The Dharma Room

Its hard for me to believe that its been 35 days straight that I've been meditating!  And though that is actually a short time, relatively speaking, it feels like a major milestone.  I can look back on the last month and see the transformation that is already taking place.  While I'm not up to 30 minutes yet, it amazes me that something so simple as a 20 minute meditation in the morning becomes as necessary and as easy as brushing your teeth.  There are still days where the mind wants to rush to the next task or is just VERY talkative, and yet even after those sessions, I feel a sense of all-encompassing calm within me. 

The last year or so has been one of many challenges for me...a husband trying to pass his Board Exams (had to take them 3 times, poor guy!) and me, trying to manage 2 brand new businesses as well as navigate my way through a fairly new marriage, keeping myself healthy AND continue to cultivate a spiritual practice.  Since meditating, I had discovered that I actually RESISTED meditation and getting quiet...(1) because I thought I was overwhelmed with "things to do" and (2) because I was afraid of what I would find in the quiet.  The latter reason was the most troubling:  I was afraid to find out that I really was inadequate, incompetent, unlovable...

How funny that God shows us otherwise when we do commit to get quiet and connect with that Higher Consciousness!  Through this quiet practice, which I have now come to LOVE, I have recently learned that:

• Time is an illusion, there is only the NOW!   Tasks will get done, or they won't...and tomorrow is another day.
• I am not loved for what I do, I am loved simply for who I am.
• The less I try to control, the more the Universe gives me what I need!
• The more I create space within me, the more I find space in my heart to let others in...and my relationships transform into something magical.
• It is delicious to JUST BE!
• Cultivating quiet during meditation allows for quiet and calm to permeate my being...a fertile ground for miracles to unfold in my life.
• Here, in meditation, is where I can finally understand what it means to LOVE myself!

I used to think that in order to really feel pampered, I would get a massage, pedicure, manicure, facial, etc.  (Okay, I still think that's a good way to pamper myself!), but now I look forward to the ultimate pampering in plugging into my source and tapping into my Divine essesnce through meditation! 

Pardon me, but I have a SPA appointment with God!