I read that “the darkness calls you” when it’s time for you to do a dark retreat. The darkness called me, and last autumn it slipped me Lenka and Tomáš’s website.
That settled it!
At the beginning of February I came to them for a dark retreat, expecting miracles!
I can’t meditate, I wouldn’t know a chakra if I saw one, I don’t do yoga. Even so, in complete darkness, I had a week of calm, ease and silence. For a whole week I was just with myself!
I even found a few little miracles: I didn’t scald myself making tea, I tried vegetarian food, I exercised every day 🙂
And then there are my personal “miracles”, but those only dawned on me after I got home.
I’ve managed to slow down overall.
Now I know I don’t have to be working all the time. Every now and then I manage to sit down for a while, “switch off” my thoughts and just be. Breathe consciously and listen to the silence, like during my week in the dark. And above all, not beat myself up about it being wasted time!
Is that a lot or a little? It doesn’t really matter, and no one can ever take my extraordinary experience in the dark away from me.
Karin
