Vacation everyday

It's normal these days to desire a couple of days rest after a vacation. After hustle of hopping flights and trains, checking in and out of hotels, jostling crowds at tourist locations and inevitable hurdles in a pre-planned journey can become tiring and requires us to rest. And while the adventure of a journey does have its attraction, you would sometimes end up wondering whether you have returned rejuvenated at all.

The origin of the word vacation, or 'to vacate', quite literally means to 'empty' out whatever activity we are doing on an ongoing basis. However, if we fill that empty time and space with an activity that is as stressful as our everyday activity, have we really taken a vacation? In a true vacation, you would try to regain some of that empty time and space, which was gifted to your life by this universe. This can be achieved every day, free of cost.

An hour spent every day in meditation is a vacation. In Vijnan Bhairava Tantra, a dialogue between Shiv and Parvati, Shiv describes 112 types of meditations to achieve a state of liberation. The first of these meditations is a simple task of focusing on gaps between the in-breath and out-breath for an extended period of time. These simple meditation techniques can help you to achieve a vacation every day.