Hey! You!
By: Ann Litts
Tags: Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Meditation, Spirituality, Self-awareness

The Universe is calling!

Photo by Paweł Czerwiński on Unsplash

January 2018:

Have you ever gotten messages from The Universe? Loud and clear? Couldn’t be mistaken as from anyone else or for anyone else?

Well, that was my week. Bill Engvall’s famous line “Here’s your sign!” kept running through my mind over and over as I walked through My Life the last few days. I suppose this is the view when you take your head out of your ass and start paying attention.

You see — I recently recommitted myself to my meditation practice.

I had been meditating all along on a regular, but I sat down (literally) and I decided I was going to find a slot, put it into my schedule every day. Not just when I felt like it, not just when there was time, not just when I was at the end of my rope and I knew I ‘needed’ it. Every. Day.

So here is what happened.

White Feather recently replied to one of my stories and got me thinking about connections and our ‘one-ness’. And then there was this post from one of my favorite authors that popped up on my Medium feed.

Add to that my random morning meditation selection played heavily on the ‘all beings are connected theme’. The Universe had spoken.

I sat on my meditation cushion at the end of the meditation and I pondered some in silence. Message received, but what do I do with this information? How do I apply it? What challenge(s) lie ahead where this bit of insight is going to come in handy?

The difficulty of resolving and unifying the complex components of our personalities is an ongoing lifelong journey. It may, in fact, be THE journey. The reason we arrive, live, love and exist. Just to sort out and remember who we really are. To mesh all those bits back to ‘one-ness’. (Thank you White Feather for that!)

And not just ‘one-ness’ within ourselves but also with everything. Every. Single. Thing. Every soul. Every creature. Every living thing. Even every non-’living’ thing. From flora to fauna. Plants, animals, the wind, the sun, the moon, The Universe. We are all connected. We come from the same place — literally, figuratively, spiritually, and energetically.

Nearly every religious practice out there claims the same thing. Do unto others. Because don’t you see? The “others” aren’t really others…they are us. Or certainly part of us. Even scientists agree — living creatures share more in common with their DNA than they don’t. I just Googled it — we have 50% of our DNA in common with the banana I just had for breakfast. The fruit fly buzzing over the rest of the bunch — 60%. The lab mice we torture — 75–90% depending on if you look at theirs in us or ours in them. They have 90% of ours. We have 75% of theirs. There are no lines to divide us/them, black/ white, good/bad. There is only this. Life.

Yoga means ‘to yoke’ in ancient Sanskrit. The reason yogis began to do the asanas — the postures associated with what westerners think of as yoga — is to be able to prepare their bodies to sit and meditate for longer and longer periods of time. Yoga has many branches — many ways of ‘yoking’ our spirit, soul, and body back together. Many paths back to ‘one-ness’.

I can only speak for My Path, of course. Every person gets to ponder their own steps along the way and decide for themselves what makes sense and what is complete bullshit.

I never did face any ultimate challenge this week which gave me an ‘ah-ha’ moment. What I did have though was a peaceful flow in My Life as I faced the everyday shit which normally made me sigh with discontent. I found myself more grateful. For everything. I looked for the ‘one-ness’ in everyone. And everything. I suppose that’s a pretty big ‘ah-ha’ moment in itself.

There is a quote I saw recently — again The Universe whispering in my ear — it goes like this:

“Prayer is talking to The Universe, meditation is listening to it” — Ankit Vekariya

Namaste.