TLC stands for Tender Loving Care and is my choice of heading for a category that I have been mulling over introducing on my blog since ages. I had taken up the #nablopomo challenge in November 2016 and written 30 posts on Mindfulness / meditation / awareness / self love and am compiling these posts under this category.
#NaBloPoMo There had come a time in my life when I couldn’t sleep properly. I would wake up tired due to a disturbed sleep. I would wake up in between at night and then toss and turn till early hours of morning, then fall asleep to wake groggy and sleep deprived when my alarm would go… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #18: Body-Sleep is priceless for our health
#NaBloPoMo As a child I grew up to be a loner. I found friends in the imaginary world of books and soon enough we were inseparable. I would sleep with a torch, light it and read the moment my parents would go to sleep. I would read in the car, train, bus, under the bed…… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #17: Body- Eat like a child (Totally & joyfully)
#NaBloPoMo Making assumptions comes so natural to all of us- well it does to me. There is something lazy or unsure in all of us when it comes to calling up someone to help or find out where are they? Or simply hesitate to call up peeps because it’s easier to assume. Our assumptions are… Read More #NaBloPoMO: Day #16: Mind- Make no assumptions
#NaBloPoMo I am mesmerized by the sight of people dancing. The coordination of movement, the twirls and lifts and the sheer pleasure of being in rhythm of the music beats, is such a pure joy to behold. It’s poetry in motion. It’s arty, in the sense it’s dramatic. I remember joining salsa classes in 2003 after… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #15: Balance-Dance for joy
#NaBloPoMo Every once in a while our faith is tested. I know mine was and it seemed as if the test broke me apart. I was so sure I could not be out together again – kind of like Humpty Dumpty. I had my crying spells and just wanted to be left alone. Going to… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #14: Soul – Cleanse the inside
#NaBloPoMo “Laughter is the best medicine” – this adage comes to my mind as I contemplate on this card today. Who doesnt like to laugh or emjoy a good joke? A sense of humour is what we desire the most in our life partners and friends. For me Laughter was my worst enemy during my… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #13: Balance- The lightness of laughter
#NaBloPoMo Breathe meaning praana or life Breathe just breathe – A given at any panic situation. First thing that comes to the mind while consoling someone or calming them down. Breathe– meaning give yourself some space and don’t be so hard on yourself. Watch your breath and focus on just that- a counsel one hears during… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #12: Soul- walk the bridge
#NaBloPoMo This card is an ode of sorts to the joys of being one with nature as I realised, purely by accident, when I started out on a fitness routine with an evening walk. It was in April this year when I discovered a magical mystical green oasis in my colony where I have been living for 4… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #11: Soul- Be in nature, become one with nature
#NaBloPoMo This is a beautiful card for it talks about balance by finding one’s center – something we all crave for but are unaware how to reach there. I am one of those too. What is the center, you may well ask? Is it the center of the body? Is it the center of the… Read More NaBloPoMo: Day #10: Balance-Move side to side to find your center
#NaBloPoMo Gratitude has been a new word for me this year in the way that it has been presenting itself to me on every nook and corner these days. I have been attending meditation sessions regularly for the past one and a half-year wherein this practice is being stressed upon with every word, gesture and thought.… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #9: Body-Gratitude makes the body light
#NaBloPoMo R&R – now that’s a word most of us use but are so unaware of its true meaning. While working in our important corporate jobs, we have come to associate this term with the short, knee jerk breaks we ill-manage to take while assuring ourselves (with a well-intentioned mind) that a longer holiday to… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #8: Soul-R&R is a primary need of the soul
#NaBloPoMo This card is amazing in its context of highlighting TOUCH to do away with fears and tears. But for me this brings back some horrid memories of being “touched”. I remember the time I had just come down to Delhi and started to work here. I had heard all about the infamous “groping” incidents… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day #7: Body- dissolve your anger and fears with touch
#NaBloPoMo Wow! This is Card # 5 and it’s totally blown me away. I have been doing some of the things mentioned here or rather doing them my own way, not daily, nevertheless the journey has started. Lets see: ♦ With Day#1 of this deck, I have started a 10 minute meditation practice daily by… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day#6: Soul – Build a soul practice!
#NaBloPoMo Well! This is the Day 5 card and I have to say I am a bit flummoxed, for self-love doesn’t come easy to me. Blame it on the years of parental conditioning. Our household never saw expressions of love and communicating with each other was also not considered big. The general rule of… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day#5: Soul- Love is the nature of the soul!
#NaBloPoMo I once again dove into the pack and selected a card at random with my left hand (heart connection) and pulled out a Balance card for today as well. This one tells me to walk to the edge; to push myself to my limits and test to see how far I can go before… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day#4: Balance- Seek the edge!
#NaBloPoMo Balance- Take on something that you avoid or hate The second card that I have pulled out of this deck today morning is about Balance which is all about – “Discipline is choosing between what you want NOW and what you want MOST” . It essentially was telling me to do something that I normally… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day#3: Balance- Take on something that you avoid or hate
#NaBloPoMo My first card from the Inspiration Deck is for the mind and what do you know it’s the Day One: mind card Well the universe is certainly guiding me wont you agree!?! I have been wanting to incorporate daily meditation into my routine since long and now it begins with this journey. I have… Read More #NaBloPoMo: Day#2 – Meditation is to mind as water is for fish!
