Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Willingness to feel—a lesson that I had to learn

    When I set on my journey to self healing. A major lesson I had to learn was willingness. A willingness to feel, that brought an opening to understanding. Quite many times I could catch myself resisting something based on a limited understanding; I realized I had to open myself to understanding that meant I had…

  • Meeting the Ms~Chief

    When  blog adda invited me to join the Sheroes summit, I was curious. Hyderabad,  or Bangalore seemed the obvious choices.  I wanted to be surprised so I did not bother too much about researching the event. I entered a roomful of women, who were basically from marketing and technology, and somewhere along the line, trying…

  • The Autorickshaw.

    I am at Bangalore for the “Sheroes summit.” Enroute from JPnagar to Brigade road, I was to pick up an auto. Last month when I was here, the auto drivers were relieved that cargo trucks were banned from 8am -8pm. Well I did see them around. This time round the Banglore police apparently has come…

  • A little time to meditate.

    Meditating more when our plates are full, is definitely worth the time. When I was thirteen my grandmother who was a trainer with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s TM movement, intiated me into transcendental meditation. Then I would meticulous, and importantly carve that  15mnts in the morning, and 15mnts in the evening for meditation.  Every Saturday we…

  • Touch – healing our bodies.

    “Jadoo ki jappi” – in Munna Bhai  MBBS triggered a whole lot of memories. I remember my niece talking to my father who was battling cancer. She was reassuring him with all the wisdom that only a 3 year old could have.”amma, will hug you and you will be better.” There is something about  incorporating…

  • Letting Anger Flow:

    Letting Anger Flow: “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult…

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