Wednesday, January 21, 2026
I think sometimes if I sit long enough, I’ll go to sleep. Boredom creeps in. Fatigue creeps in. Blues creep in. Oldness creeps in. Forgetfulness creeps in. Lethargy creeps in. Death creeps in. But I have found solutions to that pull, “old age,” or dullness. You can’t hold it off forever, but there is a sweetness in dailiness.
I’m going to describe this in terms of music teaching. I would have told my organ students that organ playing doesn’t get better by wishing. You get better only by practicing (health, music, wealth, abundance, etc.). Your skills improve, but so do your “anti-skills.” The practice of faith is the same as fear creeps in.
From one end, you’re refining skills, and from the other, you’re dulling them. Skills are sharpened, but the pencil dulls if not sharpened daily. If you don’t keep practicing, the dullness moves in.
You’ll want to stay ahead of fear. You’ll want to stay so deeply focused in your daily practice of joy, that dullness doesn’t overtake, like an invasive weed. That’s why a daily spiritual practice, exercise, and deep-breathing meditation are in order.
I cannot emphasize the daily bread principle. Daily, we keep our mental, spiritual, and bodily skills sharp. Jogging, jumping, calisthenics, and weight training stretch every nerve and extract the nectar. The Bhagavad Gita states, “Even a little effort towards spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.”
Journal. Sit in silence. Breathe deeply from your abdomen. Observe the mind when it shuts up. Move the body vigorously. Create your own mojo. Originate your daily bread. Practice your scales, they dull too.
Keep dullness away by literally running:
Run for your life, not because you’re scared, but because you love extracting the daily benefits, the bread of refinement. The Bread of Life.