Stop, and smell the rose

Most people live in their head way to much and don't give credit to their heart. I believe in balance of both.
But for those who live in their head excessively they don't have any balance and may seem cold second they fail to see the beautiful things in life because they can't slow down to breathe.
Ask yourself-
Are you aware that you are breathing?
Why are you running through your life?

We generally run towards our goal ignoring the important lessons that we are suppose to learn along the way and without those important lessons we can never truly achieve our goal, that is why many times even though we get what we want, we still are never content.

Heart and mind actually do work together, only that we never value both of them. Either we are only in our mind or some people are only in their heart. Both ways of living is incomplete and they both hurt us eventually.

Of course there is nothing 'bad' if you live in your head or heart of cause we are just humans and nobody is perfect but in order to progress we need to learn the laws of nature.
As mentioned in by Robin Sharma in his book The Saint, The surfer and The CEO, when you get familiar with these laws of nature you will see it is similar to the laws of living. Our life is like the beach which faces both cool breezes and stormy waves.

People generally move away from self-help books or seminars or even soul searching cause they feel like 'oh i don't need it i am good enough for myself'. But we are here on Earth to grow spiritually and not just to earn loads of money as that is only needed to 'survival' and not to 'live' and like i always say, we are here to live and not just get caught in the struggle of survival.

A quote from Star Wars -
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Why Do I Fear?

Just a completely ordinary day of questioning and pondering when i start receiving messages from my higher-self.

Why do i fear?

"Don't run away from things that you fear. They are not there to intimidate you, but to attract you towards what lies within.

If you are afraid to fall in love, to change your job, travel the world it means you inner self craves for all of this. It's grabbing your attention and the outcomes is doubt and fear. So brace yourself and deal with it.

It's never going to go unless you do it."



The fear of opening you heart to love is always there...fear of rejection, loss.

"Yes, loss and rejections are crucial lessons to be learnt and it's something you have to go through. But there are other lessons and adventures you are missing out because you are too afraid, anticipating what you don't know. Listen to your intuition, is it telling you to run away..or run towards it. What are you afraid of losing?"



My balance, my time...my heart?

"You gain much more only if you can open your eyes. Love brings endless possibilities. It only helps you grow as a person. And remember, precious things are not easy to find even though it's everywhere. Both happiness and sadness are meant to be there, there is no point of running for it, there is no use to pick one, for one is the shadow of another"

"Love is crucial, love between and two humans, love of family and the world."



Why is my life all about love? Since i was kid i have been fascinated by the thought of it?

"It's the path you have chosen yourself. So don't run away from it. Some path  gets you to find love in one person, some path is about loving your life, and some to loving yourself."



Which one is mine?

"Ask yourself"

Ok, so i'm asking myself, finding my path. It's not a easy question of course. So now i'm diving deep within myself to find these answers.

Do you Trust?

So i read few more pages of The Saint, the Surfer and the CEO by Robin Sharma, and a word kept coming up and that is - trust.
I'm not talking about the trust between two human beings, that remains irrelevant unless you trust yourself and you trust life.
Ask yourself these question honestly and more importantly ask yourself these questions deeply, not just to please yourself but to really know-
Do you trust your life to take care of you?
Do you trust the signs that you get, do you trust your inner voice and do you trust the ache of incompleteness you feel inside sometimes?

Sometimes when you trust and walk with life and stop struggling you will see the wonderful places you go, and the wonderful people you meet.
The key is again, to live in the present and let the beauty of life take over you instead of pushing hard and thinking 'this can be better' .

Here is what i truly belief, this quote is by me -
Never let the problems in your life be your life. 
Every burden is a blessing, an importunity to learn and grow and realize you strength. 
This quote is not just being 'optimistic' but it is the truth of life.

Update

I know i said i'll blog daily, bu i didn't blog yesterday. I was spending some quality time with my sis and then i had dinner plans later...blah blah..

And i did blog today but only on my fashion blog. Spring 2012 menswear collections are out and i'm just busy going through them and blogging about them.

If you are into fashion have a look - My Fashion Blog 

I'm still reading the book by Robin Sharma.

Peace out 

Food For Thought

I am reading Robin Sharma's The Saint The Surfer and The CEO and so far i'm loving it. Robin Sharma is obviously one of my favorite author. He is just brilliantly talented and so profound. I get inspired to write about my thoughts by reading his. I guess i have always been cautious talking about spirituality, i can go very intense and people often question how i know so much if im so young. And i promise i'll let them know when i find out.

So here is a quote from the book

"Thinking about death is very life affirming"

Soul searching is something we all have to go through, and some never know where to start, or never find motivation to start. We always question why? why should i think about souls n stars when i have a perfectly normal life with all the money i need...after all pondering doesn't get you food.
But food doesn't get you life either. A body all fueled up with no motive is of no use.

Are we surviving to live...or are we living to survive?

Either way i think the whole phenomena of 'survival' is old and needs to be updated. We know how to survive, now lets start living.
Let us be passionate and work for what we love. Work for satisfaction and not for the paycheck.

Our mind is so deep but where should we start? How do we start living?

By thinking about death.

Our time in this beautiful planet is limited and there is so much to see and learn, why waste it. Lets live in the present and live every moment with or heart, mind and soul.

Meditation for beginners

I love to meditate. It's not only a real stress buster but it also helps you connect with your higher self and the cosmos.
Now i'm no pro at meditating. There are days i sit for good 45 mins and sometimes 10 mins seems like an hour.
Here are few tricks of the trade for beginners.

Mentally preparing yourself to meditate-
It is very important to prepare yourself mentally, know that you are ready to explore the depth of your mind without judgments. Thinking that only few people can meditate or you have to be extraordinarily spiritual is not true at all. Meditation is as simple as falling asleep. Calming your mind seems tricky but never force yourself to do anything. When random stuff comes in your mind just let it be and it will fade away. Acknowledge it but don't get involved in that thought.

Preparing yourself physically-
It helps to meditate after a long jog when the blood is pumping and you feel alive. If you are not a jogging person,  it's also good to meditate after a bath, when you feel clean physically it becomes easier to clean yourself mentally. In fact if you are a busy-bee and don't have time for elaborate efforts to meditate, then just imagine all the negativity washing away while u showers and the divine white light cleaning you.
Also remember meditation is not hard earned. You don't need to contort you body into any painful shape to meditate. Be comfortable.

Visualization is the key -
Like we need eyes to see the physical world, we need inner eyes to see the spiritual/cosmic world. Visualization is everything. Imagination is always the first step to many great things. Always visualize positive things. It has the power to take you in a meadow when you are really sitting in your parking.
Visualize bright white light as the divine light of oneness, green for healing, purple for spiritual knowledge and psychic vision, red for passion/earth-based energies.

Control-
The last part of meditation for me is control which only comes with dedication and practice. It's something that you develop naturally. Control is power.
But remember i'm not saying all meditation needs to be excessively controlled. Sometimes letting yourself go is wonderful.

If you are serious about meditation read books about it, knowledge makes it easier.
Meditation helps you to discover yourself, and you will see that you are beautiful inside. 

Cast Away

I saw the movie 'Cast Away' tonight and was completely moved by it.
It's about a FedEx employee 'Chuck Noland' who gets stuck in a deserted island after his plane crashes and stays there for four years with no way out, he somehow transforms and survives the ordeal.
In the movie once Chuck hurts his hand while trying to start a fire and wipes his blood on a volleyball that was in the FedEx parcel and to get rid of his loneliness he draws a face on that volleyball and names him 'Wilson' to keep him company.
Four years he fought every second to live and fought the desire to kill himself while the only thing that shared his misery was a volleyball.
After years a ripped off tin door came with the tide and he got some hope. He made it into a sail,  made himself a catamaran and decided to head to the sea and find home.
The sea got rougher as he sailed forth and he lost his sail, his catamaran started to break, and one stormy night while he was sleeping Wilson the volleyball drifted off to the sea. Chuck wakes up to find him feets away and screams and swims for it, but he can't reach it. He takes a rope from a catamaran so he doesn't lose his only hope to reach home and swims for Wilson, but in the midway the rope falls short.

Now what will Chuck do? Leave the rope for Wilson who has been his only friend through all this or go back to the catamaran.
Of course Chuck takes the rope and left Wilson in the sea. One reason cause well........it was just a volleyball..second cause he had to keep living.

How many times we have lost our friends, family , loved ones because the storms of our life had drifted them away from us?
And still here we are, moving on...cause we had to live. Because you never know what the next tide will bring.
Because life moves on....with or without them, and other things will come along to make our future.
And to those Wilsons whom we left behind...we are sorry that it wasn't forever and we cherish every memory with them and will forever remember them for the strength they gave us in times of need. But we had to let them go to live.

WILSON the volleyball

Messages from my Higher self

In this life i have encountered few spirits, some pleasant some not so pleasant. Recently i saw (mind's eye) my great great grandmother, who i was never fond of, visiting my sister few days before her big exams that she had been preparing for like a year.
One person i always want to meet is my grandmother, with whom i shared a very special relation in living(on earth). But unfortunately i never did.

Today my mother suggested (let me tell you that my mom is a psychic and her 'suggestion' are more more like predictions) that my time with my grandmother ended with her death, and that was all it was meant to be.

And that very moment i started receiving messages from what i would say is my 'higher self'.
I came to know that i shared a connection with my grandmother only on the physical plane. My grandmother gave birth to a daughter who died few days after her birth. I took her physical form to incarnate on earth (explains why i look like my grandmothers daughter more). Whereas my mother and i only share a more spiritual connection than physical.

My mom remembers that when i was a kid i always use to be close to my grandmother(like i'll rather hug my granny then go to my mom), and i would never be with my mother(as a kid i rarely have any memory of me and my mom). But as i grew up and so did my spiritual self and  i became closer to my mother.
My physical self yearned for my grandmother, where as my inner self was closer to my mother.

Even so i am a wanderer and i belong to many places and no place at all. I have realized a lot today, a great mystery has unraveled, the one that has always bothered me i.e the connection i had with my grandmother.

I also received lot of information about my initial incarnations which i will write about in detail some other time cause that puzzle is in progress.  

Blah!

I have made up my mind to blog more, inspired by my fellow bloggers who religiously blog at least 4 times a week.
Lets start with all the stuff i did yesterday. I didn't sleep the whole night..but since it was my sister's birthday i managed to wish her before the day ends...enjoyed the feast and oh my god the cake!!!
i have been trying very hard to make any damn cd/dvd to work on my laptop but it seems like an impossible task. Apparently my drive is illiterate, cause it can't read a thing to save it's life. Really frustrating. I have tried everything i can without breaking my laptop, wiping the disk, wiping the lens (i even tried chanting at one point of time). Nada.

Oh look, i was worried that i won't be able to write anything, i guess it's true than....people can moan about silly things forever...

No real breakthrough in spiritual front as of now. Just random thoughts coming in and going out.
Can't get myself to rhyme anything (like i ever could).

Really hope i could get on with my diet plan, which of course was thrown away after i saw the chocolate truffle  cake (still cant get over it). I bet it wasn't really a chocolate truffle cake though...a lame Andamani version. Whatever it was, it did good.

And now i'm rambling about a cake...

No plans for today ...im just gona go with the flow ....that means sulking over my laptop, the fridge and the tv.....na...im kidding...i'll find something more productive....or there is always a plan B of sleeping all day!

Peace out.

That night....This night

He turned towards her, his eyes void of any emotions visible even in the dark night, and said 'i love you'.
And in that darkness she drank every little bit of that illusion.

That was then, and this is now. When her hearts beats fast, her eyes shining with hope...she can't sing the song she danced to before.

Moments have passed, and they have been kind too. But she stands alone in shame. She stands alone in fear.
Fear of what's gone, might come back again and rip her apart piece by piece....only to find that there was nothing inside.

There is nothing inside...but some memories you left behind.

who will i be today?

Who will i be today?
the moody child
or the logical kind
will i play games with you
or preach the knowledge true
who will i be today?

I'll drift from shore to shore
sometimes shallow
sometimes deep
but whatever i may be
i will be me

who will i be today?

Silence please

never left so brain dead before...i always use to have something to say..lately i have been feeling that silence explains it all....words dont seem so important anymore...which is not a great thing when you are studying journalism...

i cant justify why i love what i love

but i love the music of silence

in that i can stay forever

i love the movement of stillness

the wholeness of nothingness.

i love being so lost...

.....

I look at you, so perfect

Your life seems better than mine

Your eyes show no sympathy
to the pain i long to hide

but if only I see behind your eyes...seems weaker than mine

Pain doesn't show in paper

its hidden between the lines

those who can read can find some peace

others are left behind

But why is it all that I can think about

surrounded by roses

but all I see are thorns that may prick

blood will be richer than rose

maybe that's why I think

if I can be a little careful

I might save myself

but I know where i'm going

another road to lose myself

voices in the background

seems insignificant now

topics have changed

but the essence remain

character's have changed

but the story is always the same

Same old same

Oh so lame

cant be tamed

I feel so maimed

what's all this word play about

it doesn't make sense

those who can read will find some peace

others will be left behind

Innocence or Ignorance?

Me: I met a psychic online.

My Sister: Really? Was he any good?

Me: oh yea he was spot on..(I described everything he said)

My Sister: sounds like a fraud to me. It's easy to get information through net.

In this situation she may be right, but this conversation got me wondering. Why is it so easy for us to believe others may be right? Why is it that if you are an intelligent person, believing too fast puts you under the name like 'ignorant' and 'naïve' ? How many times has it happened with you that when you hear something good you scream 'noway' or 'you lie' or raise your eyebrows in suspicion and say 'really' ?

Blind faith- innocence or ignorance? More importantly is innocence acceptance, or is it  the lack of knowledge?

Are we so hurt that we have lost our innocence?