Imagine an intricate tapestry made of a rich fabric of vibrant colours. It is so huge that it covers the entire wall. You have never seen the wall behind the Tapestry. For you, the wall does not exist. You spend all your time admiring the Tapestry - so beautiful, so breathtaking....
For the last eighteen months or so, I had been on the path to get a new role at work in a different profession. I had gotten a couple of interviews but never made it into the second round. Subconsciously, I lived in a world where I want the role but was never going to get it. Thi...
I had a dream that I was in a marketing office with my friend. My friend was having issues with her peer, and we were walking down the corridor to the boss's office. All of a sudden fire alarm start - annoying kind, Kiiiiii-Kiiiii Kiiiii. We look at each other and assume it is so...
Saying YES to the moment is a buzzword these days. Surrender to what is will ring true if you are on a spiritual or self-growth path. And like anything profound and straightforward - we have managed to complicate it because we think with our minds. Our mind is flawed when it come...
We are living in interesting times - something that is making history right now even as I write this blog.
India is in a 21-day lockdown, and some of the temples shut down a bit earlier. My parents told me that within a few days of the lockdown, wild animals started roaming in ...
While doing the annual house cleaning, I decided to watch some Netflix to give me company. I was not looking for something particular, so I did a quick browse, and the name 'Watership Down' sounded familiar, and it was an animation with rabbits - I pressed play and settled down t...
I am not talking about your physical location like home, town or state but the one place where you are present constantly - you never leave that place even for a second: Your Mind.
What comes to your mind when you listen to this song(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udra3Mfw2oo...
Have you ever woken up in the morning deciding to make someone's else life hell? If yes, then it is better that you don't get out of bed. Jokes aside, earnestly when have we wished to hurt another person. If you are like an average person then your thoughts will be focused more o...
I sat down to write my blog, and I didn't know what to write. Usually, I have an idea that I have been toying with and then its just a matter of letting it all flow on the paper. This time was a little different. I looked at my backlog, racked my brains, but nothing came up, so I...
Adam and I were walking to a coffee shop downtown. I saw this lanky young man with a head full of thick curls walking towards us. He was talking non-stop and was holding onto his pants. As he walked past us I realized that he was talking to himself and not on bluetooth as I had a...
I recently attended a CPM(https://theraoinstitute.com/) alumni retreat in London. And it has been a decade since I took the course first at London Business School. In the first class Prof. Rao invited us speak about what we want from the class. And at that time I was at crossro...
Let's take two scenarios. Scenario 1: You are having a really busy day - rushing from one thing to the other. You have had a whirlwind day - and you have got 15 minutes before you get on tube. You have been looking forward to the 15 minute break all day long and one of your old a...
I am reading this book called 'Ego is the enemy(http://egoistheenemy.com/).' One of the speakers at my work mentioned this book and like all things that are on your path call out to you - this book did too. I have been fascinated by ego and always wondered if I have a big ego o...
The story goes - Abraham Lincoln's brother wrote him a letter stating that he wanted to move from his current location because he didn't like the people, didn't like the place. His brother moved places and after a few months the same story and the same letter to Lincoln. Lincoln ...
When I was in London I took up Bikram Yoga and took it up with a vengeance - I went almost daily for two years until one day I decided it was too much and stopped doing yoga for six months. And now I practice Ashtanga Yoga at a more moderate pace. It is all about the golden mean ...
In one of my previous blogs(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15715) I had talked about the 10 Paramis or Virtues. Today I want to talk about one of them which is
6\. Khanti: Patience May I ever be patient. May I be able to bear and forbear the wrongs of others. May I ever be toler...
As some of you know I am a big time bookworm - fantasy being my favorite genre.I devour good books like there is no tomorrow. I recently read the Demon Cycle series by Peter V.Brett(http://www.petervbrett.com/). Reason I like fantasy books is because they all have a spiritual, ...
Let's say you have a poisonous tree in your backyard - it is infected by some insect which is causing it to be poisonous. The infection is in the roots of the tree. You keep cutting the tree down and telling yourself that the problem is solved. At a superficial level it does look...
At a CPM(https://theraoinstitute.com/) reunions, one of my friends suggested the idea of a improv - one of the first things he said is that you have to start with an Yes. I found that exercise very difficult because it meant I needed to put the BIG "I" behind and go with the fl...
"A problem is a problem only if you define it as a problem."
I remember when I was doing my engineering in Bombay - I had to take a share auto to my college from train station - Santa Cruz. And during exams or important classes that used to be my prime worry. I did not want to s...
My parents were visiting me in London while I was working for British Telecom. It was around that time when I had told my parents that Adam and I wanted to get married. We were discussing the details and we had an disagreement. I remember my mom walked off and I was so angry that...
As some of you know I have started learning swimming. I can swim now - except the breathing part. I still use a swimming snorkel but I am more comfortable in water and have more stamina. When I first started off I couldn't even take 2 strokes and I was swimming next to little kid...
Growing up in India words like Gurus/Meditation/Yoga are white noise because a) they are so common- it's like asking a fish what is water (we might not know what it really means but we know) b) there are a lot of charlatans and you are always wary when these words are mentioned.
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For a while I was into these quotes thing and I had picked up this greeting card at the yoga studio - it called out to me at that time. _"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms ...
This blog follows the last one(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15938) where I talk about the different ways in which we can accept or not accept other's judgements/opinions.
In this blog I am going to talk about how to increase the "effort" factor in implementing the different wa...
This blog follows the last one(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15932) where I talk about the choice we have in accepting or not accepting the judgements from others.
In this blog I am going to talk about how we can exercise that choice. I will start with the quote from Ramana Mah...
In the 10-day Vipassana(http://dhamma.org) courses Goenkaji tells us some stories during the discourses. The one below is similar to the one Goenkaji narrates during the course.
_There once lived a great warrior. Though quite old, he still was able to defeat any challenger. Hi...
I remember my hindi teacher at school telling us this story. It went something like this: _There is a bus that is going from A to B. On the way to B it runs into a oncoming truck and everybody on the bus dies. People come running to the accident to help any survivors and all they...
We have a mentoring event at office and one of my friends is on the panel. He asked me if I could speak at the event for a few minutes and give my testimonial from last year. I obviously said yes - I love being in the limelight even if I obsess about it before. !(/images/Mentor...
It's Sunday evening and you are thinking about all the things that you haven't done. You have a busy day ahead and want to get to bed early but at the same time you have not had a break. Anyways you go to bed with the unfinished business hanging over your head.
You wake up in th...
As some of you might know I run a small business on the side which is teaching Bollywood Dance. As a part of that I got contacted by Bollywood Musical Company Taj Express(http://www.tajexpressthemusical.com/bollywoodmusical/) asking if I wanted to partner with them.
It was on ...
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It was summertime and I remember very vividly that my dad who is usually very fit kept sleeping for an entire weekend - non-stop. He had just made a trip to Delhi or some other city for business and when he came back all he did was sleep. His...
When I first met Adam one of the my very emphatic statements to him was that I am not going to cook. Coming from India where it is assumed that girls will grow up and cook for their husbands and family, I assumed that Adam had similar notions. I was all set to make it straigh...
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Vipassana meditation(http://dhamma.org/) retreats that I keep mentioning in my blogs are free - they are run on a pay it forward or donation basis. You pay with what you can and pay only i...
Raymond Fiest(http://www.crydee.com/), one of my favorite fantasy authors writes in his book, "The Magician"
> we are the architect of our own prison
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What does he mean by that? Let me tell you a story.
A rich couple are blessed with a baby boy aft...
I practice Ashtanga Yoga - Mysore style. I started it in London at Hamish's studio(http://astangayogalondon.com/ayl-teachers/hamish-hendry/) who is one of the most content people I have ever known. And I admire people who are content - truly content with what they have because ...
Let's start with a scenario simulation. You have got this nice trip on cruise ship. You are enjoying yourself and all of a sudden the ship starts sinking due to a large hole. What do you do? Option a) Leave the Sinking Ship Option b) Dig the hole faster
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As some of you may recall from last blog(https://www.anumorris.com/?p=15782) that I just finished a MasterCleanse(http://themastercleanse.com/) detox. It's a liquid diet. You don't eat any solid foods at all. The minimum you can do it for is 10 days and I did it for 15 days l...
> If you don't take care of your Body where will you live?
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This is one of the quotes on my kitchen boards for this year. There's a lot of talk and in general awareness about body image, healthy diets - vegan, gluten free, plant based diet foods, la...
1. An Adult is trying to learn gymnastics and during the back flip practice which she was able to do so well last class - she falls down.
2. An adult is trying to learn swimming and is having trouble blowing bubbles into water. So she does the bare minimum she can and then lea...