Dance with Energy

Come dance with me! Look around and you see everything is made of energy.
Energy is everything. Your thought begins it, your emotion amplifies it and your action increases the momentum.
I remember when i started Soul Studio -  journey within. The first thought which came in my mind was to create a workshop "Dance with Energy". If i look back i don't know what prompted me to give this name but it stuck. I believe , what you think you become, what you feel you attract and what you imagine you create. Happy thoughts create an environment of happiness and calmness around us. Everything is easy when one is exuberayting happiness.
Dance the most ethereal experience which we can feel and enjoy. Imagine with our movements our energy moving in tandem. This experience is what many call bliss/ nirvana. I do speak about meditation, but till date i have not understood the literal meaning of meditation. I do agree, as the mind is busy and with the advent of smart phones our attention span has been reduced to seconds, how does one really focus and still the ever thinking mind?
Ever tried listening to music when one is stressed, angry, sad or happy. Our emotions find the right kind of music for us to vent out our feelings, but if you just pulled out happy songs when you are sad, will you enjoy that? Off course not because our mind wants to feel sad at that moment. Therefore our mind is controlling every action and emotion of ours. But what if, you let the rhythm which catches your body pick up the music and then go in oblivion with that. Try it, you will see how the energy can shift and from sadness you can become calm and after sometime there will be no thoughts. As our emotion amplifies and our action increases the momentum , sadness or stress can be reduced by shifting the energy within.
My first experience with this shift was when my mom expired. This was very traumatic and sad for me. I was in a zone where it was impossible for any happiness to creep in. But this phase did not last long, as i started listening to Oum Mani Padme hum. The music is very soothing and can put you in nothingness. As i listened to the music, slowly my energy within started shifting. Its not that i was happy and jumping around, but all of a sudden, the meaning of death was not sadness but as a way of life which we all face. It's easy to say let go, its also easy to say still your mind, in the end we are humans born to make mistakes and live our desires. Therefore how can i be someone else? I am born to live life to the fullest, make my own mistakes, have desires and needs and be either aggressive or passive as my personality would be.
I love dancing, i guess all of us love dancing. The freedom which one feels while dancing is magic and i personally can be in this zone for ever if given a choice. Dance makes me alive, music gives me life and energy within me flows to be one with everything around me. This has been my experience when i am dancing.
Every morning we can predict how our day would be. By simply understanding the energy shifts within us. Some days pass by like music, while some are horrendous and murphy's law seems to be prevalent. Has anyone ever bothered to understand this phenomenon? Bad hair day, i woke up from wrong side of bed today, do these sayings sound familiar? Well what ever we manifest when we wake up is how our day goes by. If we wake up happy and cheerful with calm undertone, the day will pass like a breeze. Everything will seem a miracle and things will go as planned. But if we wake up with deadlines, stress, anger etc ... the day will be one long one, where everything will be a challenge.
The choice is always with us, yet we seem not to notice it.
To gain control of our day, a simple breathing exercise in morning can help us to be calm and in control of our emotions. Instead of reading our messages on phone or replying to mails first thing in morning. Take time out for 15 mins every morning and find a corner at home which you can call your calm zone. Sit quietly, concentrating on your breathing. If you want you can close your eyes, or look at the prana/ energy  all around us. As the breathing slows down, find the energy within move and take a journey within. One can plan the whole day, in this state of mind. Its disciplining ourselves to take 15 minutes out of our busy life and do nothing other than concentrate on our breathing. After my-time, pen down your thoughts for the day. Its an effective way of combating stress and organising our thoughts. You can check your list every 4 hours to see what work has been done as per your list. One can also take my-time every 6 hours once the habit forms and then short lists are created to do in that time span.
I always believe that wealth and health are different sides of the same coin. One cannot survive without the other. We all know how to create wealth, take a journey within to create health which will in return let you create more wealth. As the saying goes a healthy body, mind and soul is more effective in making decisions.
The logical mind wants to know whats in store for me and all i will say is that Mind a master is most dangerous adversary , but mind a slave is the best friend we can have.
You only need to find yourself, rest everything else you can google. Take a journey within from wealth creation to health creation.

We are not the landlords of this planet, we are tenants with an expiry date.

"Life is not about good answers, it's about interesting questions." ... Paulo Coelho

What is the purpose of my life? I can keep on asking this question a million times and i will get no definite answer. My subconscious weaves in answers which i want to hear. Probably my purpose of life might get answered by this counter question - What is the purpose anyway?

We all want to know about our existence, our purpose and often go on the spiritual journey to find this. We find ourselves a self proclaimed guru, as we don't believe in ourselves and words of a spiritual person makes more sense to us than our own soul talking to us. We often go down the path shown to us by someone and start our journey. Is it the lack of knowledge or lack of self confidence, i don't know which but surely, can someone take us down the path to find ourselves?

Are we engineered for a purpose? I am not sure, but surely looking at the population explosion across the globe, i am forced to believe our one sole purpose is to keep on populating the world. Even though there is not enough resources which will be left for future generations but then hey who am i to question any one's purpose.

We feel the need to leave behind our essence, is this our purpose to leave behind our essence / legacy? When i am gone, seriously why should i bother who will or who won't remember me. But then as i said i am not here to question any one's purpose or beliefs.

I see a lot of unrest which is happening all around the globe and this makes me wonder, is the slave finally waking up? We are all slaves of our existence, we live by set standards and often are frustrated by things not going our way. Some are lucky who we call haves while many are unlucky who we call have nots. The population ratio of have nots is definitely more than haves. So my question is what will happen when the have nots want everything of haves?

The war is happening among religious outfits, among races, the power brokers want more power and truth is a fairytale which we all live by. 

Recently to eradicate black money Indian Prime minister, overnite removed INR 500/1000. Who was impacted most? The industrialists or the poor public? The economy came to a standstill overnight, who is to be blamed? PM , Big industrialists, public who? 1.3 billion people voted for this change and now they are impacted by the change negatively. Funny isn't it. 

When USA voted Trump as their President, why is the world going crazy with negative comments? A nation voted their president, the impact is felt worldwide WHY? 

Questions, questions and more questions. There are no answers, but speculations and we feel great being argumentative and speculative about all these questions and their answers.

Seriously , what really impacts us? The situations are created by us, is there a way out for any of us? I doubt it as we go deeper into the circle, we get ourselves more locked into our own creations and  way of life which we are all responsible for. Yet we choose to show ignorance and ask the question, What is the purpose of my life?

We believe in successful people, by definition people who have made a lot of money, or people who are fighting for a cause. Hey we are 7 billion plus people on this planet and i believe each one of us has something to give back to this world. Fighting terrorism , fighting for poverty, fighting for power , fighting for religion, fighting global warming, fighting for animal protection etc etc .....all man made. How much is enough? How come we seem to be constantly fighting things and not building together? I would really like to know , when does one stop being an ignorant and really start being a human.

Maybe if i did something for people in general, no bias opinions  but really unconditionally help people without thinking about anyone remembering me after my death. Without thinking of myself going down in history books, without thinking about the money i have made, as i cannot take any with me in my afterlife and what good it is to give to my kins if they don't have the aptitude to make it on their own, but  just being who i am - a human helping another human. Will i solve this mysterious question?

I am inquisitive about everything around me and i feel that this is the tip of the iceberg i have touched. There are more questions which need to be asked. I am not looking for answers, i am just looking for people who believe in themselves and who believe like me that this world is our only home and people can live together in harmony. 

We are not the landlords of this planet, we are tenants with an expiry date. 

Why Not !! I, Myself and Iceberg.

Don't ask "Why", ask instead "Why not". quote by John .F. kennedy

Ever thought of a life when all wishes can come true? What would you wish for? Money, rule the world, flourishing business, good job, promotion, getting married to the one you love, big house, cars.... etc etc. What is it that one would wish for ? Please don't say global peace, we are not running a beauty pageant and you are not a qualifier.
Yes , we only want peace when we feel saying the right thing will get us to win accolades. Well, choose to disagree with my this comment then do show me how will you ever think of world peace, when our wishes and wants are constantly flooding our mind. Every single day, every moment we only want and if our want is not met we question the delay. "Why" the most abused word after sorry which i personally find used by everyone.

We want to be logical for everything that defies our belief or mindset. Yet we would never ask this question if things go our way. Sounds strange that our logic defies us when an unexpected gain comes our way, but we can cry foul and keep asking "why me" if we come under pressure or loss. How can a mind be so divided in logic? I fail to understand this and even if i try to make myself understand, i don't think i will even touch the tip of reasoning.

I read it somewhere this beautiful quote which i feel we all seem to be in is "I, myself and iceberg."
Obviously our selfish needs adhere to i and myself, i believe Iceberg is the logic left behind for anything else which does not concern us.

The tip of the iceberg is "Why" at times its to the beginning of our existence, at times its about whats happening, at times it to question an action or a reaction. Sounds interesting if you ask me . Every single step we seem to ask "why" more than accepting the unaccepted and projecting " Why not".
Maybe someday we will all evolve and the iceberg will melt.

But then it's one life, my life is what i have. If i am not selfish and take care of my needs and wants then who would? The question is not about who or why, but the question is if i want to live my life on my terms, why not? If this makes sense then i guess all other should fall in place too.

Similarly, everything that happens in my life can be looked by this perspective if i choose to be open. There are times i don't want to give any explanation of my actions to anyone. And thats when i feel when people ask me why, if i say because i wanted to or why not. This explanation should be enough.

Maybe this transformation within will take years, or maybe its already there and the boundaries need to be broken for someone to take the first step. But either way, if one does not move from the negativity of Why to positivity of why not our control freak mind will keep on ruling us as always.

Why does one need to give any reason or explanation for their actions? Why not we just let people be who they are. Why do we have to be always so logical,  why not let the inner child be there to have fun. Why do we always have to live life by rules, why not let the magic of uncertainty take over at times. Why do we have to always be cautious of what we say, why not let the heart say what it wants to say.

The iceberg will stay and we will only touch the tip of it. As all our desires, wants, ambitions, aggression will be below our calm exterior of I and myself. The two faced characters are here to stay if we choose to live the mundane existence. Life will always deal a rough hand, why do we have to live by the rules made by humans for humans.

Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

Circle of life

Ever wonder, why some things happen and we feel helpless. There is no pain greater than to be helpless in the face of a loved one's suffering. Yet we brave the storm and take necessary actions. Makes me wonder, from the time we come on this planet, we are faced with adversities and live life.

Some times i wish i was not a strong person, sometimes i wish i could break down and blame every one and everything around me but will this help my helplessness? Sweet November, comes again. Someday i might start getting scared of November. Last year this month gave me the gravest news of Simba having mouth tumour, which had advanced so much that we could have done nothing. Come November after a year and i get to hear that my little puppy Sam has hip dysplasia. Well life knows how to knock you down and all you can do is still stand on your feet and wait for the final knock out punch.

I don't know, do i blame the person we took Sam from? He had duped us of his lineage and his breed, but then we were so in love with Sam that nothing mattered. For me i only assume that Sam was meant to be in our life. To bring in happiness which he did. His innocent look, his naughty ways and he creating a mess at home was all which we love. If i was to go back to change anything about Sam coming in our lives, i would change nothing other than that he should not have had this genetic disease. If i can i will , i am sure about this. There lies my helplessness. When we don't have the power / control to make things right, when all we can do is depend on medicine, it makes one wonder what is anything worth?

From despair to hope, from sorrow to happiness, somewhere we find life and that is what we all live by. Sometimes in power , sometimes in despair. When things go our way, their is a ring of happiness all around, everything looks beautiful and life is happening. But when things go in another direction, we feel as if life has been unfair with us.
What do i say when we are helpless? Life and moments are still beautiful but we know the duration of these moments is limited. Thats when the true essence of life comes to play. Small things bring happiness and many times tears. This helplessness will go away when one surrenders to what the outcome is but till then the angst and anger surrounds the mighty too.

But then i have surrendered before for my mom and simba and somehow this time i refuse to surrender. There has to be some cure , something which can ensure we give Sam a good life. Not a life where he gets to lose his movement, but a good life which my naughty puppy is used to. This time how ever helpless life wants to make us, at times the resilience of the soul to make a miracle happen is more important than surrendering. What ever the end may be, for today i know the moments we have with Sam are precious .

 Dogs don't have long lives because they don't need to learn how to love unconditionally. They love you unconditionally and make you their life .

This is the Circle of life, and it moves us all. The day we learn to love unconditionally, we will evolve.