A Busy Day…

Spa days and laundrette days seem to go together for me; lots of sloshing and cleaning and whirling about… I am just back from the ‘lavandaria’, having really enjoyed the experience, slightly reminding me of university days… Sitting and watching clothes whirl about can be very relaxing, a washing machine meditation! Making every single thing…

What Did We Do to Deserve This?

The pandemic ravaging humans today is unprecedented in its spread. Almost everyone everywhere has had their life disrupted in some manner. More than half the population is under lockdown – forcibly prevented from leaving our homes for longer periods. Thus incarcerated, we are now wondering what we did to deserve these shackles! Thoughts, Emotions &…

Stop. Breathe. Grieve

I received a text, followed by the local news last Thursday evening: our New Mexico schools would close for three weeks. As a teacher, I was relieved. After all, the schools, especially at this time of the year, had already become a cesspool of germs, and with the Corona Virus it was just one too…

The Game of Life

Playing Games When we play a game, we usually focus all our attention on playing and winning. To help us play, we have the support of the game rules and there are referees and umpires to regulate the game and keep score. Thus, when we play within the rules of fair game and the supervision…

Our Comfort Zone

Our comfort zone is a mental operating system package of thoughts, beliefs, perspectives, ideas and fears that has been passed down the generations almost intact. We download this package from our parents, caregivers and others with whom we come into contact in our early impressionable years. We are also advised against questioning or changing any…

Knowledge and Wisdom

Information is abundant in the universe. The human capability to access information has grown explosively in the recent past. We can detect the light rays that originated close to the birth of our universe over 13 billion years ago. We can map the genomes of living beings and piece together the evolutionary development of individual…

Our Thoughts

All of us engage in thinking all the time when we are awake. Our thoughts may also intrude into our sleep time as lucid dreams. Due to such intrusive quality of our thoughts, we tend to accord more importance to them than they deserve. Consequently, we use our thoughts almost exclusively to make sense of…