041210. Forty days of SA RE SA SA …
and now they are over.
Thirty-one minutes a day.
Forty days straight.
Rain or shine.
Morning or night (mostly
morning).
Busy or tired.
Traveling or home.
… and now I’m not sure what to do.
I’m relieved, of course,
to have made it through the experience.
And by completing this
40-day meditation, I now have all three of the meditation requirements for my
teacher training under the belt.
(My other meditations were a 7-minute and an 11-minute … to prepare for
31 minutes.)
But it feels bigger than
just “completing an assignment.”
It’s interesting.
I do feel different.
But I don’t know that I
can articulate the transformation.
I just know that as
challenging as it was …to find the
time … and to actually do it …it’s so
satisfying to know that I did it.
Traveling and home.
Busy and tired.
Morning and night.
Rain and shine.
Forty days strait.
For thirty-one minutes.
I’m dealing with a mess of
stress right now …with some major professional and personal choices on the
horizon (more on that in a later post) … I’m packing the house to move (again
…for the 4th time in 2 years) …and I can honestly admit that I don’t
feel overwhelmed by it at all. Or
afraid. Or anxious. Things I’m sure I would have felt if I
had been dealing with these things a year ago.
And I’m giving some credit
to this meditation.
And to the kriyas (yoga
sets).
And to the mantras.
So maybe I shouldn’t stop.
Maybe I should wake up
tomorrow and do it again? Turn it
into a 60-day meditation. Or
90-days. Or maybe even 1,000.
Or I could find another
meditation to do.
Like the “Lotus Prayer for
Prosperity and Projection unto Victory” we did at Teacher’s Training this
weekend …which was amazing. I was entirely blissed out when all was said and done.
Here it is (from The Master’s Touch, by Yogi Bhajan, p.
114):
The Mudra:
Sit in Easy Pose
(cross-legged) with a straight spine.
Elbows bent at your sides.
Hands in front of the
heart center, in Lotus Mudra (palms facing one another, with the fingers
pointing up toward the ceiling).
(not my hands. this is an image I found thru google.)
Spread the fingers wide
apart … the tips of the pinkies, the sides of the thumbs, and the base of the
palms all touching. (The other
finger stay separate, and slightly curved to form the shape of lotus petals.)
The Movement:
Keep your hands in the
Mudra with fingers pointing straight up.
Begin gliding your arms up
in a straight line, until the hands are a little above and a little in front of
your head.
Without any abrupt stop,
glide them back down to the starting position.
And keep doing this.
For 21 minutes.
The Music:
Nirinjan Kaur’s “Reality,
Prosperity and Ecstacy.” (for 15 minutes)
"Dhuni" - the instrumental version. (for 6 minutes)
If I can find the music online, I think this is what I’m
going to do.
NOTE: Somehow, I forgot to post this last
night. It’s 6 am. I’m awake. The baby’s asleep.
I’m going to take advantage of it.
Q: What do you do to keep you grounded and sane in this high stress world we live in?
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