Food and cooking mindfully

Eat be thankful and be happy 

Life has turned around 

Now after CoVID it’s all about food rest sleep nutrition immunity and more 

Calories and carbs worry you though food is about taste the joy of the gift on the plate 

Many have started hating cooking and love online order for food even as late as midnight 

There is Swiggy Zomato to pick up food for you 

Zepto ,Blinkit, instamart all deliver food cooked bakes in minutes 10-30 max

Don’t ask where is the food prepared Swiggy by studying trends of orders have started their own kitchens to serve 

Round the clock food is available. 

Children order diff menus for mom papa and themselves 

Rush to their own rooms to eat and dining table remains the space to only discuss key issues if any 

Be happy you are alive is the new theme of the message 

If kids feed or take care of you it’s a bonus 

If they are polite you are lucky 

If they allow small mercies of sweets you thank God 

My friend wrote to me after I wished him happy 75 - murali I am just lucky but it’s great to be in the 15% men who survive to 75 as he has been given 5 more then normal expectancy for men 

Thank god for every thing the dangerous mobiles and OTT platforms that have brought bad language into the houses.More on that later 

Muralidharan R Nair 

murali04@gmail.com

15:06:22

Seven Common types of Meditation

7 Common types of Meditation

1. Transcendental Meditation: The early days the world was attracted to the meditation technique taught by Maharishi. It was the famous Transcendental Meditation. All the stars across the world loved to be seen doing and practising TM they called.

2. Mindful meditation is the latest fad across the world for famous CEOs and founders of great companies and Startups. Mindfulness covers breathing, mindful eating, mindful speaking, mindful walking also and slowing down to ensure you are doing it rightly at all times. You pay attention to by focusing on what you are thinking and feeling at each moment. In the present moment. You may attempt to concentrate on your thoughts, feelings or sensations.

3- Loving-Kindness Meditation allows one to focus your energy to feel the warmth of love, kindness and other positive feelings. All kindness is definitely positive in its feeling. Loving meditation adds value to your feelings naturally.

4- Zen Meditation allows one to explore the nature of your being. The being of the human being is what adds value. IT prepares the body and mind to be calm in order to open yourself to the nature of the being.

5 Kundalini Yoga increases the person's vitality and consciousness. This practice is a mixture of physical and spiritual meditation using a combination of dynamic movement, breathing, focus and mantra chanting.

6 Spiritual meditation allows your inner self to connect to something deeper than your being. It lets you reflect on your own dealings until you become fully aware of your spiritual being. And reach personal happiness in meditation.

7 Vipassana meditation is a practice that has originated mainly in India and it helps you to transform yourself into a better person through silent and self-observation. Usually, it's a camp that is held for 10 days when the group transforms themselves into better being

From a PIN 

Is your breath smooth?

Is your breath smooth?

Have you paid attention to your breath? How many of us really stop and watch the breath and pay attention to the temperature of the breath moving out or breath going in?

Breath is an important and major component of life, in fact, its life. What are we without breath? Just a bag of bones inside the skin we have as our largest organ. 

Do you know skin also acts as a medium for the exit of toxins from the body? Sweat is one way of excretion of toxins

Breath is another major way to clear out the body of toxins. We breathe out the toxins through a process in the lungs.

Breath is a major connector to the mind. It works as a string for the control of the mind. Check your moods. They are impacted by the mind. The only link to the mind with the body is the breath. 

Breath, when taken slow and steadily, is the secret of relaxation. Fast breathing is a sign of stress. 5- 7 breaths a minute is very relaxed slow in-breath and complete relaxation. Usually we breath 15- 16 breaths a minute in the busy schedule we plan for ourselves.

What is the importance of breath?

Breath is the link to the mind as I just stated here. It helps bring the mind under the control of your body. 

The body also reacts with the moods with the nature of breath. Moods are determined by the nature of your breath. Fast breath is direct of a stressed person. You are scared you breathe fast when relaxed you breath slow deep breaths in.

When breath out is long its a sign of stress being released.

Each breath in refreshes the body and breath out relaxes the body.

Types of breathing techniques:

We have the Ujjayi breath or breath of victory. The breathing is down with a constriction in the epiglottis behind the throat

The bhastrika breath is the bellow breath which cleanses the lungs of the stresses. The bellow breath throws out the stress of the day.

The silent breath in meditation is silent and no sound in the throat or the nose. Its breath in normally through the nose and out through the nose. Unlike this method, the ujjayi breath throws out through the throat and with a sound in the throat.

Use of stoppage of breath is a mode of allowing the mind to relax and catch up with the breath and focus on the breath rather than the thoughts that keep the mind occupied throughout the day.

Taking a longer breath can increase the use of the lung capacity

Lung capacity we discuss in another session. 

Muralidharan R Nair Bangalore 

12th October 2020

The Ps that yield Power

While reading tweets and the replies to tweets interestingly I found the following Ps that have amazing influence in society and who wield the reins of power.  The amount of power they wield  is mind boggling.

#Politicians : The top of my list is the #Politician. Over 50 shades of politicians sit in positions of power and if they are in the #Parliament they can make  break careers of their team of civil servants, #Police officials and members of the #Press today #Personnel of the electronic media ,newspapers and the Internet.

#Parliament and parliamentarians also are in positions of power 

#Police and IPS officers are the third big group that can use and misuse power depending on their levels of good conscience.

#Press also wields power in their writing speech and their presence.

#Party in power and ruling a country are the key users of power and deliver promises based in their power in the corridors of the government. Today press includes printed and written media along with the electronic format online and on the internet and transmitted on emails, social media and the shining stars that create narratives in society in religion in  education and in policies of the government. 

People also wield power that allows a safe environment life and you in society 

Politicians have great power to bless communities with facilities that enhance transportation communication wealth creation and happiness in the society. Politicians can build infrastructure to create wealth and employment in the society and bring abundance to all 

Parliament is the institution that makes laws to change human life in the country they rule 

Party in power has to have the skill to use it for the betterment of society and to allow creation of health wealth santiation for the people of the country 

People also have the power of their vote to keep politicians and parliament on their toes to deliver their promises on time and build a nation that shines in the world.

Power of the powerful can bring safety in society and create a sustainable healthy people 

Police is a group that needs to keep society crime free and ensure the society finds ways that ensure healthy practices to keep the nation crime free and enhance quality of life 

Police is many times affected by the type of politicians who rule them and make them move away from their goals of creating a society that stay safe all times 

Just to summarise let People Politicians Parliament Police Press personnel work in coordination to make life safe healthy and developed 

Let their work being sustainable development economically and financially to stand competition in the world

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bangalore 13:09:2020 12:17 

Bless abundance good job and income that grows consistently 

The joy of writing and making a difference

Bless me with the language to write blogs that get amazing traffic and income to keep me abundant 

I seek blessings for a job that keeps me abundant happy and successful healthy and safe in Delhi with an income that makes travel abundance a privilege consistently 

I am surely writing blogs that attract great traffic and income through affiliate marketing focused on Ayurveda and Amazon site income.

Besides writing get trained well to deliver very satisfying blogs with high traffic youtube twitter Instagram and Facebook that fetches me great traffic income and abundance 

I am open to receive abundance joy happiness love and health for me and my family through the period ahead and blessings to be devoted to doing my Sadhana 

I am surely regular on my Sadhana SKY pranayama daily with padmasadhana and yoga to keep amazing health 

Good content writing and editing blogs to attract great traffic to enhance income that is abundant and keeps me safe healthy in Delhi and place to stay and travel with joy with a job they keeps me happy abundant 

Summary 

I am happy to be focused on Sadhana Sky yoga and meditation as a regular way to do Padma Sadhana and pranayama 

I am sure to wrote great blogs with focused content that allows me super traffic to get income that is abundant and over 50K rupees each month on my site that is updated 

I have  abundant income from updated site  and from affiliate marketing focused on Amazon Sri Sri products and vibrant content of high value and traffic 

SEO to make it vibrant site with content 

I am happy to consolidate my blog into a good book on Lockdown diaries and unlock musings 

Bless family good health and safety all in 2020 to June 2021 

Bless KHYATI with good health marriage  and a secure job 

Kirti good health and booming income from.her site and skills 

Bless Geeta good Health and happiness 

Bless my family good health happiness to be safe through the period and year's  ahead 

Thanks Gurudev 

13: 09:2020 11:59 hrs 

Thanks bless me with the success of my prayers to you 

Jai Gurudev 

Murali 

Bangalore 

Do we have rules for use of megaphones by vegetable vendors

I am woken up morning by 5:09 or 5:10 by the blaring of the loudspeakers with azzam calls. I am not a late riser but this loudspeaker is loud and definitely shakes me up to listen.

By 6:00 am and latest 6:30 Bangalore now has lots of vegetable  vendors blaring their megaphones from a autorixa or women carrying the same ahead of the push cart of vegetables spinach and other household needs. There is a cloth vendor also with a pick up van.

Thank god the garbage collector whistles loudly and is audible from over 500 metres south of our lane . Some days when we miss the collector’s visit my wife dreams of having heard the whistle to rush to the gate.

The coconut vendor used to have a megaphone that sounded Louder than the masjid azzam .

One day I could record the loud noise. Who would dare to ask the vendor to reduce the noise 

The best was a lady holding an unobtrusive megaphone ahead of an Rixa but with a male voice. I laughed at the Male sound and female carrier.

This period life has taught innovations in sale of vegetables,fruits and more .

We don’t accept any vendor items and depend on the life saver big basket. Those delivery boys have been trained to ring a bell and leave the items on our door step. We have large covered baskets buckets for leaving our courier and vegetables.

The funny guy was from DTDC who insisted on a signature on his courier delivery sheet . We preferred he took away the parcel of food back . These are old companies who pay the

Delivery boys by no of signatures. This is shocking for me but true .

Beggars are now not visible .Who wants to veg and contract any hitch in life.

Our door bells, door handles, doors and front gate and it’s locks have been thoroughly sanitized many times. Washing of hands sanitizing vegetables tables and home spaces of storage has made us very alert to hygiene.

I collect about 6 trips of 5 litres cans of water form the tap installed in the door front of the home. 

Noise safety hygiene clean homes is now a new normal.

Be safe keep home safe 

Happy days are close by once the metro opens. Many festivals are around Be vigilant and safe 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bangalore 140 plus days indoors 

what did I learn in the lockdown and unlock1-3

What have I learnt in these days when I am confined to the home of five bedrooms and two floors? I have explored the settings on Bose SoundTouch30 and listen some times to bang bang sound Baccara of the seventies. Baccara , they have a charm like that of ABBA or Boney-M mostly disco. The alternate is new amazon music which has lots of Hindi music and  electronic sounds.

Cooking does not seem a big problem - support to get the dough ready or the rolling of the Indian flat breads. I am an expert on peeling the papayas and cut ocra and beans. Cutting the hard Musk Melons is another story of safety and care for own fingers and hands. 

I can take bath early morning, shave and look fresh just to move to the dining space. 

Learnt to walk and go in circles also on the terrace. 

Out terrace is more like the capital “E” alphabet to walk. I manage quietly over 3000 to 5000 steps.

Eating has become special as I have seen enthusiasm alone allows one to eat same chapaties or puris. The other breakfast choice has been upma of sooji and made of poha. Oil we have consumed less so In last 140 plus days we have had fried puris just 2 or three times.

When one is confined to the home and have a 4 member family the balcony and the terrace are new spaces to move . 

I have also learnt to see it raining the day time and also in the night when window glasses play back the pitter patter od the rain drops.

Listening to the thunder is another quiet hobby. When engrossed in watching for the light that appears before the sound of the thunder.

School days science exams always tested our knowledge of speed of light and sound. 

I don’t have to call my mother through sister as she left her body 75 days ago and not with CoVID.

The travel scare kept me away from the most important funeral after 1998 when my father left his body in Mumbai. Mother was with my sister in Ahmedabad.

The CoVID witch or ghost can I call, has provided new ways to live, eat, sing, dance, meditate, sleep or wake up. 

Everyone is scared of the milkman so we closed his account. The newspaper vendor is also off our list. The garbage collector of wet waste is one more point of fear and terror. The dry garbage collectors gives us lots of pains of storage. His visit ls are just once in 7 or ten days. I won’t dare to call any war rooms to collect garbage.

Happy writing this update after many days of no blogging. But I have got ready for a certificate for completing a 8 weeks digital learning course .

Will show you my certificate once it arrives . I wish my certificate has a date on it .

Happy days be safe and secure inspite of unlock three where yoga and gym centres are also opened.

The scare has not gone web friends still discuss increasing cases and deaths 

May god show us nice days good guests soon 

Muralidharan R Nair 

Bamgalore murali04@gmail.com