Author: Andrea Grassi

Guess what? in life we screw up every single time.
We screw up even when we think we learned how to do it.

We screw up even when we promised we wouldn’t do it anymore.

It’s quite arrogant, isn’t it? That we think we will be able to execute our life perfectly with no errors or glitches.
Even to think to execute perfectly a small part of our life is arrogant.

This arrogance is partly the beauty of life, is part of our human nature and it’s hard to ask someone to not being arrogant this way.

Back to the topic: screwing up.
I did it today, and I will probably do it tomorrow.
Even if I have the best intentions, even if I think I know how things works.
I’ll screw it up with people I love, and I’ll also screw it it inside myself when I won’t be capable to handle my emotion.
To understand where rage or envy comes from.

Let’s take Rage for example.
Rage is a message.
You may think it’s an emotion, right? But in fact you should see it as a message, a fever.

A fever means your body has something wrong.
In this case, you got something wrong with your inner self.
Why? Because if you were totally in peace with it, why in the world would you be angry?

The reason we are angry is that we have something we need to discover and explore.
We need to understand the reason behind rage.
Rage is a symptom.
And “I am angry because X made Y” is part of the symptom, it’s not the virus.

It’s easy to be fooled by rage after all, and here we go screwing things up again.
How easy.

The thing is… we can’t do it perfectly.
We will do it wrong, it’s part of our learning process and while I’m not advocating that “doing things wrong is the only way to progress”, I do think that we have to learn how to get back up.

Because no matter what, you’ll screw up.
And you’ll have to get up and running.
’cause life goes on.

I just woke up and, as usual, I did a small 15 minutes meditation.

It’s like “nothing” compared to a deep profound meditation, but still has its effects.

It’s wonderful how just breathing helped me wake up totally.
I was sleepy because I didn’t slept that much (came home very late), and yet now I’m full of energy.

This is one of the many wonders of meditation.
It gives you energy, control, profoundness, and you get it only when you can concentrate without tension.

It will happen one day.

Someone will shut at you.
Harsh words, maybe, and you will be left to wonder what to do.
Should you react? Should you stay silent?

Today it happened to me, and I kept calm.
It was hard because you feel the urge to reply, to say something, to change the situation.

But it’s not that easy.
If you did your work it may also happen that people are not shouting at you, but at a more broader situation they’re living.
A problem you’re part of.

You’re not the problem itself, but you take part in it, maybe not even actively, but you’re there and that is enough.

That pain gives voice to hatred, to rage.
That’s why you shouldn’t take it personally.
Because sometimes it’s not personal.

Almost one year ago I started doing Calisthenics with the Convic Conditionig program.

It was the first program I could easly follow without video, only a simple book with easy progressions.
With this program I also started tracking my progress, not because I wanted to show off, but to remember what I’ve done and what I should do next.

It was quite a pragmatic choice.

I know I already talked about this, but looking back at the journal I can see the path I’ve been working on to.
It’s not about the physic I have right now, but instead it is the journey I did to get till now.
All the progressions, all the days I worked out.

At first many exercises were hard to to, while now I’m getting closer and closer to a decent-minimum.

Would have been the same if I didn’t track? I don’t know.
What I know is that the more you can simplify the workout to something easy to manage and follow, the better the chance that I’ll be able to workout without skipping the day.

Tracking it has improved the way I handle these workouts and they are now part of my routine.

I love natural remedies, they often shows that we can heal in a good way without the need to use chemicals.

For example a broth of ginger and orange is great if you have flu or common cold.

But you shouldn’t be too much focused on them. They are great, but they are not the solution for every problem out there.

So, yes, seek them first, but in case don’t be afraid to use chemicals.
I wrote this because today I got a migraine with aura.

This type of migraine is very powerful, it starts in your eyes with the “aura”.
The aura appears in some defect in the vision that’s similar to seeing “stars”, but right in front of you. This symptom doesn’t have any kind of headache yet, but it’s like a precursor.

Then, after a hour or two, you get one powerful headache like you’ve never experienced.

Since I already got a couple of them in my last years, today, even though I was running 4 years without taking a single chemical medicine, I decided to take 2 aspirins right after the aura.

It is usually the best time to cure it because once the headache comes in it will be a trouble.
Aspirins was the most “natural” medicine I got nearby.

To threat the headache better, I stayed in a dark room laying in the bed, for 45 minutes, doing breathing exercised, focusing on the head.

Then, once woke up, drank some lemon juice with hot water, and inhaled some lavender essential oil I put in a hot water cup.

Now the headache is almost gone, dunno how this will work over the day, but if it works, then I’ve got my solution 🙂