Recovering That Lost Day
I have tried to teach my College students and kids around me that they shouldn’t get to study just one day before the examination date. I must confess that it is very good advise that I never applied on my self during my own student years. At the end it turned out that I had to study like an obsessed man for seven hours prior to writing the exam, instead of having studied a daily hour during the previous week. I wouldn’t like them to be submitted to that kind of stress and unnecessary pressure.
Of course, there are some activities that allow for these kind of things. What you didn’t study for a week, you can recover the day prior to the exam, though not with the same effect and exteriorization. But I just read a study that talks about the sleep and the hours we dedicate to sleeping. Apparently it was thought that you could recover some of the sleep you didn’t have during the week if you slept a little more on the weekend. Today researchers have found this to be untrue. What is gone, is gone.
Well, with personal growth the same principles apply. It is very difficult to recover it. if we neglect our spiritual growth activities for one day, we should be conscious that we will not be recovering that day since it is lost forever.
What happens if we forget our true meaning in life for a day and stop working on that path?
“It is fine, I didn’t meditate today, but tomorrow I will take two hours for doing it”. Believe me, it doesn’t work that way. You have lost a day of your life.
Today each of us has access to personal and spiritual growth. There are hundreds, if not thousands of paths, techniques and tools to choose from, to improve ourselves. To become more than mere human beings, to transcend and integrate ourselves and to achieve ascension. The most wonderful thing of all is that we don’t need to walk each and every path. All the possibilities and options are there, within our reach, to work on the ones that best fit our way of being, our interests and our lifestyle.
Positive energy that we produce everyday is accumulated and never gets lost. And yet, the teachings of the old Toltec temachtianis tell us that the human being has to continuously exercise his every dimension: Body, Mind and Spirit. If you miss a day, you will not loose your soul, but you will have lost precious time that can not be recovered. And what is most important, you will have lost an opportunity.
This is why we have to be constant. If you have decided on meditation, do it well and frequently. Don’t let a day go by without doing it. if you find that Fung Shui wasn’t for you, but you have decided to explore the ways of crystal therapy, don’t regret it. Enjoy the transition and do it constantly. If you choose to do both, design your schedule in such a way that all your other activities can fit into your paths. If Reiki and Healing is your thing, do it thoroughly and daily. Perhaps you feel comfortable being eco-friendly and spreading daily messages about planet-Gaia integration and a healthy natural environment. Then do it today and tomorrow. And the next day after that.
The tricky part here is that we can’t study the prior to the “exam”, because we don’t know when is it going to be. We can feel it coming closer and closer these days, but no matter what, we should not loose that golden opportunity to speak to someone new, someone with a the right word or the right contact for us. They might be just around the corner. The opportunity of discovering that information nugget might come tomorrow. Or that special message coming our way, is already in our meditation mailbox. It could happen anytime. This is not about studying 7 uninterrupted hours before the exam. Truth is that we are always in the middle of exam periods, and each day is a chance to be better. It is about always being ready, while being busy. Remember: “Spirit is Action”.
The most important road, the road to transcendence has multiple lanes. It doesn’t matter which one you take, the important thing is to keep on stepping on the fuel pedal. I will only ask one thing from you: Enjoy it.
