One week

I've given up trying to number these posts consistently—it wasn't a good idea in the first place—but it's a week since the first, so...

My mood has been up and down during the past week, more up in the early part and down later. Coincidently or not, I've done very little reading of the Human Givens book since the first couple of days. Not that I would expect merely reading any book to have much benefit, but at such an early stage, I guess, I haven't yet incorporated the ideas, so when I'm not being reminded of them by reading, I simply forget them and lapse back into the pre-book state. And, of course, despite what I said on Day 5 about meditation, doing that hasn't compensated. The implications are fairly obvious, I think: get back to the book, and optimise the meditation.

Time is, of course, a significant factor in all this. For the first part of the working week (Mon-Fri) I was quite busy earning a living. It's quietened down now, and, because of a knee injury, I'm going to try to keep it that way for the next week at least, though it can be difficult to turn work down, if you're self-employed. But there's plenty of other things to be done: I'm working on a book on consciousness, for instance, and for the last day or so I've been immersed in a fascinating new book by Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner called Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness. If you're interested, there's a website. Amazon.co.uk quote a long waiting time but other UK online book retailers have it in stock.

I'm keen to get back to that, as well as the depression book, and there's plenty of housework and the like too, so that's about it for today. I'm thinking of starting another blog on philosophy, which would further squeeze the time available for this one, but we'll see...