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So, see these days as cloudy days. Enjoy the ‘forced leisure’ while it lasts. Put it to good use. Prepare yourself for ‘busy time’ ahead. Strengthen your body and mind. Use every opportunity and time to do as much sadhan as you can. Gather as much energies you can. You’ll go that far as your energies that you’ve accumulated now!

So, as cloudy as our days seem now – believe that SUN shines always! In fact, it shines more brightly after a cloudy day or a rainy day!

So, will our life gather momentum in activity and shift into fast paced life?

Here, fear not, feel not! Dust that depression, disappointments, fears, tension, stress and stain for change is just around the corner!

As they say, the last lap is the most difficult one! So, don’t lose heart just before shift in ‘The Time’!

Get back to regular sadhan.

Get back in shape – body, mind and soul.

Reclaim your strength – body, mind and soul – for the coming time is going to demand that from you.

So, to sum it up, cloudy days are to recoup our strength.

They are to give rest to our soul.

They are so we get connected to our soul.

However, dark cloudy days be, sunny days are bound to come – one way or the other – for sure – Always!

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On cloudy days

 

On cloudy days

Yesterday it was cloudy!

Some days are cloudy days. We’ve seen many such ‘wow days’ in the last couple of months.

These days bring ‘a laze around’ attitude with them. These days are meant for gazing at skies or traffic, sipping hot coffee/tea with hot samosas and bajji’s (made by someone else! – I am talking about the houses where there is no house-maid. And the work is to be done by the ‘lady of the house’). and to top it would be soft music at background. That is ‘my idea’ of heaven or ‘perfect world’ as you wish!!

Clothes not yet put for wash. They are piling up! Dishes undone and no routine household work even started – and yet – wow to this day and this ‘whiling away time’.

Entire day passes by reading a novel (maybe the one read and even 10 times already!) What more could I ask?

“Maam, you tho can enjoy maam. We need to work. We have office no maam??” – this is the common response whenever I talk of such days.

Talk about who is blessed – one having a job or one without the one is for another day.

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 On cloudy days

Today, I’ll address just the ‘mood of the day’ part. Even on the days I’ve class or when I was working – be it in office or in marketing or sales, I would still have this mood rule my day. I would take in more work in office and finish it. I would work fast – so..! on road, I would not feel the stress and strain of driving long distances and traffic. I would take in rejections during marketing with a smile. So, I can say for sure – these days were meant for smiles – wherever I had been in life!

So, is this about my likes and dislikes?

Am I talking about how I enjoy certain kind of weather?

What do these days tell us?

·      Slow down! Yes, we lead a disciplined and structure life 9-5 24/7. It is good. But it is ok to be relaxed and enjoy the view once in a while.

·       Life is just not about proving ourselves. It is not about acquiring or possessing something or someone. It is not even about chasing something or someone. It is about ‘being’. Yes, it is about stopping and slowing down a bit to relish what we are holding with us – right here, right now! Yes, we are ‘being in the moment’ and it happens so effortlessly when we just ‘do these little nothings without any agenda or with an eye on returns or targets.

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These days tell us one more important fact of life. They tell us ‘It is in the Nature of things to slow down or have a lull period in life”. Yes, there are going to be those periods of time when nothing seems to move. Just as rest is also equally important part of ‘exercise’, waiting or pause in life movement is also part of the whole movement. That time is for us to recoup our energies – gather ourselves which is scattered during our rush through our driving life. As we rest or slow down, we become eligible and fit enough to take on next stage of life. Then we become ready for some more ‘ups’ of life. There can be no up without a down. So after intense activity life forces us to time of less or inactivity one way or the other.

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Even nature has ‘winter’ when nature goes to sleep. That period of hibernation makes it bounce back with ‘colourful spring’ soon after. Even trees shed their leaves before blooming!!!

Respect these periods of pauses in life. Work on your fear, doubt, tension and need to hurry to next station of life!

It is possible that few of you are going through a lull period of life. It can be any aspect of life – physically due to ailment may be you or your near one – don’t be discouraged. See this as a ‘forced vacation’ given by the Universe to you. I know boredom may bother you. So may be the financial tension. Trust Reiki. Do reiki and relax! Things will work out very soon – very well too!

Emotional – may be one or few of the relationships may be bothering you a lot. Be with it. Do the needed healing for the same. Also become aware of areas you need to heal within. Most of the relationships have these ups and downs period. If it is at the start, well and good. Make the necessary corrections and see the relationship go from bad to good to better to best…right now it may look not worth fighting back. But everyone who had such problem had only come back with ‘thank God, I kept healing and today I am so glad it worked out so good’. Few of you have already experienced that too! To others I say this will turn us into better human being for sure!

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# cloudy days, good and bad days, bad times, changing times in life, ups and downs of life, phases of life, change is constant, changes in life, seasons of life,

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Financial – it is possible that few of you (like me!) don’t have a job or income coming by now. Those who are getting are also probably not happy with their pay-checks. Whatever be the position, all I can say is ‘hold tight and keep healing – light is at the end of the tunnel and we certainly are almost there’!

So, become physically strong to be able to take the work load that’s going to come your way. Take all the rest your body needs now. You’ll not get it later nor can you complain about it then. So, you see Universe doesn’t punish us with these times – though most of us do deserve such punishment for our nature and attitudes! These times is a ‘necessary evil’. It is the much resting required for our body, intellect and soul. We also need to gather our emotions scattered periodically! Look back at your life. Each one had these periods. Some had every 5years and others every 8. That number may vary from person to person. But all had and that is important fact that we can’t overlook. 

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wow moment! Sunny days and rainy days!

 

wow moment! On sunny days and rainy days

It was sunny after long time......it was wonderful feeling...wow moment! 

No matter how cloudy our days are, No matter how rainy days are - the Sun always comes at the end of the day! Wait for the sunny days. They are to come after rainy days. 

We can't demand Sunny days. So it is with 'our demands from life'. If things go as per our taste we call them sunny days. If things go against our taste we call them sad days. Both are part of life. Unless we embrace both we'll never know what it is to be happy. A childish personality demands what it wants without a thought of its possibility. If you feel you are grown up, if your desires are that of grown up, if you want others to treat you as a grown up, then your understanding too should be of a grown up - isn't it?

Grow up - face life. Accept responsibilities as much as your rights. Share to better a relationship. Learn from rainy days. Learn from sunny days!

Just as I was enjoying sunny day, it became cloudy again and it rained cats and dogs. That's life! No season stays for ever. Enjoy whatever lasts for what it is! Accept people and situations for what they are! You are not the only one in rain. The whole world is facing it. 

Before complaining, think about people in Afghanistan! Would you exchange your place with them?

Count your blessings. Bring sunshine into your life. Only you have that capacity to do it for yourself. Sooner you wake up to this fact, sooner will your life and state of mind change.....

(PS : Read the previous post once again...few corrections and additions have been made for all those seeking answers to their questions....i am already answering your queries and doubts....your queries should be answered...don't put up a demand and condition that it should be done in a specific way only....may be you'll lose this too by such conditioning....)

The mystic says - On desires and waiting!

 

The mystic says - On desires and waiting!

The mystic says “I have found that if I have waited enough, most of my desires/wants/needs have felt redundant. And I didn’t have to go for them. All I had to do was wait for a good enough time. That’s all!”

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On slowing down – Sadhan of and for Grace!

 

On slowing down – Sadhan of and for Grace!

Just for one week, let’s do a small sadhan on slowing down. We’ve understood the cons of hurrying – at least on paper. Let’s see the benefits of ‘slowing down’ by living it slightly.

Exercise to do:

Just 5 times per day, do an act as if that is the ONLY job you need to do. When you are on a job, be with it completely. When you start any work, state your intentions “This is the only job worth doing for NOW for ME. And so, I’ll give my best to it. I’ll relish and enjoy doing it. And I thank Reiki for helping me to do so”.

Now, do your job. Don’t hurry. You may sing or listen to a song as you work. Or you can be with your chanting. But every time you find yourself tensed about other jobs to be done, say to yourself ‘I need to be only here as of NOW.  I am enjoying it in toto’.

It can be any job. It can be your daily routine like brushing your teeth, bathing, eating or so. Or it can be your daily chores like cleaning, washing, dusting doing Pooja – well, just about anything or it can be fun things like playing with your family or friends, talking to them or so.

Just any 5 of these activities – do it calmly.

Do it for 3 days without break and share it in blog.

You’ll receive Reiki from me.

This is an opportunity available till 31^st Dec of this year ’24.

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