The Teja Challenge (Revised)
Posted by: Tejaswini
on Dec 28, 2010 
On February 28th, 2010, I posted a blog article entitled “The Teja Challenge” in which I challenged people to give up their addictions to harmful substances for one year in exchange for me sending them Reiki healing energies each day. Recently I became inspired to revisit and revise that challenge. This new challenge will include the substances from the original – tobacco, alcohol, ganja (also called pot/weed/marijuana), and other drugs – as well as any other addictive substance or activity, such as spending too much time on the television or computer, overeating, obsessive worrying, and futuristic fantasizing.
All addictions stem from a lack of self-love. Once you really, truly begin to love yourself, you then experience your whole being, including your physical body, as a temple for your soul. When you really love yourself, you will no longer choose to engage in addictions that are harmful to your body, mind, heart, and soul.
It has been more than 3 years since I quit drinking alcohol. I no longer even have a glass of wine with dinner, because I do not like how alcohol makes my energies feel so tweaked. Once I began doing regular, daily spiritual practices and I became more sensitive to energies, I began to really like how my own energies feel, without any alterations. I like how present I feel now that I no longer put mind-altering substances into my temple body.
Alcohol, tobacco, ganja, and other drugs interfere with spiritual purification and with the body’s natural healing processes. The way to free yourself from addictive substances or behaviors is to set the intention to really love yourself, and then choose the path that will lead you to that self-love. Once you dedicate yourself to really loving yourself, the way will open up for you.
This revised Teja Challenge is one way to begin the healing journey of freeing yourself from addictions. Here are the terms of this challenge ~
~ You will agree to give up tobacco, alcohol, ganja, and other drugs (and any other addictive substances and/or behaviors), for 3 months, during which time you will read my pocket book, Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living (copy included in this challenge), and commit to doing daily spiritual practices, with the minimum requirement being a twenty-minute silent meditation each day.
~ I will agree to send you Reiki healing energies by distance each day, and I will be available for guidance on spiritual practices by email, as needed. (For people who need a lot of extra email support, an extra financial donation may be necessary.)
~ For this healing process, a sliding scale love-money donation is requested: between $22-88 per month, so for 3 months, between $66-$264. To take The Teja Challenge (Revised), please go to the Store on this website, and pay by using the “Donate” button. (10% of every sale and donation on this website goes to Amma’s charitable organizations. www.amma.org) After you make the donation, please send me a message through the Contact page on this site, letting me know that you are agreeing to take the Teja Challenge. Please include your email address and whether you would like your copy of Radiance Rising: Spiritual Practices for Daily Living in the print or e-book version. (If you’d like the print version, also include your mailing address.) I will then reply with an email containing the Terms of Agreement and a request for you to email me a recent photo of yourself.
Regular, daily spiritual practices help develop self-love. One of the spiritual practices that has helped me the most on my journey to self-love is Cultivating the Witness, that part of ourselves that objectively watches everything we are. Once we begin to witness, allow, and accept all parts of ourselves, then we begin to love ourselves unconditionally. I have found this process to be incredibly rewarding. It is my intention to assist many others in sparking the healing inner Light into a blazing Fire of Self-Love that radiates out to more and more beings.
May all beings everywhere know the Bliss of Freedom from all addictions! If you have addictions, consider taking The Teja Challenge today!
May all beings everywhere know Peace and Happiness.
Om Shanti (Peace),
Yogini Tejaswini
Photo of red feather tree lights by Teja Shankara. Photo of Teja by her son Gabe.
Subscribe to this comment's feedI just wanted to let you know that I was able to make my first donation for your healing work. You will notice a $90 donation in your paypal account from "Frank" with an address of matthere1@gmail.com. That's my beloved husband who monetarily and spiritually supports me.
Previously, he thought funds would not be available until the 15th but here it is. I hope to contribute the same amount next month, also. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Om Namah Shivaya
Kate
