I took part in an international Full Moon Meditation on New Years Eve. The following letter was an email I sent to my former yoga instructor, Jean. I wanted to share these thoughts with my BeliefNet friends.
realmystic
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Share: A Letter to My Yoga Teacher
Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 3:32 AM
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NAMASTE, Sister Jean! Happy new Year to you and yours. Last night I took part in the Full Moon Meditation for the first time. I was visiting my best friend's house and he accommodated me, finding me a quiet room, pillows to sit on, a small blanket to cover me. I meditated deeply from 10:00 to 10:30 p.m. and kept my focus on the full moon and all the prayers for a miracle of healing for the world that we all share. It was beautiful and blissful. I want to thank you and AHYMSA for inviting me to participate. It felt very worthwhile.
I was talking to my friends about how chaotic the world around us is, millions of people all with their own competing ego-agendas, and the net effect of all those vibrations is the social disease and chaos we see every day on the news. But instead of jumping in and competing with all that other noise, what I'm trying to do is focus my own consciousness on the interior silence and stillness. Rather putting my energy out there in the street, clashing with all the other egos and ambitions and head trips and ideologies and complaints, etc., I'm working on my calm center to make my own consciousness as smooth and gentle as I can. If I'm turned inward and not out there fighting social injustice or poverty, some people might think I'm not really doing anything. But they don't know the power of the combined consciousness of people connected to the Source. Not only by meditating together on the full moon, but also by our own, individual practice of Pranayama, breath meditation, and all the varieties of yoga and devotion we do, at any time, we make a contribution and have a great potential to bring a healing presence to the consciousness of the Earth.
There was a scientific study done on the healing power of prayer. Two groups of patients with a mixture of equivalent maladies and injuries were followed. One group had a team of a dozen or so people praying for them to heal; the other group did not. None of the patients or doctors involved knew who was being prayed for and who was not. At the conclusion of the study, it was found that the patients who were the subjects of prayers over a period of several weeks or months healed and recovered more quickly and completely than the group not prayed for. That shows the power of the combined consciousness of a small group of well-intended people sending positive thoughts and prayers to help others to heal and mend. We can make a difference.
I was concerned for a while that I might never find that service to God and humankind, some obvious and overt way of making myself useful. Although I may still find ways to help out here and there, I've realized that I have been given such gifts, such grace, so that I may, first and foremost, allow myself to be transformed. Doing good must begin within myself, first. As my heart becomes a beacon of spiritual radiance that can have healing effects on others and make my little part of the world a better place, I know that living moment to moment in awareness and appreciation of the grace and blessings that have been so generously bestowed upon me is really the essence of my job on this planet. The rest will take care of itself.
I think of you often. You are a special person, and very dear to me. May the new year bring you many blessings and great joy.
da
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