Self Disclosure: Power to manifest your vision of life
Many of us believe in being secretive about many aspects of our lives and who we are as a person. This not only applies to information or facts about us but even more so our feelings, emotions and beliefs. Surely, it is understandable why we do it – it is based on negative experiences of the [...]
Trust: Importance and how to’s of trust
Trust is cornerstone of growth. We humans vacillate between not trusting anyone when we are hurt to being overly trusting everyone who gives us love and support. Knowing that trusting someone / others is important, it becomes important who we trust and how much. How to choose and decide who to trust? Importance of trust Whether [...]
Let go of attachment, not your dreams and love
I have been hearing about the importance of “letting go” in many quotes and spiritual literature. At the same time I real life people only talk about “letting go” in the context of “moving on” after a relationship or something goes sour. I feel there is a huge disconnect in the power of the concept [...]
Can Anger be used in a Healthy or Constructive Manner?
Many of us believe that Anger is a necessary tool and can be used in a healthy or constructive manner or simply its just needed at times! While it may be true in certain truly rare emergencies, in day to day life is a very dangerous emotion. 90% of times anger leads Dis-ease, false sense [...]
Find yourself – Love will find you
Lately, I have run into many friends seeking love and being frustrated with their situation. This seems to be in the air and all around us including on statuses on Facebook and questions like the following on Quora: I’m a nice girl. Why can’t I meet a nice guy and fall in love? and I’m a nice [...]
Power of surrender
We as humans have gotten extremely conditioned to seek control, seek certainty and surety. Whenever we have to do something we ask “How do I know this is right?”, “Will it work?”, “How do I know this will work?”, “What if I am wrong?” and so on. Recently, I was at a conference (Wisdom 2.0) [...]
Mastery of life: Sacred Time Buckets
How we spend our time and how we spend our emotional energy everyday makes up our life. We let outside events and other peoples priorities take over our day and we lose our ability to create the awesome life we want for ourselves. We ourselves don’t manage how we spend our energy and time and [...]
From righteousness to humility
Recently, a fellow Quora member asked me a question – How does one best deal with a chip on their shoulder (give up righteousness and learn humility)? The person posting the question further adds: “I have grown a chip on my shoulder. It’s not something I’m proud of, but it has born over years and, [...]
Parenting – the most amazing journey
Recently many friends and colleagues had a baby arrive in their family. So I started thinking about parenting and what it is. Here is why I think it is the most amazing journey of your life. I became a parent first in 1998, and the next few months were very different. My life changed completely [...]
Noises and Signs: a prose poem of metamorphosis
It went all blurred, it went all fainted.. the noises went on and my heart bled.. my insatiate soul left me wandering.. That night I screeched I snarled sky could hear, so could flowers moon could talk so could palm tree Ocean could empathize so could hazy clouds They embraced, they loved, they cared.. Rain touched, flowers [...]