Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Eavesdropping: 1


Have you ever noticed how sometimes we cant keep ourselves from eavesdroping...Thanks to my supposedly "holier-than-thou" nature, I keep reminding myself that eavesdroppers never get to hear anything good abt themsleves or something that they want to hear.

However, today, that was not the case. I "unintentionally" eavesdropped on a conversation that left a smile on my face and an assurance within me through the day.

The following is the snippet of a conversation between a senior colleague (SC) and my workstation neighbour (WN):

SC: Koi nahi hota hai. Life goes on.
WN: What is this about?
SC: Ye din bhi chale jayenge.
WN: Kaunse din?
SC: Bure din. Jaise ache din nahi rahe bure din bhi nahi rahenge.
WN: Are...aaj aise kaise?
SC: I read somewhere that the skin of our palm peels itself every six months. Hum apne palm ko dekhte hai and tell ourselves ki ye to mera hath hai. Six months later the skin sheds and its not the samer palm anymore. Jab apka hath apka nahi to fir...

I was hooked. :) I mean what a thing to have said yaar. Have been chanting that bit of conversation all day and cant describe to you how it affected me...




Saturday, August 8, 2009

My Tryst with Reiki


I had been thinking about learning reiki for a long time. One of my cousins is a professional reiki healer. Whenever she asked me to give ia shot, I sniggered thinking that it was something only "strange and weird" people did. To use my mother's terminology, "normal" people do not take these things up!

In fact, a friend of mine who is obviously a lot more well read than my mom, responded with this when she got to know that I was learning reiki "Jadu karegi kya?"

With these misconceptions, I finally took the plunge when I felt the need to cleanse myself of negativity. I want to share my exerience to at least try and explain what reiki actually means..at least what it has done for me :)

I dont know how to meditate. I knew nothing about reiki. Just went because I thought it would help me and I wanted to do everything to help me :)


There was another lady who had come to learn reiki with me. She was a sixty year old braveheart who was blessed with a beautiful marriage but was battling cancer. Her loving husband had insisted that she undergo reiki to attract all teh positive energy that she could to heal herself. :)

I will not disclose the issues that we discussed there but I want to share teh process.

After talking to each other about the issues that we wanted to resolve, we shared our beliefs with each other. Our instructor told us how reiki could help us.

She then told us about the seven chakras in our body that could be visualized as seven different colors of the rainbow...VIBGYOR. These seven chakras are responsible for our life functions.

I will write another post about the proces in detail. I only want to focus on the experience for now.

Reiki is all about positive thinking. It is thanking God for everything that you "HAVE" in your life. It does not mean turning your eyes away from what is bad or negative...but the power to change that negative into positive.

The basic philosophy of reiki is that love is god, that it is god who is the guiding force in your life. God manifests in your life through love. This is love for yourself, for your near and dear ones. It says you are a magnet and if you give love you will sttract love and if you do not, you will repell love.

I guess that explains the bible verse "love thy neighbour ;P" haha...but on a serious note, it empahasizes the need to love yourself unconditionally, to accept yourself truly and to feel joyous for your existence. It is about focusing on happiness.

Ever since I came back from the session I feel a sort of change in my day. Its like a series of good things happened. They happened because I thought about them. And so I was in charge of my happiness.

This is the simplest truth in life. We all know this. But we forget it often. Reiki just reinforces that.

I am glad I decided to learn more about something that can empower me to alter my life the way I want to :)

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Rakhi this year...


Like always, I was looking forward to Rakhi...knew my bank balance would increase considerably...was not disappointed...

Had the customary snapping session with my brother Akshat, we were clicked with morose faces with our parents taking a dig at us! Was followed by a silent lunch together...and a few hours later we were back to our normal selves :P Its becoming a sort of tradition now...

What I had not expected was to have another brother so late in my life...dont get me wrong my mom hasn't added to the roost...i tied rakhi to ayush so... :D

i know the concept of rakhi brothers is sort of dying and before yesterday I would have sniggered at anyone who would suggest a thing like that. But, I felt really nice.

That moron called me early in the morning and said he wanted to meet. :) I just took a rakhi with me on the spur of the moment...all dressed up and all haan!

Tied the rakhi for him and it felt great...I mean u know one of those tender moments you never want to confess to :) but im feeling courageous today! so, admitting...in fact, I even had the %$*** to message him and tell him how I felt :P imagine told Ayush that! I think the guy's completely changed now...completely lost his sting...so told me in as unlike a manner as possible for him...I felt great too :D

Kind of a sweet experience...will cherish it...!


Saturday, August 1, 2009

This thing called status message!


This colleague had a fight with her boyfriend and changed her gtalk status to "Tired fo this thing called Life" hehehe i mean I am sorry but I could not stop feeling amused at such a public declaration of your feelings...Her boyfriend promptly changed his status to "When you are unhappy you just wallow in pain, when you are angry you bring about a change!"

What profound words....

A friend of mine often uses some title tracks of mushy hindi songs as her status message, changing it frequently depending on her mood. The lady in question had recently got engaged and used the status "teri or teri or" from singh is king...I forgot to ask her what exactly the message implied and she threw a fit...said i should ask her what prompted her to change the message...a few days later it turned out that her fiance was a creep who deserved to be thrown down the highest cliff...and i would have done so gladly..but could not! anyway, after the break up I expected her to change the status message to something like "tainu ghodi kisne chadaya bhootni ke" but it never did come...would have been fun though!

How easy people find it to wear their hearts on their sleeves...Another aquaintance often changes her gtalk status according to her mornings spent with her husband..the tagline changes from naughty to censor material to soppy...its a lil embarassing too at times!

There is also a certain group of people (including yours truly) who change their social networking site's status message frequently to spread some "precious" pearls of wisdom...

Frankly, i hate it when people do that...i know I admitted i do so too...but I mean gimme a break...what makes you think you can force a "thought for the day" down someone's throat like that!

:D my favorite status message is "TGIF" which I promptly use every single friday...and I've decided that on teh first of each month, it shall be "Meetha hai khana aaj pehli tareekh hai" DO send in more funny taglines please! These at least make you smile!

TO sign off...a really funny tagline comes to mind...and it stayed with me coz it was such in your face humor!

...Byron's epitaph read "To all you virgins, thanks for nothing!" :P