Showing posts with label Wellness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wellness. Show all posts
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Sunday, 16 February 2020
Collective responsibility
Sometimes, those who seem to be all sorted
and who seem to have a good handle on their lives are pretty vulnerable in many
ways, though they will never show it. It takes a lot for them to cry. These are
people who are the givers in families and extremely loyal and protective.
No one in those families should ever make
the mistake of taking them granted. In fact, they should support them, love
them a lot and even worry about them because they are the solid core of family
unity and a tremendous asset to parents and siblings.
But unity does not lie on one person only.
It is a collective responsibility. And each member owes it to the collective
space they belong to.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Quantity over quality
Even if I say so myself, our generation was
taught well and specially in terms of consideration for one to be aware of our
space and act circumspectly and respect the space of others. We also knew
things like, you queue up on the left and let people move forward from the
right. We never had cell phones back then but we knew that we were supposed to
give way to the elders.
Today, just forget all this. Even airports
and stations have become like parks. Not to mention malls huge crowds, some
loitering while talking merrily on cell phones, oblivious of the fact that they
are blocking people behind them. Escalators have become a plaything, to run up
and down like kids, never mind who you can knock down in the bargain.
Of course, there IS nothing like queues for
some. Cutting through J walkers has become the single most frustrating exercise
in malls, stations and sometimes, at airports too.
There is NO consideration in people for
anyone other than themselves. Naturally, there is a resulting chaos, conflict
and much anger everywhere. Minds are frayed not only at the edges but from all
sides.
Quantity over quality is an accepted
situation. If you haven’t accepted this yet, you are in for depression and high
blood pressure.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Monday, 20 January 2020
Thursday, 16 January 2020
Thought and Action
Have you noticed that our thoughts, our
actions are mostly based on the expected responses? Have we thought or acted
for the sake of thinking and acting? That anticipated response or the
expectation of a certain kind of response is vital to our basic health. Because
the result is either a “feel good” one or one that brings out our fear and
insecurities.
We are so dependent on other people! Their
opinions, their good will, their liking (or not) shape and even create us.
Quite scary, actually, because we all believe we are independent, thinking
individuals pretty much in control of our life.
Yes, we have to live amongst people, but
what percentage of the self can we salvage after succumbing to all the influences?
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Wednesday, 4 September 2019
Sunday, 25 August 2019
Dependability
The true measure of a person is
dependability. You may not meet for months but the one you think of first in a
crisis is a friend indeed or family. How close such people have to be to you!
Can you go beyond the SMS and the whatsapp
to reach out? If someone texted asking if you needed help, your instinct would
always is to refuse because if you really want to help, you would not be
asking.
One has to be very honest and lip service
is not honesty. At the end of the day, an offer is just that an offer. Standing
at someone's doorstep unasked, unannounced, to be of help is actual help.
An angle we need to work on.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
Sunday, 11 November 2018
State of mind
Wellness is really a state of mind. As a
business, we might include a spa, a wellness clinic, gym etc. But the truth is,
its core is the mind. When I say that I am not feeling well, I am really saying
the mind isn't feeling good. Even if I have a headache, it started somewhere in
the mind.
We need a mind spa, to cleanse the mind
regularly. When we go for massages, our body relaxes. When we do liquid diets,
we detox and when we do a mind spa, our spirit experiences a sense of freedom.
Everywhere, you have to pay for the
services. At spiritual workshops, the difference is, after paying, we are
cleaning the nucleus of all ailments. Once the mind is cleansed, every aspect
of you is healed. It is the pollution of the mind that creates the cataract
kind of opacity that blocks clear vision. It has to undergo surgery. The mind
spa provides that surgery. And everything is gloriously illuminated after that.
Surekha Kothari
surekhakothari.wordpress.com
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