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- Bathroom Meditation - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Shveita Sethi SharmaAccording to Wikipedia, Meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the conditioned, "thinking" mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. It has been defined as: "self regulation of attention, in the service of self-inquiry,in the here and now." ...
Views: 1652 - Loneliness - by Submitted on Dec 02, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaSamuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain once said that “the worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself” and yet he himself suffered from massive insecurities of loneliness. Born premature, he spent the first seven years of his life as a “sickly and precarious child who lived mainly ...
Views: 1238 - Epicurean Pleasures - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaI think I was about 10 years old when I saw the word Epicurean. I had no clue what it meant, but I liked the sound of it. I underlined it and promised myself to refer to the dictionary and find its meaning. As any 10 year old, I forgot to do that as other more pressing things such as playing ...
Views: 1477 - Checklist For Happiness - by Submitted on May 03, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaI was sitting in the cockpit for T/O and landing and I observed the First Officer take out the T/O and landing Checklist and read it out aloud. How many times have our captains and First Officers taken off and landed planes? But every time they still refer to a checklist. Even though they ...
Views: 1574(2 votes) - Kabari Walla - by Submitted on May 03, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaI was visiting my home country( India) and having arrived at the godly hour of 4 am was just about drifting into slumber land when suddenly I hear the shrill ear piercing shout, “ kabari walla- kabari walla, raddi paper, plastic, bottle …..kabari walla” ( Kabari wala’s are scrap dealers who buy ...
Views: 1568 - Attend To Yourself Before Helping Others. - by Submitted on May 03, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaI was on the plane , on my way back from London and during the safety video demonstration; there is this scene where a young mother is shown putting on an oxygen mask and then reaching out for another oxygen mask to attend to her child. The scene is accompanied by a voice over saying “in case of ...
Views: 5800 - Giving Up Too Soon - by Submitted on Mar 10, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaEver tried to do something and consistently fail at it? You put out all the right messages, all the right motivations and yet fail. All amount of mental imagery and visualization does not bring the desired result? You keep trying and you keep failing. What happens then? Do you start punishing ...
Views: 1347(1 vote) - Kabari Walla - by Submitted on Mar 05, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaKabari walla I was visiting my home country( India) and having arrived at the godly hour of 4 am was just about drifting into slumber land when suddenly I hear the shrill ear piercing shout, “ kabari walla- kabari walla, raddi paper, plastic, bottle …..kabari walla” ( Kabari wala’s are scrap ...
Views: 1248 - So You Wanna Lose Weight?? - by Submitted on Feb 15, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaSo You wanna lose weight???? A couple of days ago, I was invited to a fancy ball. Everyone was dressed in their finery and each was trying to outdo the other in the jewels and clothes. Everywhere you looked it was bling bling!. Well after all it was the Diwali ( Indian New year) ball. It is an ...
Views: 1040(1 vote) - Happiness Is A habit - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaSimply put, happiness is a habit. So can we train ourselves to be happy? According to Wray Herbert as stated in the Newsweek- “research shows that our brains have certain hardwired propensities that might be exploited. For example, our brains tend to register frequently heard facts as true, even ...
Views: 1098 - How Does It Matter What People Say????? - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaI was at my daughter’s school this afternoon, helping with the organization of the forthcoming fair. We were trying to hang the streamers in seemingly unreachable places , contorting our bodies and our minds. I could not figure out how to get those streamers up around the tree branches without ...
Views: 979 - Imperfection - by Submitted on Jan 19, 2008 from Shveita Sethi SharmaIt must have been about a year ago, I went out for dinner with this gorgeous young man. He had just been promoted to Captain ( Airline) and was very excited and enthusiastic. He asked the crew if they would like to join him for dinner. As is very often the case with us crew, we hate to commit ...
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