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A New Bird!

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  This morning as I woke up, something had changed. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. I looked around the room and it looked the same. Same bed, same sheets, the side lamp on my right, laptop waiting for me on the table and my phone buzzing with notifications. However, I did not feel like checking my phone like I always did. Why did I feel so different? I literally jumped of the bed, like I had no weight…May be earth’s gravity had changed? What a revolutionary idea! I chuckled to myself and went around to wash my face. Did I always look like this? I thought as I looked myself in the mirror. Who is this person looking back at me? What was going on? I went around the kitchen to make my cup of coffee. The rooms looked brighter, full of colours I had not noticed. The smell coffee tingled my nose as I poured the hot liquid in my cup. It never smelled so fresh before. As I strolled through the bright living room feeling like a child in a new house, I was captivated by a small bird in my
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Lockdown diaries......

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Day 90 or may be 91: Never mind, I have forgotten the count. It was one of those days in the Lock-down, when I had finished cooking, cleaning and was now sitting at my favorite place in the bedroom, wondering what do I do next? Few options slid through my mind, Netflix? YouTube? talking to someone on phone? Playing with my son?........and the list kept going….. I could not settle with any option. All of them had been overused in the past couple of months with no resort to my heart. No matter the option, I always felt restless in the end. And then of course there were other things to worry about like, what’s the count of Corona patients in the world, in our country and in our neighbourhood? What new rules are in place? Who got infected and how? What precautions should or should not be taken? What to eat and how to eat? Medicines? And then inadvertently, I felt I was actually feeling a little sick. May be I had throat pain, did I feel a bit hot? should I check my temperature?. Or
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Alone.....but truly connected!

There was a time when I used to wonder, if I am alone in this world or there is something more to this life? I kept feeling out of place, the odd one out as I wondered why everyone is so disconnected. Why is everyone cocooned up in their own shells? Why no one feels the beauty and the magic surrounding them? Why everyone is trying to conquer the other? But now, I do not wonder about this anymore. I know that this was all part of the game. A necessary experience to see, to value the oneness, connection and love that is available to all. Now, I know that light is only appreciated around darkness and heroes are only born in the presence of villains. Both are equally important for the balance. But only when one side becomes heavy, the realization of these duel forces and the ability to choose is realized within all of us. And that is what is happening. We, the human species hold both good and the bad; the right and the wrong within us. When our collective consciousness shifts toward
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Beyond the mind

So when my friend asked me, “But how do you go beyond this?” I stopped and realised that I had never tried to articulate what was it exactly that was helping me to go beyond my mind conditioning. Suddenly a casual conversation with my friend became a point of realisation of the truth. We were talking about one of the biggest and most common conditioning of a human mind: ‘You are not good enough and so you must earn an approval from someone/something outside of you’. This conditioning manifests in various life situations for everyone. For some in abusive relationships, for some in repetitive challenges in job, multiple partner relationships with none being satisfactory, constant feeling of dis-satisfaction of one’s life, giving in to addictions,   Jealousy and instant hurt on other’s feedback, Not knowing clear directions for self-growth, people pleasing attitudes, self-sabotaging behaviours and the list goes on. You get the point! The belief is so deep rooted inside our co
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What do you want to be, when you grow up?

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The grownups always ask this question, ‘What you want to be, when you grow up? Despite the fact that they themselves haven’t found the answer yet. But I really wish I knew then what it is that I wanted to do or be. This question has haunted me for years. Right through my selection of college, subjects, interviews, jobs, countries and then leaving all of that behind and coming back to nothing but just this single question, ‘What do I want to be? ‘ It all boils down to this in the end.   I must have asked this question a million times to myself, to others , to books, to videos, to mentors, teachers ……and everyone sent me back empty handed as they said the answer lied within me. If the answer lies within me, why doesn’t it show up as clear as day sky? Why does it hide, why does it play games? Why does it behave like some sort of magical power that you must earn? I remember back in the day when I was a little girl, I knew I had no big ambitions to become successful or rich or
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Balance........

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So often this word is misinterpreted, overused and modified as per the needs and conveniences of people and situations. And still…….it remains the most difficult thing to achieve even for the best of us. Everyone seems to running around to create this 'Balance' in their bodies, minds and life situations. I am a Yoga teacher and so I often use this word ‘Balance’, while instructing a student on posture but what that really means for the student is left open for interpretation. We imagine Balance as some physical state of being in which you feel stable and secured. But if you observe deep down, how balance is achieved, you will notice that balance is a continuous adjustments of parameters of imbalance just in the right proportion. The Balance of your body is definitely a continuous adjustment of your muscles to support you against gravity and other forces. What about Balance of your mind? Imagine Mind as a big muscle. It is such a flexible muscle that it can be stret
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Love...beyond the limits

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Unconditional Love…… Nothing more or nothing less can be said about this word. Whatever definition you put forth for this term, limits its meaning, its essence. It is simply what exists as truth of us all. The base of who we are and everything that we have created is within it. ‘Unconditional Love’ is the atmosphere in which we live, so we can’t see it or perceive it but that’s what holds everything. Its what energies us , its what gives us slight nudges and pushes in the right direction. However, what we see is everything inside this atmosphere and not the atmosphere itself. So, we forget that it exists. We forget that we came from it and we are it. We all have experienced ‘Love’ many times. And interesting part is, we have also experienced ‘Hate’, which is opposite of Love. The only reason for this duality is because the Love that we experience is not unconditional. It is based on certain conditions and when those conditions are broken we experience hate. But what if, th
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