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Sedona Arizona- A Spiritual Traveler’s Journey

• by Srinivas Rao
• on September 27th, 2010
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Photo By Baxter Tocher

If you fancy a somewhat spiritual escape for a weekend of even a couple of days, Sedona, AZ seems to have a certain magic to it that is unlike any place I’ve ever been. For a guy who went to Berkeley and who writes about self improvement, I’m actually quite suspect of hippies and new age nonsense.  So, even I was surprised when I found myself on a weekend trip to Sedona, Arizona. With no job,  a quickly dwindling bank balance,  and all the time in the world, I updated my Facebook status with “I’m off to Sedona to find them meaning of life”, got in my car and started driving.

I can’t honestly say I found the meaning of life in Sedona. I’m not sure if anybody really ever does. But everything iI am doing today started with a thought I had during my visit to Sedona. I spent the afternoon perusing a local book store where a lady was reading palms or something along those lines and I thought “what a waste of money. Are people really that confused?” I didn’t have enough money to become even more confused, so I decided to start thumbing through books in a book store. When I got to about the 3rd book which was about astrological signs and careers suited for people based on their signs, I became intrigued. I don’t believe in astrology that much, but I was morbidly curious. To think I was going to consult an astrology guide for career advice was kind of nuts.  After all business school, friends, parents, and everybody else didn’t seem to have any better advice.

There were a few suggestions for my career. One of them was to become a religious or spiritual leader. When I read that, I came close to putting down the book and walking out of the book store. The other suggestion was to become a writer.The idea of becoming a writer had always seemed appealing to me. I’d been writing since I was in high school, but nobody was ever interested in anything I wrote. At the end of my senior year I wrote a 52 page autobiography about my life in college in about 6 days. So it’s possible I was always meant to do this.  I left the book store with this idea that I was meant to be a writer.

Meditating and the Vortex

This is perhaps the most bizarre part of my story. While in the book store I picked up a book about the vortexes in Sedona. The vortexes are one of the major reasons that people visit Sedona. Apparently each vortex possessed a certain energy and that energy could have an impact on you.  So, I decided to indulge in the energy of the vortexes and see what would happened. As I sat at the vortex the thought of starting a blog to share my story with the world entered my mind. What would I call this blog? The week before I had watched a movie that really spoke to me called The School of Life. That one simple thought has turned out to be a gift that keeps on giving

Here I am 2 years later running 3 blogs and wondering what might have happened if I had never made the trip to Sedona. To say my life has changed for the better after that would be an understatement.  Will you find the answers in Sedona? I don’t know. But the natural beauty and peace that come with a visit to Sedona make it a worthwhile journey for any traveler.

Srinivas Rao

Srinivas is an avid surfer and personal development blogger at The Skool of Life. He's also the host and co-founder of BlogcastFM, a podcast for bloggers.