Time in abundance

I've hear many times that if you ask the universe for patience, you will be given events or circumstances that allow you to cultivate patience. So goes the old Cliche "Be careful what you wish for".

Recently I was working 6 day work weeks, taking classes 3-4 times a week, and working from home to keep caught up with the endless work corporate kept coming up with.

I had no time to do anything for myself. Each evening was filled with eating dinner and going to bed before 10pm. My spiritual practices, my hobbies, my creative endeavors, even my social life, including my relationship, began to fall by the way side.

I always open my yoga asana practice on the mat with an intent. I kept coming back to one intent, "May I gather love and light into myself, so that I may be a beacon of light to others, and shine light down the paths that I have been, for others".

One has to be specific with the Universe. My intent was one that was pretty general...as if I just kept saying that, the time to cultivate this light would not be necessary.

Well, the Universe has gifted me with time. I spent a few days thinking: "I have lost touch with the ability to do anything except work, work....and do more work..and now that there is no "work".

There is plenty of work for me to do. It just doesn't involve a paycheck or a an ever, over-worked boss.

I've spent the past couple days safely within the walls of the Vedanta temple. Simply sitting, thinking, meditating....I wish I could say the answer magically came to me during one of these sessions. It did, in a way though. I realized I have the TIME to be sitting here. And, that the time I was there, felt timeless. I felt no rush to be anywhere else, I felt peace and contentment.....and the pure bliss of being in those particular moments.

Rarely these days do any of us have the luxury of time, even in the yoga studio, I'd see people arrive late..and then leave 15 minutes early, skipping to me the best part of asana, Savasana.

This is my thank you note to the Universe, for the gift of time. So that I may refine my intent and focus on HOW I will become a beacon of light to others...and therefore fulfill my intent and life's purpose. This time around.