Namaste dear one,
Welcome to this practice on patience.
This is Jay Chaturagam.
Not long ago,
Nature was our clock.
It told us when to sow and when to reap.
The movements of the planets and the stars guided our movements here on earth.
Now we busy ourselves in our towns and cities,
Expanding our concrete memorials to sophistication and driving around in our increasingly expensive turbocharged machines.
We have forgotten that the natural speed of the world is the speed of a cow.
Being patient with oneself is like saying don't force the pace.
One of the greatest errors of the return journey to the restoration of true self-awareness is the attempt to quicken the speed.
But it's impossible and only creates further delay.
This is because the self is ultimately beyond clock and corporeal time.
In fact it's even beyond psychological time.
And as soon as there is the impulse to increase the speed,
It just means the self is still creating an image of self as someone who is subject to time.
Not an easy self-perception to break as the world around us seems to confirm the importance of time all the time.
And so infinite patience becomes a necessary intention in the healing of our habits of attempted self-fragmentation.
As we restore our state of oneness,
One being,
Oneself,
Without fragmentation,
All thoughts towards others and even about the self become unnecessary.
They drop away.
And as they do,
All the barriers we've constructed between ourself and others,
Between ourself and the world,
Dissolve.
As we sit comfortably,
Finding that posture where there's an alignment between my head,
Neck and spine,
There's nowhere more important to be at this moment,
Nothing more important to do,
Nowhere else to go.
This is my time to practice patience.
Soften the belly,
Relax the shoulders,
Drop the jaw,
Unclench the fists and relax your entire body.
Before you go out to do in a society that advocates more is better,
We will practice the art of being.
Taking some deep comfortable breaths deep into the belly,
Noticing the rise and the fall of the abdomen,
Inhaling through the nostrils and exhaling through the mouth.
Inhale through the nostrils.
As you exhale,
Say to yourself,
Slow down,
Inhale,
Slow down,
Inhale,
Let go,
Inhale,
Let go,
Inhale,
Take time,
Inhale,
Take time,
Inhale.
Be patient,
Inhale,
Be patient.
Now we inhale through the nostrils and as you exhale,
Release it for a count of five with the letters P-E-A-C-E.
So let's do this couple of times together,
Then I'll let you do it on your own.
Take a nice deep inhale through the nostrils and in your mind see the letters P-E-A-C-E.
Inhale P-E-A-C-E.
I'll let you do this a few rounds on your own.
Let this practice return to normal breathing and in your mind's eye visualize yourself as a being of light seated in the third eye,
Just below the brain,
Between the ears and behind the eyes.
Keep your awareness on the region of the third eye and if your mind begins to wander,
Very gently tell yourself,
I am light and bring it back to the object of your focus.
Soon you'll hear my voice again.
I am light,
Am enough,
I have enough,
I do enough.
I give enough.
This is enough.
I thank you for joining me in this practice today.
This is J Chodakam wishing you a brilliant year ahead.
Namaste.
