buy both book and CD at same time on Rod's site. I am not sure if you get a deal on Amazon.
Lastly, if you cannot make all of the meet ups, no problem. As long as you resolve to do the work and keep up each week with the readings and exercises on your own, I still feel you will have a wonderful experience. If you cannot make any of the meet ups, but this all sounds really great, please buy the book, work at your own pace, and join us on this blog whenever you can to post any questions or comments you may have.
Here we go!!
Hi! I hope that the meeting went well today. I wish I could have joined you all. I've read through Chapter 8, but I'm still working on my code. When I wrote my tributes I didn't have many specific future accomplishments, but more general descriptions and statements. Is that going to be a problem? Should I rework the tributes? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteHey Jess,
ReplyDeleteI do not think I had too many specific accomplishments listed in my tributes either. I had a lot more focus on my personality traits, beliefs, and approach to life in general. It seems to have worked fine for me that way, so you are probably ok.
The important thing is that as you read through the tributes again, you are able to find lots of words/phrases that really jump out at you, excite you...that you really identify with. Those are the words that will help you form your dharma code. You don't necessarily have to use those specific words (although you can) in your code. They are just there to get you going in the right direction.
Hope that helps!