Category Archives: Self Help and Spirituality

Jun25

Pain in the Neck – Understanding Cervical Issues

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

Going forward I will be writing blogs from my healing experiences on common ailments as I feel this will be very useful for people who want to avoid modern medication and doctor’s visit 🙂 or just lessen them. I love to take up energetic healing sessions however with my corporate job at times it is tough to accommodate them 🙂 but some clients are just meant to be healed.

I am writing about an interesting case of cervical issue. Cervical vertebrae are the seven vertebrae that help in flexing our neck and they act as a bridge between the body and the head area. The cervical vertebra protects the cervical nerves which control certain areas of the head, neck and upper back, including the arms and hands.

Please refer to my blog “Understanding your back pain” for the body mapping of the cervical nerves. Now Let us understand the neck and shoulder from an energetic perspective: Let us understand the Neck and Shoulder and see is there a behavioral and psychological Connection? As we all know that shoulder are synonymous with responsibilities. We see this mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Try carrying something with your hands and walk around, where would you put the weight that you carry so you don’t feel so heavy carrying it? Many people would place it on their shoulder. How about neck? Physically neck is use to change view from one point to another, from right to left, from bottom to up, north to south and east to west. Spiritually, neck is use for same purpose too. At the higher level of our being, neck would be used to change view from a point of life to another point of life. When we are stuck up in life due to our narrow perspective or we avoid looking around and avoid change , being clairvoyant one can see stuck up energy around the neck area. This blockage in energy starts affecting the alignment of the cervical vertebra and may cause:

Cervical Sprain / Strain
Cervical Disc Herniation
Nerve Impingement (Cervical Radiculopathy)
Muscle Spasm
Degenerative Disc Disease
Arthritis

Most of the physical problems are symptoms of the psychological cause in the case of cervical (C1-C7) one of the major reasons is stress that is due to our responsibilities as for most of us our job is helping in carrying our responsibilities for our family and other commitments in life. Here is what Louise Hay says about Neck and Shoulder pain:

Neck – refusing to see other sides of the question, stubbornness, inflexibility

Shoulders – represent our ability to carry our experiences in our life joyously, we make life a burden by our attitude. Once we know the emotional causes it is easy to understand that physical issues are mere symptoms but the real cause are mostly psychological in nature. As a Pranic Healer a week of healing helps align the vertebra and ease cervical pain (the duration may vary from healer to healer and also receptivity of patient). Alternative Su Jok therapy is also found useful.

Tips to Relieve Pain:

Self Healing Creative Visualisation for Spine Wellbeing: This is an awesome meditation to do it yourself , it has had amazing healing effect on people and it assists in faster healing of back pain at the comfort of your home.

2. Salt Water Bath: Salt water bath is extremely useful in relieving pain you can also use few drops of lavender oil in your bathing water. It will help disintegrate dirty diseased energy from you aura.

3. Affirmations: Affirmations are a good way for raising our vibrations

Neck related issues ” I am willing to change, change is for my highest good. ” “I am peaceful with life”

Pain- “I lovingly forgive myself and others and release the past. They are free and I am free. All is well in my heart now.”

Shoulder – “I choose to allow all of my experiences to be joyous and loving.”

Spasms – ” I release, I relax and let go. I am safe in life.”

4. Universal Mantra for Healing : Ra Ma Da Sa Sa Say So Hum

This Mantra is useful for healing physical and astral bodies.

Stay happy and follow your bliss in life, we are not here to struggle we are here to thrive 🙂 – Love Sargam

5. Pranic Psychotherapy and Pranic Healing : Consult your Pranic Healer the pain and disease are only symptoms we need to understand the cause and heal it.

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Jun17

Understanding Your Excess Weight and Letting it Go – Spiritual and Energetic Approach

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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“Manifesting your perfect weight is a natural result of realigning with your true self ” – Marianne Williamson

Have been waiting so long to write on this topic 🙂 but it is never too late to pen it down even now. Weight management has been a dear topic for me for last 15 years. Something I have read, researched and experimented myself. We are all born a few pounds in weight and gradually as we grow we keep on putting many more pounds; till one day we realize the few pounds are visible spilling from our clothes. This revelation for some creates an alarm these people take control of their health while for the others we get depressed and start detesting ourselves.

This blog is for the latter type , the depressed, over critical, lazy bums who start seeing food as the forbidden apple and still go ahead and sneak a slice of pizza or a chocolate and then beat themselves up. Food is highly emotional , when we are happy we feast when we are sad we binge. Food is an essential part of our lives and one of the ways to share love and affection. In Indian families mothers spend most of the the time cooking for the family pouring all their love in desserts and delicacies 🙂 So we cannot do much about food it will be around us tempting and enticing but yes some changes can be made and most of us have also adapted to healthy eating.

With my experience of 78 kgs (172 pounds) in 2007-2008 ; I realized even with a normal diet and moderate activity I just gained around 8 kgs approx with ease and did not realize till I stepped on a weighing scale. For most of us weight gain just happens and it is so gradual that we are unable to notice till we get a critical compliment from our friends/colleagues or partners 😉

I am a certified Pranic Healer and lately I attended a course on Pranic Weightloss and Body Sculpting and was so surprised to learn that excess weight is nothing but energy , it is an energy that is stuck up due to our emotions. It has not much to do with exercise or dieting. Our bodies are completely neutral the way they behave is an effect rather than a cause. What has to be consumed, stored or expelled out of the body is the work of our mind.

Let us understand this stuck up energy , we understand that our bodies metabolism and secretions of hormones are controlled through the brain activity , the brain works as a response to our thoughts. Thoughts are broadly divided into Fear based thoughts and Love based thoughts. The cause of excess fat in the body is fear which blocks out love.

I know you must be thinking most of the fat people look happier 🙂 but it is an external appearance put up these beautiful people mostly. When we do a session the emotions of under confidence,low self esteem and a habit of constant negative self talk is observed. The fear based thoughts include, shame, insecurity and low self esteem. These thoughts have energy which is contracting and dark grey and this can be felt while scanning. These are really old thought forms that get stuck and refuse to move even with best of diet plan and exercise regime. So your fat is all the anger and hate you have directed to yourself and others.

The world renowned author Louis L. Hay in her book, You Can Heal Your Life, writes that the probable causes of excess weight are: Fear; need for protection; Running away from feelings; Insecurity, self-rejection, Seeking fulfillment, and others She goes on to say, “Fat is related to Over sensitivity. Often represents fear and shows a need for protection. Fear may be a cover for hidden anger and a resistance to forgive.”

According to Louise, fat in the arms can mean “anger at being denied love.”

Fat on the belly can mean “anger at being denied nourishment” and

Fat on the hips can be “lumps of stubborn anger at the parents”. Even fat on the thighs can be “packed childhood anger, often rage at the father.

Interesting isn’t it? Most of us hold on to fat to mask our insecurities in relationships, work, life ahead etc etc. Our natural state is Love and love is detachment, love is letting go. The energy of love is moving , it is expansive. So whether it is relationships or food if we practice detachment we show love.Obsession for either a person or for any substance happens when we are ready to give and do not know how to receive. We keep holding for more because we do not feel we are getting back the desired response.

Here is a beautiful workshop conducted every year on 21 Days of Emotional Weightloss and Emotional Detox happens on http://www.sargammishra.com

Life is all about creating a love affair and if we do so with our food and bodies the response is amazing. Trust me your body needs your love and appreciation as much as other people in your life or even more. Here are few suggestions that you can include in your day to day life :

Tips for a Spiritual Weight Loss 🙂

1. Make some time to be with self – Take out 30 minutes in a day for yourself where you can just focus on your self this is your time of “self love”

2. ‘Mirror’ – Your best friend – I keep hearing my friends and family complaining that I am obsessed with mirrors; and I openly admit I am I deliberately made it a habit to smile and mentally say “I love you gorgeous” when ever I see a mirror. Next time you catch me smiling just like that you will know what I am thinking. This helps in lifting your self esteem.

3. Project love to your body – Your body is the temple of your soul no matter what it looks like it is sacred. Always remember you cannot do away with anything you are in resistance with. You will have to first accept yourself with whatever weight you are right now and then only you will be able to condition it to look its best. So mentally do an affirmation ” I approve of my self, I salute the divinity within me and I promise to maintain a healthy relationship with my body through my mind”

4.Bless anything that you put into your mouth – Food/Water any edible stuff just mentally bless it, as per Masaru Emoto’s experiment on water thoughts impact our reality so when we bless any negative energy that the food is cooked with or projected with is neutralized and is fortified with nourishment.

5. Surrender yourself to Source – When a fetus is 9 months in the womb of a mother there is a source that takes care of it , most of us are born healthy and normal. This is because nature is self correcting and providing.The minute the baby is born the parents take control and all hell breaks lose. We forget that we are all made in the image of god we are born to follow our bliss and encourage others to do the same. So whether it is your excess weight, it is your issues and problems just surrender them to source. Remember the emotional baggage will become the excess weight better to leave it to the God than carry it with you 😉

You can also visit a certified Pranic healer for Pranic Weight loss and Body Sculpting program. As I said I had my own journey with weight loss and self image here is a sneak peak :). We are not forever stuck with a fat, obese body the moment we choose to let go of our weight the transformation begins 🙂

I will send a short visualization meditation to all the readers who will comment on this blog 🙂 – Much Love Sargam

Sharing a lovely meditation for weightloss with all of you

Crystals for Weightloss

This pouch has 7 chosen crystals specially to aid Weightloss and emotional detox. This is curated specially for the 21 Days Spiritual Weight Loss and Emotional Detox Workshop participants.

The crystals are thoroughly cleansed and energized with personal programming by Sargam.

Along with the pouch you will receive a link to the instruction video from Sargam

May28

Meditation an Art n Science

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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“The flowering of love is MEDITATION.” Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is awesome to write this blog as there are so many people who want to meditate and want to do it the right way. Meditation is a new style statement among “spiritual boomers” .Medical and psychological benefits of meditation have also made it an attractive activity 🙂

As I myself have gone through a similar journey just like you are right now I can understand how genuine the queries of us beginners are. There are also so many schools of thoughts on the ways to meditate that most of us get overwhelmed. Mindfulness Meditation, Walking Meditation, Mantra Meditation, Vipasanna meditation, Kundalini Meditation, Silent Meditation, Chakra Meditation,Sleeping Meditation and there are several techniques which you may have heard or tried 🙂

Meditation is not a technique it is a gentle flowering of your own personality. Meditation is when you decide to sit with your own self , when you are in your own company which initially is not very comfortable. Usually when we sit to meditate very first time we are in an anticipation of strange experiences………. enlightenment, zero thought zone, spiritual flashes 🙂 it happened with me and I am sure you would have also got into these traps.

However once you sit with yourself initially there is a lot of noise within, lot of verbal communication 🙂 which is perfectly okay. People complain I am not able to stop self talk and it distracts me. This is very normal we are not used to sitting doing nothing and our mind has become conditioned to being fed with worries, anxiety, work and to dos and next what?

When you SIT to meditate all this happens

“Meditation is an Art as well as a Science” you need to be creative and logical at the same time so I am sharing some golden nuggets which have worked for me. You can follow any technique but if you use these steps it will help you with better connectivity with self.

1. Be comfortable with being with SELF

Initially start with a 5 -10 minutes being with SELF (I AM within) you can always increase the time once you are comfortable. When I say being with yourself try to understand that whatever you think you are is just a projection of you. Your name, your body, your house , your clothes, your designation, your family etc..whatever is YOURS is not YOU. You are much more than what your ego has made you associate with.

2. Do some Physical Exercise

This helps open up your nadis for the flow of energy . Short 15 minutes of joint mobilization exercises are good. You can also follow the exercise schedule in the attached twin hearts meditation link.

3. Choose a Mantra/Affirmation

Once you are comfortable being with self start with a Mantra/affirmation (eg: I AM Love) the Mantra or Affirmation will help you center, it gives the monkey mind something to play so while the mind is occupied with the mantra the other thoughts are no longer in focus.Mantras are powerful words that also help to cleanse the energy body and break down thought forms/patterns.

4. Deep cleanse your subtle bodies and eliminate negative thought form/patterns

Use the Mantra OM /Amen/Ameen (Aum is the primordial sound of the universe) to cleanse the energy bodies feel the vibrations starting from the heart moving out of the crown encircling your entire body and also piercing into the energy body and other subtle bodies (there are layers of invisible bodies, emotional, astral, mental ..). Intent to disintegrate thought forms , negative patterns etc. Repeat this till you feel lighter preferably 11 times.

Meditation is actually silencing your mind to listen to your inner being. It is a deep connection with your own soul/spirit/being. While using the mantra focus on the gap, it is the gap where the magic lies. This gap is where you can manifest your biggest dreams it just takes 17 seconds of focus for manifesting your reality.

You can always light a lamp and incense , also choose a suitable time and place to meditate it just helps reduce the time to start your meditation. There is no right way find your own way and let it flower.Based on which technique appeals to you , you can begin however meditation is a process and it will grow and evolve with you.

My personal favorite is Twin Hearts Meditation by Master Choa Kok Sui Meditation on Twin Hearts Mp3

I would love to hear your experiences. Much Love – Sargam

May19

There is No Secret Ingredient :) – Self Love

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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The easiest way to practice spirituality in every day life is to love yourself. SELF LOVE is the new Prayer, a new Mantra , a new Meditation ”

When I was in my 2nd grade that is the time I remember I used to have so much fun looking myself in the mirror I could just be standing and looking my self for hours, making different hair styles, looking at my smile and making lots of faces 🙂 I also loved crying in front of the mirror and would smile seeing how I looked so beautiful even when I cried 😉

I was my own personal favorite 🙂 and always treated myself special but somehow it was hard for my friends to understand this act of self love, and they thought I was not humble. Gradually I learned that it was not good to tell people if you were good at anything upright as it was considered as being proud or boastful. I saw my parents rarely speaking about our accomplishments in front of us as they feared we would be flying on clouds of pride. Appreciation was rare and if some family/ friends complimented we would deflect the appreciation or shy away.

As I grew up I lost touch with the “self love” aspect and gradually it manifested as a self negating internal conversation of “I am not as good as xyz, her hair was better than mine, her grades are better, she sings better than me”. This constant negative self talk resulted in weight gain, dull complexion and poor self image. I started meeting people who reassured I am not so good and need to really work on my self physically and emotionally.

Even in my relationship I had tough time proving my worth 😦 but with time gradually I realized it was nothing to do with others but it was a reflection of my own thoughts and my own poor self image. In life we are all faced with tough situations testing times and if you instead of feeling victim of the external situations, you are able to look within and introspect you will understand how these people and situations are only a reflection . Thanks to my calling of Pranic Healing that helped me restore my faith in me 🙂 it made me believe I AM SPECIAL !!

From Buddha to the Hollywood actor Johny Depp has spoken about how important it is to love your self. A person who cannot love himself or inflicts himself/herself of pain is responsible for inflicting pain to others. If you love yourself you will understand and appreciate the individuality of others ; you will be able to respect and appreciate others with an open heart.

We live our life thinking our selves to be average and keep looking for some secret ingredient to make us special without realizing that the secret ingredient was always with us 🙂

Self Love helps us connect with our own self and trust me when I write this I write out of experience , the first time I stood in front of the mirror dropping all judgement about me and looked into my eyes there was so much I wanted to say to my self. There was so much love , so much acceptance I had deprived myself of. I had feared been alone by myself and I was just craving for someone else to love me, approve me, compliment me. After a couple of minutes there was this knowing that I was not just what I could see in the mirror I was so much more and it was a big revelation. I just silently promised I will again bring back that child in me. I am Special and I did not need an assurance or approval for thinking this.

I know most of us have been in situations where we do not have time for ourselves, we are too busy in caring and loving others waiting for them to love us but if we continue this for a long time we will become emotionally bankrupt. Self Love is the way to maintain your bank balance of love.

Some quick questions to check your Self Love Quotient

1. Can you take up compliments with gratitude without deflecting them? Yes

2. Do you feel people who speak about their accomplishments are boasting? No

3.Can you spend time with yourself alone? Yes

4.Is your conversation with self something negative (comparative/self hating/fault finding)?? No

5.Can you see your self in the mirror and smile n feel happy or you feel sad? Yes

If your answers are opposite to what are written then you need to work on your Self Love quotient 🙂

Tips to Cultivate Self Love

1. Pay Gratitude (maintain a gratitude journal for the little things you like about yourself)

2. Smile whenever you see the mirror n give a mental compliment

3.Go out alone and treat yourself

4.Pursue a passion

5. Develop a positive self talk habit

In the world where we teach humility and encourage to keep our happiness on least priority ; Self Love is the only savior – Love Sargam

Mar25

Cancer : MIND BODY and SOUL Connection

Posted on March 25, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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“Cancer” is a dreaded disease and there is a lot of pain and suffering involved within the family where there is a cancer patient. Cancer can be physical, emotional or karmic in origin or a combination of them. It is a big setback for any family where a family member is detected cancer it also causes an emotional isolation and it further degenerates the patient.

The whole idea of this blog is to create hope and faith in life and the power of intentions .We have recently seen many cancer survivors like Anita Moorjani, Yuvraj Singh, Lisa Ray, Manisha Koirala,Barbara Mori, Robert Di Niro and the list is really long…..so if they can make it so can anyone else.

Cancer is a term used for diseases in which abnormal cells divide without control and are able to invade other tissues. Cancer cells can spread to other parts of the body through the blood and lymph systems.

Cancer is not just one disease but many diseases. There are more than 100 different types of cancer. Most cancers are named for the organ or type of cell in which they start – for example, cancer that begins in the colon is called colon cancer; cancer that begins in melanocytes of the skin is called melanoma.

Cancer types can be grouped into broader categories. The main categories of cancer include:

Carcinoma – cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues that line or cover internal organs. There are a number of subtypes of carcinoma, including adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma,squamous cell carcinoma, and transitional cell carcinoma.
Sarcoma – cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
Leukemia – cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes large numbers of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.
Lymphoma and myeloma – cancers that begin in the cells of the immune system.
Central nervous system cancers – cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord.

The abnormal division of cells happens when the mind is unable to control production of cells and these additional cells attach themselves to an organ/tissue/bone/ etc. Chemotherapy and other such treatments heal the physical organ affected but the cause is highly psychological .Pranic Psychotherapy and Physical healing when complimented with the medical treatment is very effective.

Negative emotions such as anger, resentment or hatred over activate and dirty the energy centers which in long term manifest as cancer.There is a proper protocol available in Pranic Healing and a number of testimonials are also available online. There are a number of cases handled in various Pranic Healing Centers the testimonials can be found online as well.

Pranic Healing Testimonial for Cancer

Video Testimonial for Lung Cancer

Here are a few tips on helping the body heal through Cancer. Each step is equally important.

1. Avoid wearing any crystals/gems stones: while cancer is present in the body. These crystals, whether in the form of jewelry or in the home, should be wrapped in silk and placed away until the body is completed healed. 1

2. Proper Diet: Avoid eating pork, catfish and eel. These foods are energetically very dirty and should be avoided at this time. It is a good idea to have a proper diet to help accelerate the healing process. If possible become vegetarian and avoid eating yang fruits and anything else that creates heat in the body.

3. Proper Emotion: Avoid long-standing anger, resentment and hatred. Forgiveness, peace, joy, warmth, love, kindness should all be encouraged. Regularly practicing Meditation on Twin Hearts can assist with this. This meditation flushes out dirty emotional energy and produces inner peace, harmony and happiness when practiced regularly.

4. Drink a high quality Rose Oil. This oil has cleansing effects on the body. It transmutes the dirty energy, allows life force to flow smoothly through the meridians and chakras helping the body to normalize itself. Due to its pink prana it also encourages emotions of love, joy, forgiveness. The Rose Oil must be of a high grade. Put 1 drop of rose oil in 1 L of water.

5. Practice Forgiveness. It is necessary to bless and forgiveness those who have hurt you, or you may have hurt. This has a powerful healing effect on the body. Talk to your PranicHealer about doing a Forgiveness Meditation.

6. Neutralize the negative Karma. Find an organization that you would like to donate and/or volunteer regularly. Talk to your Pranic Healer about how doing service can neutralize negative karma and improve the quality of one’s life.

7. Receive proper medical and proper Pranic Healing treatment.

Source:http://pranichealingla.com/healing-information-on-cancer/

Life is beautiful and should be lived to the best. God is all possibility and anyone who decides to change his fate/medical condition can do it. – The Mantra is “LOVE YOURSELF and LOVE OTHERS “

Stay Happy and Healthy – Love Sargam

Mar11

Your Emotions – Making You Sick

Posted on March 11, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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Having worked with more than 250 subjects in healing in last one year on physical level the most common argument you hear is “I have a physical ailment because of an external factor (change in weather/ met with an accident / ate something / I have an allergy etc etc… the reasons are limitless.

We have to understand that the physical ailment is a symptom of the hidden emotional issues that reside within for years.

Let us take the example of Addiction to cigarette alcohol and intoxicants – Causing cancer tumors etc:

Any person under perfect circumstances in life will never use an abusive substance for his body. Further cancer and tumors is a phenomenon where body makes more cells than required and they attach to the weakest organ of the body. Why will more cells be generated than required is when the control system the brain is messed up by unwanted secretions/impulses. The trigger/impulse is created by the mind and it feeds on emotions. So do you think smoking or drinking is a cause for your poor health? Hmm yes but more than that the toxic emotions are.

The specific emotions and their effects on the body.

Similarly something as abstract as a physical injury due to an accident is also to a great extent an emotional outcome. How ?? If we are mindful in our actions we can skip 95% of chances of being a part of accidents , it is only when we are emotionally not balanced we can trip, we can be hit or injured. 🙂

98% of the population is leading an acrimonious life full of negativity. We concentrate on what is not important in life. The purpose of life is to create abundance in all areas, to live in happiness to experience being.

The media sells anxiety, the government puts control, the society creates pressure and the result is a poor quality of life. We are all running an endless race 🙂 I think it is time for us to stop and think were we born to experience suffering , if we are made in the image of god, if god resides in each of us I am sure we were born for a greater purpose. If we can let go of negativity in life and embrace a positive lifestyle we will live a better life:

A short movie trailer of movie E Motion

“Lose what needs to be lost , to find what needs to be found”

Pranic Psychotherapy, EFT, Forgiveness, Tithing,Shadow Work, and meditation and other techniques that work on clearing emotional blockages are found effective 🙂 for most of the chronic ailments.

Emotional Body Chart – Lousie Hay

Feb13

Understanding Your Shadow Self

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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“The higher the sun rises, the less shadow it casts.” – Lao Tzu

This has been an interesting topic for me as for few years with careful observations into people life, their behaviors and psychology , I realized that every person has a dark side to him/her. This is the person lesser known to people around and is also less familiar to the person himself/herself. With years of practice they have mastered the art of concealing this shadow self. This shadow is always there with us and I am sure we hear it during our weakest moments. Understanding our shadow self is a journey that take us to the heart of the duality that exists within each one of us. It is the split between the higher self and the lower nature; a split between emotional pain and spiritual liberation.

Our ego likes to think that we are inherently good human beings and we don’t dwell in any negativity. But then one day when somebody hurts us, we go overboard with anger and resentment. In another situation, if we experience failure or someone unexpectedly points a finger at us, we are suddenly filled with fear, confusion and guilt. Our first instinct in such situations usually is to defend ourselves and protect our identity.

This storehouse of emotions in your shadow has an immense role to play in your relationship with yourself, particularly in setting yourself free. The world is simply a mirror, reflecting back to us our own inner state. If you are overflowing with love for yourself and others, you’ll experience people who are feeling this love and their love is reflected back towards you. On the other hand, if all you see in your outer world is disharmony, anger and fights, then there must be an inner battle happening deeper inside. Every aspect of our self that we have denied, every thought and feeling that we think are unacceptable eventually makes itself known in our lives. We have mastered the art of locking our feelings (negative) and we consciously ignore them and move forward in life. These unattended feelings and tendencies then emerge when we least expect them and destroy our lives, reputation and hard work in minutes. The shadow is very much a part of you, if we can accept it and love it without being judgmental or resentful it can lead to deeper understanding of your soul. So many of us have walked the hall of shame due to these shadows taking over our lives and made us live a life of misery and pain for years.

Awareness and acceptance is the only way to improve. We can start confronting and dealing with our shadow selves in our day to day life by being aware; a short Q n A for our shadow aspect can help us understand what needs to be worked on as nicely illustrated by a friend Teal Scott (she carries out shadow house series) For any strong negative thought just go ahead asking the following questions in the order it best suits: 1. What does it mean to you? 2. Why will that be so bad? Once you drill down you will realize the negative thought /strong dislike or hate for a person or the action is closely linked with your shadow self and needs to be worked within rather than asking or expecting the other person to change. As a next article if you like we can do a sample shadow work; feel free to post your queries and will be happy to work it out together – Love Sargam

http://www.global-change-awareness.com/be-the-change/embracing-shadow-self/

Jan21

Standards do not define you ; YOU ARE A WOMAN

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Sargam Mishra

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I have always been really happy being born as a girl child to my parents it was like the best thing that happened to them 🙂 . We are two sisters and our parents did their best to raise us with good values and best of education and encouraged us to practice our free will to choose what we wanted to aspire for.

My parents ensured that we get the best of education and we went to the best of school in the city. Being a girl or a woman felt to be really a gift from god and I still feel it is today. As I moved from school to college I started observing a lot of change around may be I started paying more attention to the discrimination that my friends told they felt in their families specially growing up with their brothers. I was a lot into my dream world since child hood ;drawing, painting, dancing and music was what I enjoyed after my studies. My sister enjoyed helping my mom in kitchen and my mom insisted that I also help her as when I got married the kitchen would be my priority 🙂

I never realized about these things till I was suppose to get married that even with a wonderful education background, a good paying job there was always a scrutiny on will I be a good Wife/Mother/Daughter in Law?? and I am sure this is with so many others like me….

A woman has to look good, speak good, keep the house good , keep the family happy , be sociable …………and the list is endless once all this is taken care she can work and do what she likes 🙂 The report card of our progress always has a scope of lots of improvement 🙂 as we have an impossible expectation from ourselves.

There are standards that have been defined to evaluate a woman on every parameter that society thinks is a must do. Sadly most of us are still struggling to prove our worth to our own families by trying to balance the work and home. I have been working closely with women and as I myself is balancing both I know there can never be full justice to both these roles always. But this does not decrease our own self worth ; “We cannot make others happy if We are not happy”.

We need to define our own self worth and if people love you they will understand and make changes in their life and if they don’t there is no reason for you to think so much 🙂 We also have to stand for each other so wherever you are help and encourage women to shine and grow and be happy; we need that love and support to discover our own self.

A lovely article by Teal Swan ; it is not only women in India but across globe facing similar challenges

Work and Womanhood

Dec11

Belief Versus Knowing – Manifesting Made EASY :)

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Sargam Mishra

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I had a brief discussion sometime back with a dear one and yes I was just so impressed with these two words that I immediately put it on Facebook.I received good response to that post but then there was more to the meaning of these two power words that we use very often in the spiritual world. I was able to link it to an understanding Why few people are able to manifest easily than others. And I wanted to infact was excited to just share it with Likeminds family 🙂

Okay let us begin with a small explanation of these two words:

‘Believing’ means that you have chosen a truth, but ‘knowing’ means that you are certain about that truth.

2. ‘Believing’ always leaves room for doubt, but ‘knowing’ leads to confidence.

3. ‘Believing’ is blind trust, while ‘knowing’ is trusting with awareness.

Now you must be thinking okay SO WHAT? I already know the above 😛 keeping it simple and moving on to the crux of manifesting;

Getting past of belief system into knowing brings you closer to making your dreams come true. It works under all circumstances whether it is healing your body, healing your relationships, making your dreams come true and making your life the way you want to.

How does this work? It is all about moving your thoughts from wishing to have -> to believing you have -> to knowing you have it.

So you can make it happen by a simple response I KNOW that is it the most simple formula for manifesting anything and everything in life!!