The way to do this is to create your own atmosphere. One of the ways to do it is to keep the inner Remembrance of the Divine. A few moments of quiet inner concentration before and after the tasks is helpful to keep the contact intact and growing. It is a great help to read a passage from Savitri or a prayer or a passage from The Mother before you start the work, offering the day silently and inwardly to Her.
Another very helpful thing is to keep a book or picture or blessing packet of the Mother in your purse or on the table. It brings its own atmosphere and, the picture especially helps cut down or deflect certain harmful vibrations that emanate from people or the atmosphere around. Another very helpful way is to play some Ashram-related music or mantra, or soft, soothing music below the hearing threshold, to just spread its vibrations in the room. Even lighting a lamp, aggarbatti, keeping flowers, etc are well-known traditional ways to create an atmosphere, provided it is possible and permissible.
These are some of the inner and outer practical ways of building the inner contact.
Affectionately,
Alok da
