8 Folded Limbs

Slow down. Do everything at 3/4 or 1/2 pace today of you can.Do not place anyone in harm's way. As your body slows down, you will be able to focus more on what it is you are doing at the moment -- instead of what is on a lost of things for you to do in the future. Be kind to yourself.  Allow yourself to have the extra few seconds to complete tasks so that you can have your whole being included in the moment.  Less mistakes happen and the memory of events is improved. More focused, longer term attention takes root in mindfullness.  Please.  It really is not for you.  It is for the people around you.

This has got to be the most beautiful sound in the World. I have a constant melody in my head from this Mantra. I am not completely certain that I even hear it anymore.  It is almost as if my heart beats mostly to this rhythm. Sometimes it is in the traditional way, and sometimes a herald of Celtic instruments take it over in my head.      One odd thing to note, however, is the ease with which my brain switches over to the other Mantra I was working on Last year. ॐ गम गणपतये नमः It was so much easier to complete ... if there is such a thing with a Mantra.  I am becoming certain that Mantras fill the mind and do not leave.   I have been researching mantras over the past year and I have decided they are truly healing vibrations.  The small amount I have examined Sanskrit -- opened my eyes to the utter fact that it is the Mother of all language and fashioned after the sounds of the infinite.   My small, diluted words do not do thi...