Mornings filled with dread…

Some days, I wake up with a strong sense of dread. God, how do I complete my research paper, where is the time to prepare for the graduate seminar, jeez – gotta sign up for Fall and I can hardly find any courses, need to get working for the next YES! course… and so on. It is only after I complete my Kriya and meditation that some kind of calm comes in. Yeah, it’ll all get sorted out, I’ll just do my best.

I remember, a couple of months back, in the middle of my Spring semester and SO MUCH was going on with school, work, Art of Living and other stuff. I was getting very less sleep… One night, I was working on my research paper until late. When I went to bed, I was sore, tired and feeling awfully low. Managed five and a half hours of deathly sleep, woke up and didn’t feel any better. Those were the days when we were doing our Kriya and meditation in a group. So I managed to drag myself to P’s home (where we gathered at 6 am every morning)… Yoga, Kriya and meditation – just an hour in total – and the transformation was miraculous! All the soreness was gone, my spirits were soaring and I expereinced an amazing sense of calmness and clarity.

I have been doing my spiritual practices for more than four years now and yet I never cease to be amazed by how beautiful they are… how they nourish me from within in the most natural and beautiful way… and how much I owe my health, energy and vivacity to them.