"If you want to change your body, change your awareness first. Everything that happens to you is the result of how you see yourself." -- Deepak Chopra

Meditation Moment

From Deepak Chopra's Newsletter
A Meditation Moment
As you read these words, you are breathing – yet are probably unaware of whether you are inhaling or exhaling. Maybe you have other thoughts on your mind – thinking about a person in your life, wondering about the state of the world, planning an appointment you have today or remembering a conversation you had yesterday.
Meditation is an opportunity to disconnect from the mind’s constant musings and experience the sweetness of present moment awareness . . . the here and now so delicately sandwiched between your past experiences and future dreams. With this special issue of Meditation Moment, we invite you to take a few minutes to disconnect from your own busy thoughts and activities and celebrate the gift of meditation.
Meditate Right Now!http://chopra.com/namaste/meditationmoment
Close your door, turn off your phone, and follow this guided ten minute meditation today. Please allow a few moments to download.Sound by Benjamin Lobst, Seven Metals Singing Bowls of Tibet

Recession proof your source of income!!!

Today, more or less all of us who work face situations where in organizations lay off employees in thousands, shut down departments, factories, and sites. In this situations one set of people are directly affected the other set is emotionally affected by the news and situation and the environment. But all of us are stressed and anxious waiting in apprehension when the wave might hit me. Everytime one hears of a lay off in some organization, it adds a little more to that cup of anxiety. At the end of each day one thanks the universe for saving their job for one more day. Lin this anxiety leads to a limbo state, steals your motivation and happiness. In such a scenario, at work you are ready to take any kind of work/role offered even if it is not to your liking.

But do you need to put yourself through this emotional torture. No, think beyond and identify what else can you do? Lat doing something that might not be linked toyour current skill set. Plan this shift instead of taking up a job or task under pressure to keep the funds rolling. Planning and adding another way of earning will recession proof you for more than current period.

By identifying an additional skill set I mean that if you are a programmer, one option you have is to teach programming but then again if IT is in recession, your training might not fetch what you seek. However, if you are programmer but also sing as a hobby then consider teaching singing. Are you wondering but this is something I have not done ever. DOing something like this is really foolish. THink one more time!! Either way the risk is almost similar. If you have something to fall back on then it is can help reduce mental stress and make sure you are happy. If this approach rings a bell and strikes a chord and you are ready to take the first step by allowing yourself to think of other ways of earning your livelihood then you can follow the steps below.


1. Withdraw for a a few hours, days


2. List those things that you might have wanted to do all your life


3. List skills other than your core skill set. Let's say rowing, cooking, dancing, music, writing.


4. List out the risks if you choose to take up one of these.


5. List the risk of going full time.


6. List the risk of going part time and building up on the secondary skill set you have identified


7. Based on 5 and 6 go for full time or part time


8. Make a plan and returns. Plan could include enhancing your skills further in this area and then plan the returns.


9 Start it and do not give up.


Doing it all with your current job/responsibilities might take time but then it will ramp and couple weeks down you'll be able to fit it in your routine. We are very flexible and so is the time and space available to us.


You are not far from proofing yourself from pains of recessions. Go on take the guts to do it and reap the benefits of beign multi skilled.

Building and Sustaining Relationships

It is important not only to Initiate and establish relationships, it is equally important to sustain them. Often we allow relationships to be disrupted, disrupted by our behavior. At those times, when your loved one is distressed, what do we tend to do, either defend ourselves or quickly patch by kind words. Other times or most of them we do not even realize what has happened. To stabilize our relationship, it is important that we first become aware of our own feelings, emotions, why do we hurt, cause distress. Withdraw and feel your emotion and find the trigger within you. What is it that you are doing or not doing to cause instability. However, what you may try, you relationships do destabilize and start vacillating, it is important that we recognize and work towards fixing them and therefore sustain them.
To build and sustain relationships, you use the two magic words, appreciation and thank you. Be it your spouse, your lover, your friend, your child, it is very easy for us to take these relationships for granted and forget to nurture them. Your spouse works hard say "thank you" for that. Say thank you to your child for loving you unconditionally. Say thank you to your lover for being there and waiting for you when it can be so hard to do so in love. Say thank you to your friend with whom you gossip. Acknowledge their importance in your life by "thank you for being there" notes. Simple actions, such as these work to regenerate and enrich the source, positive feelings and emotions. Emotions manifest in physical desire, take form of passion, take form of care. It is therefore important to nurture emotions of love, empathy, and care within you and garden your relationships with the same.
A word of acknowledge, thank you, appreciation can cause someone to radiate happiness. So, work towards nurturing relationships by building awareness of your own emotions and by appreciating all those who we care for in our life.
We all strive and wish for balanced relationships. However, sustaining them is tougher and complex. Take time therefore to say "thank you for being there".

Bust your stress!!! Love someone!!

Immerse yourself in that you love!!! Be it someone or something. As humans we are made of elements, earth, water, and so on. Amongst these peace and love are important elements. Love is our nature, it is you, it is me. Experience that love, allow it to manifest in the physical form. Love an image, love a game, love your task, love that pay check at the end of the month. Believe me love will bring out the power within you. Love for one thing can generate so much power and energy within you that it help you win and reach stability within in other aspects of life. Believe it or not, eveything that happens to us is to teach us the lessons of patience, care, stability, let go, love, trust. Sit for a moment and talk to your self, write down. Ask why do go to work? Ask why do you come back home from work? You may go to work because you love your family and want to give them the best. You may go to work because you want to give yourself the best of comforts and education in life. Because that office room you have gives you a sense of power and brings intense desire and passion to succeed.
You come back home from work because being in the company of your loved ones gives you succor, because you love your futton that gives you a sense security and makes you aware of that love an element that you are made up of. Because you want to make love with the person you simply cannot live without. Making love and being in his/her arms moves those cells and adds energy and intensity that pushes cells to higher levels of enery and they resonate whenever you take up any task. Feel the feeling of love. Love yourself if you cannot love someone or something. Love generates peace, passion, intensity.
The mistake you make is in confusing the love comes from lying on that sofa or from being next to the loved one or from playing that game. Actually, love is there within you. Just that you need to feel and become aware.
When you love someone and when he / she is not near you, do you stop loving. Many a times I have closed my eyes and felt the person I love near me, I have imagined my daughter talking with me, my pets who come running to me when I return home.
When I close my eyes and imagine my loved one around me talking with me, holding me, looking at me, I can almost feel his voice his words, I transcend in to a world that is full of happiness, lacks gravity, no beginning or end, it is simply a sense of lightness, a sense of security a sense of love one that is generated from within. I simply remain in that self of myself on days when I am low on energy, I remain probably for hours in that world to come back full of positive energy, ready to be shared with those around me. This generates confidence and positive desire. Helps me to transcend to a higher level of energy from where I can tackle my own negative electrons that are always trying to deplete the positrons. So, bust your stress your depression by love!!! Love someone or something and you will be successful in those aspects where you have been lacking. For love can make elate you to a level of energy that is beyond words. Find that trigger that helps you to tap and become aware of the true element that u are made of that is love...
Try one of the following. Does it matter if you have not done it so far or if it is the right age. Do not let anything stop you.

Fall in love
a. with someone
b. do it for someone you love
c. close your eyes and say " I am love."
d. close your eyes and talk to your loved one.


Love will in turn plug those leaks in your energy and bust the stress and depression.