{"id":1148,"date":"2023-05-06T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/?p=1148"},"modified":"2023-05-06T16:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T16:56:29","slug":"conversations-with-ananda-ch-29-catherine-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoganandafortheworld.com\/story\/conversations-with-ananda-ch-29-catherine-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Conversations With Ananda — Ch. 29, Catherine Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catherine Rice owns an accounting business<\/strong> at Ananda Village that serves clients in and beyond the community.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> How do you balance your busy work life with your roles as a mother and spiritual aspirant?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> I feel that on some level it\u2019s a dharma, a spiritual destiny, for me to be doing what I\u2019m doing. I need to be providing this service for my own spiritual welfare, and there\u2019s a deeper aspect that\u2019s happening behind the scenes. It\u2019s not just creating financial statements and balancing bank accounts. I feel it\u2019s something I\u2019ve been given to do for this life.<\/p>\n

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Catherine in 2009<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For a majority of my business clients to also be my fellow devotees has been a blessing. I couldn\u2019t have imagined a better situation. When I\u2019m fifty, maybe I\u2019ll be doing something else, but for now it feels right, and it\u2019s definitely requiring that I work on a sense of balance.<\/p>\n

What does it mean, to be in balance? How do I balance a work environment with raising a child, and having my own creative space and my yoga practice? How do I make it all connect? It\u2019s been a challenge, but also an opportunity for great growth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also grown in the sense of becoming stronger in myself and clearer in my communication skills. I never thought I would want to manage people, but it has benefitted me inwardly. We\u2019ve had tremendous expansion this year, and the question I think Yogananda is asking of me now is, \u201cHow much energy are you willing to put out? And will you be able to keep it together?\u201d If I have to be honest, there were times when I was pushed to the max, where I felt spiritually parched and dry because I wasn\u2019t allowing space for my needs.<\/p>\n

Something that\u2019s helped me stay centered is keeping a niche open for some creative time. I\u2019ve resumed working with stained glass, and I\u2019m finding the effects are completely the opposite of the intense mental energy I\u2019m putting out all day in the business. I go to a stained glass class on Thursday nights, and I\u2019ve gotten fairly steady commissions to create windows. That part of my soul was crying out to be nurtured, and in letting it happen it\u2019s given me energy.<\/p>\n

Our personal experience of what we\u2019re doing takes place in our mind, and in how we perceive it. If I see my job as exhausting, and I\u2019m always dwelling on the fact that I\u2019m tired and I\u2019ve got too much to do and I\u2019m not sure when I can do it, it clouds the picture. I feel it\u2019s very important to have a positive perspective on what I\u2019m doing.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Where does that perspective come from?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> I think it comes from putting yourself there, and from trying to stay in touch with that place inside yourself through your spiritual practices.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> When you feel you\u2019re in touch with your spiritual center, does it tell you what to do?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> A lot of help can come from the inner guidance. I\u2019ve learned a lot also from working with people and trying to improve our situation together. As I meditate on the business I\u2019ll get ideas. For example, I realized that maybe I should limit my tax consulting to two days a week. So I\u2019ll get these little inspirations to streamline the business and keep the energy flowing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about energy. An aspect I\u2019ve enjoyed of working with other devotees is that we\u2019re able to relate to business from the same level of energy-awareness. We\u2019re all trying to have good, clean energy because it magnetizes what we\u2019re doing, so the channel can stay open and more energy can flow through us.<\/p>\n

This year I handled more than ninety tax returns. I serve something like sixteen businesses with their general ledger and financial statements. We process probably a half-dozen payrolls at least twice a month, and I want to give good, timely service \u2013 that\u2019s my goal for this year. I want to help my staff be strong, to where they\u2019ll be competent to work independently and accurately. I\u2019m focusing on giving to the client this year \u2013 that\u2019s my New Year\u2019s resolution.<\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s very important for your magnetism to want to do things right and get your business set up correctly. A long time ago I became involved in a business that had operated for two years without any kind of accounting system. Their accounts payable bills were sitting unopened in a cardboard box, and it was really blocking their energy. If you\u2019re looking to run a business, I think it\u2019s very important to put it all out on the table.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Do you feel there\u2019s a spiritually valid way of doing business?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> I think so. I feel that the kind of energy you\u2019re putting out will come back to you. It may not manifest on the financial plane, but it can come back to you in the form of referrals. When you\u2019re selling a product, you\u2019ve got to be right there for your customer. When they place an order, they expect responsiveness. Businesses have rhythms, and it\u2019s not like you can plan a business and it\u2019s all suddenly there. You have to keep working at it constantly, putting energy into it and trying new things and seeing where they take you, because you\u2019ll learn from it.<\/p>\n

After each tax season, I pull back and reflect on how I can do it better. I need some new gear now, but I can\u2019t just run out and buy it, so the present rhythm will demand patience.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Do the rhythms of business tie in with the rest of your life?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> Yes, and I do have to plan my life. There\u2019s a space under Josh\u2019s bedroom that I\u2019m developing into an art studio. I\u2019ll have space for my stained glass and dried flowers and pressed flowers and calligraphy, because I need that creative side. I\u2019ve got the space to set it up, and it\u2019s exciting. As time goes by, the pieces are unfolding at the right time and allowing other things to happen.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> The idea of balance has spiritual overtones. Have your meditative practices helped you stay balanced?<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> I think meditation brings it all together. If I didn\u2019t have the perspective of the spiritual path, I might take it all too seriously, but the spiritual framework helps me keep a perspective, otherwise I think I might get sucked into the work and become too absorbed. Without the spiritual teachings and a spiritual path, I think I would have a hard time on emotional and psychic levels. I think I wouldn\u2019t have the sense of peace I have now.<\/p>\n

Q:<\/strong> Many people want to be fulfilled through their work.<\/p>\n

Catherine:<\/strong> Yes. I was raised with Christ\u2019s teachings, and that was kind of inborn with me. But without the practices that give you a direct inner experience, and without being around my gurubhais, I can see where I could get sucked into the work.<\/p>\n

Even if the community were to disappear, I would still be Yogananda\u2019s disciple. I would still have the teachings. It\u2019s what\u2019s inside of me that\u2019s important. You could wash the community away, and it would still be every bit as important to keep moving from that center, because that\u2019s what I most deeply believe in and resonate with. I\u2019m an energy person, and as a working mom it\u2019s not as if I have a whole lot of time for meditation. To be honest, when I get time I try to take it as far as I can, and I keep trying to improve. I\u2019m always trying to enhance my spiritual practices and my spiritual life, but my \u201cspiritual life\u201d is really my whole life. It\u2019s not just my meditation hour.<\/p>\n

I try to keep reading the barometer of where I am. How was my energy today? How was my attitude? How was I feeling inside? Because, yes, we can meditate and pray and chant and exercise devotion, but how do we take it into what we\u2019re doing during the day? You have to introspect and analyze it within yourself. How was I able to handle that situation? Was I in my spine? Was I coming from a centered place?<\/p>\n

During the last week of tax season when I might be putting in twelve\u2011 or fourteen\u2011hour days, I\u2019m still a mom, and I\u2019m not getting lots of meditation time. It\u2019s those high-paced critical times that I look to, to see how my energy is and to find myself. How am I relating to people? Am I staying calm? Am I having fun doing this?<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve pulled all\u2011nighters to get the work done, but I\u2019m trying to get away from that and make the business more efficient so I don\u2019t have to put out that kind of intense energy, and risk getting away from where I want to be. I want to make sure I have enough time to nurture myself, to give myself time to meditate, and to be with my child.<\/p>\n

You have to go with the flow, but you can\u2019t always be attached \u2013 \u201cIt has to be this way.\u201d If you put up rigid parameters, \u201cThis is all I can handle\u201d and so on \u2013 you\u2019re just setting yourself up to be let down. You have to stay within the flow, and certainly you have to put out energy to rise to the occasion, but if I\u2019m feeling way out there, I\u2019ll know I need to take time to pull back and get centered.<\/p>\n

I talk to the other business owners, people who\u2019ve struggled with\u00a0the thought that, \u201cGosh, I\u2019m putting out all this energy, and what about my spiritual life?\u201d And what works for me might not work for somebody else, but I am trying to work with my reality the best I can, and holding the hope that it\u2019s all leading to something better for me and those I serve and those who work for me.<\/p>\n

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