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“The traumas of everyday life can easily make us feel like a motherless child – Mark Epstein” These are the events that happen throughout our lives, and yet we pay little or no heed to them. The world in general considers them as normal or non-traumatic events, and we are forced to swallow them as part of learning, growing up or maturing. In his book, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel Van der Kolk brings forth a multitude of instances where the adult is suffering some physical

Found this beautiful post and could not resist sharing: Anup Kumar Bedi's post: Last week, on my flight from Delhi to Pune, I experienced a moment I'll carry with me for the rest of my life. I had just settled into my window seat when a little boy, no older than seven, stopped beside me, holding his father's hand. "Uncle...if it's okay, can I please sit by the window?" Before I could answer, his father immediately said, "I'm so sorry, sir. Please don't feel obliged. He's bee

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” Peter Levine. Gabor beautifully elicits the difference between big -T and small -t. The big T is the trauma that is acknowledged by the world. Trauma involves automatic responses and mind-body adaptations to specific, identifiable, hurtful, and overwhelming events, whether in childhood or later. Trauma occurs when hurtful or painful things happen to vulnera

My wish Gabor starts the book with an impactful statement – In the most health-obsessed society ever, all is not well. And what is normal is very questionable today. Because we humans are very adaptive. With resilience and grit, we adapt to any situation, from COVID-19 to the Ebola Virus. In no time, a crisis becomes ‘normal’, and we learn to live or find a way to work around it. So, Gabor beautifully summarises that "Normal" is now a myth. There is nothing that can be called

I am putting a bookmark on my Navdha Bhakti journey. I want to listen to the talks and do a bit more reading before I resume the series. The content is profound, and I am unable to express its depth yet. Whenever I try, the apt words escape me. So, instead of stopping my writing sojourn, I am starting a new series. I am reading a book and want to share my understanding as I read. “We may not be responsible for the way the world creates our mind, but we can learn to take respo

We start with Listening, Shravanam, the first pillar of Bhakti. In Ramacharitra Manas, Tulsidas Ji writes that Lord Rama himself spoke about bhakti to Shabari. Her absolute, complete self was immersed in the words that were flowing out of her Lord’s mouth. Her entire being vibrated and she was lost to the world, which resulted in God Realization. Bhagavatam refers to Parikshit as the guru of Shravanam. Parikshit Maharaj attained salvation by merely hearing the Bhagvatam recit