When will I stop forgetting and learn!
I woke up with a sore throat. If I think back I can recall having a headache a few days ago. It could have been the weather, or that I ran around with wet hair, or that I did not drink enough water, so I ignored it. I can also remember feeling tired and cold. This one is very easy to ignore being busy and living in the UK. But what should have finally triggered all buttons was that I ate starchy sugary food, which I usually don't.
I know exactly how a cold settles in my body, but still I ignored it.
Why? I have asked myself this question many many times throughout my life. Why do I keep forgetting what I know is good for me? Why do I ignore signs that tell me, it is not good for me?
I had a similar experience a while ago. It was when the moon and mercury were busy and easy to blame, and I felt slightly off. From experience I know that in these moments, nobody answers the phone, that people around me are busy or say the wrong words, so I end up suffering and having to solve whatever is bothering me on my own. That's what I did, I opened the Crisis Kit and did the "Last Resort Meditation". Yeah, I am learning after all.
Yesterday, somebody said to me he would need someone to do a meditation with him or it is not happening. Then he paused and said but his phone could remind him.... So tell Gotana, post it on a spot of your wall that you are likely to pass or put it in your medicine cabinet, where ever you are likely to find it in case you need it.
It is a simple meditation. Easypose, eyes closed. Hands in your lap, palms up, right on top of left palm, thumbs touching.
If you cannot keep your spine straight sit on the edge of a chair and place your feet flat on the floor hip width apart or use a cushion the same way, sitting on the floor. This will tilt your pelvis forward which will straighten your spine. (For tuning in and out before doing a meditation/kriya, please read here)
The mantra used in the Last Resort Meditation is Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Guru Wahe Jio repeated 8 times in one breath (breathing out). This might take a while to master. You will have to gently channel your breath so you have enough left for the last repetition.
You will notice chanting this mantra makes it impossible to think anything at all. And using your breath to its full capacity is refreshing and calming. And 11 minutes will fly by....
Peace.
It has been a while. Life was in the way! And then when I think there is more time, life brings something else, even worse.
I guess there is never a right time. Or a wrong one.
I want to share my latest 40 days set. It is really hard to choose a set to commit to for 40 days as there are so many nice ones.
On a train ride home after having finished my course I had nothing better to do than thinking about a new set and I was also asking myself the question "What now?" so I thought I will choose a set to face my fears. In general I find it uncomfortable and blocking to feel dragged down by fears especially ones that don't seem to have a reason. Not sure why I was thinking of fears, I guess I was feeling some sort of uncertainty as a chapter had finished. Back home I also found an interesting set and was looking forward to starting it. And really interesting, 2 days later I was confronted with very bad news, so facing my fears made actually sense.
The set is called Relax and Release Fear and is found in Youth and Joy and in the I am a Woman Manual. This set is quite long and intense. Even after a week I still ached and some of the exercises seemed almost too hard to endure.
But funny enough every morning I am looking forward to doing my set. I am on day 20 and I can tell that I am more relaxed. I can see it in how I react to the kids or generally in situations.
The first exercise, Cat Cow in a forward bend is very powerful and if you do it right it hurts. Exercise 2 and 3 are great. (in exercise 2 it is important to really keep the legs in place and only rotate the torso from the hips)
And then there is exercise 4. Oh wow. This generates the feeling for me that says, how much longer? But as always it feels wonderful having persevered. I guess after this exercise it all gets a different perspective. In exercise 10 it is easy to get lost in thoughts but it is a nice meditation when you keep the focus and rhythm. And then the last exercise seems so easy but if you keep the pressure applied throughout you come out really refreshed and the relaxation comes easy.
I love this set and find it interesting that working on fear involves a lot of rhythm and dancing. I chose the tracks from Chardikala Jatha and they are so great to go within.
I am looking for a shorter set already, so I have more time to spare for mediation for the next 40 days. I probably did not make Relax and Release Fear very attractive. But it is a great set or I would not write a post. And how great is a life lived without fear.
I woke up with a sore throat. If I think back I can recall having a headache a few days ago. It could have been the weather, or that I ran around with wet hair, or that I did not drink enough water, so I ignored it. I can also remember feeling tired and cold. This one is very easy to ignore being busy and living in the UK. But what should have finally triggered all buttons was that I ate starchy sugary food, which I usually don't. 
