Enjoy Long Flights....and experience Joy of Flying...

 We are on a trip from Gold Coast to Cochin and now on transit at Klia international airport and thought of posting this blog in my daily journal, while relaxing at the airport.
 We need to fly two legs, one up to Kuala Lumpur and then to Cochin. The time required is 8 hours 35 min and 4 hours 10 mins respectively. The first leg is a long one where we need a little in-flight  exercises to experience the 'joy of flying'.
Since we need to fly to USA and Australia frequently, we used to do some simple exercises to feel and stay healthy. Whether a short or long flight it is good to do exercises for neck, shoulders, knees, ankles and legs. Some of the exercises are included in this blog. These exercises can be done before going to a sleep and waking up, which keep the blood circulation good.
Shoulder and neck exercises
Sit straight, slowly bring your right ear towards your right shoulder, hold it for ten secs, then to the normal posture, again slowly towards left, hold it for ten secs, then again straight, Do it fives times on both sides. Feel the pressure on neck and shoulders and then the easiness of the neck and shoulders. Then bend the head forward and touch with the chin just below the neck. Hold for ten secs, go back slowly again hold for ten secs, then return to original position. Repeat for five times.

 Foot pumps
Sit straight. Keep the feet on the floor. Keeping both heels on the floor, point feet upwards as high as you can. Hold for ten secs and return feet to the original position.Then lift the heels while keeping the toes on the floor. Hold for ten secs. Repeat the exercise five times on each parts.


Knee exercises
Gently lift the right knee straight up towards your chest and hold the position for ten secs. Gently lower the knee and repeat on the left knee. Like wise do it five times on both knees.
      Walk up and down the aircraft aisle a few times at an interval of one or two hours to have good blood circulation in your legs and to keep your legs flexible. Also perform few tip toes and stretching up and down on your toes, stretch your hands towards front and up.
  Sip water intermittently to keep yourself hydrated. To avoid popping ears due to change of pressure or altitude and also ear ache while take offs and landing, chew, chewing gums or if not having it, mimic the act of chewing and swallowing, which help to relieve from the discomfort and stabilize the pressure in the ear canals. Pacifiers can be used for infants and toddlers.
 If we are well prepared with some of these tips, flying can be made pleasant. Don't forget to take your favorite reading material and don't forget to have a sound sleep.

Bye bye Gold Coast....make your stay lively wherever you go...

After a stay of five months with our son at Gold Coast today we (me and hubby) are heading on to God's own country.
The five months flew so quickly. Spent the time along with our grandchildren and we too became more creative and innovative. After retirement we are having quality time with out children enjoying colorful life. It was interesting, fruitful and productive. While our grandsons go to school and play school we had enough time to explore the city, beaches, museums, China town, shopping malls, Brahmakumari meditation center, botanical gardens, likewise we hit our stay wisely.
Then weekends and long weekends we had different activities such as family fun, catch up with friends, dine out, trailing, trekking and visiting and inviting our relatives and friends who live here.
Today I am writing this at Gold Coast International airport at the check in lounge Gate no 9.
The community where we stayed was such a nice one to have a community center with a lot of activities in which we can also participate. All the weekdays in the forenoon, there were different programmes such as 'The Pantry', Seniors Broad Band, Play group for mom and kids and women support group. I was able to participate in almost all programmes and did a lot to self, family and community. I was able to launch my web page https://sumarajpillai.wix.sumasfitness.com.au. at the Seniors broad band programme.
Thank you all my friends in the community for offering me an amazing time and activities in my social life. I can utilize the experience gained back in our Social organization.
A willful mind is an essential key to enjoy our life wherever we are.

Innocence and Creativity of my grandson.....

Flowers

 While I was at Australia, I took my twenty month old grandson to the nearby play group on Wednesdays. He loved to be in the group to play, chat, interact, draw, paint, enjoy outdoor activities and the tea time. He learned to share and care at the play group. I was able to befriend other parents and grandparents and discuss on different topics which we select. Here I wish to share with my viewers the pictures and art work by my grandson. I collected the art works, named and put all of them in a three ring binder and kept it as his first journal of art, to go through it while he grow up. Also I took digital pictures of them and posted in my web page.
https://sumarajpillai.wix.com/sumasfitness It is awesome to see all the work as a single posture. Saved the pictures in my desktop to go through it.

Expression

Emotions

The Dream



Swirling Tide

Patch work

Brush Strokes

Scattered Leaves

Aussie Spring

Fallen Leaves

Splash of Happiness

Ocean Spray

Rain Forest

 Art work of  little one's at playgroup is really unique. The art work can be folded into two and use as a greeting card. It can be framed and hanged on the wall and also present to relatives and friends. If laminated it can be used as placemats. Children's paintings are generated for pleasure and they represent the delights of childhood. Children's drawings clearly show artistic development and expressions. They can be the map for assessing their personality, intellectual developments, communication skills and emotional adjustments. Each painting/art work has a message and
even a story when observed it closely. The art work can be also used for developmental and therapeutic assessment of the children. Art work initiate the right hemisphere of the brain, which is used in emotional perception, intuition and creativity. Arts and regular academic learning help both the hemispheres of brain work in balance . In such kids they achieve the full potential of the mind.
Those kids will have better creativity, observation capacity, confidence, expressing out and openness. Arts helps child to know about culture, builds community and excel in their life.





Yoga.... a journey of the self, to the self, through the self.

June 21st, "The International Day of Yoga". Yoga is an invaluable gift of India's ancient tradition.
United Nations has declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga. It is Sadhguru's vision to make this day into a major offering of yoga and a possibility for people of all ages, religions, nationalities and social backgrounds to experience meditativeness, expanding their perception of life from 'Individuality to University'.
   Yoga is a science, that has been practiced for thousands of years and it's aim is to unite the body, mind, soul and spirit. Yoga helps to use your focus to maintain balance and concentration while increasing your coordination. Yoga helps to improve your posture and dexterity while working on your range of motion and flexibility. In yogic tradition flexible spine is the key to you and vitality, because life force ( prana ) can move easily through a supple spine.
Yoga teach us to sharpen our bodily consciousness and focus our attention in a meditative way.
Yoga brings awareness to our movements. Yoga helps to balance the glandular system, strengthen the nervous system and tap in the energy of our mind and emotions, which helps to be our own self. Yoga impacts all aspects of physical, mental and spiritual being. Regular practice of 'Yoga' helps better functioning of our body, increase radiance, emotional balance, enhanced intuition and elimination of negative thoughts.
                                 Yoga help us to be in a state of tranquillity and peace.

My Dad...My Greatest Role Model....

Me with my mom and dad

My dad left us for his eternal journey on 21st June 1986. Today is the thirtieth anniversary. I miss my dad every day. I feel like dad always walk along with me unheard and unseen. My dad was my mentor, role model and my hero. Dad was down to earth, humble and humanitarian. My dad taught me to be simple, humble, truthful, sincere and dedicate. My dad gave me the knowledge and wisdom of the Universe. He gave me the real life education, such as openness, punctuality, kindness, to be logic, to be positive, to be grateful, trust others, have faith in things I do and compassionate which helps a great in my personal growth. Dad told me to look down to see many are depended on us and observe the struggles in the world, overcome the challenges and to look up for setting high goals. He taught me to work hard to achieve the goals. My dad always alerted me with life advice and career advice. Also taught me to see the things which need help and stretch out my hands to them. I am privileged and blessed to follow my dad's path and do service to Humankind and the Nature. My dad taught me to learn from every incident. Being a lifelong learner is still developing me personally, professionally and socially. My dad use to advice me to plant my feet firmly on the mother earth to assure that you are not attracted by material wealth. I followed his advice and experiencing to be a human being loving and taking care of each others. My dad was the alarm at our home and in my life and his memories still remind me to walk in the right path. I remember the words of my dad, " If you want to know how rich you are, find out how many things you have that money cannot buy." Now my life taught me dad you were right, you were perfect and you are really great.
Great Salute to my Dad!!! I am blessed to be your daughter.
 My dad nurtured me with the straight forward outlook and positive mind set which helped me to shape my life in a productive, constructive and healthy way.

Friendship is not an accident....

Today was the last day of the 'Pantry' programme in our community, where I was associating for the last five months. Last year also during my stay in Australia, I enjoyed the lovely chat and constructive discussions in the community. Today while bidding farewell, one of my friend said to me, " Safe and happy trip back and best wishes for all your ventures. As you are, always Love the people around you with your beautiful heart."
The kind words enlightened me to raise to the next level and send off positive vibes in all the environments where I belong.
To have beautiful people as friends wherever we are is such a wonderful privilege and I am blessed to have a lot of friends.
From the earliest childhood, our brains are actually formed and wired according to what is repeated in the environment around us. Whatever is repeated over and over and modelled to us become our perception of who we are and what we can expect from the world. Relationships never die a natural death. They are always murdered by 'attitude, behaviour, ego, ignorance and hidden benefits.'
Speak from your heart and get rid of Ego. Love is the pure emotion when it has no intentions. While sharing and caring for others, it is done, do not go for follow up or expect any feedbacks. Be selfless and Pray for others in the Universe. When you succeed in doing these, you are truly respecting friendships and relationships. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Compromise, communication and consistency are required to maintain all relationships. A healthy friendship doesn't drag you down. It inspires you better. A healthy relationship, is when each person is allowed room to grow, un judged and still loved.
 

Problems are Guide lines in Life not Stop signs....

Life is full of ups and downs, success and failures, happiness and sorrows and hurdles and problems. Every problem can be solved if we approach it with a strong will to solve. We need to change the thoughts at the time of facing the problem. Our mind set need to be raised in to the next level to get new thoughts and ideas to solve the problems. No need to worry about problems. Work out on the strategies to solve problem in front of us. It is not the pain that we suffer, it's our own thoughts that make things worse. If we have a lot of 'Buts' and 'What if's', our situation is going to be so bad and make us stressful. Doubts and fear are the worst enemies which lead us to anxiety. Chronic worrying starts to be a mental habit which needs break down to restore mental health. Identify both negative and positive sides of stress and take up control on your mind. Having a little stress (eustress)
is good to have positive thoughts. Problems help us to do our best.
Learn how to solve a problem. Analyse the problems, whether you can solve it by yourself. If not seek expert guidance. Discuss your problem with the group or team or family or friends depends on the situations. Challenge your anxious thoughts, start brainstorming yourself to evaluate your problems. Practice mindfulness to observe and letting them go. Mindfulness helps to identify the thoughts which cause more problems and to stay focussed on present.
   Train your mind to stay calm and look at life from a more positive perspective to face your problems in life, work out and solve the problems in front of you brilliantly.

 

Recharge yourself on weekends to hit the weekdays....

Again another week end. Week ends are so important to me. To get energised to hit Mondays and the rest of the week days and to have again a big bang on week end. Week ends should be kept for family and filled with fun and entertainments. A picnic to a nearby picnic spot is my passion. To have the home made food along with us and have it in the open area in a national park, feeding the birds around us, watching the squirrels, listening to the music of the flowing water and birds, observing the trees, shrubs and herbs, other people and their family around, experiencing the warmth of the mother earth, like that everything related to nature is inspiring to me. Outings with family provides, physical health because of walking, trekking and jogging and fulfil their passions such as photography, collecting ideas for blogs, paintings, and to experience the wonders and beauty of Mother Earth. These physical activities leads to the release of endorphins which motivates us and keep us active and fit.

  Lot of people tend to have an extended sleep on weekends. The more you sleep on weekends, you end up feeling confused. When you wake up lately that makes you feel tired and less productive and the tendency to sleep more continues on Mondays because your brain tuned to wake up lately. Weekend activities need to rejuvenate one rather to disappoint you. Get engaged in activities that that provides happiness and peace. Also make it a point to involve in programmes that motivate you to take up the forthcoming challenges. It helps to clear your mind and get fresh ideas. It is very important to shift the gears to recharge yourself on weekends.
Volunteering, spiritual activities, social work, yoga and meditation, entertainments, picnics, visiting aged parents, visiting friends and relatives along with family members will create wonders in one's Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit.
  A change in the routine is especially needed for aged people in order to enjoy and recharge your batteries to enhance your energy level. Aged parents should be taken care of to have other activities other then their routine actions.

Life is like a Train Journey!

Today I got a happy message of the birth of a gorgeous baby boy.
Birth of a beautiful soul to join our life journey. I would like to compare our life to an amazing train journey filled with surprises, challenges, unions, dreams, fantasies,  joy and sorrows, reunions and farewells.
I always love train journey if I have enough time. The goodness and happiness in travelling in a train is motivating, energising and influencing. To befriend with our fellow passengers, listening to them, spending long hours with them, sharing their experiences and their beautiful and wonderful stories of them, to console and comfort them, to play with them, to dine with them, to enjoy nature and landscapes with them and to receive ideas, knowledge, love and care from them. Some of them turned to be in touch life long. It is like a spiritual journey for me and my hubby. We prefer train journey over and above other rides in our happy life. For us train trip is the journey is something so special to enjoy and then only comes the destination. I use to collect a lot of ideas for my blog from  train rides.
  Our life is a constant journey from birth to death. During our life journey the environment change, terrain change, the people change, our needs and demands change, but our life train keeps moving on and on. At birth we boarded on the train with our parents. The we come to know our grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends and even strangers in the journey. As time goes others, our siblings, cousins and friends also board with us. In some stations some will get down leaving us back. The vacuum we won't feel, or may be felt for a short time, because our loved ones, children, nieces, nephews and grandkids will board from the next stations to keep us busy, alert and active. We need to undergo our life journey in the very best possible way. Let us take advantage of our train journey as much as possible not for our own benefit, but also for others because the ticket for the journey has a great value. We don't know at which station we will step down. Let us smile, love, forgive and offer the best of who we are. Let us all be in a nice nature and behaviour to leave behind beautiful memories for those who continue to travel on the train of life.
Wish all my fellow travellers a happy, safe and spiritual journey.

Be with nature and experience the "Divine"....

Spend time with nature to feel more happier and experience the 'Divine'. Nature remind us that we are connected to all living things and made of the same substance by the Almighty. Nature bring us to reality. Being with nature, we have to tune with it just like other living beings tuned for their survival.
We can't set the temperature to 70 degree Celsius.
We can't stop raining or stop wind and storm.
We have to go with the muscle burn and pain of the brisk walk.
These make us think about how little control we have. We also understand the hardships and lack of control are part of our life. Nature really helps us to bear the hardships and possibly feel the joy of being alive. Ecosystems embody harmony and balance. Nature helps us to have exercises and improve our physical health. Nature makes us feel good and helps us heal. Nature also helps us calm down and experience silence and stillness. Nature brings us closer to our own Spirit and to the Supreme Spirit. We can sense the inner self , that is the true we.

Grandparents and grandkids

Play group outdoor

Being a grandparent is the best feeling in the world. Most grandparents look forward the birth of their grandchild. Now a days grandparents are generally healthier and better educated than previous generations. Grandparents are voluntarily taking the privilege to look after the little ones. But having a full time care of your grandchildren can be very rewarding and also challenging. Grandparents may feel emotionally and physically exhausted by taking full time care. By involving in a second parent role of looking after the grandkids can isolate the grandparents from their friendships and routine entertainments, which make them feel socially isolated.
Here comes the importance of joining a social group. While I was away to look after my grandson, I fortunately got the opportunity to associate with the play group in our neighbourhood. It happens once in a week. There will be kids and parents, while the kids enjoy new skills to learn sharing and making new friends, parents meet other parents in the neighbourhood and have fun along with supervising the kids. Today was my last day in the play group. It was so nice to have a warm farewell from the other members in the group. I am so happy I got new friends to be in touch with and new skills to apply in the crèches we run in our organisation.

Play group

Senior programmes....Get involved and stay healthy...

During my stay abroad for a short while, I found certain activities for seniors in our community. One programme was the Seniors Broad Band which is my favourite. Being busy with my blogs and writings, it was so nice to be one among the participants, befriend with them, talk to them, share our rich experiences and to care for each others. It became a nice programme to get energised every week and get equipped more in broad band usage. Today it was so nice to have a discussion on my back home activities with the group. They all appreciated the programmes in which I am associated in India which boost me to a higher level. Even we are away from home, if we have a will to get involved in social activities it will come on it's way. I am sure, back in India my friends will be anxiously waiting to hear the activities which I got involved.
 Life depends on the way we look at it.
Forget your age and participate with openness in the programmes where ever you are.
"Happiness is an inside job." Live in the "NOW" and enjoy mental and physical wellness.
Every challenges in our life makes us better.
 Life is simple if we are positive, but life is complicate if we are fearful.
Above all friendships are very important to get involved. Friends  accept and appreciate us. Friends also need us which gives us satisfaction and peace, which is the portal to health and harmony.
 

Inspire someone to make a difference...

During my visit in Australia, I use to go to the library and engaged with community activities. So I got a bunch of beautiful friends.
Today I was acknowledged by one of my Aussie friend at the community event, because she told the volunteers that she got the details of the programme from me. As a retired person from the State Government, she was looking for opportunities and to be in touch with the society to get engaged with people. Thankful to the Supreme power for giving me the strength to inspire others to make a difference in their life.
Be inspired yourself, to inspire others. Look for people, ideas, knowledge and environment that inspire and motivates you. Use the gifts filled in you to inspire others. Just do simple things to build faith in you. Be a good example, care about others honestly and take a genuine interest in them. Always be sincere, enthusiastic and be there with the people and encourage them. Listen to others patiently and communicate with them effectively. When necessary share your own experiences and share your own wisdom to touch their heart and strengthen them. Share both your failures along with success. Carefully confront them and challenge them to face their problems. Build their confidence, help them to overcome their mistakes and give them hope, by sharing your success stories and the knowledge you have.
"Every little smile can touch somebody's heart. Be a light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war."

Kindle the light of love and spread happiness...

Love is something very intangible, but it becomes tangible the moment we feel it. A positive and open minded person with a sweet tongue can love everybody unconditionally. No doubt for it, it is my own experience.
'If your eyes are positive, you will love the world, but if your tongue is positive, the world will love you.'
In a senior programme, I befriend with a beautiful lady. We used to discuss about cuisines and cultures. I got a cookery blog and had wrote varieties of tea in it. But I got the recipe of cocktail tea from her.
One day after the programme, my friend told me, she likes to talk to me. While starting our talk, she told, 'I am really drawn towards you, I need to share my experience in life with you.' I felt, I am really awarded by the Almighty. We sat together, had a chat, and shared her experience and went through it and she decided to let go the sufferings and recharge her batteries with her passions of volunteering and spiritual activities to clear her mind and thoughts. We exchanged our phone numbers to be in touch. Where ever we are, be kind to our friends and love them, which they can easily read from our face and feel by their heart. Knowing someone who is happy makes you to be happy. Even we hear a friend of your friend is happy makes you to be happy. When we are more and more positive, compassionate, forgiving and joyful, we are not only helping ourselves but we are also helping others, thus spreading happiness over the world.
  Formulate a mantra to affirm happiness in your life journey, such as ' Life is a blessing and I am blessed by the Divine Bliss', 'I should do all my best to spread happiness through love', 'The whole world may enjoy prosperity, happiness and peace'. The happier we are, the more we can make everyone around us happy and everyone around them happy. Likewise it will go on and on.

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier". 
                                                                                                                                 Mother Teresa
 

Stay in confidence with a clear vision and mission

Vision and Mission are the twins for success. Vision is of seeing the invisible opportunities. Mission is of solving the impossible things in our lives.
Stay in confidence and see what happens well. Stay in good and positive attitude to see the new beginnings on your way. Never ever worry for the things not happening on your expectations. Feel the confidence and remain strong on the way and live in trust and faith. Focus on important things to capture success. If things are not working out, then go on repeating and enjoy success.
For personal vision, I would like to say " let us transform our life journey from 'living' to 'winning'.
Then about mission," enhance self esteem, and respect all those we are connected by self refining and taking care of mind, body and soul.
 The Goal of our life is to do Karma, without any desires and expectations. The result is, we will be showered with blessings by the 'Divine Power'.

Learn detachment with love...

I remember the words of a strong personality at the age of ninety five. He was healthy and humorous. Of course he was having little ailments related to blood pressure and arthritis. I love to talk to him which helps me to travel, from  1930s to 2015. It was amazing to chat with him to fill my taste of searching the goodness and richness of my father's life journey who was his peer. One day, in the year of 2013 the topic of discussion was on death. Even it was positive, his words stroked me was, " I am not afraid of death. But when I think, I need to leave all my beloved ones here, that makes me feel painful. I know one day we need to go, but I don't know, I can't think about it.It's a real pain and sometimes a nightmare." These words inspired me to write this.
    Here comes the importance of detachment. Even though it conveys a sense of loss, it is very important to learn and practice detachment to enjoy that 'space of time' to feel free. It is a human nature to offer help to our dear ones in trouble. Detachment helps to move forward and concentrate on self. Detachment also helps us to take responsibility on our own lives. Detachment is an important quality for healthy relationships. It is a state of mind of objective and not clinging to anything and it allows to move freely in all the walks of life. Detachment will help us in times of joy and sorrow and also help to live fully in the present moment without any worries or regrets.
   Once get detached, we can love others unconditionally without expecting anything in return. Getting detached from the emotional boundaries, allow the spirit to guide us and understand that all things are in a divine order.

Benefits of chanting 'OM'

Today in this fast, advanced and high tech world almost everybody is unhappy. It is very important to have any alternative methods for calmness and peace. To chant 'OM', sit in a comfortable position on a mat on the floor or a chair with your back straight. Here the posture is in Vajrasana.
Chanting the universal hymn 'OM' cleanses your aura and purifies the environment around the chanter. It fills positive vibes to the one who is chanting and to the entire vicinity wherever its vibrations flow. It's regular chanting helps you to enjoy the spiritual travel.
When 'OM' mantra is chanted in a group, it produces immense positive vibrations which charge up the whole area. You start feeling more stronger, confident, fully charged with positive energy, keeping your emotions controlled, blood pressure under control, improves your voice, improves your concentration and helps you focus on goals and targets. Daily chanting 'OM' removes toxin from your body and gives you better immunity and self healing power. It takes you to alpha, a meditational state which gives you a deep relaxation. It is a great supplement that will help in the overall development of your body and mind positively without any side effects.

Importance of Reflexology

Reflexology is an amazing technique of applying gentle pressure on the reflex points in foot and hand to bring a state of calmness and deep relaxation. Reflexology is a natural therapy that facilitates vital energy and activates the body's own healing power.
Reflexology is applicable for all ages and especially for elders. Our organs, nerves, glands and other parts of the body are connected to reflex areas or points in our hands and feet. These points are found on the soles, palms, sides, and top of the feet and hands. By massaging the reflex points with your thumb, fingers and hand, create a direct response in the organs and other parts of the body. Reflexology facilitates healing within the body. Reflexology helps to achieve and fulfil both emotional and physical health. Reflexology helps to reduce stress by creating a deep relaxation and a sense of balance and wellbeing.
By massaging the feet or hands we can easily diagnose the sensitive feeling in a particular point and go for special care to the concerned organ or part of the body and take care of the weak point by massaging more often by assuring the care in the reflex area and giving autosuggestion to get relief and cure. In case of reflexology 'commitment' is very important to experience and enjoy the benefits.
I belief in the benefits of reflexology and practice it often and gain the merits by dilating the blockages.

Open your heart and feed your soul.....

Open your heart and keep it healthy. Women always see things with her heart and take all deep in her heart. Also women loves to talk, those who talk well can keep their heart light and free. There is always a feel that when women meet together they start gossip. Are you sure they gossip? No, never, they may be sharing their pain in the heart or may be consoling those who suffering from pain. In my life, I love to hear and listen to the beautiful women who store in their heart to ease them and to enjoy self esteem.
A person with an open heart can love self and love others. They always have a positive attitude, with fear or worries they believe in success and happiness. It is a blessing to feel with your heart and forget and forgive by opening it out. On the other hand it is a curse to feel and keep it deep in your heart, if you don't open it out. When you do things with an open heart, it helps to be honest, see good, do good and say good with a loving and courageous attitude. When our heart is open, we have a strong trust that the Universe is guiding us to the right path and right people. Open your heart, love others and enjoy the brotherly/sisterly affection from them. When you won't hide anything you feel the Godly presence in your heart....'the soul food'....which helps you to live in contentment. You will be showered with positive vibes which allows the affluence of the Universe to pour in and fill the Soul.

Improve health, relationships and prosperity by being compassionate....

Seeing or imagining yourself as same to others enhances the feeling of compassion. When watching an incident in the television or reading  a news about a tragedy or a painful state of an individual or a creature, try to put a human face on the suffering and think or imagine what their lives have been like. If we recollect the situations when we were distressed and the people who gave their shoulder to lean upon to hear us on our grieves, and the comfort we felt in return, helps us to feel and be more compassionate towards others. Compassion is the emotion that feel for others and the strong will to help them in their distressed situations. Nobody is born with the emotion being compassionate. It can be strengthened by regular practice and a strong will to make a difference in the world. Self respect is the important key  to be compassionate and the feel that we are strong enough to make a change. Compassion helps the heart rate to slow down and as a result the 'oxytocin' the bonding hormone
is secreted, and ignite the regions of the brain connected to empathy, concern and feelings of joy which makes our approach caring and concerning to other people. It is literally the feeling to suffer together and feeling motivated to alleviate the sufferings.
Compassion is contagious and spread compassion to the next generation by kindling kindness. To be compassionate needs to have the feeling that we all are one, created by the Almighty. Try to be compassionate to all, yourself, loved ones, family members, friends, strangers and even enemies and this help you to meditate on compassion. Being compassionate helps one to be in a more positive state enjoying emotions such as happiness and satisfaction and they are always sincere and committed. Compassionate people are more sociable and hence with a great immunity level. Compassion makes one feel great and stay in good health and prosperity.

So learn compassion, teach compassion and share and spread compassion .

Love Nature and Preserve Nature

Today, June 5th is the World Environmental Day. It happened for me to visit Brisbane and view some programmes and think about the need for the celebration of world environmental day. To create and raise global awareness about the importance of protecting nature, rain forests and earth is the main goal of this day. The environmental problems the world or a specific country is facing will be high lighted. All public and local libraries in India used to conduct programmes related to World environmental day. Schools conducts debates, quiz, painting and speeches for students, staff and PTA members on 5th June in connection with environment.
Now a days, for industrial developments forest and barren lands are being converted into buildings and other infrastructures. So also on part of beautification of the front yard and backyard of houses, it is concreted or tiled. All these activities are upsetting the nature and rainfall. The impacts of the developments are now becoming a real threat on the stability of the ecosystem and humankind. The predicted seasons are coming in time now a days. The rainfall is depleting. Life in earth without water is unthinkable.
Earth is a dynamic system and respecting the natural way of it's existence helps us to conserve the green, preserve the forests and rain forests and harvest the rainwater, recycle and reuse rain water for domestic and agricultural activities. Mankind is responsible to protect and maintain the integrity of the mother earth. Widespread applications of environment friendly adoption technologies and increased use of recycled materials and products help this movement to protect our environment,

because humankind and the nature are interdependent.

 

Courage and Trust

When there is a crisis, there is also an opportunity. In order to see the opportunity we need courage and trust. Courage helps us to feel that there is benefit in every unfolding scene of life. Courage helps one to stand up in their own feet to speak and to confront, it also helps one to sit down and listen carefully. To build up trust courage is an essential ingredient. Trust helps us to stay stable and calm in the face of crisis. Courage and trust together gives us the assurance that every thing will be fine. Once trust is build up there is no chance to get afraid. Every experience is a good lesson, to gain courage and trust. Every success over, crisis builds up our trust and trust gives the capacity of courage.

Know your power and use it.....to change the World

What are the powers we have? I should say those are

'The power to See'
'The power to Smile'
'The power to Say'
'The power to hear'
'The power to smell'
'The power to Taste'
'The power to Touch'
 'The power to feel'
'The power to Do'
'The power to Enjoy'
All these are the gifts we got, when we boarded this wonderful world.
What we have to do in my words are, open your eyes to see the happenings around us, smile at our fellows, a smile can change the moment and shift the mood. Make your tongue sweet, flowing out beautiful and sweet words. Make your ear sharp to listen compassionately. Smell, taste and touch are symbols of love, care and compassion. A warm touch is much stronger than a bunch of flowers. Feel,with your heart means, you are there to make the world happy. Do service any where, any time and stay happy to enjoy the power of gifts by the Supreme Power and share the heavenly gifts with the wonderful people outside there.
" Everybody laughs the same language, because laughter is a universal connection."
 

Life is a Journey

Life is an amazing journey and you alone are responsible for living a quality life. The best day of your life is the day, you decide to your life is your own and live on your own way. Then there is nobody to blame or to live on excuses. You will attain the courage to go on. Make your mind free and be in the flow of your life. The meaning of your life change at this moment with thoughts of empowering others also to live quality life.
 Life is a series of miracles with joys, fantasies, expectations, goodbyes, farewells and sorrows. Life is like a book, each day a new page and each interaction a new paragraph. Life is not always perfect. Life may have a problem at any time and this problem is not the end of your life and they lead to new beginnings. It is a new start and a turning point of life. Life is a real journey and the ultimate goal of our journey is happiness. Happiness is with us today and experience the contentment.
Relax and enjoy your journey of life.

Collect Human Relationships

Communication, trust and loyalty are very important to have and maintain human relations. It is easy and lovely to have connections with the beautiful people around the neighbourhood, society, country and the world. Even though we are busy in life, go on having nice relations and keeping the relationships close at heart to make it lifelong.
The tips for collecting human relations are easily accessible for those who wants to stay social. Always cherish your human connections and relations. Practice to speak with an open mind, smile from your heart, be cordial and generous, be considerate and thoughtful in the conversations, remember their names and call by their names and of course be alert to do service. With a blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive and love everyone to stay loved and blessed.
Alone I can 'Say' but together We can 'Talk',
Alone I can 'Enjoy' but together We can 'Celebrate',
Alone I can 'Smile' but together We can 'Laugh'.
 That is the beauty and essence of Human Relations.
We are nothing without each other. So always enjoy the chance you get to know and befriend a person. You may never know when you may not get the chance again. Just like collecting stamps, souvenirs or fine arts I like to collect Human Relationships. No need to meet daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. Good relations can be maintained even if meet for sometime. But always stay connected to have a strong and healthy Human Relationships. Let us again remember, 'We are nothing without Each other.'
And let us join our hands to make a difference in the World.