I've worn a silver Om ring for 20 months now. I wear it as a commitment to myself to meditate at least 10 minutes a day. Some days I make it as long as an hour, however most days it comes in at around 20. Today I started a 21 Day guided meditation endeavor, delivered via the internet from Deepak Chopra. He's the one that got me hooked on this daily habit in July of 2013, when I spent a weekend attending Chopra's 3-day Seminar on his book entitled "Super Brain". Lousy title, great book and weekend. That weekend I took a journal full of notes as I sat 12 feet away from Chopra as he guided us through his book, various philosophies, spiritual exercises and much more. I've carried what I learned that weekend with me ever since.
So when I received an email to take part in this 21-day event, I thought it the perfect time for a Spring tune-up and deepening of commitment to my daily practice. Today's Centering Thought was I create my success from within. Now that takes a lot of ownership on one hand and just letting yourself be on the other hand. The Sanskrit Mantra of the day was Sheevo Hum, which loosely translates to I am infinity. Now this may sound grandiose to the uninitiated, but it is really rather humbling. It mirrors a sentiment expressed in sculpture that was prominent on the quad of my High School, WE ARE, or the sort of like the opening lines to the Beatle's song "I Am the Walrus":I
I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together.
Once you accept that you are simply here, breath for breath, and a part of all things past, present and future, then it really gets down to how to be of use, at least for me. Deepak says it's about "service" for him. For others it's compassion, loving, teaching and so on. Contributing to easing the ride of this journey we call life. Not just our own journey, with all it's potholes, set backs and curious turns of fate, but those whom we touch, encounter, seek out and hold dear.
During my 25 minutes of meditation today, I realized that I'm fairly lucky with the path I've put myself on. I teach, which often gives me the satisfaction of feeling of use. I'm a mother, and in that capacity, again, I get to teach, serve, love and be mindful. I'm not perfect, I'm human, and there are days when my spirit or energies are low, which makes it hard to produce or be present. But I find, if I take a deep breath, in most moments, and let it go slowly, I can become one with the moment and task at hand.
Now the path I'm trying to continue is one I've wanted to walk on since I was a girl. That of being a traveller and a writer with something to share. I find that in my capacity of teacher and mother, that I've found ways to do both (travel and write). But I can feel that the next goal is larger and may have longer lasting, or infinite, possibilities. To truly create my life in words and, perhaps later, to create fictional lives in words, is how I've imagined my connection to infinity to be. In order to be successful at that, in whatever form it takes or morphs into down the road, is another daily practice, future goal setting and commitment to self that I need to do.
Obtaining a deeper level of not caring what others think, while learning to artfully show how I have felt the world to be, imagine that it is and what it could be, is a grand goal. But shouldn't our goals be large, as large as live itself, as large as all the permutations that nature has to offer, as large as infinity? I don't want to be clever, and create some new art form, but rather delve deeply into my primal past and find the form to successful release an authentic creation that connects to others on a universal level.
I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together.
Om is a universal mantra. Namaste is the universal greeting of acknowledging the divine in all you meet and in giving of your self to others. Sheevo Hum may be my mantra for a while, to allow me to open gates I've feared to show the world, but now realize I must in order to be one with it.
Good Night, One & All, G'night!
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