Today begins my five year commitment to three aspects of this practice:
1. I will not speak anything negative. (Ahimsa)
2. I will not speak anything untrue. (Satya)
3. I will not ingest anything impure. (Shoucha)
I'll pick back up with the regular practice too in a bit, but I want to adjust to this new commitment for a few weeks. Again, I am seeking to utilize the power (shakti) of intention (sankalpa), and Swami Rama's fabulous dictum: I must do this. I can do this. I will do this.
Quite honestly, I'm a little scared of this. As with any such undertaking, it comes not because I think it will be easy but because I feel that I need these practices in my life at this deepened level of commitment.
On a silly note, I wrote about these commitments in my work newsletter this past weekend. I was a bit sick and not thinking totally clearly and forgot the word "not" in the first commitment so it read: "I will speak anything negative." Oops!
Let the power of (correctly worded) intention begin!
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