Daffodils are like batteries, basically all root bulbs, The speed with which they grow in spring! wow!
Save up energy and go up in a burst! 

Ikea effect

What is hell?

Hell is a place where you get what ever you want without any effort.

This is some story I read

Little Prince also is teaching me this, in its own way -"The water is the well was sweet like no other, The sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms.It was good for my heart like a present."

I learnt this lesson a little bit when I started gardening, I didnt like my garden at all, only when I started tending to it myself, every leaf became precious. 

May be this is why I pity the kids for their thousand gifts and their genie parents who give them everything, I wonder if they are missing tasting the sweetness of effort.

May be my grandma thought the same about us and may be she was right. 

This reminds me of Dan Arielys book and his Ikea effect, offcourse this is the Ikea effect !!!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect

 :-)

LOL, It this why parents over evaluate thier kids as well? ;) Incidentally The paper is called Ikea Effect: when Labour leads to love. 

what is the difference between Agnisara and Nauli?

Agnisara and Nauli both involve exhaling fully and sucking back our abdomen into this concave shape and then moving the ab muscles. In Agnisar you move the abdomen in waves up and down, This is comparatively easy to do, It is the beginner version. In Nauli you move the abdomen left and right! This is what Dr Raj Kumar does in the movies :-) He is soo cool! :-) Nauli is an advanced practice which needs lots and lots of control of the ab muscles to do.
Udiyana Bandha is the first part, You exhale fully and then such the abdomen back into the spine and pull it up  to push the diaphragm up and cause some kind of lock.
All three involve holding the breath out untill finished.

Check out Nauli at 1:42

Here is the beginning of my post. And here is the rest of it.

bad science

I wrote this post a couple of months ago, Science Blindness,  I wrote this after I offended a few people by telling them.. Ahem!.. the Truth. I corrected them, publicly on Facebook or Whatsapp. Not even rudely at that. I said look this is not true, this is hoax etc, just plain and simpel. but it was not taken well :-P People took offence. They thought I was saying things to put them down or to show that I was more intelligent. I mean it was not a personal offence, They took offence against my whole "type".

But Just look at this....

Rajasthan education minister claims cows exhale oxygen; leaves Twitterati baffled

This poor man has gone and made an epic fool of himself at the National level. This would have never happened to him,  if he had me as his Facebook friend ;-) 

 I corrected my cousin about the exact bloody same forward about cows inhaling and exhaling oxygen - I said science committed suicide after reading this :-P  You know I drew a lot of flack for that but actually, in reality, I am doing a great social service!!! Even tho I may not be liked for saying it, I am doing it, A sacrifice :P  They may be blind but I am opening their eyes instead of being nice and allowing them to be fooled!?! Isnt it?

( Dear God!! Guess what the writer of that article has written  "Here’s a fun fact, though. Cows do not exhale oxygen! In case this statement should lead you to question your education. Rather, they are known to exhale methane, an asphyxiant gas known for bringing down oxygen levels in the atmosphere. " I am suppressing my strong desire to find that guy and murder him, science blindness being a true handicap not withstanding! X-(   )

confused priority of our times

Rani Padmini was( may be) insulted and a film producer was slapped.
Sashikala has become the PM of TamilNadu.
Trumph has become the President of US and is bringing in, laws against the environment.
There was an attack on a mosque in Quebec by a French man, 4 people were killed.
There was a knife attack by a Muslim man in Paris and he was shot dead by soldiers.

I have an opinion about all these, and I wasted a lot of time expressing it on social media.
The point is, the priority I give to each of these is directly proportional to how much coverage it gets in social media. If my friend list people post something reactionary on this, I react.
The intensity of my reaction is not at all dependent on how important that issue is,  it is more of a reaction to what is happening on facebook and watsapp. 
Its not just me, Everyone is swaying with the tides of social media viral posts. No one is sailing with any purpose or direction. It is so easy to manipulate the poor souls ( including me , ok me a little harder Cynical B that I am :D )
For example, no body talked about or cared about the Quebec Canada shooting, except some Canadian friends liking a few sympathy posts, no for-against debates, no controversy, nothing. So I didnt react to it at all.
But a similar shooting of normal people by in Paris has caused a huge hue and cry and people changed profile picture to France flag, Why no Je sui Quebec Mosque victims? That is not the point.

Shouldn't we pick and chose our battles rather than let our energy be diluted by giving equal importance to each and every new item. In the context of things, How important is the Padmini issue? I have wasted thoughts and words on it. How many news bites were wasted on it? It is totally irrelevant to me.

In one of the courses I went, they asked us to question things when we got upset, Will I care about this incident in 5 days? In 5 months?  in 5 years? If the question to atleast first 2 questions is no, is there really any point in getting upset about it?
May be same kind of filter should be applied to the news issues as well, 

Along with that, How much can I care about? Earth is huge and there are problems in all corners. so How do I filter that? 

What I see as the most eminent problem and most important issue is exactly this, the ease with which people are swayed and manipulated, the lack of self awareness among us and our reactionary nature. Nothing, Nothing else is a bigger problem than this. 
So - at most priority should be given to mindfulness of myself and work towards it? Try to notice and observe my reactions towards these and continue on this life. Thats what I should do. 
Others peoples awareness? We will see. I cant tackle that without being aware first.

Fluid not Fickle

We need to be fluid with our ideas not fickle.  Fluid as opposed to rigid, ready to mould and change, not hard and brittle.  not change like a fickle weather cock to  fit in with what others think.

When others have the same goal as you, how do you feel?

Do you feel happy about meeting a kindred spirit or do you feel competitive?
This is because, me was feeling uneasy and uncomfortable and full of self doubts after some people declared they have similar goals like me. Its not like I felt competitive, It was like WHAT? This person? It gave my ego a little bit of a jolt by saying 1)everyone is doing it 2) even people like this are doing it, are all those who do it ( including probably me) are fake.

When some people are interested in the same things as me and have the same goal as me, It makes me really happy. You like yoga? I like yoga too! You want to simplify things? I want to, too! What all are you doing? tell me! give me tips, I want to be better. Lets do something together. etc.
But when some other people say the same thing, I can feel my face getting smaller. Oh Is it? Oh you did Yoga with this personal trainer for 6 months? Such a materialistic and manipulative person, Yoga didnt change him?
Oh you are mindfulness instructor? That is great! In my mind? Such a fake person! Inspite of doing mindfullness. Is mindfullness useful at all.
You believe in being less materialistic? In my mind - but this woman is such a show off, Is always interested in showing others how well off she is! so materialistic and she believes in simple life? *roll eyes*

I feel like these things have become buzz words, just like people dropped buzz words during meetings, now people drop buzz words during personal conversations as well. These things Yoga, mindfulness and environment and everything have become such cool things that everyone seems to  want to be seeing doing it.
Fittness too - In that case more people are more genuine ( atleast I can accept more people are more genuine)
Still makes me too feel like a sheep! Am I like this? Am I a buzz word generator, Am I also just doing the in things? Am I a fad follower!

I also feel these people compete with me when I talk to them, The tone seems to be like - Oh u do it? I do better. I dont know if this is in my mind or if the attitude is in them. In any case it is bothering me.

It really bothers me that mindfulness is only seen as something for stress reduction or yoga as only for fitness.
It really bothers me when materialist and manipulative people drop words like mediation and consciousness.
It really bothers me that some of them even seem to be into it quite deeply.
It really bothers me that it bothers me :-D I feel like -  I should welcome them, but I dont, I hate them.
It really bothers me that this may be bothering me, because it is taking away my USP from me
It really bothers me that all this is a fad
It really bothers me that all this may be a fad and I am into it, also because of the fad. :-D

Uffff!!!! These people have really bothered me today!!!