Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Feeling Our Words
Feeling our words, ಆಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ನಾಲಿಗೆ ನಿನ್ನ ನೀಚ ಬುದ್ದಿಯ ಬಿಡು ನಾಲಿಗೆ ವಿಚಾರವಿಲ್ಲದ ಪರರನಿ ನಿಂದಿಸಲು ಚಾಚಿಕೊಂಡಿರುವ ನಾಲಿಗೆ. The opening lines of Puranadara daasa a kannada poet, that roughly translates, to characterless tongue, mind yourself, don’t move function to mindlessly hurt others. At the toastmasters one exercise that we have is the way we use the words, and…
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Feeling Under the Weather…Don’t worry
Another experience as I was recovering from my burns was the tremendous itch and irritation of the wounds. With both my hands being connected to IV’s there was no way I could scratch it. I would breathe deeply, and imagine that the itching sensation was waves bile salt surfacing along with it I would just…
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Uplifting Showers
Uplifting showers. Its pouring quite heavily though not the blanket of torrential rains of my childhood but incessant. The weather is damp and wet outside. Can you imagine the loveliness of being warm snug inside the house when the weather out is cold and damp? Storms and rains literally change the energy in the air…
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Our Evolving language
My mother has a flawless complexion and was absolutely fair. As a child I grew up with this observation people made to my mother “You are so fair, your daughter does not have you colour.” The worse observation was “Your son is so good-looking he should have been a girl, and your daughter a boy”…
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As We Believe we create completeness
You are whole and complete just the way you are – that was the first thing the coaches at the Landmark Education told us, and all transformational leaders be it Janet, Louise Hay or Shakti they begin their healing with this and the understanding that your life is just perfect where it is. Though initially…
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Opening the Heart — Returning Home
Opening the heart—returning home, CTRT choice theory and reality therapy is one way of dealing with blocks and obstacles. It deals with the choices we make. One major difference i found between hypnotherapy and CTRT is the nexus from which it works, while CTRT goes “what were your thoughts when you felt it.” hypnotherapy goes…
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