Sticking to a disciplined structured magick plan

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Do you always make time for your rituals, meditations, adorations, etc; or do you occasionally miss them for one or more days?
If the latter, how do you correct it, how do you establish a schedule around magick and meditation?
More importantly, how do you stick to it, and keep going when you fail to meet your planned schedule?

 

[KjEno186]

Page 11 of the Quareia Course, Lesson 1, First meditation exercise. After explaining the exercise it says,

"Remember, twenty minutes a day of meditation is far better than one or more hours once or twice a week. Little and often is the key."

Now, I know myself pretty well. I'd have a doctorate in procrastination if such a thing were possible, and I hadn't put off taking the test for it (a little joke there). Seriously, though, I work on the basics first and foremost, even if that means putting off reading about something new and exciting. I love to read, but it can really become a distraction from the work at hand when it displaces time for magical course work.

So, I make time. at least half an hour to do a meditation and a quick LBRP. If I can add a Tarot Contemplation Ritual, all the better.

 

[Mider2009]

I try to pray 2 times a day...by pray I focus my intent to my spirits

God and then Santa Muerte who I believe is a face for something far more special

On Wednesdays and Saturdays are more dedicated days

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Cool. Usually upon rising on my long work days, I try to get up, do morning and afternoon adorations and the QC/LRP/QC. After work come home and do evening and midnight adorations and a LBRP, and possibly a Middle Pillar, 8n addition to a TCR. There are other rituals to do. Do trying to make time for them all, and most important .. do them all. But I fail for days sometimes. And that is concerning to me.

 

[KjEno186]

I forgot to mention one other thing. I keep a notebook by the toilet. When I get up in the middle of the night to use the toilet, if I remember the dream I was having, I write a few words or a short sentence to help trigger the memory again in the morning. Dreams are seemingly more organized and longer as the night progresses towards morning. On several occasions I've gotten up in the morning, looked at a few words I wrote quickly and wondered what in the world that dream was about. Most of the time I can read what I wrote and recall many details that I didn't write down. Typing the dream diary takes me up to half an hour in the morning sometimes. I consider this essential magical practice.

I know how it seems as though there's never enough time. I believe it's just how things are in the beginning. Perhaps you can do alternate days on certain rituals. From my personal perspective, the mental focus of meditation and visualization & memory recall of dream recording will have the profoundest long term benefits. It's just how I feel about it. You can find a balance too, and it will be according to your needs.