Heaviness

Don’t know if it’s astrological or something in mass consciousness, but I’ve been feeling heavy and slow and vaguely out of sorts all day long!

At first I thought I was just tired. After all, it was a fairly intense week. But as the hours passed I started to think it was something more, because I did get plenty of sleep and yet I wasn’t able to snap out of it.

It’s like when there’s a storm brewing and you’re aware of a heavy energy weighing everything down. That’s how it’s been throughout this entire day, but I have faith that it will pass.

Something astrological?

Maybe it was something astrological. All I know is…today was perhaps the most communication-intensive day I’ve ever had!

I chatted with friends old and new over breakfast; conversed with Village friends at lunch; connected in the mid-afternoon with yet more friends; and spent time with new out-of-town friends during dinner.

Altogether I interacted with twelve different people: at a friend’s house off-property; at Master’s Market; in the Lahiri building kitchen; in the music office; and at The Expanding Light Retreat.

Topics included (among others) how we met our husbands; gardening; the importance of the arts at Ananda; whether or not to play the melody when chanting with harmonium; and strategies for growing the choir at an urban Ananda center.

Connecting with so many different people often feels overwhelming and draining, but today I managed to simply flow with it and had a lot of fun!