Zoom on Zen #AtoZChallenge #LifeLessons

Zen is not peeling potatoes and thinking about zen. 

Zen is just peeling potatoes.

- Zen Saying

Just like Yoga I came in touch with Zen quite late in life, but ever since it has opened up so much beauty and abundance for me, its almost like having a new soul and a new set of eyes to look at the world and the people around you.

So what is ZEN? Listed below are ten simple things that are Zen:

However I am a firm believer that each person needs to find his/her own Zen. The activity or non-activity, the practice, the thought, the feeling that connects you more intricately to yourself and everyone around you.

As they say in Zen " No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."

We have to accept our place and our time and be at peace with it. The world is greater than us, the cosmos even greater, so while acknowledging our powers we must accept our smallness in it all humbly.

So bring in Zen into your life and see the difference.

YES TO YOGA #AtoZChallenge #LifeLessons

Yoga is not 
bending your spine right

its looking inside

and gaining insight.

I got introduced to Yoga quite late in life, today the whole world raves and rants about it. Even the West which has always looked down upon all thing eastern as regressive has also taken to Yoga as a very positive and enriching practice.

Yoga if understood correctly is not about managing your breath, or weight or waistline it is a lifestyle choice of understanding your body and your universe better.

In today's fast paced living the importance of a healthy mind and healthy attitude towards life is even more important. As they say :

You must meditate for twenty minutes, if you are busy make that one hour.

This can be held true for Yoga also, it could just be deep breathing, stretching your muscles or intricate yoga poses, Yoga will do you a lot of good.

Lot of my great ideas and good thoughts come to me during my Yoga practice. So go ahead do YOGA !!

eXpand Your eXistence #AtoZChallenge #LifeLessons

only some of us live

others mere breathe and exist

so do not resist

expand your existence

and persist.

Is existing mere breathing in and out?
Is it living as per the set norms for your class, gender, race?
What defines us- our strengths or our limitations?

These are some of the existence related questions that we must ask ourselves repeatedly?
are we merely existing or expanding it to its extremes?

Often our comfort zones become so dear to us that we refuse to go beyond them .Our fear of the unknown overpowers our instinct to try newer and better living practices.

So go ahead and expand your existence !