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Why Plans Fail. Letting Joy Guide You Instead. Dear Friend, Avoid being over-invested in a particular outcome in relation to your personal or work life because things generally never work out as expected! It’s a law of life and the universe that plans tempt fate and so are meant to get broken. In yoga, it’s known as the ‘sankalpa vikalpa karo’ of Mahamaya shakti (Divine feminine). In Sanskrit ‘Maya’ means ‘illusion’, referring to the illusory nature of our individual experience of the world. ‘Maha-Maya’ is this same illusion acting in the totality of human awareness. The Self (Paramatma /universal ) hides itself from the self (Atma/you) in a game of hide-and-seek and Mahamaya is the blindfold. The goal is your gradual enlightenment (Self-realisation / Buddha-nature) through the action of the kundalini, which slowly removes the blindfold. Before this unfolding is complete, any outcome you want or aspire to through planning is necessarily based on partial information: “Tis but a part we see, and not a whole” - Alexander Pope And this is why plans can fail. So what can be done instead? Use joy as your guide. The nature of your fully-blossomed Self that you are to become, is described as ‘Sat-Chit-Ananda’ . ‘Ananda’ means ‘bliss / joy’. So when you navigate your way in life by what gives you joy (tangible as the vibes you feel when you meditate), then you’re more likely to be on the right path. More below. Also below: tension relief from the face down; and, a meditation to lift your mood. Best wishes P. PS. Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week:  Tue. 6th Oct - Indira Ekadashi (free of burdens from past); Fri. 9th - Shivaratri (Love your self); Sun. 11th - Navaratri begins ( Indian cultural celebration of the ferocious Love of the divine feminine as the warrior mother, Durga) Click Here For Online Community Meditation Sessions & Resources + 21-Day Challenge Course Facial Therapy - Stress Relief & Overcoming Overthinking. A simple Ayurvedic practice that is said to relieve tension and even rejuvenate the skin is by massaging marma points on the face. Two of the marma points correspond to Agnya and hamsa chakras. Taking a little diluted sandalwood essential oil, massage both with the tip of the finger in a clockwise direction. Now listen to this bhajan that can create a deep effect in you by pausing your mind…Let Go. Mood Magic -  Clearing Your Left Channel Can Make You Want to Laugh (a Meditation). When things are about to change for the better, you first feel it inside. Nothing positive ever came out of feeling miserable. When you’re on a downer go and spend time with friends who make you laugh. Or, plug you’re ear-phones in and listen to this short guided meditation that clears your left channel and lifts your mood...Exhale. Why Things Don’t Go to Plan. And What to Do. ‘Maya’ is a Sanskrit word meaning the illusory nature of our experience of the world. So when we plan anything it’s based on this illusion that doesn’t correspond with underlying Reality. This is why things usually don’t go according to plan. Here’s how to plan better…Show Up. Click Here to Download the Free Meditation App 'We Meditate' What Others Are Reading Quote of the Week “When people start making their own plans then the Divine, which is trying to supply for your needs, for your wants, for your solutions, disappears. We do not allow the Divine to have its play. This is not only on a material level. It is true also on an emotional level. It is true also on our physical level. But best of all it is true on the spiritual level also. Let the Divine play its role. And we should be able to see. Once you realise that, then you feel absolutely relaxed and you are in joy. But when you start thinking, ‘Oh, this should have been like this; that should have been like this’, then everything is against joy. Whichever way it comes is all right. Once you develop that attitude, then your joy will be complete. ” May 31st 1985, San Diego (United States) About Shri Mataji (More Than Human) Your Question Answered Also feel free to share here any experiences you’ve had with the meditation; any insights, or any comments that might be helpful to other readers My relationship with my partner had been going through difficulties. Since I’ve started coming to the group meditation, I’ve noticed things have improved in a way that I can’t explain. They don’t meditate, by the way. How does that work? Reply: I’m unable to give you a definitive answer as to why your relationship with your partner has improved since you’ve been coming to the group meditation, so I’m opening the question out to our community of readers and meditators to see what explanation others can offer. My guess is that your meditation is making you much more detached, which might be helping to  smooth out any rough edges in the relationship. 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