Recharging Your Reservoir
During these times of fear and uncertainty, where change is constantly happening, it is important to retreat to a quiet, calm, meditative awareness within ourselves. It is the need to "recharge your battery" and “refresh your energy level” in order to maintain a Reservoir from which our bodies draw continually.
Whatever your mechanism for recharging your battery, it is important to do it on a regular basis. It could be as simple as sitting by the ocean listening to and watching the waves crash, hiking in some mountain wilderness, reading an inspirational book with a positive message or almost any activity that promotes peace and compassion in your heart!
Some people enjoy listening to music, it recharges them. Sound can be a powerful motivating energy force. Another (and equally powerful) way to recharge yourself and add to your Reservoir is through chanting. With proper motivation and attitude, your prayers can become more powerful when infused with the energy from your Reservoir.
Another important use of your Reservoir is in the creation of prayers. When prayer energy is directed at persons or objects, it carries the weight of the person making the prayer. If that is backed up with a reservoir of healing energy, all the better.
Whatever way(s) you choose to recharge yourself, just do it!
THE FOLLOWING 2 EXCERPTS ARE FROM PEOPLE IMPORTANT IN THEIR FIELDS:
From Ram Dass in “Sounds and Silence”
"Take a Chant, maybe something as simple as a single sound such as "OM". Try repeating it for a few minutes. You'll feel how, with just that one sound, you can tune in and so deeply. You're using the sound as a tuning device into the sound itself. As you listen your way into the sound, you realize that what you are doing is to tune the dial of your consciousness, to open a door that lets you go more deeply in inward"
From Don Campbell " in “The Transformational Power of Sound”
"A mantra or chant often starts out up in the head, where you are thinking about it. You think about the word, how to say it or what it means. Then the word begins to go down into the throat, into a physical experience of the sound itself. Next it starts to move down into the heart. And eventually it becomes the engine that is running you. You are not singing the sound; the sound is singing you. It is bringing you closer and closer to another plane of consciousness, offering you a way to live simultaneously on more than one plane of reality, at a time. It allows you to experience other parts of your identity, to recognize that there is a lot more to you than what you see or what you think.
