Part 4: What I do to Love Myself? (Last Post of My Collection)

This is the last post to my collection – What I do to love myself?

God has created all of us with a reason. The day you understand why you came to this world you will fall in love with yourself. Loving yourself has nothing to do with you IIT, IIM or Oxford degrees. It has nothing to do with your looks and financial status. The idea of loving yourself is to protect yourself from anything that can hurt you or others. The idea of loving yourself is to maintain your self-respect and shed your ego. The idea of loving yourself is accepting people the way they are, appreciating their good qualities and neglecting the bad ones. The message is – Love Others and Spread Love if you really Love Yourself. Live with self-respect and dignity like Sun that spreads its warmth to everyone irrespective of any factors. Be cool like moon at situations that can tempt you to be angryJ

‘Ego’ at the right place is called ‘Attitude’. ‘Attitude’ at wrong is called ‘Arrogance’ – Archana Kapoor Nagpal

Few set of things that I do to support what I have written above.

I never respond to emails or calls when I am angry. I have learned this after making lot of mistakes and have been following since last one year. I firmly believe the best time to respond is when you are stable and in anger nobody is mentally stable. A wrong response can break relationships, can hurt others and can create more mess. Moreover you will step down your dignity by doing that.

Be early to forgive and forget people. If someone asks me for apology, I am quick to apologise and move on. Why? – A simple reason I want to give my mind peace and being selfish here I apologise for my peace of mind. Forget is here to forget the act that one has done to hurt me.

Learn to block and disconnect people. There are times when we all face people who cheat us or hurt us but beyond our acceptance of behaviour. It is mandate to define whom you want to be part of your lives. If you think by blocking or disconnecting others you are doing wrong then it is not as wrong as hurting yourself or your self respect. Sometimes disconnecting can be mutually good.

Look Good. Looking good is not a crime and cosmetic companies are living and sustaining on this note only. Using make up is not a sin. If you are ageing do not hesitate to buy an anti-ageing stuff and ignore what people say or comment. Just tell them ‘Loving myself is my business not yours’. Be confident to use make up each one of us is not born with natural beauty why should be? Make up is not to conceal but sometimes to highlight your beauty. But do meditate to look good internally as well. I meditate daily for 20 minutes for my inner beauty.

Are You Fit? This is a very important question. Looking good is related to this point directly and inversely. Make a routine to get your fitness levels checked regularly. Follow a fitness regime and a healthy diet (do not starve also). Eat on time. Do intense workout. Sleep on time. Be humble to people and you will find yourself much fitter and happier. Make sure your weight and height are in proportion. I am very particular about this for myself.

Love Your Loved Ones. Loving yourself is incomplete if you do not love those who stood with you whether blood related or strangers. Do not fake around and cheat. When you fake with others, you actually fake around with yourself. People might not know your intentions but remember GOD IS WATCHING US and our acts.

Thats all!!

Love Yourself!....

Part 3: What I do to love myself? (My Things and Me)

If you have read the below two links then let me tell you the climate today really rocks!

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-1-what-i-do-to-love-myself-contd.html

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-2-what-i-do-to-love-myself-just.html

I can see the midnight blue sky and moon playing hide and seek. Its look seductiveJ

I got drenched in rain while coming back from work and the first thing I do is make a cup of black coffee and two chocolate cookies to beat my hunger of 5 hoursJ

Ok!!!

What I do to love myself more other than the above two links.

Take a paper and pen it down – things you want to change about yourself. Yes, there are many things we want to change to be a better person in our own eyes. Nothing bad about it!

Here is my list.

1)     I want to study ahead and this time maybe a foreign language. Now you must be thinking what does this has to do with changing myself. Well, for last couple of months I am enquiring but then I postpone this for some no reason. So now I need to get myself enrolled for the next session. I want to change this ‘Postponing’ attitude of mine.

2)     I am very bad in expressing emotions. The clarity with which I pose myself as practical fails when it comes to be expressive emotionally. So need to work on thoughts like family, relatives etc. I am too cold towards these relationships.

3)     I am a cleanliness freak. When I stay in a hotel as part of work commitments or vacation, I clean the room before leaving for work/leisure. I might take away the jobs of housekeeping guysJ. I want to get rid of this act of mine, as over and excess of anything is bad. I waste my time by cleaning things that are clean as somewhere I have this psychological problem that things are not clean. I add stress to my mind and body by engaging in over cleaning activities.

4)     I am too strict with my diet. I agree it looks good to be in shape and when at 31 you can fit into UK 6 or UK 8 but sometimes I kill my appetite or temptation to manage my weight and medical problems. I refrain from cheating when I go out with my family or friends that sometimes disappoint them. So I want to get into the mode of ‘Cheat for a day’.

5)     I am too straight forward or over clear hearted and this is not a quality of mine in all aspects. Sometimes people get hurt or they might think ‘Gosh! This lady is so outspoken’. I am working on this but still lot needs to be done. Sometimes one has to be diplomatic. My face is a mirror to my heart. If I am sad anybody can read and if I am happy the whole world knows about!

6)     I hate to be honest. I do not want to be that type anymore. Few lies can make life so cheerful and fun till the time nobody is harm.

So make your list and just make yourself a better person as you love yourself. So do I!

Before I log off for the day, I am dedicating a song to myself ‘I love you (YOU IS MYSELF HERE)’...but this is mainly for my Indian readers....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fwNKevnJiQ 

CheerioJ

Love Yourself...

Amilo TuttiJ

Part 2: What I do to Love Myself? (Just Respond....)

The most important factor that helps you to love yourself is how you react to adverse situations and provocative questions. There is nobody who does not go through tough times but what matters the most is how you handle yourself while facing a downhill.

If you remember I always communicate one message – Learn to respond than react. Before I share a small story that many of you would have read let me elaborate why I ask to respond?

If you react to provocative questions or situations, you tend to lose the stability of mind and rather than being strong and stable, you prove your weakness. The answer or reaction will not hurt others as much as it will hurt you and will effect you. Remember, you are primary to yourself!

Now read this story and learn that to love yourself you need to consider yourself as primary and respond to questions, DO NOT REACT!!

On His First Day In office
As President Abraham Lincoln Entered To Give His Inaugural Address, One Man Stood Up, he Was A Rich Aristocrat.

He Said,

"Mr Lincoln, You Should Not Forget That Your Father Used To make Shoes For My Family"
And The Whole Senate Laughed, They Thought They Had Made A Fool Of Lincoln.
But Certain People Are Made Of A Totally Different Mettle.

Lincoln Looked At The Man Directly In the Eyes And Said

"Sir, I Know That My father Used To Make Shoes For Your Family,
And There Will Be Many Others Here,
Because He made Shoes The Way Nobody Else Can.
He Was A Creator.
His Shoes Were Not Just Shoes
He Poured His Whole Soul Into Them.
I Want To Ask You,
Have You Any Complaint??
Because I Know How To Make Shoes Myself.
If You Have Any Complaint I Can Make You Another Pair Of Shoes.
But As Far As I Know,
Nobody Has Ever Complained About My Father's Shoes.
He Was A Genius,
A Great Creator
And
I am Proud Of My Father.
The Whole Senate Was Struck Dumb
They Could Not Understand What Kind Of Man Abraham Lincoln Was.
He Was Proud Because His Father Did His Job So Well That Not Even A Single Complaint Had Ever Been Heard

"Remember"
"No One Can Hurt Us Without Consent"

"It is Not What Happens To us That Hurts Us
It Is Our Response That Hurts Us"

Part 1: What I do to Love Myself (Contd....)

In continuation to Part I – http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-i-what-i-do-to-love-myself.html

Hope you guys would have read the above post and answered the test for yourself. Now just read my answers. I will post about ‘What questions hurt us and how to handle provocative questions’ as my next post – Part 2 : What I do to love myself?....Wait!

If you have read the above link you can relate why am I answering these questions?

       What is that one word that defines you? 

(Please beautiful, hot, good looking are not acceptable answers. They are God given attributes. Look for words that are not ‘qualitative’ but ‘quantitative’ qualities)

My Answer:

 This is difficult as I rate myself as 4As – Austerity, Affable, Antevasin (a Sanskrit word that means ‘one who lives at the border’ following a routine life but aware of his/her inner self) and Attravisiamo (an Italian word read in Eat Pray Love and it relates to me a lot. It means ‘let's cross over’.

2.)    What is the question that hurts you the most? 

My Answer:

I have crossed that stage in my life where questions hurt me. As I said in the above link to the previous post, I respond to questions than reacting so I do not have an answer for this. But yes couple of years back when people used to specifically ask ‘why no kids?’, making fun of me. But now I have one answer ‘Attravisiamo’. 

3.)   How do you deal with that question if you are asked publicly or deliberately by a friend or relative?

My Answer:

I politely respond (do not react) that I have 92 kids. All the children of my NGO are my kids and I am a proud mother of 92 children.

What was that one event or incident where you realised I have to live and love myself only?

 My Answer: 

When I was diagnosed OA at the age of 29, I realised high time now, I must love myself only.

5.)    What is that one activity that gives you contentment?

My Answer:

When I can help someone who has nobody to help him or her as somewhere it helps me in loving myself!

Do you believe in makeovers in life whether physical or psychological?

My Answer:

Yes, I believe in both. Physical Makeovers are change in your looks that add elements to our demeanour. Psychological makeovers are like cleansing your mind like doing ‘Art of Living’. 

7.) What is your definition of ‘Love Yourself’?

My Answer:

Respect People and Love them

Have you ever helped someone in understanding ‘Love Yourself’ concept? If yes, how?

My Answer:

Yes, this blog and all the content this July is around to help people to understand that ‘Love Yourself’.

What you think is more important to you – love or sex? 

My Answer:

Love and Sex are two sides of the same coin for me. I think both are significant depending at different stages of life. But yes love wins over sex for me at this stage.:)

Cheerio:)

Part I : What I do to Love Myself!

As per my last post - Previous Post, I am suppose to write what I do to love myself? Let us start with a basic thought why I started loving myself and how do I rate this task in my life that might be similar to many of you.

Loving yourself is the most difficult task. You must think why? Many of you might think the other way round but why I say so, I have a reason and content to support. Next whole week, I will write around the same. It has been a year, I realised why I should love myself. 29 years of my life I have lived for others – my grandparents, my parents, my friends, my relatives until I sit outside my doctor’s room (who has been treating me for last 5 years) and waiting for my reports. June 2010 and things changed. We say life is like a globe but for me the globe turned upside downJ

To cry, to be depress, to deprive myself were all the acts that I tried and thought to move on with the same negative thoughts BUT there is always some solution to a problem that brought me to my senses. The first and foremost thought that entered my mind was – ‘Love Yourself, Archana...just yourself’.

Now to love yourself is difficult as it needs control of your mind on situations where you should react but you chose to respond.

‘Response’ is a positive word in an adverse situation while ‘Reaction’ is a negative behaviour. I disagree with Newton here – Every Action should not have an equal and opposite Reaction J. I know what Newton said was from the aspect of science but most of have taken this as a personal quote in our lives.

For e.g.: My friend has hurt me, just see how I treat him/her. After all ‘every action has an equal and opposite reaction’

This is a very small example but don’t you guys agree that is the way we think and behave.

I am giving you 9 questions as a test to understand how you love yourself and I will answer this myself on my blog in my next post with a reason. Our answers might be different but do answer these for yourself. My next post is a very controversial as I will write what is that one question that hurts you the most and how you answer it justifying that you love yourself?

1.)    What is that one word that defines you?

(Please beautiful, hot, good looking are not acceptable answers. They are God given attributes. Look for words that are not ‘qualitative’ but ‘quantitative’ qualities)

2.)    What is the question that hurts you the most?

3.)    How do you deal with that question if you are asked publicly or deliberately by a friend or relative?

4.)    What was that one event or incident where you realised I have to live and love myself only?

5.)    What is that one activity that gives you contentment?

6.)    Do you believe in makeovers in life whether physical or psychological?

7.)    What is your definition of ‘Love Yourself’?

8.)    Have you ever helped someone in understanding ‘Love Yourself’ concept? If yes, how?

9.)    What you think is more important to you – love or sex?

Wait for my answers and this post in the coming week...until then VJ Archana says ‘ Cheerio’ and stay tuned to my blog (lol...just thought to leave you guys with a smile)...

Remember – Love Yourself............

Love Yourself Quotes - All Related Posts

I AM PROUD TO SAY – I DO NOT LOVE MYSELF, I AM MAD ABOUT MYSELFJ

I read many quotes before picking some of the best ones to represent the topic I am discussing – ‘What to do to love yourself’?

Read and understand what is it to love yourself? My approach is to love yourself you need to love others. To gather the energy to love yourself you need to spread that energy to othersJ.

My all blogs posted this week are as below. You can click and read. Next week I will write what I do love myself other than doing things for othersJ.

Below you can read the related posts (as below) and then read some of the meaningful quotes:

RELATED POSTS:

Love Yourself (Tip 1): I Want Peace.....
Love Yourself (Exercise 1): Count Your Usage of 'I'.
Love Yourself (Tip 2): What Is Your Number of Usage?

QUOTES

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
Barbara De Angelis

The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.
Sonya Friedman

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Eldridge Cleaver

Our first and last love is - self-love
Christian Bovee

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Veronica A. Shoffstall

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Nicholas de Chamfort

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Alan Cohen

The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.
W. H. Auden

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth

Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.
John Pierrakos

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's not your job to like me - it's mine
Byron Katie

The degree to which you love yourself will determine your ability to love the other person, who will be reflecting back to you many of your own personality traits and qualities.
Sanaya Roman

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

Imagine when you look in the mirror that the face looking back at you is someone you truly love. Just imagine.
www.isha.com

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Love Yourself (Tip 2): Whats Your Number of Usage of 'I'?

In contd. to -

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/love-yourself-exercise-1-count-usage-of.html

So what is your number of usage of ‘I’?

Before we discuss that we all know about cloud computing. Apple has unveiled an iphone with icloud concept. Again “I”.  But how many of us know that behind this “I” there is an effort of many techies and Steve Jobs, a guy who is on medical leave.

Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 and had a liver transplant in 2009. In January, he took an indefinite medical leave "so I can focus on my health" -- his second leave from the company in the past two years.

Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook has been running Apple in Jobs' absence. However, Jobs showed up March 2 at the San Francisco launch of the iPad 2, where the stunned audience gave him a standing ovation.

What helped him to reach there? The expectation and determination to provide warmth of blanket “I”. His focus is on I but to provide services to many under this word “I”.

Coming to the exercise and relating to above example, what I meant is goes as....

On an average we use “I” almost 20 times in an hour. So in 3 hours we used it 60 times. If we are awake for 9 hours then 9*20 = 180. So not going by your usage on an average each one of us use “I” almost 200 times in a day. Strange, eh?

Our lives have got centric to “I” and we have forgotten that there is a world beyond the word “I”. We just live to satisfy the word “I” that is ourselves and our loved ones. We fight, we love, we live to sustain the word “I” not the human being who possess this “I”. Whereas the day we understand that beyond this “I” there is a person maybe a soul who can do things for others we will learn what is blanket of “I”.

Blanket of “I” means doing tasks where we provide love and services to many maintaining our identity or “I”. Blanket of “I” means to do tasks for others that is no more “I” centric.

Steve could have taken off from this event but he came to sustain the trust and provide services to many who look up to new launch of Apple. He did everything to promote the effort of many people who are employed at Apple and who worked to bring the company where we find it today. He served tasks maintaining the identity of word “I”.

So today when you use “I”, hope you use it for belongingness and togetherness not for that ego within you.

You will observe one thing after this exercise your frequency to use “I” will reduceJ

Related Posts:

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/love-yourself-exercise-1-count-usage-of.html

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/love-yourself-tip-1-i-want-peace.html

Love Yourself (Exercise 1): Count the Usage of ‘I’

This is a really funny exercise but I want my readers to do this. As most of you would have read we are celebrating ‘What to do to love yourself’ this month on my blog so get your pen and paper ready and just do this for yourself, NOT  For ME!

Below this post you will find the related posts for ‘What to do to love yourself?’If you have missed reading the earlier post please click the links below:

Now take a pen and paper (even if you are in office you can do that). Write the number of times you use the word ‘I’ in next three hours. No need to write for every instance (you might feel like dork to yourselfJ).

For eg: I am hungry, I feel to have a cake, I need to finish this before the meeting starts, I am tired, I need to cook etc....

Just pen it down when you remember to pen it down for next three hours. Give a break and when you reach home repeat it for another three hours. And if you think you are good at assuming then just assume the maximum number by the time you hit the sack and then go to sleep.

Tomorrow morning when you get up just think about the number and read my post related to this exercise.  I will also be doing and actually I do it once every week. Why, read it tomorrow on my blog?

But be honest and please do it if you love yourself.

BTW, how do you think you love yourself? By any of the following ways:

 By your looks or by your lavish Audi A7

By your tax money coming back to your account

By getting married to the beautiful hot woman you chased for years,

By your being graduating from IIT, IIM or Oxford

Then please you really need to learn to love yourself. Just stand and see yourself into the mirror and answer one Q asking yourself – When was the last time you did something for someone selflessly (this someone is a stranger not your friend, family, peer or loved ones). Someone you never met earlier and please don’t answer I distributed clothes at the temple premises or NGO as this you did do get rid of your junk in your wardrobes. These all things we do for our peace so this is not an answer to the Q.

 Think!!! And if you take more than a minute to answer then you really never loved yourself. You need to learn now! So do something selflessly in this week for a stranger or a person in needJ

Wait for the exercise results and conclusions.....Remember count “I”.

Related Posts

Love Yourself (Tip 1): I Want Peace....

Love Yourself (Tip 1): I WANT PEACE...!!!

I am planning to write around ‘What to do to love yourself’ this whole month. As I wrote in one of my post loving yourself is directly proportional to loving others. I am not a psychotherapist or a philanthropist, but there are certain things that life teaches us and we feel to share. I will post my real experiences to share how I love myself and what is the real meaning of loving yourself?

But before I share, for today let me tell a small incident.

My best friend said to me

“Archana, I am so glad God has been so kind to me. I have been doing so well professionally and my family is lovable to me. I have been travelling most of the time and this time I got so many gifts for my parents and friends. I am glad I did my studies from abroad and it is paying me good returns. After all studying from best educational institutions is worth. I am planning to change my car and did I tell you, we have moved to a new house last year. Everything is so much settled as I planned. I just love myself for being so planned and successful. I really want a break and visit a place where I can get some time away and have peace. Any ideas?’

My only answer was

“You just said you love yourself for being so well educated and planned. You appreciate your looks and you love yourself for being so awesome and successful. I thought you are peaceful if you really thought all you said have given you so many reasons to love yourself. Strange, still you need a break to search for PEACE. The word you used is peace not leisure. That means you need a vacation for peace not fun. This shows how peaceless you are irrespective of your degrees, big house and expensive car. Fact remains loving yourself is not about what you did for yourself it is about what you did for others so that they love you and you reach to a stage of peace.”

A small tip:

“I want peace”....we often ask to God...

Remove two words – “I” and “want”....

YOU WILL GET PEACE. TO LOVE YOURSELF YOU NEED TO REDEFINE THE WORD PEACE.

Completed AOL (Part I)...Whats special on my blog this week??

I have completed my first level of course for AOL (Art of Living) - Part I. It was a beginning of my spiritual journey. But now today when I hold my cup of green tea, I miss my classes. It was a kind of routine where you get up at 4 am, pack your bag and rush to your sessions. Sessions that teach you to connect to yourself. I have been a veggie for last 6 days and thats an achievement as I cannot live without fish:)

This course has changed lot of things in me and about me. I promise to follow the regime of practicing 45 mins of my learning of AOL daily. Though practicing in a group was fun but at the end of the course before we move to next level we need to be proficient in part I.

This week my blog writings are dedicated to a thought - 'What to do to love yourself?'.

I will post content from my learnings and experiences around the same. There is a connection when we say love yourself and loving others. As the great saying goes "If you cannot respect yourself, you cannot respect others". Just replace respect with love and you will feel the connection.

A tip :

If you are bored of your physical appearance go for a makeover. I have started my makeover levels. Level 1: I got my haircut done keeping the length same. Lot of layers and steps. Then I got nose piercing done. I am scoping on more levels now like highlighting my hair and losing two more kilos:)

Changing your looks adds freshness to life and after all change is spice of the life. So Spice It Up! Changing looks defintely change your demeanor in all dimensions:)

Love Yourself....And Love People Around You!

Cheerio:)

Message Through A Personal Video!!

Click the link to the video message recorded by me. This video is uploaded on my youtube channel – Dolce Vita - Sweet Life

Message Through Personal Video

The purpose of this video is to communicate a small message through my four birds. Firstly, I have named my birds as Italian words that I liked. They are named as Gracia, Rossa, Bianca and ChelseaJ

My birds are love of my life. They make me feel complete and I have learned a great lesson through them – Selfless Love!

All they need is love and all they give is selfless love. Where the world is under the threat of terrorism, my birds make me feel so proud that God has created different creatures to teach us the meaning of life and love. Spread the message of selfless love through this video. Their sweet chirping noises make my life colourful as colourful my birds are.

Respect wild life, love nature and you will see how the world changes around you. Get pets or birds home and you will see a difference in your world.

BTW, I made custard on that day when this video was recorded. I am so infantile to ask them also. Somehow it got recorded and this is a memory that I made custard for my babies (my birds)J

Love the creation of God and Love Humanity....Stop this terrorism...It will benefit none!

Dolce Vita....

Amilo Tutti (Love You ALL)

Mumbai Blasts....Failed to Curb the Spirit of Mumbai People!!!

I thought I will write about “What to do to Love Yourself?” I am back from my third Art of Living class, I feel so much relaxed. As a part of our homework we are asked to do something selfless today for some stranger. Though I do not believe in strangers and helping them as I had a very bitter experience virtually by helping strangers and the way they have hurt me but as a human I have one thing for all the people of Mumbai.

As a part of my homework and my nature of humanity, I pray for all those who lost their lives and families in these serial blasts. Mumbai is known for its spirit to recover fast and get back to action for last 20 years after 13 blasts(:

I - with immense respect for Mumbai Janta (commom masses) pray that your family and loved ones remain safe. Those who lost their families, I pray for their soul and will just say one thing ‘Do Not Give Up the Spirit with which each Mumbai wala lives’.

Your losses cannot be recovered but your spirit can only protect you against any further blast. Like always Mumbai has showed that no terrorist attack can stop them to live their lives. If history of Mumbai will remember 26/11 or 13/7, it will also remember the courage and spirit of Mumbai people to fight against this terrorism!

My Second Class of 'Art of Living'....A Great Experience...

If you have read the related posts – then this post will make some sense to youJ

Related Posts:

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/hamsa-meditation-i-practice-it.html

http://doyouthinkyouareliving.blogspot.com/2011/07/my-first-art-of-living-class-lol.html

I was able to get up on time and make up to the class. From 5 am to 8 am, I could feel the transition of mind and soul to some other level. Art of Living class was like a life changing event for me where I could connect to my innerself that I neglected for so many years. I practice Hamsa Meditation at home but to practice Sudarshan Kriya at the centre in a group made me realise how meditation takes us to some other world. World away from emotions and thoughts where you are responding to the outside world BUT you are deeply connected to your innerself!

I am apologetic that I cannot share my learning with all of you as I have to abide by the commitments and instructions of my instructor (guru). Though I want my every reader to enrol in this course and personally feel the experience. The reason being I am not trained to write or instruct anyone. Whatever I wrote in this post is my experience that might vary from yours. But it is worth to learn and experience this and trust me few pieces of paper will not matter to you once you attend your first session.

I am giving the link below. Read all the information and enrol.

http://www.artofliving.org/in-en

But I can share one thing with all of you and that is ‘Love Yourself’. The sole aim of our life should be to love and respect ourselves and somewhere Art Of Living also caters to this thought. BUT there is a difference when we say ‘Love Yourself’. I will post ten things around this in my next post.

Until then stay tuned to my blogJ

CheerioJ