“Don’t procrastinate your illumination.”
Anandji
Procrastination: the pattern or habit of putting off to another time what we KNOW needs to happen now.
It’s amazing that we often procrastinate on one of the most important parts of our life……our own evolution. We feel the urge within to deepen in your spiritual path. The longing to deepen in inner peace, joy, bliss. That longing is within every one of us. Some of us feel it quite strongly….and it often gets stronger the more we turn toward it.
Yet, even with this deep longing arising, we find ways to distract ourselves, to turn our attention away from this longing. To procrastinate our illumination.
With this, comes the experience of suffering…… because our whole being wants to evolve……and we’ve turned away from that desire. The experience of this suffering can manifest as anxiety, depression, emotional clinging to the people in our lives, loss of energy, loss of “spark” or passion……so many ways.
If you’re currently procrastinating your illumination/evolution……what to do??
First Step: Turn Toward Illumination
The first step: Turn Toward Evolution. To choose. To make the choice and turn your attention toward your growth. To turn your attention toward those practices, thoughts, patterns that increase peace and radiance within you. This is the biggest and most important step.
Second Step: Consistency
The second step: Be Consistent. Build a daily practice that you can be consistent with. When we are consistent, every day, with our practice, we build a strong base for the peace and radiance to deepen within us.
Third Step: Don’t Listen to the Mind
Third step: Don’t listen to your thoughts. Your thoughts are based in the long history of your conditioning during all your years. These thoughts are often arise to try to keep you the same. Many fearful thoughts arise—they often start with “But what if…..” It’s human to have these thoughts. Everyone has them. The KEY is to witness the thought, then actively turn your attention away from it. Don’t give it “juice”. The truth is that these thoughts are not true……what is true is your desire and longing to evolve. Listen to that desire.
Mumukshutva.
I love this Sanskrit word! it means - the deep intense longing for liberation, freedom and self realization.
Allow this longing, mumukshutva, to grow within you. Turn your attention to That!
Fourth Step: Find Sangha
Fourth step: find community. Sangha is Sanskrit for spiritual community. There are many, many beings just like you who long for evolution and illumination. Community is essential for support to stay on the yogic path.
Procrastinate taking out the compost.
Procrastinate washing the bath tub.
Procrastinate weeding the garden.
But whatever you do ………
Don’t procrastinate your illumination.
Blessings and Namaste!
