Change

Namaskaram

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Yup, you read that right!

I am a risk taker, and I am pretty adventurous, but these segments of myself were concealed deep within me and I am finally out.

June 3rd, 2014, I resigned my job. Nope, I am not moving to another job, I am just staying home. :)

I always wondered, what would it be like doing that. Mind you, I am a mother of one girl and i have responsibilities and bills that i need to settle at the end of every month. But, I still chose to do this. Why? Simply because it makes me happy. It is nice to be jobless, let me rephrase that. It is nice to not go to work to work under someone and pick up tasks to complete them whether not you like them. Trust me, it is annoying. Especially if you hate what is being thrown at you.

I loved this job for a while, because I was handling a job scope and project that I loved and it made me happy. It was tough and not a day went by that I did not curse it under my breath, but I loved everyday of my life when I was involved in it. The day it ended, I lost my interest. Things were getting boring and low. There was not a challenge that was worth taking. I lost my spirit to work, so I decided to quit.

Some may call me irresponsible or selfish. But hey! I need to be happy and sane from within to raise a Happy Sane CHILD. The inner peace and happiness matters more than what I wear outside and how my hair looks like.

So yeah! I am jobless and I love blogging. It is nice to stay up late and think about doing the things you love without worrying about getting enough sleep to get to a job that no longer makes you happy.

Think about it and do that one thing that you always wanted to do....your perspective about life will change ;)

Peace, Love and Harmony
Om

Nadi Shodhana (Channel Cleaning Breath)

Namaskaram

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The Headache and everything that follows along

Have I mentioned about how much I suffer when I have a migraine attack. It starts with a slight twitch at the side of my head and that twitch penetrates to my whole head, and creating a tension belt headache. It gets so painful that after an hour or two my senses around my heads numbs and I feel nausea, dizziness and loss of focus. I also suffer from temporary amnesia e.g. I drove to my parent's when I am supposed to be driving to work, forget the spelling of certain words, cannot seem to remember my telephone number. Scary? Yes, it is.

I am not sure if this is called migraine, because I never bothered to check. I have been through a very sick period in my life which led me to each and every top medical centers in Kuala Lumpur. I hated checkups, medical routine and whatsoever they call it. At one point, I just quit. I told myself, if I'd die, let it be, but I am not going to die this way for sure. Here I am now, a decade, typing about it in my blog :P

Yoga Mail by MAYI

Namaskaram

Many of you would have heard of MAYI in Malaysia. This stands for Malaysian Association of Yoga Instructors. The founder of this organization is Master Manisekaran .

MAYI has a quarterly publication of yoga newsletter they call Yoga Mail. They have now included all of their publication online for you to read through. It is beneficial to read this newsletter. There are information on healthy food, asanas and the benefits, experience of other students and some yoga tips and guides.

Here is the link.

Peace, Love and Harmony
Om

Menstrual cycle - A blessing in disguise for women

Namaskaram

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Blessing in disguise

Master Nava always says that women are very lucky because we have a menstrual cycle to tell us if we are healthy and signal us if something is wrong with our body. I know some of you might be cursing to hear such a compliment. At first, I was equally skeptical to accept the fact that the menstrual cycle is indeed a blessing in disguise for me.

Do you know that every woman should have a 28 day cycle and every cycle should be painless? This is how it is supposed to be. A perfected menstrual cycle is 28 days (start counting from the 1st day of your period to the 1st day of your next cycle), nothing more, nothing less. Certain women experience at least 2 days of pain before their period and 2 days of period after they get their period. Some of these women go through very bad pain that they tend to vomit, have dizziness, loss of appetite and many more. This should not be the case at all.

Take me for an instance, during my younger days, I was an ice-cube addict, I chew on ice-cubes and literally take them off from my freezer and put them in my mouth. Yes, I was an addict. This contributed to massive pain before and during my period. It was just unbearable. Fortunately, when i got pregnant with my 1st child, i stopped it for the benefit of my baby. Consequently, the addiction stopped. After my pregnancy, my period was at 32 day cycle and it has been that way since I did my 1st shatkarma (yogic detoxification, I shall write more on it later). After my 2nd detox session, my cycle started to drop from 32 to 31, 29 and finally to 28. It has stuck to it since then. My period starts without a fuss and ends without a fuss, the only I know I got my period, is if i got it, no pain, no fuss. It just came and went, it bothered nobody. Isn't that just nice.

Besides shatkarma there are other yogic lifestyles and yoga asanas that you can do to regulate your cycle.

Free the Mind

Namaskaram

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We all had our hard times throughout our lives. Life is never meant to be easy, hence all of us have our share of bad times to go through. It is part of learning to improve and moving on. Some of our experiences, let it be from during our childhood days or some traumatic event such as accidents, can affect our mind deeply. These events are stored in your subconscious that acts like a repository.

 In Freud's opinion the unconscious mind has a will and purpose of its own that cannot be known to the conscious mind (hence the reason why it is called the "unconscious") and is a repository for socially unacceptable ideas, wishes or desires, traumatic memories, and painful emotions put out of mind by the mechanism of psychological repression. Excerpt from Wikipedia on Subconscious.

These events can create many psychological issues that affect us. It is responsible for all your phobias, unexplainable anger, judgmental character, and the times where we just hate something and we do not know why. This is where it all comes from. Therefore, we need a way to clear it, throw those rubbish away from our mind, so we can have a more focused thinking that is not affected by all this experience.