I wanted to express my gratitude for two specific things I received the past few days from our training.
First was the reminder that our meditation, and specific pranayama practice, is a kriya, and that means LITERALLY a cleansing. I’ve been experiencing some ‘symptoms’ that made me concerned I might be getting sick, or worse, COVID, but thinking about the kriya and the fact that I’ve been regularly doing the pranayama for two weeks now, gave me some breathing room and today those symptoms have passed and I feel lighter and ‘cleaner’!
Second is from the Sutras I-38: “Or serenity can come by letting the mind be grounded in knowledge that has arisen from dreams or from the dreamless state of deep sleep”
My whole life I get what I call ‘nuggets’ that have truly changed my life, and I might say ‘my internal wiring’. They often come in dreams, like a short phrase or sentence, or even a movie sequence. Sometimes they come from a thing someone says to me, that just sort of plugs into me on a different level than cognitively. It was really cool to see that this idea is thousands of years old, and supported by the Sutras.
Some examples, in my 20s I was heading down a self-destructive party-girl path because I wasn’t living authentically. My mom said to me ‘The world needs your brain’ and literally the next day I changed my life 360 degrees.
Another time, a few years ago, my dream said ‘You are the heart of compassion’. And most recently, just a few nights ago, when I slept restlessly and anxious about the symptoms I was feeling in my body, my dream said ‘It is time to embrace your role as an elder’.
It’s hard to describe the internal peace or serenity these experiences have created inside of my soul, but they are real and profound. To me, they are messages from God/Goddess/AllThatIs, and I am grateful to learn more about this way of living, this path of listening to those voices and finding my soul purpose.