the gift of guruprasad
there is a beautiful meditation that i have been practicing lately called 'the meditation for guruprasad.' guruprasad means "gift from the guru"; a little translation of the word guru means the one who takes us from darkness to light. this meditation is very sweet and very simple. you sit comfortably in meditation pose, with your legs crossed and your back straight, as you cup your hands together at heart level, upper arms pressed against your rib cage with your palms facing upwards and your eyes gently closed. then you imagine that you are asking for a blessing from god, for simple grace, and you imagine that something is flowing into your hands from heaven- anything it is that you want: abundance, health, joy, love... all the blessings of heaven being poured into your open hands. simply be with your breath and allow your heart and soul be filled with the universe. it is very simple, very sweet. in one version of the meditation you only need practice for three minutes, though you are free to do it as long as you like. afterwards i open my eyes and there is such an experience of lightness and sweetness. so i have meditating like this lately, imaging all those things -joy, love, abundance- flowing into my life, being poured into my awaiting hands.
and last night i had such a beautiful awakening to the beauty of this meditation. thursdays nights has been my selp nights for the past several months, and before the self expression and leadership program starts, there is always a coaches meeting where we sit and clear about the week, sharing breakdowns and breakthroughs and various number of other things going on in our lives. and as the coaches, who have become my friends and family, shared miracles they have created in their lives, all of a sudden i realized that i was occurring completely differently then ever before. where before i used to listen and be happy (or irritated, depending on my mood, to be honest) for what was going for them, this time- this time i heard their joys as my joys, their blessings as my blessings, their gifts as my gifts. i realized, as they shared about creating love and abundance and joy and miracles in their lives- that my meditation, my prayers, had been fulfilled. all the times i sat and meditated and called those things into my life- here it was: it was in my life, by being in theirs. it was such a beautiful awakening, realizing this- small tears welled in my eyes as i listened and really experienced that all the gifts of the universe were really, in fact, flowing to me- by flowing to them. i felt so fulfilled.
and so, as this holiday season is upon us, i ask for this: to continue to be present to the joy of knowing that all my meditations and prayers for happiness and love and abundance and fulfillment are answered, because they are coming to true for you.
happy friday.
lovelovelove
and last night i had such a beautiful awakening to the beauty of this meditation. thursdays nights has been my selp nights for the past several months, and before the self expression and leadership program starts, there is always a coaches meeting where we sit and clear about the week, sharing breakdowns and breakthroughs and various number of other things going on in our lives. and as the coaches, who have become my friends and family, shared miracles they have created in their lives, all of a sudden i realized that i was occurring completely differently then ever before. where before i used to listen and be happy (or irritated, depending on my mood, to be honest) for what was going for them, this time- this time i heard their joys as my joys, their blessings as my blessings, their gifts as my gifts. i realized, as they shared about creating love and abundance and joy and miracles in their lives- that my meditation, my prayers, had been fulfilled. all the times i sat and meditated and called those things into my life- here it was: it was in my life, by being in theirs. it was such a beautiful awakening, realizing this- small tears welled in my eyes as i listened and really experienced that all the gifts of the universe were really, in fact, flowing to me- by flowing to them. i felt so fulfilled.
and so, as this holiday season is upon us, i ask for this: to continue to be present to the joy of knowing that all my meditations and prayers for happiness and love and abundance and fulfillment are answered, because they are coming to true for you.
happy friday.
lovelovelove