SYNCHRONICITY OF INTENTIONS

We are so caught up in the external knowledge... that we at times fail to connect with our inner awareness.

Conscious awareness is immense power in ones hands Our thoughts are intentions , inseparable with everything that exists ...

But one blocks it all with anxiety , discontent or other negative emotions..intentions both good and evil can be powerful , but  collective consciousness of intentions can be even more so .... so we have the choice to choose wisely and create beauty of synchronized creative patterns..

                    The choice of any creativity  is, was and will always be with us .... choose well !
Savvy Raj
Contact  savvy11@gmail.com

In loving gratitude ...

Today and everyday just this moment …

 Let me start the day by counting my blessings instead of time,

Let me remember to send out at least one small gesture of kindness

Let me remember to express my appreciation of someone’s skill

Let me respect the power within to envision a larger good.

Let me seek thoughts that bring peace and contentment.

Let me love with hope and trust the knowing

Let me remember to truly give a listening to an elder in my life

Let me realize the joy of sharing of positivity around me with my words.

Let me stretch my thoughts to being accepting of another’s vision

Let me sense the beauty of this world I live in and around me

Let me be grateful to the knowledge I have and will receive.

Let me acknowledge with humility the supreme that manifests creatively.

Let me revel in the wonder of innocence and bow in reverence of divine energy.

 Let me see the divine in you enough to fathom   because you are… I am!

 Let me give a hand in lifting another up

 Let me remember to end the day by counting my blessings instead of sheep! 

Thoughts for my daughter  J 

With Love

Mother

Walk the path ...

My reflections on this beautiful picture....

Sun kissed leaves shine like gold
Majestic  tall trees lined with wisdom untold
A winding woody path so green
 emerges in between ...

It beckons you onto a  journey to the unknown
Yet with the  radiant light of the sun leading you on
You know for sure you will never lose your way
 Basking in the beautiful morning suns ray ....

 Walk the path ... befriend  nature and dare 
 To accept the experiences, it's ready to share
 Live this moment, do not leave it for another day
awaiting when the sun shall  shine this glorious way ...

Cos Life is so much like this unknown path my friend 
 Make the journey as the sunshine around the bend 
Trust yourself to be all you can be 
 And perhaps, its awaiting you ... that which you wish to see.  

 Savvy 


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Dance of the heaven and the earth ....

Watch the heavenly dance 
   the rhythmic connects ....
of the  Twirling  clouds ,in swirling sky 
  and the opal blue oceans whirling waves . 
 A sight to behold ...

Across the horizon  
  the two shall merge
as one moving in the flow 
  of  a divine connection  
in a dance of the heaven and the earth ....

Savvy 

And the flowers bloom ....

Magnificent Sun! 

Another day dawns!

Across the distant horizon resplendent in all its radiant hues sun shines on its blessings and bejewels the sky. The leaves unfurl themselves a little bit more ….with strength and energy and basking with confidence in its radiance. So glad the bitter cold of the night has moved away, they glide lovingly content in this moment that glows with warmth!

 The buds awaken themselves and bloom willingly only to reveal their astoundingly tender beauty. And soulfully they turn seeking the brilliance of the magnificent sun …catch them dancing the dance of beauty and grace that’s shimmering in its rays…Maybe they know well the time they have with the sun is precious and know they must live it with all their might ….and behold it’s a breath-taking sight !

Who better to seek to understand the preciousness of time ….  to understand the wisdom of time than from  a tender flower a midst its unabashed beauty …!

 Time is precious !Fill your day brightly ! Live the moments ….Make it yours to love  !Shine and sparkle some more !

Savvy Raj 

A glimpse of heaven on earth!

In the yonder the sun glistens 'like gold '  And besides me are flowers in manifold hues of Pink jostling up a treat of wonder and awe for my keen eyes.The green of the leaves envelop me in calm as I listen attentively to the rustling foliage ...

It's Dawn....  Beautiful light!

Daybreak You are a breath taking Sight..

How I Love the way the blue and white sky-sublimes your bright orange hues to a beautiful Serene cream  and  I watch in awe as it's rippled undertones splashes delightfully  across the mighty sky  and the sea....and  the river of the molten Yellow glistening like gold lava..... tinting the Sea so sensually in all shades of the heaven and earth.

Indeed... A glimpse of heaven on earth! 

Savvy Raj 

IT’S A HI TECH LIFE !

IT’S A HI TECH LIFE 

Touch a button and everything is downloaded or uploaded.   Isn't that the trend everywhere now whatever the field this push button convenience seems to be taking over, whether it’s publishing, the kitchen, home
front luxuries or travel or communications entertainment etc?  This is convenience at its best where there is
minimal or no effort and the result is plain to see whatever happened to no pain no gain ....anyway I am not complaining here, hi techno gizmos you are most welcome.

The thing that is a cause for concern is that with all this easy way of living that technology brings forth there is a paradigm shift in the thinking of this new generation of hi tech users who are so hooked up to these gadgets of convenience that they expect it to be so in all others areas of life too... The emotional ,physical ,personal aspects of life cannot somehow become machine like and that's how it is seeming to be.

Many are aware of their growing sense of inadequacies  in mutual relationships.  The lack of care and concern due to time, and work pressure is somehow seen to be adjusted and neutralized by hi tech gadgets in our households.  So much that the person lets the products of convenience make up for his personal presence or absence in family situations and
experiences. Similarly if one notices most students are averse to listening to another  and taking in information for another as their attention span for personal  communication is overridden by convenience of Internets chats and social networks and group calls so why bother.

What happened to good old teaching actually the educationists to prefer going tech savvy as they feel that they would be lagging behind otherwise.

The issue for concern is larger than all these little details slowly machines have replaced humans in most spheres of life.  The advent of machines is real and right there in front of us.

Every house in the city and even villages are connected with Internets,so there is a network of  telecommunications system without any hazard control measure in place.

In most of the developing countries the health standards and safety for mobile towers, radiations hazards in private personal and public spaces are totally disregarded.  People seem to be more interested in getting the job done quickly... with lack of time stress levels are on a all time high and no one seems to be bothered if there are reports published once in a while by some concerned individuals about the dangers of radiations from all these devices of modern technology.  The page is turned over with not even a response as no one seems to have the time. ' Let someone else to do the job or let’s wait and see if it’s really that bad or so far I haven’t experienced anything. So why bother.'is the care a damn attitude prevalent across most sections of the thinking population.

Lack of empathetic responses makes us more and more mechanical in our approach and we seem to be losing the humane side of us.  This is exactly what is happening on a large scale.  People are growing indifferent and unapproachable, shrewd and over efficient for a purpose.  There is  no genuineness left in most relationships as well, everything is for what can I make from this.

So whether its education or otherwise the trend is to conveniently download information and present your work as done instead of contemplative thought and deep understanding.  There are very few individuals who are not caught in this web of technology and their numbers is dwindling...

It’s time we wake up to core values or they would be lost forever.  An e card will wish you on your birthday and a cake and roses will be sent to you by post but there will be no one to eat it with.  Just you and your gadgets how about it?

Savvy Raj

Success: Practice , Perseverance, Patience,Purpose

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but rising every time we fall.... Confucious

To achieve success , you got to persevere till u get it right , sometimes u falter, again and again , but with each time you do , you challenge your creative genius to greater depths... you've got to be willing to start over and over again ...eventually the actions, movements  that resonate with you grow , and  you learn to let go the ones that needn't be there ....The point is that  in every success story  that is a treat to watch or hear , there are many moves that  paves the way and yet may not make it to  the final moves....And yes its good to remember that not everything we do is wonderful , there are always shades and degrees ... they are necessary  to accept and let them happen as how else will you know how far you have progressed .

Purpose ...
Success is an interesting journey and not a destination . Success is truly sensed when we find the purpose and work towards it passionately. The more you sense the bigger picture ... you lovingly loose yourself in something that is bigger than yourself... the greater your energy and the closer you are to where you want to be ..

Practice ... is an invitation to welcome  perfection ! Its an invite to be able to dance the dance of life  perfectly your way ... its a matter of convictions, but the more you practice , the more you want to and less it tires you .A sure fire way is to steady a wandering mind , improve focus, as it brings you closer to the subtler and the finer sensations ,with greater practice greater the refinement of movement the better the moves ... almost as if spontaneity is also not random ! Remember talent is a starting point , but practice makes it better!

Perseverance...An ability to not lose hope but stretch oneself a bit more each time ....never giving up , no matter how many times you feel like it.   To reap internal and external rewards of achievement  this self restraining quality is a backbone of survival  against major disappointments and adversities ... including the learning curves that most achievers go through at one point or the other .  After all ...life persists !

Patience....A successful person  must develop a quality of endurance that can sustain itself without provocation , almost like a level of forbearing without negativity . Its a natural state of mindfulness that its conducive for effective advancement of learning processes and well organized thought flows . Patience creates the quality of confidence while impatience breeds fear of failure , disappointments. The art of patience is a method of taming the thoughts whenever they become too unruly worrying about outcomes emanating from  false expectations  and thus  creating a positive approach towards success ....
And  most of all strive to bring value .... and success follows!


 Success is within each of us ... waiting for us to make a move towards it :)
 Savvy

Accept your vulnerability

Strength in the flexibility

There is a quality in the clay that has not been fired,that makes it yielding,giving and supple enough to allow itself to be remolded, this is the quality of flexibility ...unlike a fired clay that may look strong but in its rigidity lies its break- ability!  ...

Let go

There is a great inner transformation whenever there is an ability to let go.Its a process of sensing, feeling,owning and then letting go.Healing begins the moment you can start this process, and you have the opportunity to heal yourself every time you breathe ...after all how long can you hold your own breath.... you have to it let it go.

 Life is never just black or white

 Accept the colors,the shades and the tones.The contrasts and differences are as necessary as the similarities. Open yourself up to experience the horizon of your consciousness .


 Knowledge at times has an ability to stifle itself bringing  the ego into play , but true wisdom lies in the awareness that any learning is only a path to more awakenings. 

Sense beyond seeing

There is always more than what meets the eye ....

If you are shy .... there might be strength of humility hidden in there 

If you are timid .... there might be a caring soul .

If you are reserved ....there  might be  the strength in the silence

If you are soft spoken . there  might be  strength in the undertones

If you are daring  there may be a need to prove

If you are angry  there may be an unresolved past

If you are greedy there may be an un -satiated hunger

 If you are tensed there may be a need to slow down

 If you are filled with hatred there may be a need for  great love...

And if you accepting of your vulnerability,there is a       spirit of courage !

Gratitude is a great attitude

Accepting your vulnerability is acknowledging yourself  and being in ever loving  Gratitude  for what you were,are and will be!

Savvy Raj

http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-slideshow/seekers/self-improvement/accept-your-vulnerability?

Subtle grace of transpersonal love

When you reach a realm where its beyond personal self that matters ,  feelings are transmuted to a stage where there are no expectation from another , or your self , where there are no boundaries of definition , where every connection  is a give and sharing  much  beyond the taking with unconditional love and grace in every action .

Being in touch with ones most conscious self, where there are no disappointments ,failures , stress or pressure of approvals or disapproval... When you allow your body mind and spirit to feeling alive to every moment that life has to offer , in a nonjudgmental space  and acknowledging the divinity in your self and other beings.

Universally this stream of unconditional love is flowing in all beings , its just a matter of time , and energy  to bring this to conscious awareness .

Savvy

Walk...Light & Easy

                                              

Every once in a while I walk at the local park. I have been witness to the gait and posture of so many patrons of the park, some regulars, some occasional entrants or whom I call mood walkers.

In the course of time I have been witness to a variety of walking personalities. I would say that most people walk with a purpose and their gait shows the keenness to be fit. But age and gender considerations apart I have seen a common gait adopted by most of them. There is certain heaviness in their walk. It is as if the stress inside is imploring them to push themselves ,faces constrained, arms hung, legs heavy almost stomping up a march on the ground accompanied  at times by a vacant , grim expression almost lost  as if left without a hint of smile in their hearts.

 I do believe that life is about great many things to be achieved and done, most of all it’s about living light and easy. Let your walk flow from pace to pace, strengthen it with fluidity in your movements, intention and purpose. Make your presence feel easy on others. Ease up your walk and grace up your life. Walk fast or slow with lightness in your stride. 

Feel your inner light and help lighten your outside world.  Just take care not to transfer your negative emotions on to the people around you. Instead let yourself be connected to the earth being a medium of energy. Whenever u realise there is a tendency of heaviness anywhere in the body, usually the shoulders or in the legs, you will notice that your gait is affected.  Simple exercise in awareness is to keep sensing the ground you are walking and realise that it is taking your bodyweight. Be thankful to nature for being there beneath you as a firm and supportive ground for you to walk and feel the air around you that you breathe in to live and sense the beating heart and walking feet that carry you as you go. Feel the moment, straighten the slump of the shoulder and open your heart and life by regaining your natural posture so that the sight of you becomes an inspiration to someone else.  It’s simple genuine attempt to be at ease by replacing and, transforming your strained patterns of movements with grace.  Rest assured if you allow yourself to come this far into positive space your light is shining through as beacon to others much in need.

Anyone can improve upon their posture in a matter of minutes

 A few simple tips for a better and natural walking posture.

1. As you walk breathe and tighten your stomach inwards and gently feel your belly moving back towards your spine. Do not arch your back.
2. Let your shoulders be relaxed and down but slightly back and head held high, keeping the chin up and parallel to the ground. Make sure your head doesn’t bobble around too much as you walk as that would strain your neck and disturb your balance.
3. As you walk feel all the lower body muscles … i.e. the thighs, hips, legs working together. When you utilize all the muscles and sense it working you are less prone to overstraining any one muscle group and thus can avoid injuries or soreness.
4. Make sure you keep your toes pointed forward as you walk … as this will keep your gait stable and balanced. Let each foot land on its heel and spring to the next step from your toes.
5. Make sure you don’t have a clenched fist (it could elevate blood pressure) but just loose and partially closed curl.  Keep your elbows close to the body.
6. Avoid pumping with your hands high up as you walk as it does not help propel you.
7. Keep looking forward 10 to 20 feet ahead and not down as you walk.
8. Finally maintaining a firm centre of gravity brings on a great walking posture.

Most importantly care to mindfully replace negative thought patterns as soon as you sense them with positive and happy thoughts and feel the lightness in your stride and in your life .

Have a healthy walk everyday !

 Savvy

Tags : Posture, Natural  walking posture

 

BRIDGE OF JOY : DANCING

           True freedom and liberation is when we start to bridge the culture ,socio economic,differences we have due to mindset, location, or space. Had the opportunity to experience this first hand recently when I had the privilege through a very dear friend to  facilitate a Dance Movement workshop in Chennai  for some underprivileged children .It was a motley group of about twenty  kids, many of them around 10 to 16 years adolescents.

When I undertook this task , I was aware that  I had no idea what it would be like, to introduce  ballroom dance movements to these children but went ahead with it positively aiming to let it take course and develop  as naturally as possible .Most of these children, were quite an interactive bunch and clearly more than  ready to mingle , that put me at ease as suddenly I just knew what  my next step could be ... I decided to get them to participate as a group and then in pairs as I went about explaining  & demonstrating a few steps of some Latin and Ballroom dances .

 Clearly visible was the spirit of joy as these children and the few adults who were briefly ready to let out their inner child ,intermingled unabashedly with the power of positivity  through the medium of dance ... As I played  & danced along with the children  , one young boy (a keen learner I had observed )stepped out of the group and asked me if I would dance with him. To make it interesting to the group further I told him I will do so if he agrees to to do the Dappan Koothu ...( their folk dance style seen in Tamil films) to my Samba moves... And yes it totally synched as we heard a resounding applause and cheer from all around ! Music and dance is the language of the soul and  who knows it better than those who sing and dance themselves ... 

The beautiful time spent with these vibrant and happy go lucky kids will be entrenched in me , they gave me so much  without their knowing!!!The joy of sharing , the spirit of happiness and most of all the hope to rise above the apparent and evolve for the better.... In those precious moments I spent with them, I witnessed unconditional love and affection and positive connection from these brave-hearts ... in deep gratitude and with a thankful and blissful  heart I look ahead to this new year 2013...
A little bit of sensitivity,enthusiasm and a touch of love and care ...goes a long long way indeed !!!

Oh yes I forgot to mention .... it was truly interesting to say the least, to be able to teach ballroom dancing in Tamil ... But of course dancing  is a nonverbal language of its own ... and that's what we spoke that day
Hope to catch up with them soon !
Certainly intend  to conduct more such workshops in Mumbai  too... Anyone with ideas do get in touch with me ....
Savvy Raj
danceconcepts@rediffmail.com

Bonding without being bound!

 

There is great integration of the body and mind  and
spirit and healing is real .... there is great science in spirituality.... medicine need not be scientific We now know that  two patients with same illness... same treatment ... have different reactions..












With latest advances  we understand that  its possible to measure molecular actions in the body.  different emotional experiences generate different receptors cells in the body .. these are conversations happening  within the body .in the immune cells , with consciousness. This  singular consciousness remains and that memory moves from body to body... so there is only consciousness  .... that is eternal and not  the body .
well .. the body after all dances to the mind.!
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 We exist because of the existence of others before us and for the existence of others after us  so it is in our well being for us all to get along the best possible way with the others who exist with us now !



 Consciousness affects and effects every where and  resides in every being ... we just need to cultivate timelessness a state of awareness in the form of equanimity .

Savvy

An Act of Compassion ....A Conscious Connect With the Self !

 To my dear child,
 Today you asked me what is GOD?

 In your growing years, many emotional fluctuations of belief and disbelief  will arise from curiosity to concern , from doubt to belief ... questioning the purpose of our existence ... questioning the powers undefined , the supreme-ness of it all ..!!!!
 May my  thoughts  be well scrutinized by you in your quest to answers that resonate to your being . But hope to pass on a share of my simple understanding of the complexities of the undefinable Faith in the name of God!
 To me faith is the hope and strength of divinity in each of us ... ... Without which we cease to exist as living beings .



Acknowledging the presence of  Divine compassion in our lives is about being able to receive as much easily as much as being able to give. 
 

When we are focused on evolving deeper into our spiritual path of awareness , very often the body is neglected ... it could be physically neglected, abused, deprived in more ways than one ,either out of sheer ignorance or due to assumption that austerity and overt practices of discipline over our body will only lead to salvation .








When the very dwelling place of our being  is neglected how are the roots going to dig deeper... wisdom is not intellectual understanding alone ...








 True wisdom is acknowledgement of the divinity in every living being ... being able to understand the union of the heart and the mind , and in the awakening of the wisdom  one finds the balance in the  union of action and thoughts,








 Caring for our body ,is a prerequisite to spiritual growth .. if you don't love yourself ... how can you love others ... eastern philosophies extoll the virtues emotional intelligence over rational thoughts ... when we learn that you and i are simply  one... the connectedness of consciousness becomes easy to unravel . We are able see and to accept the reality of the shades of grey in between the black and white of human behavior .





 



 When we are able to do so , the so called negative traits of reaction ... rebuttal to an action  converts itself to a mindful response with equanimity .
This method invokes a sense of balance in the living being .

Simply adding an element of gratitude to all that we are blessed with will only let us ingrain a spirit of gratefulness in whatever we do and learn to respect and love another being as part of the same source ... AND THAT TO ME IS ....
BEING  HAPPY WHERE YOU  ARE, AS YOU ARE, WITH ALL THAT YOU ARE .... LOVING THE SELF ...AND CARING ENOUGH TO  LOVE THE WORLD AROUND YOU !

AND THEN THE FAITH IN THE GOD -NESS  IN YOU AND ME IS ONE !
Love
Mom

A Share of Kindness

Kindness in words creates confidence.
kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
kindness in giving creates love
LAO-TZU 
                                   

Profound  words of wisdom  from the great master! Always believe that when you share some kindness the well of kindness springs up some more , whether in your thoughts , in your deeds or in stillness too... Whenever you give with  a compassionate heart and the receiver accepts with gratitude and appreciation  , you have both  made a foray knowingly or  unknowingly into the dimension of empathetic living 

 There is great abundance of knowledge to be shared , as knowledge is never limited , it is endless and ever regenerating in itself ... what I perceive to understand enough to confidently boundlessly and gratefully share  with the world  in my own beautiful way will itself become a transformed  knowledge in the hearts of the ones I shared it with.. with the power to change in itself  ...As their interpretation of that knowledge will be according to their creative inputs in understanding that knowledge in their own unique way ... which they will eventually share in their lifetime in their own creative way .


Then the incredible happens !With every sharing there will be  depth and dimensions a new and will pave the path for greater clarity and wisdom . However the choice of walking the path is ones own !
When one shares from the heart there is one simple  thing to realize , the result is always a regeneration of trust ,confidence and love in abundance ....With increasing love there is a decrease of needs and with that there is greater contentment and fulfillment!   

A few things to keep in mind are , share without motive , share without ego, share with  gratitude ! The ones who share with acceptance writ in their hearts are the ones who know the value of letting go  enough to reaps its rewards ! Rewards that cannot be measured by time or days ... as they abound in the infinite wisdom of  a circle of  conscious connections ..
Savvy 
savvy11@gmail.com

Soul Enrichers

Being rich is living your life on your own terms
according  to your possibilities, not your limitations.

  Being a warm heart  is being the caring heart,           with time and love and laughter 

               to spare and  share....

 



Being free is being able to voice the flow of thoughts
without prejudice and restrictions and learning to let go ....



























 Being a child is arising from innocence
and being able to awe the world with just being you












                  Being a daughter is boundless spring of  laughter, life and love for a lifetime

Being a mother is an eversurging well                 
of love warmth and compassion and selflessness

                                                                                       

Dancing on Daddy Toes ... I grew up to be the woman I am ... Thank you Dad 4 you r the one who taught me to appreciate life in all its dancing glory !
Happy Fathers Day ! God Bless Dads!

Being a father is caring and sharing  from where you are
oblivious of the time space and distance






Being a good human  is a helping hand before your
asking








A man of convictions , standing by whats good in this oh so carried away world, rooted to the ground in body mind and spirit .... heart of gold .... I'm blessed to be your sister

Being a perfect stranger can also be a soulful of warmth  and love we can find in the strangest of places

A Perfect Stranger

                                                               
                                                       

Dont know her beyond the dance we shared , but she was there that evening  in Goa in a place they belted out just my kinda music and I
ached to dance the night away , she was a willing partner to my crazy moves...said she never danced this way before .... it certainly didn't seem so  .....:)

And with each of  you dancing souls I cherish  the sharing of the great  moments of undefinable joy ... comfort...care...confidence and love... Dance on and shine some more!