Heal the world with love

Love is a feeling that has the power to heal the world and this is true. Many of you may think that the love is very tender feeling then how can it have so much of strength or power to heal the world? Many a times we don’t understand the fact that the power should not be connected to the big or bulky things. Power is not the physical aspect at all. Power is an ability that allows any person to change the crucial situation around them. 

           

When you decide to make this world a beautiful place, then there is only one option and that is spreading love! Love is strong and subtle. Feeling of love actually triggers secretion of happy hormones which in turn heal at cellular level. Whenever the power and hate were used to change the world, that time this world has suffered a lot and we have seen it. 

             We had rulers like Hitler, Mussolini, who tried to bind people using their physical power to gain some personal interests and the world had to face war like situations. On the other hand, this world has seen Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi who spent their lives for people and tried to touch people’s lives with love and empathy. In both the cases, people do remember all these people, but they remember for their cruelty and some others for their devotion and love.

            It is all in our hands that how do we want to be remembered all over our life and after our life. By giving love we give peace and harmony and by spreading hate we give fear and more hate to this world. The ball is in our court, we have to decide what we want to do with it. Make wise decisions and be remembered for good deeds. Spread love, positivity and empathy. Make the world a beautiful place by your presence. My favourite quote which is apt for this topic is, “No one should cry because of you, they should cry for you.”

Letter to the son

Dear son,

You entered our lives and everyone was very happy. By everyone I mean everyone who were not directly connected to our life. The reason was, I’d delivered a ‘baby boy’! That day I realized that I brought you into this world, where men are considered as superior ones. 
      My mind was shattered by the thoughts which crossed my path. That day I decided that I’d pen you a letter when you would start understanding the language and you would read it. I want to raise you as a human, not as a man, who is superior or who is not allowed to show his emotions!  
      As a mother I am happy and satisfied to enter into motherhood but it’s simply a pure joy of becoming a mother and not as a mother of baby boy. Following are some things which I want you to keep in mind, throughout your life.

•  You are a human being!
•  You are equally allowed to show your love, anger, sorrow as women are!
•   No one has any right to tell you that you cannot cry like a girl!
•   There is nothing in this world which is girlish or boyish!
•    If you don’t know few things which girls do regarding household then you should learn that.
•     Because that’s when you’d truly be independent.
•     Don’t think that it is a taboo to discuss a few things with your loved ones who are women regarding their physical health.
•      Eve-teasing is a thing which is very shameful and you should try to stop it.
•      Judging anyone on the basis of what they wear and where they live is a cheap thing.
•      Respect is the key of maintaining any relation and it is applicable to all.
•      Follow your instincts and stay blessed!

Love!!!

Mom.

Keep your child rooted in the soil of culture

We live in the digital world, where our career is more important than anything in our life. We too want to be with our family whenever possible. Festivals give us this opportunity to be with our beloved ones. Festivals give us chance to relive the old days. We must accept this fact that we lived our childhood much better than our children. We had our grandparents and our extended family with us to teach us the rituals and make us understand our culture. 

            Festivals play an important role when it comes to understanding our traditions and culture. But do we really know the adverse effect of changing lifestyle and progressive mind-set on our next generation? They are going away from their roots. Our life should be like trees, rather we should live it like trees. 
            No matter how much our branches grow in various directions but we should be rooted deep down in the soil because that is the place where we belong.

In nurturing children, we should make sure that we are giving them the gift of values and ethics. We are teaching them to be more modern but we should give them the sense of being more cultured. We cannot make them sit and tell them the meaning behind every festival, and each tradition but we can make them see the rituals we follow through our behavior. 

            As a parent, it is our responsibility to raise the cultured and mannered citizen of our country, after all they are the future of our country. Make sure that you do the things daily at home which will impact their mind and soul ( It could be reciting shubham karoti, ram raksha, or lightening of diyas, celebrating each and every festival by following the right rituals) so they will be able to follow your footprints in the journey of their life. 

Keep the newness alive in you

 It is said that, “every new year brings happiness and newness in our life”. But is it really so? Do we really need ‘new year’ to welcome the newness and happiness in our life? It is an important part I know but if we think deeply, we come to know that each and every second of our life is new. Newness is a state of mindfulness. Actually, constant change is the characteristic of nature.We can make most of it and we can live our life to the fullest. But what could we do for that? Let’s pledge this new year, that we will stop complaining about the things that harm us. 

We would rather accept the fact of life that there will be ups as well as downs. As we accept the ups with happiness, we would accept the downs also. After all our life is a roller coaster ride. I have read it somewhere that, “Life is like an ECG diagram, if it goes smoothly you are dead”.

Above things we will understand when we accept the fact that life can’t be smooth always. Change is the spice of life. We need to work towards accepting things and people around us because that’s what the life is all about. Life is not at all boring if we try to find something new out of every situation we face. 

Life is a great teacher who has the tremendous power to teach you the purpose behind your existence. You just need to be her consistent student. Let’s decide together, that we would welcome each and every new second of our life with full of acceptance and happiness. We would not complain about anything in life and we would try our best to touch other’s lives with love to make their world beautiful. 

We would try together to make the world a beautiful place for everyone with our small but genuine efforts. Happy and blessed new year to all.

Perfect parenting is a task but positive parenting can be done!

Many of you are proud parents and doing great job as a parent. Each and every time you may be thinking that how should I improve myself as a parent to keep my child happy? You must be buying new clothes and toys for your child to make him or her happy. But does it really work as much as you thought it would? Sometimes the answer is no. Then you must be thinking that what is the key to be satisfied as a parent and to make your child more happy? Then don’t worry, we have an answer! And that is so simple.

Every parent wants to be a perfect parent for their child. Perfect parenting is a task but positive parenting can be done. To make your child happy, you need not to be the perfect one. Because your child doesn’t understand the “perfection”. He or she just sees the magic in you, which is called happiness. 

Child understands the language of happiness and nothing else. When you smile by looking at your child, he or she starts believing that the world is full of happiness. Your child doesn’t need anything else because his or her world revolves around you only.

It’s in your hands to create positive vibes, happiness and love around your child. Be prepared for that as this is gonna be very interesting journey and you should be content to have this opportunity to enjoy your responsibility to raise a happy child to survive in this world.