Reflections

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Get up. Take charge of your dreams, desires, hopes, wishes and work to realize them alone if necessary!

It can be as simple as putting away few of these things like.

-stating an exercise rejoices

-start going for a walk

-start getting up early in the morning

-visiting a place that you always longed to visit. Etc…..

Remember, only “you” are responsible for your health and happiness. You are responsible to make your dreams come true/no one in the world is…

So….

Ekto charlo, ekto chalo,ekto chalo re walk alone….. to reach the land of your dreams, walk alone!!

Do it, see the difference and let me know if you’ve benefited….

Once a thirsty crow flew far and high to get water.It came across a pot that was half filled. It tried to drink out of it, but it's beak didn’t reach water in the pot. It wanted water. It had water. It thought on 'how to drink water' and hit upon 'an idea'. It went flying picked a pebble put it in the pot. It repeated this act and soon water raised high enough for it to drink. It drank the water and flew away.

Familiar with the story right? But, did we learn anything at all from that crow in all these years?

If learnt, have we applied it in our day-to-day life situations?

If yes, Write down when, where and how and share with us......

if not ,read on...

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All through the life we are going behind things not within our reach and feel depressed. Complain, cry and suffer for not getting those things for ourselves. But, how many times I wonder today, we must have not validated, acknowledged, appreciated, valued, and enjoyed what was within our reach. Sunrise was just one example. The number of things missed out in life happens mostly to b the things within our reach but those which we did not look to – to enjoy! How sad!
Why? I questioned.
I got varied answers. Sometimes it was that we are busy chasing things far ahead of our time or things / events of the future. At times, I felt these ‘simple’ things were too ordinary. ‘What is so great about it’ attitude. To enjoy it, I believed (a) I have to pay a heavy price (b) I should not get it easy (c) Anything got unasked for is not special. How stupid of me?
Many a times, I was busy complaining, crying, cribbing, jealous of others to see what I have got, that I could actually cherish! May be if I had it, it wasn’t worth having it!
Sheer lethargy drove me to not take that ‘little’ step to experience that joy. ‘Since it was there forever and free, I could use it and enjoy it later, and I need not experience it now’ attitude!
Who is stopping us from enjoying all that we have?
Agreed, each of us has something that we lack and we need to work for it. But, that shouldn’t stop us from validating, enjoying and benefitting from all the simple daily doses of joys, right?
Today, I sat down to write down all the niceties that I already had and could enjoy! What about you?
All the best till I write again…!

Yesterday, I got up at 5.30am as usual. But I didn’t have to rush to kitchen to cook and follow the mundane routine as one of the family members was not in station and the other required breakfast not before 8.30am. I had ample time in hand. I prepared tea and leisurely enjoyed it. It was just 6.00am.
Instinctly I went to the terrace. The view was something I wasn’t prepared for. It was awesome. It was so foggy that I couldn’t see buildings beyond 500 yards. The hills in the distant looked unreal. Crescent moon welcomed me to say ‘good morning’. Birds were flying in all directions, with their non-stop chirping. No one was to be seen. All windows and doors were closed. Only one elderly couple was walking in the terrace of next building. That’s all.
I let this scene sink in. Then I started walking, slowly at first and then briskly. It was awesome. The chill air touched my face and I felt I have come alive. I walked for 45 minutes. Sun peeped through the clouds slowly. As if it was checking to come or not. Its warm rays energized me and I came down energized. I took my bath – leisurely again in hot water and enjoyed it thoroughly. Next was yoga time. I did yoga for half an hour.
Day’s routine started then I was active, happy all through the day. I could go through the entire day’s events effortlessly. And all because of 45 minutes I spent with the nature. I promised myself, I would do it regularly from today.
8 years I stayed in the same building, yet I couldn’t experience it. It was free. It was available all along. All I had to do was set aside routine for half an hour and spend time with nature. That’s all.
Just practice… and let me know…!

More of Caterpillar

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And does that mean you wouldn’t see caterpillar? No you certainly would. Then, how do you go about-facing it?

Well, when I see caterpillar, I see

· A beautiful butterfly that’s to come off this caterpillar

· I understand that many times when something beautiful is to be the outcome, then the transition period is ugly, despised and not ‘looking forward to’ type

· I remind myself to feel ‘grateful’ for the beautiful things in my life- which I’ve taken for granted. For eg: for every person who is selfish and ungrateful in my life, I thank the person who is grateful in my life and who loves me

· I count my blessings that ‘I am NOT what I despise’ inshort ‘ I am what I whish to be’ and so work on myself even more. For eg: every person who is jealous of me reminds me of my beauty. Every person who hates me reminds me of the joy I experience by sharing only love with others.

· I fall in love with myself

· I understand that uncomfortable, disliked events and people in life are far less when compared to beautiful and pleasant ones in life and I feel grateful for that….

And everyday, I find one more way of looking at Life differently which makes me want to thank it for it, rather than complain about it. And I always remember to thank ‘that’ caterpillar for helping me change my perception……..

What does your ‘caterpillar’ teach you?

How does it help you to feel grateful?

Feel free to write it down and let the joy engulf you….all the best!

Caterpillar

Caterpillar

One day, as I was walking on the road, my eyes fell on a caterpillar. It was crawling on my path. If I hadn’t been looking down, I would’ve stamped it. Just the thought sent shivers down my spine. I shuddered to think of that possibility. Not that I wasn’t wearing my slippers. I was. Yet, that thought didn’t leave me. I hated caterpillars. No, my feelings were much more complex than hate but I didn’t have the word – nay the English language didn’t have the word to describe it. Those things gave a creepy feeling that I couldn’t get myself out of easily.

The entire day and after it was in my thoughts. Wherever I went, I looked for it. I looked below the seat, in the cup, under the table you name it I was certain it would be anywhere and I didn’t want to “meet it”. So, ‘I kept looking for it’. Even after making sure it was no where near me, I would half-expect it to come up suddenly from somewhere. As if the entire brigade of caterpillar were working on a secret single strategy of coming in front of me!

I was tensed. Fear gripped me. I was restless. I even contemplated not going for a walk from that day onwards and all for sight of caterpillar!

Sounds silly! Does it? But, just do a small exercise. Replace ‘caterpillar’ in this episode with the person or situation you ‘dislike’ or wish to ‘avoid’. Please do it NOW and then continue.

The person whom we dislike or the unpleasant incident haunts us all through the day. Our every thought revolves around them. Our every word/talk revolves around them. We are planning how to ‘avoid’ them when we ‘meet them’ in the process generating energies to meet them more often than necessary. Always remember ‘what we continuously visualize materializes itself into our reality’.

Stop thinking about incidents that you fear. It can be anything like –

· My child failing in exams

· My child nto doing well in life

· We not being financially well

· Relative not getting we at all

Et like. Instead start visualizing what you ‘want’ and the see the change of events in your life.

Do reiki with the intention of how you want the things to unfold in your life.

In short, forget the caterpillar. Enjoy your walk of life….

Let's start the New Year with gratitude towards our Gurus.

Atleast for 3 days send reiki to your Gurus and Chant atleast 3 malas (rosaries) "Om gurubhoy namaha"