Baggage and Your Life

As much as i would love to expland on this quote, Yogi Bhajan sums up "your baggage" pretty sweetly:

You have baggage; it has wheels and handle. WHen the handle breaks, that bag becomes a load. That's life, When you lost the handle of your own life and it is nor under your grip and control, you can't run it."  Yogi Bhajan    6/27/93

Another quote that I heard the other day while watching Yogi Bhajan's Lifecycles and Lifestyles DVD was (along the lines because I forget exactly how it goes):

We hesitate to meditate. Don't hesitate to meditate.

Meditation is getting you mind/life back under control. It's best to do it first thingin the morning. IT's the mental shower of spiritual cup of joe to start your day grounded. I personally find that when I meditate, I'm less nit picky on aspects of my day. I work in a very analytical job which can spill ouver my 9-5 work day. With Meditation, I find that I bring the calm, neutral, pleasant self to work......and a lot more focused. I find that my monkey mind doesn't wonder as much or be resentful about long hours if needed to get my job done. And it's basically because I have taken care of me before anyone, anything else = I was not forgotten.

Sat Nam

Challenge yourself.....or someone else will

I usually say Meditating is like the mental shower for the mind. And Yoga Bhajan's words make so much sense. Even on my second day of meditating, I feel off. I wasn't always like that but the more I changed my diet/lifestyle, the more in tune to the subtlies of shift that go in me. Not to say, one has super powers powers yet meditating is like using into a frequency, that biorhythm of life every morning before starting the day. Tap into YOU before electronics and the hustle takes you away from what is really important.
Because "When you consistency in contentment, even tea without sugar tastes sweet." YB

So true...

I'm learning this right now with my practice.....

Invoking the Master's Blessing

Invoking the Master's Blessing

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Reminder of what is important

~ Valerie Ram Rattan ~
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Yogi Quote of the day

What did your mind talk you out of now?

My biggest pattern is when my mind talks me out of things are that good for me yet I put my daily/professional/family/”adult” responsibilities before me. So when do when change our priorities and put ME before Thee? On the other hand, some people are “trained” to do the opposite meaning when do they put Thee before ME?

Like everything in life, it’s a balancing act and we can only be the judge of what works for us. Nevertheless, my yoga (Kundalini Yoga as taught by Yoga Bhajan) speaks of putting ME before anything else at least 1 hour a day. And if you are too busy for 1 hour, then you need 2 hours.

When you think about it, 60 minutes is not a ton of time to for yourself and it will go by quickly. I know you are thinking otherwise however, start with 20 or 30 minutes of undistributed attention for you to start and then build towards 60. Nothing comes overnight and if you try jamming your yogic practice into your day, you will hate it and believe your mind over what is possible. So it starts the day/night before to create the time/space for this habit into your day. We make time for everything else in our day including eating.

"We make everything in our lives important except learning about our Selves." Yogi Bhajan

Even when we forget (if our day is that busy) yet, when do we feed our spirit? Is it because it’s not a physical entity that we it’s easier to put it to the side? just like ourselves.....since it’s not outside of us, we can’t pay attention to it....maybe that’s it?! So then my last question to ask......why do we have to see something to believe it instead of hear it through our intuition?

We have become socially conditioned to produce and be productive yet we have not trained ourSELVES to be heros for their own spirits. I’m not saying drop everything to go up to the Himilayas and meditate and live off of plants and berries, but I am saying when is the last time you bowed your head, sat back, took a breathe and forgave yourself for taking advantage of the very person/spirit that drives you? That’s all......sit with yourself and give that person just as much attention as you do for others.

Time is the only thing that you can not replenish like your bank account. So with that comes planning but moreso determining priorities. At the end of the day/morning/night, you will decide with your actions.

Thank you to my dear friend who reminds me to go on my FREE magic carpet ride.