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We create our realities with our thoughts. Cultivating the witness, that part of our minds that objectively watches everything we are, allows us to clearly see all of our thoughts. Through the power of watching our thoughts, we gradually change the way we perceive the world. We shift from viewing the world as a serious court of justice to seeing this universe as a joyous playground. Like gleeful children, we get to play and celebrate during this lifetime we've been given. On the playground we enjoy ourselves fully, even if sometimes we scrape our knees or get our hearts broken! No matter what pains we go through, we can't let the heartbreaks keep us from opening up and having a good time on the playground.

Here is a bit of news from the fun I'm having lately on the Tejaswini Playground ~

~ Last weekend I attended a Reiki intensive with my teacher, Reiki Master William Bagley, and it was very inspiring and got me all charged up with healing energies. I have posted two blog articles (here on the Teja Blog) highlighting some of the information we learned, along with my personal emotional experiences during the training. Those articles are entitled “Merging with the Compassion of Green Tara,” and “My Experience with the Tanran Reiki Relationship Healing Symbols.” 

The former article offers ways to work with emotions, and the latter post describes a really great map (that came to Will in dreamtime) for creating a healthy romantic relationship. That article is a must-read for all couples and for all people who want to be in relationships. It contains very insightful information on the inevitable process that unfolds once sexual energies are merged.

~ A few days after the training weekend, Will and I met for tea to go over my essay test, session reports, and so on, and I am happy to say that I am now a Certified Reiki Practitioner.

~ The weekly Radiance Rising Circles continue to be the highlight of my life. Sitting in a circle sharing spiritual practices is definitely my favorite playground. Although I am very much a beginner at playing harmonium and leading chanting (singing), I really enjoy it, and the attendees sing along so beautifully. I anticipate that soon I will begin to offer more circles in other places. Some of those circles will also be for sharing spiritual practices, and others will be for healing work based on the curriculum I learned at the training through Insight Prison Project. I am inspired to facilitate healing circles at rehabilitation centers, youth centers, and anywhere else that might be open to my offerings.

~ At the beginning of this summer, I predicted that it was going to be fun, intense, and fast, and that has all been true. My personal healing journey has been about releasing expectations of the masculine, both the external and the internal masculine; forgiving myself and others; releasing judgments and accepting everyone’s choices; and relaxing into loving all beings Unconditionally. If you’re interested in reading more about all of that, I’ve written some blog articles about my processes along the way. Soon I will also post an article about my experience with taking the brahmacharya celibacy vow.

~ I really enjoy writing the articles for this Teja Blog, and I consider it as one of the ways that I am serving others. I intend that the writings here are an offering of Light for those that read them. If you know anyone who might enjoy this Teja Blog, please forward the link to them… http://yogini-bliss.com/Teja-Blog.html

~ My second favorite playground is Facebook. I have so much fun meeting new people there. It feels like a big matrix of international pen pals connecting energies and points of light all around the world. I especially feel inspired by all the great quotes that people post there. If you’d like to meet me there, go to http://www.facebook.com/tejashankara and you can also join (“like”) my Teja Shankara Books page.

~ Another favorite playground is where I connect with all my guys! My two sons are now 10 and 13, and they love to show me the hot new hip hop videos. Fortunately, I also really love hip hop. I especially love this video that they showed me by Michael Franti & Spearhead, “Say Hey (I Love You).

~ A few weeks ago my dear friend Thomas and I went up to Mt. Ashland for an evening picnic, hot cocoa and stargazing. It was one of my happiest moments all summer, and I posted a blog about it called “Happy Teja.” After that article, I posted three articles with the vegan recipes from that picnic dinner.

~ Well, I finally finished reading the Ramayana! What a journey that was. It brought up a lot of issues for me, and I wrote a detailed blog about it, called “Issues with Rama.”  It was a soul-cleansing experience for me, for sure. I am still integrating it all on the vibrational level. Soon I plan to begin reading the book again, because it was such a good spiritual practice.

~ I’ll end this month’s newsletter with a quote from my Reiki teacher, William Bagley:

“Let go, let go, really let go, totally let go, awake, and rejoice!”

May all beings everywhere know Peace and Happiness.

Om Shanti (Peace),

Yogini Tejaswini

http://www.facebook.com/tejashankara

Photo of Playground by Ashley Marie - CC license. Photo of harmonium by Teja Shankara. Photo of Happy Teja by Thomas Stekkinger.