In a small village, there used to live a family of poets. The father had learned poetry from his ancestors and was very well known in the nearby places! He started teaching his son poetry from when he was young.
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Daily motivation #133
One small positive thought in the mornings can change our whole day, and impact those around us!
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When is the right time to learn Yoga? Is it during childhood, or as adults or even later?
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Does this look familiar?
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Once Krishna and Arjuna had visited a village and were taking morning walks in the nearby fields. One day they saw an old man finding it hard to make ends meet. In the spur of the moment, Arjuna decided to give him some money.
Continue reading “Short story – How does destiny work?”Being average is fine
Even for over-achievers, there is one place where being average is good.
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Ideas are plenty. The power lies in taking one idea and tracking it to closure.
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When we see someone going through anxiety or panic attack, it helps to know how to help them.
Continue reading “3-3-3 rule to calm anxiety & panic attacks”School prayer song – Humko mann ki shakti dena
Schools have prayer songs where every morning all the school students, teachers and administration assemble and sing these prayer songs! Translating one of them that still resonates decades after I finished school!
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Adversity is a state of hardship, difficulty, or misfortune that one deals with in life. The way we handle adversity in our lives says a lot about us.
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Sage of Kanchipuram (Maha Periyava) once explained what is Trikarana Suddhi to a few students. Sharing the story & experience!
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How does inclusivity feel? How does it make you feel?
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Anyone who has ever tried to apply for a job and registered on the job-search sites would know the pain that comes with it. Some of these seem to be common across the world.
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In an attempt to learn new things that are in my area of discomfort, I set out a year back trying to learn new things.
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One of the childhood stories came up in a conversation today. When do we hear this story and when do we choose to act on it in life seems to make a difference!
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Hard one to battle – as it is only in our head! Sometimes, failing and picking ourselves up seems much more easier than facing the fear of failure!
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Have you experienced an awkward silence when you are with a friend or in a group? What did you do? Did you try to fill the awkward silence, or let it be?
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There is a difference between knowing something and doing it. Over the course of life, we learn and come to know many things. However, when it comes to implementation – do we remember all of them? Or at least some of them when we need to?
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It was an interesting opportunity to converse with a few women leaders from a diverse set of fields today.
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We know the proverb Opportunity knocks once!
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During conversations, some have the tendency to sow seeds of doubt! How it takes shape over the subsequent days and weeks is left to the individuals involved in the conversations!
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How many of us look at our resumes after they are created? How many of us know how we are perceived by others? How does it matter?
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Small steps or even baby steps can help us work towards our bigger goals.
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The video by American water company to save water especially outdoors was quite helpful!
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Dental hygiene and brushing teeth are a critical part of our health. However, it is interesting to observe the extent of importance we seem to attribute to it across different cultures.
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Not everything we need to learn is taught at school or in classes outside. Home is a place that can help us learn a lot as well!
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My mother used to run a printing press, and I had the opportunity to grow up observing her overcome her challenges on many fronts and learned from the experiences!
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Fishing is a calming activity that can seem like an extremely stressful one for some of us!
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Narada is a divine sage, who is the child of Lord Brahma and sings praises of Lord Vishnu!
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Sometimes our face expresses what our mind is thinking and not what we intend to feel 🙂 Being at peace with ourselves and our surroundings naturally brings a smile on our face. When someone tells you to smile more, it fundamentally means you are getting a feedback that you are going through stressful times and it is reflecting on your face.
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It is interesting to see how scientists are researching and finding Earth like habitable planets outside our solar system.
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Once there lived a woodcutter in a village. He was very hardworking and had earned a good name in the village.
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During one of the classes for ten year olds, an interesting topic came up for discussion. Have you ever shirked any responsibility?
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Interesting opportunity to meet two spiritual teachers this week.
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One of my college friends posed an interesting question whether we (our friends circle) are doing what is possible to save our planet Earth?
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Do we have the ability to differentiate our wants and needs? How does differentiating them help?
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An old couple used to live in a village. They had a son who was not interested in studies, nor working. While his mother always supported him in his efforts, his father was always apprehensive about his son’s ways and wanted him to change.
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Two different stories about elephants bringing out two different perspectives and different ways to solve our problems!
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How many languages do you know? Can you read, write and/or speak them? How comfortable are you using languages as a way to communicate your thoughts?
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Carcinization (or carcinisation) is an example of convergent evolution in which a crustacean evolves into a crab-like form from a non-crab-like form. What is so special about being a crab? What can we learn from this?
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