On Wow moments!

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On Wow moments!

What does this mean? We need to be more aware of our ‘wow moments’ in life from now on! Let’s go to work out our life and its needs. But happiness is right in our back yard. Let’s not forget relishing those moments. Let’s take the energy of joy that we get from living these moments to face the world. We have many challenges day in and day out! Good for us. That gives us purpose and direction in life. Those challenges give us high like nothing when we overcome them. But we need immense strength and enthusiasm to work on these challenges of life. And the best way to build our strength is draw energies from these little ‘wow moments’ of life. 

Don’t negate them with ‘yes maam, I have these moments but….’. But buts and ifs! Just be with them. By negating them you are losing a wonderful way to draw energies from these moments for yourself. You would be much more energetic all through the day if only you were more aware of all these moments! You would be happy as you can be while you chase the things of this world. You wouldn’t feel tired and laid with burden as you fulfill your responsibilities. It may seem farfetched (unbelievable?!) but try sharing at least one wow moment for next one month to come – daily without fail and observe your state of mind during this month….

But as they say, sometimes, a solution to complex problems is actually very simple. So it is this time too!

We wait for Miracles to happen and get disappointed because we define even miracles. And lose out on miracles that happen every minute of our life......

Au revoir……all the best…..

Concluded.....

# simple joys of life, facts of life, abundance, secret of happiness, peace of mind, simplicity and abundance, miracles of life, echo of life, mindfulness, il dolce far niente, 

read previous post to understand what stops us from being happy all the time : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=Abode+of+happiness 

Was this article useful?

Was this exercise of sharing and noticing 'wow moments' useful?

Did you understand the need to make a small shift in our daily acts of observation and validation?

How do you think it will benefit you?

Are you going to put it to use?

When are you going to put it to use?

Share your experiences after few days of practice with us........

WILL YOU SHARE ATLEAST ONE WOW MOMENT FOR NEXT ONE MONTH TO COME.....LET'S MAKE AUGUST (OUR COUNTRIES INDEPENDENCE DAY AND OUR GURUJI'S BIRTHDAY MONTH) A MONTH OF WOW MONTH....NEXT MONTH IS TEACHERS DAY 6TH SEPTEMBER.....SO LET'S CONTINUE TILL SEPT 10TH THE JOURNEY OF WOW MOMENTS......???

On Wow moments!

On Wow moments!

Few days back I had asked you all to share your wow moment of the day (at least one per day!?).

Few of you shared it.

Now it is time to go through this exercise. Let’s go through all the wow moments (shared in blog) at a time. Take time to go through everyone’s wow moments!

Many I know haven’t shared in the blog but have done this exercise every single day since the day this exercise was asked to be done! Kudos to you all!

Some have kept looking for wow moments all through the day…wow for that too! And my appreciations for the same!

Now - the ‘wow news’ part! What did you understand from this exercise? What did you observe in all the wow moments shared by all!

Take time to go through these moments again. Take time to find the common denominator in all these moments. What is it?

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# joys of life, simple things of life, happiness, material success, success and happiness, mindfulness, being aware, life, situations don't make or break us, abundance, facts of life, life is a echo......

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=sunrise+was+just+one+example

Points to be taken and applied :

• Don't wait for an event to happen to be happy.
• Your desires can be chased. But there is always a gap between a desire and its fulfillment. We usually forget to celebrate the waiting period. Do all that you need to make your wish come true. Do what needs to be done physically. Do the necessary reiki. And then relax and enjoy the abundance of life.
• Don't be adamant by stating "..but I am no longer interested in chocolates that come my way etc...". 
• If you are waiting to buy a house, then search for it. Then do reiki. But not with a worry on your forehead. Don't let bitterness taint your lovely heart. Don't let anger take away your peace. Beware of all this. 
• Instead look around you. As you are working on your desires and chasing your dreams, you are surrounded by so much of joy around you. Become aware of it. Take it. Live it! And let these joys fill your heart. They will drive away depression from your heart and fill it with hope and happiness. 
• What would you want to welcome your object of desire with? Bitterness in your heart or a heart that is singing with joy? Choose wisely!
• You get angry if called stupid. Then how can your choice be stupid? Think about it! 

wow moments! On death!

 

wow moments! On death!

I celebrated 'death' of about 10 people in the last one month with their near and dear ones......

yes, I say 'celebration' knowing full its implication and impact on people..we suppose we are supposed to feel bad and sad. But, I didn't. I was glad that they didn't suffer and just left so effortlessly. Couple of them had been in bad shape for the last few years. And to them, I saw it as an end of their 'karma' and so release from that suffering. It is our 'karma' that binds us to this body. So is it good that a person is suffering in this body? Yes, if you see it as 'clearing his debt'. 

And the same debt when cleared releases the soul from this body to be free of this suffering and it becomes eligible to go in search of a body that is fresh, new and good enough for its future journey. So when I see it that way, it seemed like a celebration as I saw the 'soul graduate' from this 'karma' and move on to face other pending karmas .......

Don't I like them? Of course, I do, they are bunch of people who liked me, showed affection towards me in the crowd that was so hurtful and mean to me. How can I not want them around me? It was like I lost all those who liked me at once.....how can it not be bad? It was - to me! But that pain is for my lose - not for them! On their behalf I celebrated. 

My pain I endured and thanked them for their love that they showered on me through 'soul healing' for the last whole month.........will continue to do for the rest of my life too.......

My pain is my loss. I was suffering because of loss of affection from my life. But that realization said all I needed to do was shower affection that I received on to the world around me - irrespective of who receives it.......give back what I received. And that I say is closure! 

And all this brought just one word on my lips - wow!

And added to all this was receiving news of 'new arrivals' in this world...wow to the new souls taking new bodies, wow to those new kids...

Here the life ends and there it begins - wow! Does it actually end? Does it not just shift from here to there if noticed minutely? Wow to that?

Wow to this affection, wow to the concept of life, wow to change in life, wow to meeting and bidding goodbye, wow to creation, wow to creator, wow to healing, wow to knowing healing, wow to realization of giving and receiving, wow to seeing the 'river of life' flowing continuously........

Wow is also to life, wow is also to death, wow to the flow of life, wow to every aspect of life - wow to this wow!!!

Further to wow moments - On death!

Further to wow moments - On death!

Further to  my article on wow moments - on death https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=wow+moments%21+on+death%21 I would like to clarify the little misunderstanding - may be because of I did word it right...

I had said in the article that I have bid goodbye to about 10 people and above (and now it has risen to 10 more) but none have left their mortal body because of covid as presumed by some of you....don't worry...relax there. 

Look at your assumption there and work on it....why do you jump to conclusions unnecessarily and start weaving stories that are only going to disturb you and then you say 'maam, now i am afraid maam...'. Nothing happened as per your imagination. It is purely your imagination and fear came out of that 'nothing' that didn't happen! How can I help you heal that? What can I do there for you? And you get angry that I am not there to help you?!?

Think again!

They all are people who are in their late 80's and early 90's too....couple of young ones died of heart attack and silently in their sleep.......all hale and healthy till previous day and next day they didn't get up....others it was just age related complications and they had actually suffered a lot in this body of theirs before leaving it for newer ones.....

none i repeat none suffered or died due to covid........

mostly due to cancer, some due to multiple organ failure and such complications.....

i hope this clears your confusion and fear too!

i am not responsible for the creation of your imaginations and assumptions.....so next time before jumping to conclusions, read the article for what it is and what it is trying to tell.....

you are missing the point for which that article was written and went on tangent road and got lost....

beware of this 'intelligent mind' that you are living with....heal it, work on it, get your mind to be your friend from the foe that it is right now.....

healing is just this for us for now ............even a little bit of healing in this path -i.e., in the path of clarity of thought and removing our assumptions, wrong beliefs, imaginations will bring meaning to this life of ours.....

On Wow moments!

 

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On Wow moments!

The common in all these moments is that all these moments are free of cost. They are available to one and all! We need not go out ‘do’ or ‘achieve’ something for it. We need not work for these moments. These priceless moments are ever present for all of us to relish and live. We need not ‘go’ anywhere to experience them. We need not ask others to help us get these moments. We don’t need to depend on others for these moments. 

And these moments are spread all through the day! They are available 24/7 for one and all! All we need to do is ‘be available’ for them. We need to be ‘aware’ of them! We need to appreciate them. We need to just be on look out for them. They are there – spread throughout the day! And yet, we go by without noticing them. And when we notice we realize how priceless they are! We realize how rich we are! We realize how much happiness is within our reach!

Isn’t it? Did you realize this? Did you notice this? Were you not surprised with this knowledge?

Just by being aware of these little joys of life, your state of mind had been more calmer, happier and livelier than before - isn't it?

Contd… 

# simple joys of life, facts of life, abundance, secret of happiness, peace of mind, simplicity and abundance, miracles of life, echo of life, mindfulness, il dolce far niente, 

also read suggested : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=a+boy+with+a+fractured+hand

Read the above link to understand how situations don't decide our state of mind. Read to understand how we can be happy inspite of situations in life....

Points to understand :

• More or less everyone is going through the same stuff. The stuff is full of job and its demands and complications, relationships and their downside, financial insecurity, pandemic and other heath and social conditions. 
• Yet some people come across as more joyful, healthier and peaceful than most of the people we come across in our life. What is the secret?
• We usually assume these people have all that we desire and hence are more content.
• The fact is one who is content has seen more ups and downs in life than the average ones. Their life is more of a mess than most people around them. And yet they choose to look at little joys and wonders of life. 
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• They haven't forgotten the 'art of wonderment' that we had as a kid. They still kept it alive in themselves. They laugh not because their life is a bed of roses. But because they don't some problem can come any second. So they don't want to miss out on this minute of joy.
• They are grateful for little 'normal routine' things of life. Because they have found that what is normal is also very rare in their life.
• think about it!
• You are not loosing to circumstances and people in your life. You are losing to your mind. Beware! Read the given link below to remind yourself of the same - https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=hell+and+heaven

wow moments! No feedback of wow moments!

 

wow moments! No feedback of wow moments!

As per post https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=6th+september thought we would make this month a 'wow month' - but didn't receive wow moments in feedback!

And that knowing is 'wow moment'........

Clothes not getting dry....house looks like dhobi ghat - wow!

cupboards stink.....cold is waking up sleeping pains in the body - wow!

unable to drink tea or have hot samosas - wow!

Wow is just not what happens ' on a grand scale'. Wow is little moments...the wow is also in such moments when things go wrong....wow is also when our plan goes haywire.....missing bus, not getting ticket in train and going unreserved, standing and travelling for 3-4 hours in train, well everything is wow - bas dekhne ki nazar aur sarahne ki dil chahiye........

aur woh nazar jis ke paas hai - wow!!!

In the end it doesn't matter how many breaths you took.
What would matter is 'how many moments took your breath away'.

Each one of us has just '24' hours in a day! Unfortunately it is same every day of our life! What makes one life different from others is how 'rich we are with moments that took our breath away'?

Be very stingy when it comes to the quality of breath that you take...
Be committed to make it 'special' and a 'wow moment' to you...and you don't need that 'special' person or 'thing' (like house, promotion, good boss/colleague, money, or an ideal place or time) to make it 'special' for yourself....

Decide to 'drop precious moments' each day in your 'time bank'.
Yes. Treat Time as a bank where you have opened an account and make a commitment to yourself that you would deposit atleast a dozen of 'wow moments' in that account at the end of the day...

don't try too hard....don't be tensed to create one too! just be!

A wow moment need not be a ' perfect moment' or a 'good moment' (I mean the way it is usually defined).

For eg. you have a meeting an important one and you need to go in time. You are caught in rain and traffic jam and your dress has gone for a toss! Now can you make that a 'wow moment'?

If yes, you have learnt the 'art of living' and 'art of celebrating life'.

Let us look at one more situation that can be converted into 'wow moment'.

You meet someone after long gap and you are very happy to meet him and run /walk with excitement to talk to him and he turns around, looks at you and says 'God you really have put on lots of weight/ you really have lost your looks/ what's happened to you?' or similar (insulting/hurting ) statement. Can  you make that a 'wow moment'?

Will give few such moments when you can turn them into 'wow moments -

when someone comes up to you and says -
...heard about your loss. (financial/job/death ) . how did it happen? how are you coping with it now? how are you managing?
....heard that your child's not getting 'right alliance'. why so?
don't you want to get your child married? not looking for alliance for your child?....etc...
....heard you had a divorce...what's the reason?

all such similar situations we want to say 'oh, shut up' i don't want your 'empty sympathy' and we usually lose our cool/ peace of mind/get hurt and feel bad and depressed......but the name of the game is to celebrate life 'inspite of and even in these situations'. Then don't you think we can have more of wow incidents in our lives........

share your responses or 'how you handle this situation to convert that into wow moments' ........if you haven't faced it then suggestions as to how to handle it better......

decided to celebrate life .........i can't let others ruin it for me!

forget about later...live now!
celebrate now!
make this breath 'take away your breath moment!'

Sadhan on sunsets

 

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Sadhan on sunsets

As you do Reiki, also work on your attitude.

Know the hatred you generate for your mother-in-law is the one your son and daughter-in-law will generate for you in future. But because that future seems far, we don’t care about it. And when it comes as present (time), we again cry ‘why maam, why am I suffering so again and again?’ As you sow, so you reap!

What you give will come back to you ONLY – for sure!

If you are receiving hatred know it was what you have given out all these years in one form or the other. So now change what you are giving out to your family members – yes, even the ones you don’t like. Give out blessings. Give out affection. Learn this lesson now. This situation will repeat again and again till you learn this lesson. It is up to you to decide when to stop your suffering and chose to learn the lesson.

If you are giving out hatred then that’s what is going to come back to you – eventually. Work on your energy meter! Change what you generate to receive what you want. By giving out curses you can’t expect happiness and peace of mind in your life.

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# sunsets and sunrises, on little joys of life, miracles of life, wow moments, everything happens for good, abundance, life as it is, awareness, mindfulness, being available to the miracles of life, happiness, state of mind, 

also read on similar topic : https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=On+wow+moments%21

Just a reminder to all those you are doing 'teachers day challenge' of chanting - keep chanting, keep blessing and feel blessed.......keep up the good work....just 10 more days to go...we complete this yagna on 15th sept as decided......all the best to all of you in sadhan.......

On wow moments!

 

On wow moments!

Come rainy season in India and here at Hyderabad, India we get to hear cuckoo bird sing right from morning....wow,wow,wow!

How beautiful is this world created and given to us to celebrate life?

How wonderful is such a beginning of day!!

and How grateful I am to such a beautiful music played for me daily!!!

My Wow moments! Evening sky!

 

My Wow moments! Evening sky!

Went for a walk on the terrace. Saw a full glowing evening “setting Sun”. Wow to that!

And I turned to take a walk, and lo! There was a moon “almost full today” in all its glory! Wow to that too!

What a rare sight for me! Seeing both of them at the same time!

Watched Sunset and Moonrise at the same time!!!! Wow! Wow! wow!

Praise the Lord who created them!

Praise the Nature for all its glory!

Praise the eyes for soaking in that beauty!

Praise to my legs for carrying me on to the terrace!

Praise my heart which beckoned me to terrace!

Praise my watch for reminding me the time to go!

Praise the stairs to let me climb them!

Praise the Lord for all this glory to be seen.

Praise the One that drunk all this beauty in silence!

What does seeing Sun and Moon at a time tell you?

What does that reflect to you?

Is there anything good or special about it?

*****         

# wow moments, beingness, being with Nature, awareness, lessons from the Nature, wonders of this World, miracles of everyday, 

also read: https://kantipadam.blogspot.com/search?q=sunsets