Preparing for X-mas in the advent season - 1

Good morning friends. The whole world is will be celebrating Christmas day. Maybe some were not celebrating it in a very special way. Maybe some are only praying, some celebrated in their most gorgeous way. But the importance is the spirit of it.

Ashankur or Seed of Hope, a women's empowerment centre at Bhokar, a village in Ahmednagar district, Maharashtra was home for me for the past two months. The experience prepared me to embrace the spirit of Christmas.

I woke up every morning to the pungent yet soothing smell of fresh earth, with a view from my room of shimmering green fields. Mynahs flew in and out of the room. I could see the Seven Sisters, parakeets and kingfishers twittering in the branches of trees, koels calling out to each other in song and wasps grubbing on insects, while squirrels darted from tree to tree. All these sights and sounds of nature were like balm, soothing and healing the wounds of hurt.

Nature at Ashankur was at its beautiful best with lilies, roses, gerberas and other flowers, with Gulmohur trees arching over. Cool breeze accompanied by sudden cloud burst and rain would sometimes cover the village in darkness. Living close to nature, and away from the noise and bustle of the city, i could not but take a second look at my life. The question before me this Christmas was: How to commit myself to the reconstruction and recreation of my own life and that of the earth?

Having come to the village in inner turmoil, i kept hearing a voice within that said: "Be still and know that I am God". The hushed silence at Ashankur helped me come into the presence of God on tip-toe, to experience a deep peace that is a divine gift. I stood free of everything that had enveloped me in personal darkness, and found myself in the presence of an all-pervading light, which could only be a sign from God.

ref: thetimesofindia

Morning Walk – Charging My Self with Positivity and Energy

Today is Saturday, August 23, 2008. Its off at work but I am here at my routine morning walk. I thought to take few pictures of the garden where I walk and share with all my blog readers.

Normally I start my walk in between 5-15 am to 5-30 am and finish my walking between 6-00 am to 6-15 am everyday except Thursday (as I need to go for prayer on every Thursday). I walk for 45 minutes. It’s having a walking track of 400 miters. On and Average I walk 4 round (each of 400 miters) in 15 minutes. All together 12-14 round a day!
While walking I hear Prayer and Bhajan in my IPod or Mobile headphone. Isn’t it excellent combination morning time with prayer…….I love it. It charge me for all my day and full me Energy and Positivity. As I walk in Garden the air is so pure and clean and the view of nature on its best at this time. 5-30 am to 6-00 am is timing when nights is going and day start. The sky is black when I start my walk and slowy and gradually black sky starts changing to day time, OH MY GOD its so lovely view!!! Try to view so day friends and than let me know.

Do you like to advise me on this matter? Please feel free to give your comment on my morning walk.

Self Consciousness

Self-consciousness is an acute sense of self-awareness. It is a preoccupation with oneself, as opposed to the philosophical state of self-awareness, which is the awareness that one exists as an individual being. An unpleasant feeling of self-consciousness may occur when we realize that we are being watched or observed, the feeling that "everyone is looking" at us. Some people are habitually more self-conscious than others. Feelings of self-consciousness are sometimes associated with shyness or paranoia.

Impairment

When feeling self-conscious, one becomes aware of even the smallest of one's own actions. Such awareness can impair one's ability to perform complex actions. For example, a piano player may "choke", lose confidence, and even lose the ability to perform at the moment they notice the audience. This is a function of the psychological phenomenon of social facilitation. As self-consciousness fades one may regain the ability to "lose one's self".

Adolescence is believed to be a time of heightened self-consciousness. A person with a chronic tendency toward self-consciousness may be shy or introverted.

Free Medical Camp Visit at Matar

Saturday, 9th Augest, 2008 i visited location where Manav Parivar organize free medical camp twice a month. it's so beautiful location. i love it. i take few pics of it and like to share with you all.

Human Nature

Human nature is the concept that there are a set of logical characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling and acting that all normal human beings have in common. The branches of science associated with the study of human nature include sociology, sociobiology and psychology, particularly evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology. Philosophers and theologians have also carried out research on human nature.


In pre-modern and non-scientific understandings of nature, human nature is understood with reference to final and formal causes. Such understandings imply the existence of a divine interest in human nature, and/or the existence of an ideal, "idea," or "form" of a human which exists independently of individual humans.

According to the accepted modern scientific understanding, human nature is the range of human behavior that is believed to be normal and/or invariant over long periods of time and across very different cultural contexts.

The existence of an invariable human nature is a subject of much historical debate, particularly in modern times. Most famously, Darwin gave a widely accepted scientific argument that humans and other animal species have no truly fixed nature.