Being warm is an internal job. It starts in the heart.
Are you warm-hearted? Are you forgiving, detached, happy? Is your false ego a good distance away from you? Do you wake up thinking what interesting (or even magical) things will happen to you today by the movements of providence, time, and the touch of Krishna?
To start your internal heater take some time to chant Hare Krishna in the early morning hours. Wrap yourself in a blanket, sit cross legged with back straight, light a candle, and take out your beads. Do at least 15 minutes (2 rounds on the beads). The more you do the more warmth you generate. The clouds in your mind will dissipate and you will sense your internal spiritual self.
Read some verses from the Gita to remind you that you are not this body, you are the soul, and relationships on that level is what truly makes you happy, and therefore automatically warm.
Then take a hot non-caffeine drink. The heat of the drink will warm you up. The lack of caffeine will build your natural strength.
Now you are ready for the rest of the day – you will be warm no matter the weather or what may arrive on your life path.
ps: Be careful to avoid things that make you cold:
Bitterness, envy
Taking yourself too seriously
Needing to be right
Over worry, over anxiety
Thinking you are the doer, that it’s all up to you
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