Blissful Moments

I would like to share my experience about the Art of Living program. Let's start how I joined the AOL by a short story. I was a happy person always smiling and people will always love to see my smiling face. But suddenly what made that face change to sadness, I don’t know. But I was feeling lonely and never wanted to meet people and I felt something had happened to me. I kept thinking why God is doing this to me? My friends helped a lot to get the smile back on my face. They were successful to some extent but still I was not back to normal.

Then I remembered about the Art of living program mentioned to me by my friend two years back. Two years back when she shared her experience I felt I should also join but never got a chance to enroll in the next sessions. But in July 2010 I really wanted to take the course and I checked with my friend if they are offering any programs. She told me that there is one coming up in August. I enrolled for the course. On the first day of the course I didn’t know what to do and was really nervous and tensed. Luckily my friend gave me company on the first day and after few hours I started feeling better. At the end of the course I found myself happier and lot of things that were bothering me had disappeared from my mind. It is really amazing the way the course is designed and the way your teacher takes you through the whole process. Sudarshan Kriya that is taught in the course is really powerful and it takes stress and negativity out of the system.

Silence course was coming up the next weekend. I wanted to join but everyone kept on saying “why don’t you wait for some time, you can do it next time when they offer”. I really wanted to attend and at the last minute, I decided to go for the course. I checked if there were any seats available for that session and I was lucky enough to enroll for that session. I would like to thank Shalin for helping me enroll for the session. I wasn’t sure if I can be silent for the three or four days but I thought if other people can do it why can’t I? But the silence course was so nice and powerful that I could realize all that is happening around us has some meaning and everything has a happy ending. Nothing is controlled by us and whatever we go through in our life if we learn to “let go” nothing can let us down. By the end of the Silence course I found myself more energetic and the smile had come back to me. All the Yoga and meditation experiences were very blissful. I am practicing the kriya everyday and can feel the increased energy in me.

Smitha