"O what you are talking about Kundalini class is one hour forget they will be new. Come on folks move balance. It is brain being balanced, not the body. Body is a help. Move, move, breath of fire. Hey there is nothing outside of you, it is you & you alone. Disease is you health is you, sex is you, impotency is you, creativity is you destruction is you, mood is you, rude is you, come on. Move, move, move..." - Yogi Bhajan
Rajasic is the royal guna, tamasic is the heavy or dense one & the most animalistic one. The soul has a royal component & so, for example, the food recommended in kundalini yoga is sattvic with a little bit of rajas (onion, garlic, ginger, chili, etc.). That's how we'd like you to be.
Don't worry but do your best to prepare. You just do your absolute best & don't worry about the results! Detachment from the result is an essential yogic quality.
Satisfaction really only comes from knowing you tried your very best.
Yogi Bhajan said of the partition refugee escape he & his family went through that they had nothing to eat but beans, but they weren't suffering. Because suffering is when you lose faith in yourself.
Basically our biggest problem as a world is that women are bitchy to other women, in their own & to other generations. Yogi Bhajan said women are the ones who oppress women & it's true. By the way, the facade of leisure class femininity in antiquity has convinced everyone femininity means weakness, but women are actually 16x stronger than men (according to Yogi Bhajan), & are highly capable at organizing resources & rolling their sleeves up & getting their hands dirty.
Householder preparedness. You want to always be prepared (the Girl Scout motto!) for natural & other disasters. Every household needs emergency supplies (long-term food, water, safety blankets, lots of cash in case electric grids go down, etc.) as well as emergency plans that the whole family is trained on. Everyone should be trained in things like CPR, what to do in emergencies, self-defense, deescalation, how to handle environmental emergencies if driving, etc. & to be prepared materially for them. Hooking into your neighbors & community pods for resources & helping them. We are truly all always in it together. Everyone also needs wills, living wills/advance directives, photocopies of important documents, fire extinguishers, hand-crank AM/FM radios, flashlights, flares/generators/water tanks if possible, etc. You don't need a bunker but put your basement to good use! Get emergency checklists & make sure you're as covered as is reasonable. As yogis, we plug into life & are as prepared for the future in a positive way as possible. You should feel good about taking care of yourself & your family & neighbors & community in this way.
People joke about prepping for "the big one" (as in earthquakes), but you need to be prepared. Red Cross & other organizations have tons of resources for this as an accessible starting point, but there are also great emergency preparedness guides to prepare for more than 72 hours of supplies, which you should do if at all possible. Check your city guides for emergency management guides online, as well. Share your wisdom with your neighbors! It's very important to have savings & stockpiles. And it's very easy to miss essential information, like what can cause poisoning or fire.
You need four layers of protection. One way to look at that could be: personal protection (things you should always have on your body, like pepper spray, whistles, tasers, Swiss army knife, medical ID tags, epipens, etc.), car protection (kits for snow like foil blankets, kitty litter & spare tires), household supplies, & "get out of house" & "get home" bags. Why risk not having things like snow chains or personal/household alarms?
Heavy prayers for the crisis in Texas.
"You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen." - Anne Bogart
"We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation...we would stop it...If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets & stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction." - Julian Beck
“Anticipating problems & figuring out how to solve them is actually the opposite of worrying: it’s productive...Competence means keeping your head in a crisis, sticking with a task even when it seems hopeless, & improvising good solutions to tough problems when every second counts. It encompasses ingenuity, determination & being prepared for anything...My shorthand for it is 'thinking like an astronaut.'”
― Chris Hadfield, An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
