Sadhana Beyond the Mat

Do you only have 10 minutes a day for your sadhana? Don’t worry. Take those 10 minutes. Spend five minutes doing meditation. Connect deeply. Anchor yourself. Ground yourself.

Take two minutes. spend it doing mantra japa recitation of the name of the divine or a powerful mantra. Take three minutes think of all the things that you’re grateful for. Just allow your heart to fill expand overflow in gratitude to the divine. But remember also that the other 23 hours and 50 minutes are also your sadhana. Our sadhana is not only what I do sitting down on my mat with my eyes closed, my legs crossed. Walking can be meditation. Eating can be meditation. Drinking water, a cup of tea can all be meditation. Meditation should flow into how we live and whatever we do. We can be chanting our mantra, driving a car, washing dishes, doing a spreadsheet, sitting in a board meeting, whatever you’re doing. Allow that mantra to be going in your mind, in your heart, in your breath, and let yourself be grateful all day long. Whatever comes in your way. Gratitude for the greenery that gives us oxygen that gives us fruit. Gratitude to the air, to the soil, to the water, to the divine. Gratitude to those around us. Gratitude to all of those of our past who have contributed to getting us to this moment in the present. So bring that sadna into the rest of your day. So even if it’s only 10 minutes of seated sadhana, let the other 23 hours and 50 minutes also be your moving around open eyed beautiful living sad.