I had such a great day yesterday! I checked off my ENTIRE checklist! This checklist has been running for nearly a year now. Having this weight off my shoulders I expected to have a great practice this morning and a well focused meditation. Surprise! My mind was going a million miles an hour, and still is. It would appear that the items on my checklist were occupying so much of my mind that they were serving as a sort of floodgate. Yoga Sutra I.2 says, "yoga is the cessation of the movements in the consciousness". Yoga gives us the tools to naturally settle these movements, but in order for that to happen your thoughts must be faced. You cannot still what isn't before you.
I am the queen of procrastination. I always thought it worked pretty well for me though. I was always very productive and often came up with some of my best work when it was done under pressure. This is the first time I've seen the real consequences of putting things off. The Bhagavad Gita warns that "actionlessness is not attained simply by avoiding action. By forsaking work no one reaches perfection" (III:4). Lesson learned!
Get on that checklist! Finish up everything that's hanging over your head. Soon the rush of thoughts following the release of the floodgates will settle and any small ripples flowing your way in the future will be easily dispersed.
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