The Ordinary Mystic

Listening to good music - relaxing - chanting - laughing - singing - practicing a few yogic breathing exercises - sharing with others an experience of peace … I experienced all these in one evening a few weekends ago at a concert performed by Snatam Kaur.

And it was awesome!

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Do a Google search for ‘raising vibration’ and there is no lack of information available. But in the spirit of the ‘high vibes game’ meme started at OptimistLab (I’ve just been tagged … twice), I’ll give my take on it as well as five things I do to ‘raise my vibration’.

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One of the things I like about listening to internet radio at work, is that I get introduced to artists that I would have otherwise overlooked. Snatam Kaur is one of those. I had seen her CDs in music stores, but was never moved to check them out. But then while at work I kept hearing this one song over and over - Ek Ong Kaar - and it got a hold of me. The more I heard it, the more I became mesmerized by it until I had to find out who the artist was.

That was when I was re-introduced to the devotional music of the Sikh faith.
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Actually, the exact words spoken by Krishna Das at a recent kirtan were “Dust is us”. That was before he led the crowd at the church through the process of removing that dust - removing ourselves.
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