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LifeloggingI am Apollo Lemmon and this is my lifestream. I invite you to join me in my exploration of an integral life. I am focused on discovering what it means to live a life rooted in integral consciousness and I explore spirituality, art, community, technology, fitness and other aspects of a fully engaged life. I am now living in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I can always be reached at apollo@apollolemmon.com
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. In the more than a month since March 19th, I averaged 7.29 hours of sleep, 1.68 hours of exercise and 1 hour of meditation each day. The 15 foods I consumed most were Texas caviar, bananas, whole wheat pasta, clementine oranges, curry tofu soup, gnocchi, broccoli, vegetable pizza, spring rolls, strawberries, avocado and bean burritos, oranges, egg salad sandwiches, vegetable subs and coffee.
This is a quick digest of my lifelogging data from Friday March 19, 2010 to Sunday April 25, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. In the days since March 9th, I averaged 7.35 hours of sleep, 1.69 hours of exercise and 1 hour of meditation each day. The ten foods I consumed most were bananas, broccoli and feta salad, tabbouleh, Texas caviar, chili, vegetable samosas, falafel, soyeat, pita bread, and curry tofu soup.
This is a quick digest of my lifelogging data from Tuesday March 9, 2010 to Friday March 19, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the past week I averaged 7.75 hours of sleep, 1.28 hours of exercise and 1 hour of meditation each day. The ten foods I consumed most were azuki bean casserole, bananas, chocolate chip cookies, pierogi, jasmine rice, fusilli, cashew chili, mozzarella, and vegetable tofu curry.
This is the first week since I began tracking my data that I have meditated every day. I’m very pleased that I have been able to make meditation part of my daily life and will be continuing for the next 3 months with at least an hour each day. My strength training and eating habits need strengthening and I’ll be working on that this coming week.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data from Tuesday March 2, 2010 to Tuesday March 9, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the past week I averaged 7.14 hours of sleep, 1.42 hours of exercise and 0.29 hours of meditation each day. The ten foods and drinks I consumed most were curry tofu soup, Texas caviar, bananas, vegetable sub, soyeat, baked beans, Alfredo sauce, tortelloni, milk, and granola.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data from Wednesday February 24 to Tuesday March 2, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the time measured for this report I averaged 7.47 hours of sleep, 1.54 hours of exercise and 0 hours of meditation each day. The ten foods and drinks I consumed most were Texas caviar, fussili, Soyeat, brown rice, bananas, aloo gobi paratha, Jamaican vegetable patties, Memories of Roma sauce, cheese pizza and French vanilla cappuccino.
I was derailed from strength training after injuring my arm and shoulder, but I am back to that again as of today.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data from 4:31pm Wednesday January 27, 2010 to 11:00pm Wednesday February 24, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the past week I averaged 7.19 hours of sleep, 1.19 hours of exercise and 0.13 hours of meditation each day. The ten foods and drinks I consumed most were coleslaw, Mediterranean pasta salad, brown rice, vegetable sub, clementine oranges, vindaloo vegetables with Soyeat, cheese and TVP Pasta, chipotle red pepper wrap, French vanilla cappuccino and cheese pizza.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data for the past week, from 4:29pm Wednesday January 20, 2010 to 4:30pm Wednesday January 27, 2010.
At Daytum.com/apollolemmon I track four aspects of my life. During the past week I averaged 6.56 hours of sleep, 1.69 hours of exercise and 0 hours of meditation each day. The ten foods and drinks I consumed most were vindaloo vegetables, orange juice, steamed mushroom and vegetable buns, egg noodles, egg noodles with creamy leek sauce, clementine oranges, tortilla chips, cheddar cheese, gnocchi, and poached eggs.
I am adjusting to a new work schedule and have been getting less sleep than I would like. My exercise was down because I allowed a cold to derail my efforts for a few days. My food consumption is still not where I would like it to be and I have been putting more vegetables into my diet. Meditation is an area I have been neglecting for a long time and will be increasing this coming week.
This is a quick digest and analysis of my lifelogging data for the past week, from 4:30pm Wednesday January 13, 2010 to 4:29pm Wednesday January 20, 2010.
Our future promises technologies that will radically extend our lives, but right now there are tested methods for living long, exciting and healthy lives, even beyond 100 years. Dan Buettner has studied the world’s best aged people and found the lifestyle features that they have in common, creating a set of guidelines for living better and longer.
In a recently released TED Talk, “How to live to be 100+“, Dan outlined how he conducted his study by visiting regions of the world with higher rates of centenarians and noting what these communities have in common. He dispelled some longevity myths at the start and then laid out some of the key features shared by each long-lived community.
National Geographic writer and explorer Dan Buettner studies the world’s longest-lived peoples, distilling their secrets into a single plan for health and long life.
~ TED: “How to live to be 100+”
Last night I began reading a new blog on the integral scene, Integral News and Views, where I found an interview with Robert Augustus Masters. Masters is an integral writer and therapist who places emphasis on living an integral life. His eloquence is extraordinary and he gives some of the clearest descriptions of just what being integral means to our lives.
This is an important reminder to those of us who are engaged in building an integral life and forming an integral life practice. An ILP, however it is structured, takes into consideration each of those “physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social dimensions” of our lives and strengthens our capacities in each of them. When not following an ILP, it’s very easy to become wrapped up in aspects of our lives that seem to dominate.
As a student, the cognitive part of my life is always demanding a lot of time and attention, and my physical well-being suffers when I don’t take steps to include resistance training and walking in my life. Likewise, when relational demands come to dominate, my meditation practice diminishes. One of the great challenges in living an integral life is being mindful of the many dimensions and capacities we have and must work to strengthen if we wish to live at the edge of our potentials. And then comes the actual work of practice.
To think with greater clarity, to love with greater skill, to feel with discernment and authenticity, to hone our bodies and enrich our environment, none of these should come at the expense of the other and each should be given time, effort and acknowledgment. If we are to better ourselves and our world in meaningful, lasting and exciting ways we must live integrally. Being integral demands a lifestyle that addresses our fragmentation, as Masters clarifies:
Also from Robert Augustus Masters is “What is ‘Integral’?“, a call, in part, to “do whatever is needed to make ‘integral’ a fitting term for how we are actually living.”