Neha's Notebook

  WRITING LETTERS – AN ANCIENT CRAFT Writing letters is a process that is as ancient as the human.   Unlike humans, bees or tigers don’t write letters. Neither do chimpanzees or dinosaurs. (I’m not sure about this!)   Writing letters is a brilliant way to express what you want to say.   Letters not only help us to transmit messages or communicate information, but also to record our day-to-day experiences and thoughts in the form of written narratives.   The first Mughal emperor wrote a series of letters in his diary Baburnama to document his life journey.   Persians used to transmit war-related messages via the pigeon posts, tying their letters to the necks of their homing pigeons and fluttering them away while the trained birds carefully delivered the letters to their respective destination.   Beethoven wrote love letters to an imaginary character he called as his immortal beloved.   Then arrived the era of postcar...

Whenever you feel unaccepted, unlovable or unimportant by someone, anyone, for being who you are, as it is, then it is futile to either try to make them accept you or even to keep dwelling in anger at them for not being able to accept you. The best thing you can do herein, is to first accept yourself exactly the way you are right now and secondly, to forgive the one who couldn't accept you, probably because they didn't have the ability to accept that particular attribute in themselves too. They became a medium offering you suffering at first, however, once you learn the lesson, they can be viewed as a medium offering you the freedom from your own mind too! Thank the universe and let them go! Neha's Notebook

Video Transcript Each and every feeling; each and every movement of emotion I experience; whether positive or negative, whether good or bad, whether right or wrong, is a reality for me, because I know that I’m experiencing it. It might not be a reality for the other individuals. The other individuals might not be able to accept it. And they don’t even need to. Only I need to accept who I am and what I feel. So, the first thing is to embrace my feelings. Whatever I feel right now, I totally embrace it as being a reality for me. If a particular feeling has been provided to me by the universe, then, there must be an infinitely significant and universal purpose for this. And so, trusting the process of life, I accept the arrival of this feeling in the guest house of my mind. It can stay here as long as it wants to. It can leave this space whenever it wants to. But until the time it is here, I am willing to be courageous enough to be the space hol...