I am grateful for the new habits and rebirth of former good habits that have set me on my way down my path of evolution once again. Of course, I have always been on the path, I just became distracted now and then or got stuck in a mud pit for a while. Now I am out! I have been doing a bit of pranayama and meditation before bed. Rising and drinking warm tea before my feet hit the floor. The one change of drinking something warm to hot as I arise is a Life Changer itself! Both physically and energetically it stokes my life fire and starts my fires burning for the day. As the warmth spreads from the physical plane to the spiritual and emotional, I am filled with positive energy and a look-foward-ness to the day. Photo of Himalayan Institute ceramic neti pot kit. I have a plastic travel version that I have used since 2006!--I have been doing net jala daily as part of my morning ablution routine for 13 years! Fine sea salt or pharmacy grade salt works too. Nasya with Ayurvedic oil is a great addition to seasonal cleansing. After morning ablutions, including neti jala (nasal cleansing with salt water), I sit down on my yoga mat and begin my practice. Today, it lasted about 1 hour and 15 minutes, which was wonderful! My goal is one hour each morning before work, excluding Mondays. On Monday, a quick round of OMs and sun salutations to start the day, and if there is time, prana and meditation.
I have modified my asana-pranayama-meditation routine to include some techniques I learned or was reminded of in Rishikesh by my wonderful yoga teachers, Vivek and Sanjay. Vivek reminds students to have a "smiley face" and begins and ends his classes with 11-21 OM chants. He reminds us at the end of this chanting periods to "Feel OM" and that "OM clears negative energy". As I chant OM to open and close my practice, I repeat the thought: "I am clearing negative energy. I am opening to positive energy." After asana, I did pranayama: khapalabhati, bhastrika, and nadi shodanham. Then I meditated on Saraswati, goddess of wisdom: "I honour my inner wisdom". Click "Read More" to the right for pranayama video and more!
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It's not who I was. It's who I am... and That I AM has the combined potential of all the Universe to become all that I WILL BE! It's been over one year since I left the U.S.A for China, by way of Paris. This means it has been over one year since I ran! Aarrgh. But that time is gone, so why lament? I have Now. I Am Now! I pulled on my running shoes with the intention of meeting my former Self. I boarded my treadmill prepared to depart the past and create someone new, or to paraphrase Mooji, unbecoming to be my Self. I warmed up to run toward freedom, to run toward my Self. I celebrated the past year by picking up --once again-- one of my best habits. The one I left in Texas. I ran 2.4 km. (1.5 mi.) after intending to run 1 mile! I am addicted again!! This is what three weeks in Rishikesh has gifted me: freedom, uncovering my Self again, and physical health. I am so grateful. As I looked out onto a half-built condo construction site, as grey as the polluted skies of this city, I thought to myself: my physical health, my emotional well-being, and my mental faculties DESERVE more than this polluted, overcrowded, nature-less mega-opolis!
Look out, because when I am running. I can do anything! And I truly feel EMPOWERED once again-- physically, emotionally, psychologically. I found the answer, and it helped me transform--not back into my Old Self, because that Self is in the past -- into my Truth, which is my Eternal Self. Changeless and Immortal. And the physical part loves running! And now I can't stop!! Yay! I have found my yoga again. I have found my Self again. I have found the Runner again. I am so grateful! I am an August Virgo. I am Sun Wukong, the monkey sign. I am a Goddess.
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