Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • A bridge to acceptance

    Dealing with disappointment, In 1993 when I started with my dental clinic I used to see, something like 10 patients a day, that was enormous, then I had to take 2yrs, break, with all challenges and relocating, to a new space, I lost my confidence in the place my practise was weaker it half, and…

  • Musing over atoms, Brahmanada, and other stuff,

    Musing over atoms, Brahmanada, and other stuff,

    As a science student, I learnt energy is neither created nor destroyed. While studying biology, we did learn about cells, unicellular animals, and how these unicellular animals live in colonies, and how they behaved as single entity, slowly the mind translated this understanding to the human body was nothing but colonies of unicellular beings that…

  • Laundry and 4,life lessons.

    Does sharing a load within the house hold lead to happier and better quality of household, of course it does, but it is just one part of the story. More I think is about acceptance and acknowledgement. Lets look at the very scenario that that the prompt talks about, the husband gets ready and the…

  • changing life roles.

    Past week working with the intense hypnotherapy retreat, I realized that we all try to change throughout life, trying new and different things but the core of who we are is the same. To change that we need to change our belief systems as we bob and weave with the ebb and flow of life…

  • Star Gazing.

    We were at Kurushetra, at my husband’s guruji’s ashram. Since the weather was unbearably hot, we decided to sleep out. As the body relaxed, and our body tuned its inspiration and expiration to the rhythm of the rustling of the leaves. Gradually the body experienced the sensation of floating in the sky with stars. Next…

  • Akshaya and Akshata

    Akshata Abundance of nourishment was the focus of the Vedic society this was symbolized by grains of rice. Called the akshata. When sanctified through use in a ritual it became “mantra-akshate” that which was empowered to unlock that particular blessing for you. Literally Akshaya means something which does debilitate. So Akshaya Trithya commemorates that potential…