A light in the darkness

In my last post I talked about accepting ourselves as we are. This brought me to a place called transparency. "Am I transparent to myself?" Can I say, "I am the same from the back as I am from the front"? This took me years to answer because I was never the same. I still remember those days when I would smile and talk to people and speak rubbish behind their back. This was the aftermath of what I received from others. I could sense this quite early before it was uncontrollable. I never wanted to be bad like this, but I became. My heart started to hate myself because this was not what I wanted to be. At this moment, my inner voice said to analyze what went wrong rather than to blame and hate yourself. Every time I would try to do good, the badness I received from others stood before me, and I pulled back.  These incidences flew me to all those people who did me wrong, and I was madly angry at them. They never asked me sorry. I was able to forgive them because I made ...

  Self-acceptance , a well-known terminology, yet unknown as always. I remember my old days when I just started my job and there was a situation where the authorities asked, "Who did this?" An instant answer on my mouth was, "I don't know." That mistake was done by me, but my brain immediately forgot all that, and my mouth had an instant no ready. Later on when I revisited this situation and analyzed my role, I realized that I was unable to accept my mistake and took the help of a lie to hide myself.  I was able to realize this because before this situation I had practiced a lot to accept the reality as it comes. I had learned that we all are not perfect and we all can make mistakes. I had experienced before the extra energy that I needed to accept the reality as it is. This practice was one of the reasons that made me feel guilty about saying a lie.  I brought this so that we all can realize that self-acceptance is not an automatic or default setting. It is eas...

Life is a complex art carved by our heart. As we step into this world, we are put into a pullback motor where a wind-up mechanism comes into action. This wind-up mechanism provides energy for doing the work. In our lives also we have these wind-up mechanisms. In this A2Z challenge 2025, I will be covering self-love.  Self-love means having regard for our own well-being and contentment. Self-love is an endless source of energy that can be accessed and awakened in countless ways. Interest in self-love is a very powerful human trait.  We are often our own biggest obstacle. The more we nurture a genuinely loving, compassionate, understanding, and empowering relationship with ourselves, the more unstoppable we become—regardless of what life looks like on the outside or within. This reminds me of this quote “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” —C. JoyBell C.  Mo...

We all know have faced emotional crises, isn't it? What is it?  An emotional crisis also known as mental crisis is a natural element of life. We all face emotional crisis. It is a “ temporary, periodic disturbance of mental balance caused by a threat associated with the meaning of life, important values, in confrontation with important life problems. It is marked by a state of emotional tension, largely anxious “(Kubacka-Jasiecka, 2010, p. 26). Our mind is very good manager. The moment the crisis starts it starts using its means to handle them. They are a) Supression/ repression : The first thing that comes to our mind when we face an emotion is to supress them or repress them. Do you remember, how last time you had a fight with your husband or a close friend and you just kept your mouth shut controlling your overwhelming emotions. This suppression/repression generally happens unconsciously and then it starts making trouble in our lives. Can you recollect how you blasted on someone...

I remember one of my counseling classes when I was supposed to take a practice counseling session. I started my session quite well, and I was successful in grabbing the thoughts the person was going through. I held that and gave a good outcome to my client; my guide said no, this is not a wise move in counseling, and I was like, all was good, why did he say this? I didn't understand why, to date.  Today, as I was reading the perspective of Dr. Hawkins on understanding our emotions, he cited a wonderful example of misplacing his passport just before our scheduled trip. He searched every place and every corner but could not find it. His thoughts were flooded with canceled trips, loss of business meetings, family trips, etc. Since there was no time to apply for another passport, he quietly sat down and dove deep within himself to understand what he was feeling right now. Yes, he was full of fear. Fear of what? It was the fear of losing the near and dear ones, fear of loss of relations...

In my last post, I discussed the connection between our emotions and our levels of consciousness. I was convinced by this argument, but then Hawkins introduced a new concept to me of consciousness and energy centers.  As I was talking about levels of consciousness with specified amounts of energies. Within our body operates an energy system. Now, our body is full of channels (nadis), and the focal point where all these channels converge is known as the chakras , or energy vortex, which radiates electromagnetic energies that have the power to give as well as receive energies . These chakras run down our spine and are seven in number. These chakras build connections between body parts and our emotions. We can analogy it to a flowing river. We all face emotional wounds and traumas. These emotional wounds and traumas can block the electromagnetic energies from the chakras and thus prevent them from delivering prana, or life force (a/k/a kundalini energy), to our bodies. When there is...