Eli Arrives to Bangalore.

I am currently writing you all from Bangalore here in the South of India. I am not one who is often fond of the cities here but Bangalore has a lot of greenery and there is something sweet about it.

We have some exciting news to share with you but first I want to share a little bit about India with you.

Mmm India is something very special to me and sometimes I have no clue why. When I was checking in on my flight in Miami on Emirates there was a nice woman behind the counter and she said you won't believe it but you are in good company everyone I have checked in so far has the final destination of Bangalore (we had a stop in Dubai but most of the plane was continuing on together).

I could see on the plane that the vast majority of the people were Indians and that made me really happy. There is sort of a sweet awkwardness and gentleness in the Indian people that I find so reassuring. Now not everything about India is reassuring... since I have landed in India that have already been many bumps. India is full of bumps in all ways and seems even more now as the country has been hit so hard by the pandemic

At times its easy to feel like “uhhh why did I come here?” But in the same time I feel so happy and content here. Now I have been sitting with this a bit to look in a more spiritual way what is this feeling. Because as we know it is the spiritual 'fullness' that brings real happiness in life.

Of course there are many reasons but one of the first things that came to me is the simpleness of breaking out of my everyday habit. Although I am someone who I feel lives overall quite well and I spend time dedicated to my spiritual practice and focusing my energy in a good way..... I also many times fall back into strong patterns of stagnation where my energy is being used in ways that are toxic... and I see this comes with a sort of complacency or laziness. Somehow when I take time to retreat or travel to a place like India it is like a place myself in an energetic container. One in part that I have created in my journeys here and another just by Mother India’s natural spiritual depth.

Along my spiritual path, there have been a few times when I have felt VERY open spiritually and these have often been during my Ayurvedic treatments here in India. There was something interesting I was studying while on one of my treatments and it is about going against one’s normal grain. It is hard to explain but our belief in a separate self has sort of a plan for how things should go... But our true being as consciousness is beyond plans and has no limitations.

I remember being on the beach in Goa and my plan was to would walk straight to the end. But I sort of kept allowing myself to move out of the idea in my head; in one moment I would run circles around myself, in another, I would walk backward and allow myself to be in the spontaneity of each moment.. it sounds so simple but somehow this is a way of breaking through patterns of conditioning.

A few times in my life I had these deep moments of realization and as a byproduct, I was downloading these ancestral stories or poems. As they would come through it seemed that there was no clear connection between their lines but somehow they kept linking up and I could feel them breaking through the barriers of my limited consciousness or what I believed to be true.

I feel like India has a way of doing this to me daily here. It is such a dynamic place and it always keeps you guessing and ones has to be open to its constant changing if you want to enjoy it. For me this is a reflection of what I often feel inside and thus it helps me to bring peace to whatever is arising within. 

Anyways wishing you all much love and light!