At 11:46 PM 10/17/00, you wrote:
>Hi Mystress,
>
>I loved yr post to the K list. I too have been uncluttering my physical
>surroundings. Throwing out pounds of stuff (including the patched,
>embroidered bell-bottom jeans I wore as a hippie, which I've clung to lo
>these many years . . . ). Something in me is moving me to clear, clear,
clear>away all the junk, uncongest even the most out-of-sight spaces like
drawers
>and under the kitchen sink. And all the while I keep doing the grounding
>exercises. Haven't moved to new lessons yet till I get this one down.

   Well, you don't have to wait.. You can move onto new lessons even while
you practice your grounding. The course is set up to add onto the early
practice. Much of these first 20 lessons are background information.
Grounding gets easier the more you do it, and taking in the new lessons
while grounded increases your experience of it.

>But I feel all this clearing is part of it. I'm clearing emotional stuff
too.
    Yep, the process continues and Goddess writes the course work..  I
just take dictation.

>And part of my work is trying to liberate my voice. Been singing in a band
>for the past ten years, but my voice isn't really liberated. Still to closed
>in the throat. All this internal and external clearing, in search of my
voice>. . . perhaps my vibration, whatever.

     I like to sing along to my favorite music, stuff I know so well that
I can follow the recording tone for tone and breath for breath. It is an
interesting kind of meditation coz if I think ahead I lose the pace.

>Today, I fell back to old habits . . . bad food, smoking.

     I smoke, I eat potato chips and Haagen Daz ice cream. Other than that
I mostly live on steak and caesar salads.. steamed veg.  I'm allergic to
grains by my DNA.
    I'm remarkably healthy due to abundant K. fire.
     Don't judge yourself, love yourself.

>  Hope to do better
>tomorrow. But I've been asking for guidance and doing the grounding. How
long>does it take to get fully grounded? Guess I can't know that now, and
just>have to proceed.

    How long does it take you to establish a new habit so that is is
automatic? for most folks practicing 8x a day for 45 days will do it, or 4x
a day for 70 days..
   Once you get into the habit of being grounded more often than not, then
you turn it around and start noticing what un-grounds you.. but that is
much later in the course.

>I'm interested in the school you want to found. Hope that works out. I'll be
>there, definitely.

    I went to the location this weekend.....so amazing!! I'm putting up a
web page of my trip when my photos are developed.. just to share it with a
few folks.

    Will you do me a favor and try to send me course related comments via
the Tea Room? I'm sure the other students would love to hear of your
progress and experiences. As you are discovering, a sense of community is
the greatest balm to K.
   Post this in the tea room, please.