Good Morning!
I truly have desired to blog and for one reason or another the time slipped by and blogs never got written. Today I am so grateful because while I was up at Inshallah for two weeks over the Christmas Holi-days, Den got himself into an amazing new morning sadhana discipline. He is awakening much earlier and getting in some impressive meditation time...and I now can piggy-back on his jetstream!! THIS is why I keep encouraging you to choose a spiritually like-minded life companion!! When you require that leg-up, they will be able to provide it!!
I have (in the past now) been experiencing resistance to meditation. I have no idea where that came from or why, really. I just know that my meditations, although I always did them, were getting shorter and shorter! A dear friend of mine, also on the path for decades, just wrote saying the same thing.
One remedy that works is to just start meditating before even leaving the bed, sitting up of course. Granted this is not as right on as sitting in one's meditation chair in one's meditation space...but it sure beats down the resistance that seems to grow when the world begins to predominate.
I so enjoy my morning Awakening ritual...yet that also got me started pretty late. So, I began meditating first and then saying all the affirmations, etc. while I was taking my bath. Sweet.
Today, God really took care of me as I woke up early enough to do all of my prayers et al, the whole banana, before the alarm went off. Admittedly, that's how I like it best. I am on the 2nd day of my 3 day monthly fast and I seem to have more energy and require less sleep when fasting. Meditation is always better too.
I woke up in the Current, often happens when fasting, and I was aware that It kept going strong all through the Awakening routing...and it made the affirmations many times more powerful. What was interesting, and really sweet, was how strong It felt when I mentally sang my Good Morning to God song from the Light the Lamp CD. Same thing when I sang the song to Sri Yukteswar that came through during the last Darkness. Somehow, soulful paens that manifest through one's own Consciousness seem to have the strongest pull on the Divine Mind, and the Divine Connection. Shows that the Divine Romance with which each of us is engaged is truly personal, and intimate.
Another powerful changer was the six hour meditation on New Year's Eve at Inshallah. Wow! Simply the best New Year's Eve med EVER! The first time I can recall feeling like I could go another hour or two...and it was over. The inundation of Connection, of the ONE'S AMAZING GRACE, put the kabosh on my amnesia...I was fully back on the meditation band wagon.
The most prominent thing I noticed (and still experience) is the phenomenal increase in my intuition. I just KNEW where to find a misplaced item, or just happened to be in the perfect place at the perfect time repeatedly! Life just flows so much SMOOTHER when one is tuned in...and meditation is the tuning dial!
We are having another 6 hour meditation here on the morning of Yogananda's birthday (this Thursday) and I can't wait. Our final Source Journey starts next Monday and we are going up to Inshallah this weekend. I feel this Holy Week is the best preparation I can get.
Now you know why I am so thrilled at Den's new sadhana routine. Just when I required that extra shot of motivation, my Divine Life Companion leads the charge!
God is Good!
Loving you always, k
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