Monday, November 14, 2011

Week 4: Creating Your Departure Point

This week we read and reviewed chapters 14 - 16. We did the "Relax Into Greatness" meditation, which is yoga nidra (deep relaxation/"yogic sleep").  We did a quick 5 minute exercise of writing our individual sankalpas over and over and over again, to discover what other resistances (vikalpas) might be lurking in the background still. We chose a bad habit/time waster from our list to give up for the upcoming week. Each time we have the urge to partake in this bad habit/time waster, we will NOT do it, and instead mentally repeat our sankalpa to ourselves in place of it. This process is called "seeding the gap".

Next week's assignments:

Wed., Nov. 16th:  read Ch. 17 on your own for meet up; we will read and discuss chapters 18 and 19 together. We will do the "Accessing your Dhi" exercise , and the Healing the Heart meditation together on Wed. as well.

Thur., Nov. 17th:  read Ch. 20 on your own for the meet up; we will read and discuss chapters 21-23 together.  We will do the "Vairagya" exercise (parts 1 & 2), and the meditation to Increase Vairagya together on Thur.

We will not meet up the week of Thanksgiving.

Our last meet up will be on Wed., Nov. 30th!

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