An Active night tonight...

@arunima25 (93194)
Bangalore, India
February 21, 2020 12:25pm CST
If you read my last post, you would know that I have all plans to stay awake whole night at least till 4 AM for my own faith and spiritual reasons. Now it's about mid night here and I have minimum 4 hours to go. And I need to be awake in an upright position. So other than the chanting and meditation I need to have other plans to keep myself awake. I have kept a few now. I am on my laptop paying some due bills and mylotting. Later I will iron few clothes, arrange some kitchen shelves and see if I can do some needle work. I can not continue chanting or meditation for more than 15 minutes at a stretch and so I need to keep other things in between. I hope that I would stay productive and active tonight and so you will see me on and off here throughout the night. I had a good three hours nap in afternoon today and that should help. How is everyone doing? What's your plan for the day/night?
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
21 Feb 20
What is chanting? I already understand what meditation is, a clearing out of one's mind.
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Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
21 Feb 20
I am just chanting few mantras that are supposed to benefit your mental and emotional health.
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Kharla Jolly
@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
21 Feb 20
@arunima25 Is it speaking words? The reason I'm asking, we speak in 'unknown tongues.' The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit speaks through people, in words that most can't understand.
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Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
21 Feb 20
@kobesbuddy We have powerful mantras and shlokas in our religious scriptures written in Sanskrit. They are believed to invoke different God and our different senses, strength and emotions and most of them start with the chanting of 'OM' which is a very powerful sound. We chant it for certain numbers at times... 3,5,7,11,21,108,1008 etc.
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
21 Feb 20
Yes, I read your last post. I hope your chanting and meditating go extremely well for you. It must be so difficult to stay awake, but you sound as if you have some great ways to remain awake. Good luck to you!
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DianneN
@DianneN (254926)
• United States
21 Feb 20
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Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
21 Feb 20
I am done with another round of my chanting and meditation. It really makes me feel peaceful. Staying awake is a bit challenging but guess I have been doing it for decades now on this particular night.
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382240)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Feb 20
I read that you cleared all your notifications and only had another hour to go to 4am. Well done.
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Arunima Singh
@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
26 Feb 20
Yes. The night turned out to be productive
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