I’m going to do another post because this is a very busy month for me and I want to make sure I fulfill my promise to you and above all, to myself. As I write this I wonder, as a footnote to my last entry, whether this — making a promise to oneself and keeping it – isn’t another technique to deal with procrastination. Loyalty to oneself must precede loyalty to another, or rather, loyalty to oneself is a prerequisite for loyalty to another. It sounds true to me. I know from my own experience that every time I have sacrificed my loyalty to myself I have suffered. I suppose another way to say this is that one’s primary imperative is to stay centered in oneself, to know what your own truth is, and radiate out from it.

Some might call me, mistakenly, I believe, ‘selfish.’ I have known many people who make others their center and find themselves becoming unhappy and lost. Don’t get me wrong. There are many areas and many situations when you have to make another more important than yourself, when you have to put your own needs in abeyance and focus on another. I think we all know what these situations are. And we all know when this is called for, when our humanness demands it. But I know people who place their centers in others and I know this doesn’t work because they are not happy people. They complain a lot, call others ungrateful, even become bitter and withdrawn. If you are being kept from something you want to do, must do, by others, then you have no one to blame but yourself. Taking the blame, recognizing the situation, and changing it, is one step in the right direction.

This is a busy month for me because on the fifteenth of this month is the launch of my new book, PILGIMAGE TO PARADISE. This wouldn’t be a big deal if New Delhi wasn’t a two day journey by car from where Payson (my husband; meet him. I will be speaking of him, too!) and I live in a very remote region of the Himalayas in India. Even that wouldn’t be a big deal if we weren’t battening down the hatches of our home here to leave for the USA, where we live for six months out of every year. There is a lot to do before we leave, packing and planning, and more. Yesterday, for example, I organized the cleaning of the entire pantry, including emptying and washing and drying the storage jars, something that hasn’t been done in over six years, when we finished making this house and moving into it. We have to store stuff because we pack it in from the city (Chandigarh, 8 hours away by car; or Kullu, two hours away, but not everything is available here). We are also busy because Payson’s exhibition of his latest artwork, called Dark Forest, is going to be happening concurrently in Delhi at the American Center. Check out his work at www.energylandscapes.com.

So you see, this is no time to procrastinate (though one can do it all in an easy tempo). The sword of time hangs over our heads. Perhaps this image could serve as another technique to get going!

HAVE YOU OBSERVED TODAY?

Posted by kamla Sep 5th 2009

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