What’s Your Daily Fix?

Ritika Bajaj
Jul 30, 2017 · 3 min read
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I’m a creature of habit in many ways… So, when a reader wrote in saying, ‘I’m missing my daily fix’ — hinting I hadn’t written a blog in a few days—I understood and opened my laptop right away.

Moreover, it made me think about what my own daily fix was, and how it’s helped me grow in different ways.

Since the last few years, my best daily fix has been my meditation practice. My day starts with 40 minutes of a combination of Vedic chants, pranayama (breathing exercises), and a general stillness, silence and concentration practice.

The benefits of meditation for me have been many… It improves my breathing, collects my thoughts, and gives me new energy to face the day ahead.

The beautiful part is that no two days in my life are alike…as each day the meditation practice brings with it a different energy — some days you feel more quiet, some days more energetic, on other days more powerful and strong…

And this is not because meditation is giving you what you need, it is giving you what you asked for in those few moments of union with yourself…

As you connect with yourself more deeply, you realise that the world is merely a reflection of you…what you want to happen will happen, and nothing else.

Meditation makes us cognizant of this power of creation, preservation, and destruction within us… We are really the creators of our own thoughts, words, and deeds. And hence we are responsible for the resultant consequences of those words, thoughts and deeds too.

I remember when I went for a 10-day Vipassana course, the instructor had said, ‘When you enter this course, you believe 50 percent — or more or less — of what happens in your life is your responsibility, but when you exit it, you will realise that 100 percent of what happens in your life is your responsibility.’

Today, after a couple of years of meditating, his words finally make sense… The energy in your mind and life is entirely of your own making…and the ability to direct that energy to its rightful direction is your responsibility too.

Meditation for me has become more than a daily fix, it’s become my reason for being — it gives me new energy to be a new person each day…to shed what doesn’t work, and to attract into my life what does work.

Most importantly, meditation keeps me going as a thinker and writer, helping me understand life and its vagaries, penning them down to make sense of them… And, hopefully in the bargain, helping connect with others who vibrate the same universal energy.

To the reader who triggered this post, thank you…you made me realise my daily fix is important to you too… And, to all the other readers out there, do let me know what your daily fix is… Do also feel free to write about it on Pink Pinjra — it’s your space to express, your space to come alive.

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