Camping was so good. Hiking for long miles with a heavy backpack. And then jumping in the ice cold mountain lakes. And then laying on the granite slabs in the hot sun. Connecting with mother earth. And how freeing it was to let go purposely of my routines.
Camping was so good. Hiking for long miles with a heavy backpack. And then jumping in the ice cold mountain lakes. And then laying on the granite slabs in the hot sun. Connecting with mother earth. And how freeing it was to purposely let go of my routines.
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Transcript: Mischa Z: 00:02 I am back from camping and I am BEAT down in a good way. What I want to relate that to is, um, uh, upsetting my routine. Upsetting my routine. And in this case, I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. So routines are awesome. They can be great. I've got a great routine of prayer, meditation, journaling, um, um, A Course In Miracles, you know, reading that every day. And, uh, and so this camping trip through a lot of that in the upheaval and it definitely the timing of those things. And I think it was good. First off, I have been religiously reading A Course In Miracles for at least two years. If I knew the exact date, it would be very fun to know coming up on two years, September, um, I believe would be two years. Yes. Because two years ago, September, I went to, um, where was it called?
Mischa Z: 01:23 Yosemite? I went camping and you're 70. So this is really cool. This camping trip was really cool. And the number of levels first off due to the COVID, I hadn't been camping in two, almost two whole years. So, um, last camping trip I did was to Yosemite, which was beautiful and amazing, and we hiked a good 10 miles back into Yosemite. And one of the great things about Yosemite was laying on these granite slabs after swimming in ice cold water. So you hike all day with your 25 pound backpack, 30 pound backpack, whatever it is. And, and then, you know, you get to where you're going, hot, sweaty beat down, me anyway. And then, uh, you jump in these incredible mountains, rivers, streams, lakes, and then it, you know, in Yosemite lay on these granite slabs that are, you know, have been baking in the sun.
Mischa Z: 02:36 And it's such a cool way to connect with mother earth and soak in that energy. So powerful. Um, I had an opportunity to do the same sort of a thing up and, um, mammoth lakes, where we went iceberg lake, so hiked all day, lots of elevation game, um, and then to, uh, jump in the iceberg lake, which was called as an iceberg and then lay on the granite and, uh, so, so powerful. Just, gosh, this is nothing like it. Um, anyhow, thank you for listening to that little tangent. I do. I love camping and I think it's so good to get out of nature and oftentimes away from people and or away from mass masses of people, and then also disconnect from the phone. So there was no cell service at all for three days or whatever it was. Um, but I had just started A Course In Miracles when I had gone to Yosemite.
Mischa Z: 03:51 I was probably two weeks into A Course In Miracles into the what's called the "workbook for students", which is 365 daily exercises. Some of them are very, um, intense and take a lot. So it's not like a simple little prayer or, I mean, there's some stuff going on on some of those days and the, in the A Course In Miracles workbook for students. And so I was two or three weeks into it, you know, 21, you know, 14 to 21 of the daily exercises. And, and I was absolutely committed to it. So what I did was I printed out the daily exercises then brought them with me to Yosemite and then did them while I was camping, which was awesome. And, uh, you know, fast forward almost two years later, what it's as I record this it's August 30th. Um, by the time this gets published, it will be well into September.
Mischa Z: 04:57 So probably the two year anniversary, but I have been diligently doing A Course In Miracles every day. First it was the daily exercises. And then after that, it was the text section of A Course In Miracles and reading a section a day. So each, each chapter is broken into paragraphs. It broken into sections. So reading a section of a paragraph every day and for this trip to mammoth, I thought, you know what? I am just not going to worry about it. I've got this great little, you know, one of the exercises that really resonated with me that I was doing right before I left. I'm trying to find it. It's nowhere to be found. Basically one of it is one of the headlines of it is I will make, "I will make no decision on my today". I will make no decision on my own meaning that we'll turn the source or anti source, the ego, who's it going to be?
Mischa Z: 06:07 Are we going to be, are we going to be making decisions with the capital S inner self God, the infinite intelligence, or are we going to be driven making choices with our ego? So I'd love this concept. Um, but anyway, I decided, you know what, I'm going to, I'm going to be easy on myself and let go of some routines every morning, I meditate for an hour. Um, and I have been for awhile, you know, of late the hour. Um, you know, for sometimes I'll go through years perhaps where it's 30 minutes or what have you, but of late it's an hour for the last year. Anyway, thank you for listening here. So, so I was like, I'm going to let go of my morning meditation routine to be flexible. And then my journaling, you're trying to save weight that I said, you know what, I'm going to release.
Mischa Z: 07:07 I'm going to release all expectations of this routine of these routines. And it was very powerful. And when you're doing these eight mile hikes, there's a lot of time to focus on breath and make it meditative. So there was plenty of time to, to have meditative experiences. Um, I just found it so powerful. It's so powerful camping trip. Um, I also wanted to talk about, I read "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor E Frankl. And, uh, I'll see the next episode part 2, 4, 4, the man's search for meaning, because I think there was some serendipitous events that, that helped bring that about. So anyhow, um, very powerful camping trip. I'm back, I'm exhausted, um, ton of meditation, ton of a ton of meditation. So definitely there was plenty of downtime opportunities to meditate and I did meditate and there was plenty of, of, uh, hiking where meditating focusing on breath, focusing on breath, and then lots of turning to God, just, just lots of consciously talking to source.
Mischa Z: 08:35 Uh, so powerful. So good. Just how many end with this. I, I had this backlog of 45 or so episodes recorded and due to the summit I got, I, um, I've been bleeding off my backlog of inventory, so of recorded podcast episodes. So I need, so I'm working on back to, I've said this a couple of times, but getting back to recording an episode every day, anyway, love to all get out there, go camping, get out there with nature, uh, mess with your routines for a couple of days, if you can't. Um, anyway, love to all right.