A few weeks ago, I ran a half marathon. To be honest, the actual run seemed a letdown compared to the training leading up to it. So, this was my first time doing any kind of a run officially- I was a little surprised by how it unfolded. To begin with, there is a line for the loo....
This blog is another variation of one of the previous blogs(https://www.anumorris.com/2024/07/body-and-mind-two-sides-of-the-same-coin/)—I cannot get enough of this concept. It is really simple—the only place where change can happen is NOW. By NOW, I do not mean this day, this ...
I am watching a Netflix Series called 'Panchayat'. It is based in rural India, a bit like my ancestral village. Imagine mud huts, the Baaing of goats, rooster crowing, water from hand pumps, and people resting under the Banana tree in front of the temple.
Anyways, in this series...
The last two weeks at work have been interesting. Every day there is something new - an important customer threatening to leave, a death in a colleague's family or a spam mail sent to a customer.
I also recently watched the Season 2 of Indian Matchmaking. This time for every epi...
I was talking with my colleague at work about the point of doing what she does? The conversation was about spending time with family and work. Her point was we do work so that we can do non-work items, but we spend so much time doing work that we don't get time for everything els...
I was listening to a 90's famous Bollywood song - Koi Kahe Kehta Rahe(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctJI7pCbxAo), whose lyrics roughly translate as - 'When we are new, why should our style be old?' And this movie - 'Dil Chahta Hai(https://www.google.com/search?q=dil+chahta+...
A few years ago, Adam, my husband, had won first prize in Give Back Hackathon - for social enterprises. And as a part of it, he started Wild Tiger Tees(https://wildtigertees.com/) - work with youth experiencing homelessness in the art of screen printing. We were about five or s...
Eckhart Tolle tells the story of his dad, who in his older years remarked that the quality of mirrors has deteriorated since his younger days. I am sure most of us have looked at the mirror and wondered what happened? Or, go for reunions and somebody remarks on how young we were?...
Have you ever been in a situation where you did something without remembering you just did that? Take a shower without realizing it or driving home from the office or travelling on a tube and may be missed your stop. Your mind was so engrossed in something that you forget what yo...
We might all think we run our lives - and we are all wrong. Time runs this entire world. The little watches we have on our wrists, calendars on the walls, or our electronic devices rule the world. From the time we wake up to the alarm to the time we go to bed - all we do is run a...
When you read a book, do you wonder about the blank spaces around the words? Do you wonder about the blank pages on which the letters appear?
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When you enter a room, do you think about the space in the room? When you use the furniture, do you think ...
Have you ever seen a new-born baby? For the first six months or so they have no idea of who they are, they are not aware of their legs and arms. One of my nieces used to pull her hair as a baby and start crying - unable to tear her hand and stop the pain.
Babies live in the NOW ...
I just watched the latest Pixar animation movie - 'Soul'. It is a must-see even though not at the same level as their other movie - 'Inside Out'. Before we get into the actual blog a word about the creation process for these movies. Pixar movies generally speaking come from a ver...
Make Your Life Easy(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BTF2LLD), and You Can Do It(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B086986YFL) are two of the books that I have authored. And they both start with the chapter on Suffering. My preference was to begin them with Grim Reaper, but my husband ma...
Imagine you are in a theatre watching a string of movies. The movies and the actors cater to all the emotions you can think of - fear, sex, violence, love, family, patriotism, terrorism, heist - the whole gamut of life as we know it.
Let's say that the movies are so fascinating ...
Imagine you have gone to watch a fantastic play in a lovely theatre. The actors are supposed to be so good that it's almost life-like. It is a very engaging drama with all the trials and tribulations of human life that we all go through in our real lives.
Now, let's suppose that...
I recently saw the movie, 'Stand and Deliver' based on the real-life story of Jamie Escalante, a math professor. He is famous for teaching calculus to high school students in Garfield High School in East LA. Most of the students are of Hispanic origins who passed the test.
There...
In the ten-day Vipassana(http://dhamma.org) course, Goenka Ji tells us lots of stories. My mind wandered over to the following story today.
Goenka Ji asks that the light bulbs we have in our houses - they appear to remain the same for a long time, if they do not change then w...
Imagine if you could hear a tree talk like us humans. What do you think the tree would say?
Option 1: 'Oh! My God. It started snowing again. How can it snow again when it just snowed yesterday? And the tree next to me - why cannot it just stick to its own space always leaning i...
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...
A scenario from work: Let's say I have an employee reporting to me and let's say there are some performance issues. And it is impacting her peers as well. I have a constructive conversation with her and feedback is received well. After a week I check in with her peers. Feedback i...