Journaling for Self-Discovery

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Jour­nal­ing is some­thing women do very nat­u­rally. How­ever, most often men, when they were boys, were in gen­eral dis­cour­aged to keep a jour­nal. Jour­nal­ing is thought to be express­ing our inner most secrets and feel­ing, and boys are in gen­eral … Con­tinue read­ing →

Body Divine: Musings

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These thoughts came about while hav­ing an email dis­cus­sion on the topic of time man­age­ment as energy man­age­ment with my friends. One of my friends quoted from an arti­cle he had read that we should man­age our phys­i­cal energy by … Con­tinue read­ing →

Paramahamsa Nithyananda: a Saint or a Sham?

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Recent events sur­round­ing the video scan­dal involv­ing the guru Parama­hamsa Nithyananda invoked anger, frus­tra­tion, and out­right con­dem­na­tion from var­i­ous sec­tors of the pop­u­la­tion includ­ing some of his for­mer and present devo­tees. Other devo­tees of his are call­ing this a con­spir­acy against their guru. Some are still in a state of shock… What fol­lows is a reply that I gave my friend.[…] Con­tinue read­ing →

Stories We Tell Ourselves

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Story for The Moment

The sen­tence, “Sto­ries we tell our­selves” kept rolling in my thought-space for the past few days. As I con­tem­plated on this, I real­ized the sto­ries we tell our­selves, and oth­ers, to jus­tify the sta­tus quo, to jus­tify our behav­ior, to jus­tify why we are resist­ing change, why we want to give up on some­thing that we are doing, or to never start some­thing that we always wanted to do. Stories, […]

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