I wear a mala of rudraksha beads. When I put them on, I pray that my mind will be quiet, my lips guarded, and my heart open - so that I will find God everywhere in my day.
But on all too many days, that and grace before meals (in Sanskrit. I like that.) pretty much comprise my formal practice. Not enough time for reading, or puja, or sitting quietly in meditation and prayer.
Even blogging here can be a form of practice for me... my posts from 2007 include both my travels to India and my thoughts and feelings about Hinduism. If I start posting regularly on the latter, that would be a good first step.
The spiritual part of me is not being nourished. I need to work on that. In the 1980s, I found myself (to my great surprise) sitting in the presence of God, after a long, long time of estrangement from that Presence. That was the most important thing that had ever happened to me, and I decided that I really needed to pay attention to that - so I resigned from my high tech job and went off to Divinity School to study and pray for a couple of years. That was the right thing to have done, and I have never regretted it. Now... I do not need to make a dramatic change like dropping everything... but being in that Presence is still the most important thing in my life, and I need to pay more attention to that.
