Go Get Glow ...

This was the name of the session which we had yesterday thanks to the company arrangements. It was for an hour at the end of the day. Usually I never have time to attend these, but yesterday because one of my colleague insisted, I attended the session. I thought it will be a standard session on skin care or something, but instead it was more towards well being of a person as a whole. He was a Dr. Patwardhan, he knew how to drive home a point through humor. One great concept he explained was regarding - relationships.

In Relationships there is no place for a word called 'Understanding'. He mentioned it gave him great irritation to see his wife on phone all the time. This was very troublesome, and he spent years trying to 'understand' why she was like this. Then after reading a book, he bumped across this concept to replace the word 'understanding' with 'Acceptance'. Now his wife phone conversations do not trouble him because he has 'Accepted' her as she is. I am beginning to understand the utility of this concept in many situations which are not worth the trouble.

As your shoulder bones will be damaged by holding a weight for extended time periods, so does the mind gets tired by holding a particular thought for long. The only solution for the shoulder pain is keep the weights down, similarly the only solution for a tired mind is to keep the thought down. This is applicable for good as well as bad thoughts. If I am a first ranker in Board exam, the thought is great but if I hold the same for months and months together then I am stuck, and might also land up in asylum! The ideas were good, at least worth pondering.

Other recommendations ... 30 min daily walk, only 2 servings of cooked food per day, other servings can be fruits or other natural items, once a day enter the "classroom of silence" at least for few min. A concept to be by yourself and meditate on the present. Another self test to guage the strength of your heart muscles. Take a deep breath and hold your breath. If you can only hold it for 25 sec or less you are a pauper. Upto 45 sec you are a middle class person, Up to 1 min you are a lakhpati and if you can hold it for over a min, then you are a crorepati in terms of health of your heart.

Trip to Holy Land

I am sure some of you might have visited Israel, but I thought let me put down some of my experiences. First and foremost I was not that excited about the visit considering all the news splash around that region. However when I actually came here it was altogether adifferent experience. The country is really beautiful. People are great. From the taxi driver to the guide who took us around Jerusalem or 'decotel' as they call it were really nice and friendly.

The place of worship, there is one building which is the holy place for 3 religions! I knew that Fri/Sat are off for our Israel branch, but when I came here I came to know that almost half of Tel Aviv is closed, they call it the Shabath. A way to greet people on Thursday is 'shabath shalom' basically means have a peaceful weekend. In the process I picked on some Hebrew too. The beer which I liked was 'Gold Star' they have other beer too but as one of my Israeli friend put is - it tastes like shxx :) Dead Sea was really one of a kind experience. You can sit in the sea and read newspaper! The density of the water does not allow you to sink. There are lot of beauty products created out of thedead sea minerals, I took some mud packs etc .. (onthe recommendation of my wife).

The interesting part was, the taxi driver who took usto Jerusalem was not allowed to take us to Bethlehem, it seems Bethlehem was in Palestine so he took us to his Arab friend who then drove us to Bethlehem, that was a great experience as well. It was one of a kind experience to visit the birth place as well as the place where Christ was crucified. Even today some men take a wooden cross and walk across the path. I have tons ofpictures which I will share in my spare time. Until then ..... Shalom!

The First Step

Well not exactly the first step. I always had the habit of writing diaries, earlier it was more frequent, then it got restricted to special events and now I think it has been over a year since I touched it. Yesterday while 'orkuting' I bumped across a old friend of mine who has now become a frequent blogger ...

That was enough to get me started, the best part of this is the accessibility, now I don't need to search for the old diary! In fact I am thinking I should even post some of my earlier writings especially travelogues! Wow suddenly this piece of technology seems to hold lot of promises ...