Keeping oneself busy or becoming conscious
As a part of my daily routine I read out Devi Stuti. It contains 37 lines of different names and praises of Shri Lingabhairavi Devi in ISHA Yoga centre, Coimbatore. I have a replica of the deity in my Puja Room. As it is a daily routine I must have got it by heart by now - rote memory - where I do not need to refer to a print out. However, I prefer to read it out and aloud. The reason is that I would be more conscious of Devi in this way rather than saying it from memory, without involving the mind.
Not reciting something as a matter of routine is one way of a developing a conscious mind. There are a few other tips and techniques also:
- When you go for a walk on the terrace and want to count say a 1000 steps, you can count in the reverse, from 1000 down to 0.
- When you collect milk from the milk vendor at the doorstep daily, you can take different vessels. The quantity of milk being the same everyday, you can observe the level it occupies in different vessels - half, one third, full etc and guess the capacity of various vessels.
- When the servant maid keeps washed (cleaned) vessels in the tub, you may guess the number of pieces and tally it with actual counting. It that more or less than the average and why?
- When you walk to throw garbage into the dustbin, observe if all the plants are sufficiently watered. Note and take corrective action
- If you have two clocks and a couple of watches, are all of them showing the same, correct time? Which are slow or fast and why?
- From a bundle of blank sheets of papers meant for rough use, separate one side papers from others.
- If you use Mosquito coil, can you assess the average length of coil burnt in an hour or get an idea of rate of burning? Any norms specified?
- Among the footwear you have can you arrange them in the order of approximate purchase date?
Can you add other crazy ways of keeping oneself engaged? Rather becoming conscious!
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