Tag: meditation

  • Fear As Identity

    Fear As Identity

    This piece reflects on how repeated narratives of fear and grievance shape the collective emotional climate in India. Drawing from social psychology and yogic perspectives, it explores how survival-based thinking can weaken mature agency, narrow empathy, and lead to reactive patterns in everyday life. Rather than focusing on politics or personalities, the essay looks at…

  • Breathe Freely Live Fully

    Breathe Freely Live Fully

    “COPD care is strongest when medical treatment and therapeutic hypnosis work together — easing breathlessness, reducing anxiety, and helping patients breathe with greater control and confidence.”

  • Obon Festival

    Obon Festival

    “When we heal the bonds with our ancestors, we heal something deep within ourselves — and set future generations free from inherited burdens.”

  • The Grounding Grind

    The Grounding Grind

    Grounding is all about coming to the present says Aunt Selvi. Of course over a cup of Caramel Chai.

  • Open Eyed Meditation Book review

    Open Eyed Meditation Book review

    Wisdom, Witty Tales and Crow -Burning Sages. Aunt Selvi Reviews: Open Eyed Meditation Oh, dearies, let me tell you, when I picked up Open Eyed Meditation by Shubha Vilas, published by FingerPrint Publishers, I was expecting another round of profound snippets akin to his take on the Ramayana. But what greeted me? A buffet of…

  • Ten Commandments on No Housework Day

    Ten Commandments on No Housework Day

    April 7th is celebrated in the land of Uncle Sam as No House Work Day. How wonderful. Today being Sunday which is most people’s catch up with the week’s stuff day, it is rather ironic. the definition of housework is work done in housekeeping especially cleaning and tidying. It would be an interesting carrot to…