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Overwhelm overwhelm with this…

Soooo… Dealing with overwhelm is draining. Demands too much time and attention away from your wholeness, away from your center of calm. Doing for others and not taking care of yourself. You knock it out the unwanted/required tasks one bit at a time each day. Then, just when you think you’ve got it all down to a level you can handle – one more tragic event gets added to the pile, a monkey wrench gets lodged in the digital works, something that should be simple completely stymies you and the “helpful” bots create a log jam. Then what? Reliance on tech loses you an opportunity that would have been amazing – if they had just picked up the phone and called. If, like me, you have intense texting fatigue, desire for simpler times when people talked to other people and solved problems together, or just want one day where you aren’t terrified for your online security and fighting against unseen forces that have a hunger for your information, then sit with me now. …I heard this poem recently and it is helping.

James McCrea “Instructions Before Visiting Earth”

In the event you wake up and find you are separated from source and manifest into material form, don’t panic. Your condition is only temporary. You have been selected for the opportunity of human incarnation. This 3D simulation is designed to break up the monotony of eternity by giving you a fully immersive experience as a distinct ego identity. Your body will serve as your physical avatar as you navigate a dense and dramatic reality. there will be many distractions causing you to forget your true nature and origin. You will experience a range of emotions from joy to loneliness to despair, but remember no matter what trials and traumas you encounter, your soul remains perfectly safe. At times you may feel lost or afraid. This is totally normal. If you ever need guidance simply slow down your busy mind and bring your awareness to the quiet place inside yourself. On this planet nothing is permanent. People and things will come and go. You will fall in love and form sentimental attachments only to lose everything you hold dear. So cling to nothing too tightly, even yourself, and when it’s time to let go, let go with grace. For nothing is owned only borrowed. As you walk among the people on the planet try to be a good guest. Tread lightly. Remember that you are only visiting. Don’t make a mess. Listen more than you speak. Give more than you take. Don’t keep your soft heart locked inside a glass cage. You’ll never make it out alive and time passes quickly so come back with some battle scars and good stories to tell.

Full Moon Meditation

Please email Jean for a Zoom link to YMI”s hosting of tonight’s Global Full Moon Meditation! jean@yogamattersindy.com These are monthly collaborative meditations created by AHYMSIN (Association of Himalayan Yoga Meditation Societies International) in order to create a communal mind field of peace and silence. 10PM EST so adjust according to your Time Zone. Hope to see you on your zafu, chair or in your jammies! Namaste, jean

2020 Blessings from Swami ritavan of ahymsin organization

Blessings of the Lineage to you all. As we are drawn together in this celebration of illumination
let us bring the light of the hearts, our compassion, to all those who have experienced hardships, trauma, and misery. 
Let the fruits of our meditations be offered: may their suffering be alleviated.
And as to yourselves say, Thy will be done and not mine. 
Having thus unburdened yourself of all the claims of ego,
remain a dweller of the heart-center, maintaining this awareness through breath and mantram.

I have thought about this extensively and tonight I’d like to share the two words that have come to mind: “resilience and silence”. And I call this resilience and silence returning to the single “I”. For when you drop the “I” of ego, from the “silience” of resilience, you find that you are in silence. In that single presence. 
For all of us around the globe, this year has been truly a stress-test of resilience and returning again and again to silence. 
As we have removed the “I” of ego in resilience, we have become aware of our ability to change and flow with that change.
And as meditators, we have valued the quiet moments and have returned to silence, reminded of the fullness of re-silencing again and again throughout the day. This resilience and re-silence are two sides of the coin of personality and transformation. Let our meditations be a pause in the constant push and go with the flow of your breath. Let your meditations be a practice resilience and return to the single “I” of silence in stillness, in the fullness of your being.
Om, Shanti, srb http://www.ahymsin.org

We are all glad to see the end of this strange and terrible year. Let us continue our efforts on behalf of all people on this Earth. Surrender your time on the mat and in meditation to the Greater Good and please, do your part to tamp down viral spread so that 2021 can become a year of hope, healing and possibility.

Namaste, jean

When inside, go inside

When all the business – busy-ness – of our lives is halted it is a great time to do some inside work.  Beyond clearing the closets and sorting the junk drawer – Add to your To-Do list the Real Inner Work in whatever form it takes for you; introspective meditation, journaling, doodling, or reading and analyzing sacred texts. Remember Namaste means, “The divine light in me honors the divine light within you.” It’s in there.  Now is a great time to lift off external stuff that hides your light from you and the world and let that light shine.

Looking for the Silence…

peace to you all, jean

Going within…..

Got two minutes? zhuzh your mind.

Swami Veda used to teach us that the best way to set ourselves up for success  was to find a peaceful frame of mind using two minute meditations in each transition of the day. You might just choose to begin with two minutes sitting up in bed before you get up in the morning.

Now, I like very much two minutes in the car before driving, two minutes in the parked car before work, meeting, etc.. If you can, try to fit in two minutes at lunch or after lunch, before driving home, once you return home and right before going to bed. It sounds like a lot but if we add it up that’s a few precious minutes of your day simply spent in peace. Or rather, spent in simple peace. It is easier to do this now that there is broad use of cell phones because now we have timers in our pockets all the time :-).

So what to do exactly?
One. Get comfortable sitting up straight and supported. Free from tension in the face, back, shoulders and hands.
Two. Focus on the movement of breath in and out of the nose. Cool as it moves into the nose, warm as it moves out.
Three. When thoughts come up acknowledge them by saying to yourself; “thinking” or “later” or “thank you.” Then draw the awareness back to the breath and wait for the chime…. Boom. You meditated. It’s a practice, a form of conditioning for your mind. The more time you spend in peace, the more easily you fall into that peaceful state. Two minutes. At. A. Time.