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Simultaneous, Sympathetic Death Mother’s dying symptoms experienced unexpectedly 5000 miles away In England, American counsellor and author, Annie Cap was unexpectedly overcome by the symptoms of her dying mother. In her final moments of life, Betty, in a hospital in Portland, Oregon, somehow managed to connect with her daughter overseas. At work, Annie suddenly began to choke. Coughing uncontrollably and finding it difficult to breathe she was forced to ask her client to leave. She telephoned her mother’s hospital room and when her sister answered she could hear her mother’s laboured breathing in the background. Although Annie didn’t understand what was going on, she realized immediately what had just happened – her mother had mysteriously linked in with her (attempting to reach her one last time perhaps) and had caused Annie to feel her dying symptoms. This led Cap on a trail of exploration, to not only understand how it was possible that she had shared in her mother’s...

Some of you may have wondered how come I thought of this title for my Blog. I must thank my maternal uncle who had once gifted us this book called, “The Joy of Life” (Author Philip B. Kunhardt Jr, Published by Little Brown/Time Magazine.) It was a wonderful book with photographs on different aspects of life and their joys. It started with the joys of discovering everything as a baby and a child, the games of childhood, the love of teenage, the charms of a new marriage, the joys of parenting and so on.The chapters were named Beginnings, A Child's World, Growing Up, The Great Outdoors, Loving, Simple Pleasures, Our Animal Friends, Steppin' Out, Miracles and Generations. Taken from the pages of Life Magazine, the book has more than 250 stunning pictures which explore the wonders and joys of life. As the book's flap cover says, "In a chapter called 'Miracles' a number of hard to believe events are shown and the heart soars. This is a book about goodness and be...

I went to see 'I hate love stories'. But somehow could not. Instead I ended up seeing 'Karate Kid'. Awesome movie, I must say. I am sure now God has better plans for my life's movie than the plans I have made. Jackie Chan is just stupendous. On rare occasions, I fall in love with a man and I fell in love with him. The movie has romance, action, music, comedy, emotion and is, a complete movie indeed. The story goes like this. 12 year old Dre Parker lands up in China because of his mother’s career move. The Detroit kid has bad experiences from the very beginning, starts hating China and wants to go back. His only interest in China is his classmate Mei Ying and they form a Mutual Admiration Society. But because of her he makes the class bully Cheng his enemy. Cheng gives him a tough time with his expertise in Kung Fu. Dre finds a teacher/trainer in the Kung Fu master Han who is basically a maintenance man. Han teaches Dre that kung fu is not about punches and parries...

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior The other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” Henry C. Link I had once jokingly posted on Facebook, “I try so hard. Still I commit a mistake. What the hell? Why am I so human?” A student of mine posted a good reply, “Since we are humans we can commit a mistake and get away. God doesn't have the scope to commit mistakes. One mistake from his side and it all ends. Thank god we are humans.” So very true, the luxury of making mistakes is only available to human beings. To err is human; to forgive is not our company policy. Mistakes are an integral part of life, the saying goes, “Foolish make the same mistakes and wise make new mistakes.” As long as we are learning from our mistakes and are not repeating them it is fine. Good leaders always encourage risk taking and remind their team members, “Only those who work make mistakes and those who don’t work, don’t.” Mistakes also show your risk taking ...

Speak Less, Listen More   A wise old owl sat upon an oak; the more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard; why aren’t we like that wise old bird? E.H. Richards As a child I would often put my foot in my mouth due to my innocence and politically incorrect statements. One day I decided enough is enough and decided to keep my mouth shut. Once in a while, when I had something really powerful to say, a quote, a joke, a wisecrack, then only I would open my mouth. After few months I realized, all my relatives started saying, “See Amit is so wise, he speaks so less and whenever he speaks it is something worth listening.” I gained two advantages by speaking less; one is the reputation of being wise and secondly a loyal audience whenever I had something to say. It is rightly said, if speech is golden, silence is platinum. People generally tend to be good talkers and poor listeners. Probably we are sure of our own wisdom and doubt the wisdom of o...

Drop everything you're clinging to & keep walking. What remains is what's meant to stay ~ what goes is what was in your way. Dee Foster We all are travelers in the journey called LIFE. We carry our past experiences as emotional baggage throughout our life. One principle of enjoying travel is to ‘Travel Light’ and likewise to enjoy the journey of life also, we need to shed our emotional baggage and travel light. Emotional baggage consists of our past experiences which build preconceived notions about relationships and people and unconsciously destroy or disturb our future experiences. Almost all of us drag along some baggage from our past into our present lives, that stop us from winning in our present life situations. We hold on to pain, anger, and resentment, and find it difficult to let go unless life uses shock therapy. When we carry emotional baggage of the past, we forget that we are reacting on the past experience instead of reacting to what is happeni...

"I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say ‘goodies,’ I don’t mean only material things. I mean all the people, places, and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.” Louise L. Hay Human beings often tend to be ungrateful. We find it very easy to find faults, how our parents could have done a better job, how God could have given us better opportunities and circumstances, how the boss could have been nicer, how our siblings could have had less rivalry and so on. How often do we thank people around us for the small and big favors they have done, for the love and kindness they have shown, the sweet memories which they left with us and so on.  Benjamin Franklin says, “Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude." How many times do we thank God, our parents, our teachers, our friends or whoever has done something for us. It is sad ...

“The choice is yours, With a bad attitude, you can never have a good day, With a good attitude, you can never have a bad day.” Attitude is more important than aptitude to reach altitude. Heated gold becomes ornaments. beaten copper becomes wires, depleted stone becomes statue, so the more pain you get in your life the more valuable you become, provided you take it with the right attitude.. The major attitudes include attitude towards people, relationships, learning, new ideas, religions and God. “You can complain that roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” Ziggy One of the best role models in terms of attitude are military people. They learn to enjoy every day of life as they are forever prepared for war and have realised it might be the last day of life. Why are human beings so foolish, why do we need fear of war to act wise? A friend of mine met with a serious accident in Mauritius and had a close shave with death. Immediately after...