The Tejaswini Playground Press, Volume 2, Issue 2, February 2011
Posted by: Tejaswini
on Feb 14, 2011 
Photo by Ashley Marie - CC license
On this playground of life, we get to choose how we spend our time: we can choose to run around doing things that lower our vibrations, OR we can choose to commit to regular, daily spiritual practices that raise our vibrations. Each small change that we make within ourselves then ripples out and benefits all of Creation. This year I intend to help raise the vibration of the human species, through my work as a cheerleader for spiritual practices.
Here is some recent news from the playground of my life ~
~ On January 24th, I joyfully celebrated the one-year birthday of my website! Happy Birthday yogini-bliss.com ~ here’s wishing you many more sweet journeys around the Sun!
~ Recently I created a fundraising campaign for myself on a really cool site called IndieGoGo. On February 3rd I posted a blog article (“Yes! Yogini! Help Teja Promote her Books, Blogs, and Circles”) in which I explained a bit about the campaign. Most importantly, I talked about how it’s not really about “me” – rather, it’s about the work that comes through me that is benefiting others. Please read and share this campaign: Yes! Yogini! Help Teja Promote her Books, Blogs, and Circles ~ if you use the “Share” buttons on the campaign page itself, that will really help, because any activity generated on that page will increase my chances of being featured on their home page. Thanks so much for taking a few minutes to help me with this!
~ As I shared in the blog article (“Yes! Yogini! Help Teja Promote her Books, Blogs, and Circles”), I created this campaign because I believe so strongly in the work I am doing. For the past 7 years, I have been working very hard and serving others in very valuable ways. Very little of that work has been financially compensated, and so I followed my bliss all the way down to my last dollars, and so now I am opening to receive new financial support. While I patiently watch to see how this Magical Universe is going to support my Light Worker visions, I am now working as the manager in my brother’s outdoor gear shoppe. It is a fun, stimulating, and challenging job, and I am super grateful for it. (And, it is impressive to my boys – and to their friends – that I work in the “coolest” shoppe in town!)
~ A few weeks ago I made a video of myself talking about my soup cookbook, Love Soups: A Vegetarian Soup Cookbook Inspired by the Soup Devas. In this short video I explain that even though I’ve shifted to a vegan diet, I believe this cookbook still has value, because many people need some transition time between becoming vegetarian and becoming vegan. Please view this video here: Love Soups Video.
~ One of my favorite spiritual practices is cooking organic vegan foods with love. Last week I hit the jackpot one night with a dinner that both boys really loved. I posted the recipes in a Teja Blog article (“Vegan Yogini Prepares A Thumb’s Up Dinner for her Sons”). Other recent blog article titles include: “Giving Gratitude in Advance”; “Goodbye Dust; Hello Prosperity!”; “Spiritual Practices Cheerleader: Two Teams At Play”; “Dear Diary: A Look at the Seeds of Destiny”; “Spiritual Practices Create Healing Energies through Alchemy”; “Cultivating the Witness: A Look Within at the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine”; and “Spiritual Practices Book Receives Positive Reviews”.
~ This week I am busy preparing for an upcoming ShivaRatri event that I am organizing as a fundraiser for the Goddess Temple of Ashland. The Goddess Temple’s grand opening day will be March 19th, 2011. The ShivaRatri all-night chanting event will be Wednesday, March 2nd, 9pm. Please go to this link for more information and to see the gorgeous flyer that my beloved soul sister (Gaelyn Miriam Larrick) designed: ShivaRatri in Ashland. Shiva art (on the flyer) by Mia O'Dougherty.
~ I’ll end this month’s e-newsletter with a wonderful quote from Dr. Mikao Usui, the beautiful being who rediscovered Reiki healing in the late 1800s:
“Just for today… I will not worry. I will not be angry. I will do my work honestly. I will give thanks for my blessings. I will be kind to my neighbors and all living things.”
~ And, my sweet sister Natalie Savelieva Wakefield’s adaptation of the above quote:
“Just for today… I will trust.”
May you trust on the playground of your life.
May all beings know the inner Radiance that nourishes and sustains all life!
Om Shanti (Peace),
Yogini Tejaswini
Photos of yogini-bliss birthday and boys with polenta breakfast by Teja Shankara. Photo of Teja by Teja’s son Gabe.
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Sweet of you to mention me in regards to our beloved Dr. Mikao Usui´s principles of Reiki interpretation.
I am feeling the only "correct" version will be the one in Japanese, and any translation will be an interpretation, as close as possible to the original.
Still, the ideas are clear, they are Buddhist´s but understood and accepted worldwide as extremely valuable and true.
The way I interprete the 1st two of the one of the known English translations is that I add the right choice after the suggestion of what NOT to do. I explain.
When we say "do not worry" our minds accept that consciously, but subconsciously leave out "do not" and hear and get stuck in "worry". So it is a very important and productive step to give our mind a "positive" programming, by adding the choice - which is in this case to me - TRUST, as we tend to worry when we do not trust the divine force to work it out for us.
So the version, edited according to the Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and the energy flow laws looks and sounds this way in the Reiki Manual I give to my students:
Just for today - do not worry - TRUST.
The same applies to the second principle, generally expressed as "do not anger". Our mind, like a child, wants to know, ok, I do not anger, fine - WHAT do I do then?? It needs and wants instruction, just like a child, that learns the way of interaction with the world.
So, when we take a moment to consider, why and when do we anger? When we have expectations that have not been met? When we do not like what we are seeing, hearing? When we cannot accept-forgive what is in front of us? There, we have a positive construction to express the same idea. It becomes:
Just for today - do not anger - ACCEPT and FORGIVE.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to explain what I believe to be a very helpful modern time modification of expressing the same principles.
Try it out yourself and feel how much more energy is available in us when against fighting what we do not want - worry and anger, we flow our vital force, thus energizing them in our experiences, towards the things we DO WANT, i.e. TRUST, ACCEPTANCE and FORGIVENESS.
In-Joy and Love,
Natalie aka Aaliyah
