Asilomar
Good Morning!
I am using a very small screen, new-fangled, padlike-thing of Den's to write on, so this is probably going to be a short blog, haha.
Yoganananda recommends separate beds, perhaps separate bedrooms (can't recall) for married couples. This is one of the few reccs I have not been able to jump on board with. Even though Den and I are celibate I really appreciate the warm coziness of sleeping together.
We got a room here at this lovely ocean retreat refuge with a longview of the shoreline just above 17 mile drive in Monterey. Thing is...it has 2 queen beds. When I turned in last night while Den was still meditating I fully expected him to crawl in with me when finished.
Waking later I was not a happy camper to discover he was indeed in the other bed! I felt that ol' bad friend anger come knocking at me door...and lucky for me, I was able to leave that door unanswered and fall back to sleep!
I awoke in the night thinking the light at the window was the herrald of dawn. I did my hour of affirmations, etc and arose to meditate. It was a shock to see it was just 4AM! Still, I was wide awake and resolved to soldier on with my meditation preliminaries and then a good long seated meditation.
Hours later I was very pleased that I had.
Then it hit me. Yogananda was right...just like He ALWAYS is! I never would have left the warmth and coziness of Dennis and bed if I had been sleeping with him.
I value my meditation time, especially those very early hours, so much. I am going to have to re-think some things after my experience today. Our bedroom, in fact our house, in Leucadia is too small to change sleeping arrangements. Yet I have a feeling there change on the horizon which will accomodate such modifications.
As I amble into this last and most important phase of my life, I know my time with my Beloved, my meditation, indeed my whole spiritual focus must be paramount.
Today's experience presages just that. Following each element of my Guru's road map is essential. Enough said!
Loving you always, k
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