I’m 48 and in a dead end job.  I know I should be grateful to have a well-paying job today, but I can’t change if I keep saying I’m grateful because the universe hears you say that and I will be stuck forever in my job that is absolutely boring and dead-end.  I feel too that I don’t know what to do with my life.  I cry often because I meditate and never get any answers and say well God is busy with more pressing issues, okay, I don’t want to be selfish, but I don’t want to just exist in this world.  I just can’t figure it out.  Just writing this, tears are falling.

I am a licensed and ordained minister in a non-denominational church who recently began to practice yoga merely as a form of exercise to improve my health. Needless to say, I began this journey looking for one thing and found so much more than I anticipated. My eyes and heart have been opened to receive so much, it just amazes me. I am so excited about the truths that I am learning but sometimes feel as though when I WOULD share some of these thoughts with others it will not be well received. I understand that there is a place in time where we move beyond feelings and emotions, but at this point it still hurts that the people I consider family are not as accepting as they claim “the church” is supposed to be. I guess this isn’t really a question as much as a request for encouragement. 🙂

I was wondering if you could give me a few tips as to how to incorporate meditation in my day-to-day… I can’t seem to find the right time or mood… I’m always full of excuses… how exactly to go about it… I start thinking… what is the right light, the right music… and then… should i just stay quiet, pronounce a mantra, think of affirmations… I get lost in all the hows and end up doing pretty little…

I have recently been grieving over the tragedy of my brothers sudden suicide. In the last 3 months I have had to take care of his estate, financial and basic dealings as the trustee of his will. I have during this time been reunited with an “old flame” for lack of better words. We have become VERY close again and this is something that has happened to us over and over in our lives for the past 25 years. We have never been able to be completely together due to living circumstances and the fact that we are both married. I keep wondering about all of the coincidences that continually bring us together and what they mean. Circumstances and coincidences have brought us together over and over again without the ability to actually be together. We have a deep emotional soulful love for each other and realize that it is a love that has been there basically since the day we met 25 years ago. We have had numerous discussions about this deep, soulful vibration that we are both feeling and have always felt, and it has grown stronger over the years. I truly love this person with my heart and soul and have my whole life. I guess my question is, is the collective universe playing some sort of joke on us by continually bringing us together, when at the same time we are not completely available to each other? There must be a reason.

Hi Deepak… my question is about restlessness… about balance… about flowing… about being exhilarated one moment and down the next… i know i know… meditation is the answer… but that also ends up becoming a source of discomfort sometimes… like… “if only i meditated more…”… and about my dreams… working towards them ultimately makes me feel like i’m not going with the flow and letting go like i’m stuck and not fulfilling my potential… that i could be doing “so much better”… the restlessness again… torn between acceptance and endless possibility… thank you Deepak… your words are always soothing… 🙂