The Tree And The Cloud - What I Observe

One morning I parked my car as usual at train station and walk to the station. It was windy and the morning breeze felt so refreshing. While I wait at the station, standing there wondering will the train late again today, I look up and suddenly I sense something. It is there all the while but I didn’t notice it, the cloud and the coconut tree.

Just opposite the place where I am standing, I gazed over to the other side of the railway trail, and immediately I saw 2 dramatically different presentations. The cloud is moving swiftly across the sky blowing by the wind, but the coconut tree stood firmly and strongly, with its leaves moving slowly and light.

It really touch my heart : I was wondering how come the tree can stood so still but the cloud moved so quickly, blowing by the wind. Both are facing the same nature force ? Does it resemble to our mind ? Suddenly I realized that the tree and the clouds are same as our mind in 2 different states : one is cloudy & the other one is crystal clear and firm.

I keep telling myself that these are all about our mind state. If the mind is clear, firm and strong, no matter what happen you will still stay as you are. Just think of muddy water compare to crystal clear water, which one is giving more sense of purity & trueness ?

Some people are inborn with the ability to realize this but some are not. I guess I am the later one. All the while my mind so clouded and cannot stable down at all. Too many negative thinking & energy accumulated since my brain start absorbing and working.

But I am glad and thankful that finally I realized it. I believe all the goodness definitely will be rolling out along the way.

From there I started to change my thinking on how things work around us. I become more aware of my mind state and how it affect my thinking, and how it affect the response I received from things around me.

As long as I always be optimistic, thinking positively, my mind state will change and everything will occur based on the right energy I send out.

The nature really our best teacher !

Self Discovery & Realization – Taming & Settling The Mind…

Man’s mind can describe as wild beast waiting to release from the cage. The moment the cage door open, it will run wild without any direction. I believe each one of us have experience this before. I truly believe one’s mind can drive one’s craziness to the upmost level. Trying to drag it back but it will go farther & you will feel totally lose control of it.
I have been experienced before many times and every time the outcome is much painful.

Through Yoga, I have found a way to settle my mind. Breath, Observe And Let Go.

Almost 10 years I am looking for the answer, the cause of my tire-ness, headache, shoulder pain and neck pain. Finally I found the answer to my questions through yoga. All of these problems are caused by my breathing, not deep enough and my sitting position not in the right manner. My body was just too tense and it blocks my ‘Chi’s flow. I was so fortunate that I know the cause and thanks to those who have help me to find the way.

Then slowly from the observation of the way I breath, I slowly aware of the important of the mind and how it really affect our body and our breath. Unsettled mind will reflect in our breath & our body posture.

Yoga is a way to handle the fluctuation of the mind. It helps you to focus your mind back to where you are now. Most of the time our mind do not synchronize with our body and senses. Your mind is somewhere else when your body and senses are in another place. Yoga is a way to unite the mind, body and senses back to where you belong. Yoga lets you live the moment rather than let it pass away without your full participation or attention.

Once I was a person that never appreciates those great moments life has gave me until I found Yoga. Through Yoga I love myself more, enjoy my life more and started to learn how to appreciate each every moment and don’t take things for granted.


Love Life !

Lost And Found My Crystal Ball

Long time didn’t write on this journal. Well I have to say sorry to myself on this. Life is kind of unpredictable to me. The moment you enjoy the excitement & happiness, not far away from here you can hear the thunder pondering furiously. Life is not always a bed of roses. I have to agree with this age old wisdom. That’s life.

Change does need a lot of perseverance, courage and self awareness and realization. Before change take place, you need to overcome obstacles, especially those in your mind and heart. Now I understand ‘Taming Your Heart/Mind’ means.

Image you are in a crystal ball, the one with snow flakes in it for Christmas time. Just image you are in that crystal ball full of snow flakes, you hear nothing from outside. Forget about those house works, chores or people around you. Focus on the space surrounding you and the white snow. You see & hear nothing but your own voice and the soft silky snow flakes flying around. Neither nor warm or cold inside. What you notice ? Your heart is trying to tell you something. Pay attention to your little voice in your heart. It has been there since you were born. Have you ever talk to her and listen closely to her ? Whisper to her softly, she can hear what you say. Let the little voice speak back to you.
I believe in everyone’s heart, stay this little voice or we can name it as Little Inner Child inside. She is waiting for us to discover her presence. But you need to be very patient, and calm as she is quite mischievous and playful. Stay calm and relax, you will find her.

Wish you good luck in finding your ultimate inner child !

Yoga Path - The Discovery Of Truth Of Mind

In order to solve my problem with my mind, I decided to try on meditation and yoga. By chance, one of my ex-colleague passed me a mantra, that I already know for quite some time but not aware of its usefulness. So for the first few days, I tried to chant the mantra everyday when I drive to work. I set a routine for the chanting as well, every night after I put my baby Jasper into sleep, I tried to sit on my bed in lotus position, close my eyes and chant the mantra silently beside my baby’s bed. After some time, I felt something different in my mind. My mind become very calm and the surrounding become very clear and vivid, just like you have just enter this bed room for first time. It is calm and serene kind of feeling, no ripples in my mind at all. The next day when I woke up, my whole body felt refreshed and new. It is a totally new and wonderful experience for me. This is how I started to do more research on yoga and meditation because I can see the changes it brings to my life…

The Urge Of Spiritual Needs

Indulging into self thoughts too much without the realization of how does the mind works definitely bring lots of suffering to one’s mentality. I have been experiencing this kind of situation in the last 2 months. Lots of thoughts kept running through my mind, especially negative one. I was so confused and lost. I felt so uncertain about myself and those around me, even my family. Thoughts related to family, works, my kids, my self development….just like the rain drops that keep falling into my head, each drop trigger a water ripple through my mind..continuously without any directions. It seems like it is out of my control. In the middle of this dripples, something is trying to pull my mind back. A soft voice which trying to convey a message to me. I know there must be a way to put things back to normal, restore my mind state. The un-calm state of my mind did affect my relationship with people around me. My hubby, kids, mother in law and colleagues relationship as well. I talked to myself that I must find a solution to this. It is just too painful every time going through the same thing.