Tag: #Import 2023-01-28 04:00

  • How I came out of my Thyroid problem?

    Disclaimer: The following article is a description of an individual experience and should not be considered as medical advice. The author is not a medical professional nor an expert in any of the medical fields. Please consult a doctor for medical advice. – December of 2019. On this particular day I was at the hospital.…

  • Vipassana: My experience – Part 2

    This post is the second part of the two parts that I have written on Vipassana. Part 1: an introduction to the Vipassana in a Q&A format. Part 2 is about my personal experience. Mysore 27 Nov, 2022 This happened about a week after I came back from my 2nd 10 day Vipassana course –…

  • Vipassana: 10 days of silence – Part 1

    Recently (Nov 1 – 12th, 2022), I attended a 10 day residential silence Vipassana Meditation retreat. This post is the first part of the two parts that I will write on Vipassana. Part 1 will be an introduction to the Vipassana in a Q&A format. Part 2 will be about my personal experience. Part 1…

  • Experiment 2: Fasting for 34 hours

    It was a Sunday. The right opportunity had come. My wife was out of town. My daughter was with her granny. Limited personal & professional obligations. The day also coincided with Ekadashi (at least I thought it did). A day of fasting I decided. Ekadashi is the 11th day after the full moon and the 11th day…

  • Update 1 for Experiment 1: 60 mins for 60 days

    Note: For context, read the post Experiment 1: 60 minutes for 60 days if you haven’t already. Here is how my meditation practice been so far: It seems fair to me to categorize my practice as reasonably regular. Wouldn’t you? Why did this experiment start? It started with my story Story 1: I’m taking care…

  • How to build confidence?

    Confidence is the ability to see a possibility without, necessarily, having navigated the exact path of that possibility. For example – A Zoo manager in Chennai might be confident to run a Zoo in Mysore even without seeing or experiencing the Mysore zoo. And that confidence comes from the integrity of being around that possibility.…

  • Experiment 1: 60 minutes for 60 days

    It has been 22 days since I published my 22 experiments for 2022 post. My first experiment for the year will be to do a 60 day meditation routine. While I’ve done enough meditation practice to feel like I’m going to complete the activity successfully, what I’m curious about is – the outcome and the…

  • 22 experiments in 2022

    I had a good time writing blog posts. This was several years ago.  Unadulterated expression has a high of its own. Creating, editing and publishing felt like a dance performance, of a team in perfect synchronization. I and the universe. This is the first aspect that I want to share here: I’ll be writing more.…

  • Vinay

    I was scrolling through my Whatsapp statuses. One of them said RIP Vinay. I called the friend to check. He didn’t know the details but confirmed the untimely demise of Vinay. Vinaykumar Sajjanar Vinay was my junior in the Engineering College (2005 – 2009). We got to know each other because of our volunteering work…

  • Gowrisha, Yoga and me

    This was about 10 years ago. I received a broadcast in my inbox for a meditation session at the office. It was from Gowrisha. He was my boss’s boss. I was intimidated by him. Boss’s boss is supposed to intimidate you :).  But meditation interested me and I was there for the session. After the…