Bollywood manifestation

Our family extended recently. NO, I wasn’t pregnant and did not give birth. We’ve got a puppy. It’s a Lab. This story is not about him though. What happened was… I took our puppy to the Vet and I was the only one present there at that morning hour. Three kids, aged around 10-11 years old, came there with a shoe box. I saw inside it to find one day old two street puppies. They had washed away in the previous night’s heavy rains and reached to these kids somehow. Those puppies were newly born. They were of my palm size and hadn’t opened their eyes yet. Anybody would have felt compassionate after seeing such a thing with life in it.

Well, my husband and I volunteered to take those puppies home and give them to some NGO where they can be put up for adoption. Once I got them home, my own puppy (by the way his name is Gollum, now you will be able to guess why he behaves weirdly sometimes :P), started to attack them. Somehow we passed a day and took those puppies back to the vet because the NGO we talked to could not take the puppies before the next 4-5 days. The Vet, too, showed inability to keep them. We were in great confusion. Now what?

But help always come from the least expected place. To our great surprise there was another person at the vet who had brought his German Shepherd bitch for post delivery treatment. That bitch had delivered five puppies a few days ago and all of them had died during delivery. She was miserably depressed. Vet suggested the best way to treat her without any medication is to give her those puppies and see if she accepts them. This activity will naturally release all the hormones in her and the puppies will also get mother’s milk.

This was a miracle. We gave those puppies to this man and not only his bitch accepted them but started feeding them as well. We couldn’t believe it. These dramatic unfolding of events left us speechless. We all were just looking at one another and kept smiling. I think we continued to smile that whole day, I am sure we all did because I know I couldn’t stop thinking and smiling about it. No one can know nature’s ways of healing. It was as if we were watching a Bollywood movie. Now I know Bollywood does have incidences picked up from real life. I wish a very healthy life to this lovely mum and the babies!

Zero Limits

I recently read “Zero Limits” by Joe Vitale and Ihaleakala Hew Len. Dr. Len practices Ho’oponopono and this is what this book talks about. Now what he speaks about is that we are responsible for whatever we are experience in our lives. He suggests to take 100% responsibility of our lives. Now, what I understood by all this reading is that I have to forgive myself rather than getting angry on other people or blaming other people. I think that is the most difficult part. It is so hard to digest that I am the cause of everything happening around me. How can it be? All those people who were mean to me, who hurt me and those people whose reactions I’m gonna experience in my future, are not at fault? I’m the one who is causing all this?

When I watched the interviews of Dr. Len, I realized he is really a simple man armed with an extraordinary tool to vanish all the negativities from our lives. His answer to all question is to say “I love you”. He says whatever we are experience is due to data playing in our memory. One can discontinue this data playing by saying I love you, I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you. Just four sentences and our equation with the outer world will change.

I have experimented with this Ho’oponopono technique in petite things, things of daily routine. It has worked for me. I have seen sudden and miraculous changes in people’s behaviour. But it is difficult for me to keep forgiving myself for whole day’s happenings. I was regular in saying these sentences when I was reading this book, then the practice gradually declined. By the time I write this, I am able to do it only twice a day. I would like to be more regular in it and see what else it can do for me, though, I think this whole practice has a selfish view point where we keep forgiving ourselves for our own benefit, but there is another angle as well, if by forgiving ourselves, we make a change in the other person's behaviour, then it turns out to be completely opposite to selfishness. Well...I am not here to judge when the best thing would be to use it.

Deal Temptation

They say e-commerce is on rise in India. It is the boom time for deals and e-commerce sites. Why such a volcanic thing is happening? Have you ever thought of a reason? No?

The reason is ME and all the other people like me who are so fond of shopping that they want to do it on their laptops and even on their mobiles. Such a colourful, wonderful world of deal and other online sites is, where I can buy things I need, things I might need and things which I’ll never need. I am so very tempted towards that strike through (Rs 2500) rate. It makes me feel that I’ll never ever again in my life going to get that product in THAT offered rate. And oh yes, my mind says “buy it”... “buy it”.

There are other divine sensations I experience while visiting these sites, like blissful feeling of having so many things to browse around on my laptop screen, as if my house has transformed into a giant mall. I feel the rise in my heartbeat by a little scary thought of someone else buying all that stuff before I could reach them. So such feelings make my way easier to move forward on the site.

Therefore, I give a chance of some workout to my wrist and move the mouse on each and every category of products. This exercise increases blood circulation in my mind and it starts working towards creating all kinds of graphs of “how to buy”, “when to buy”, “what excuse to make for buying”, “buy it for yourself” or “buy to gift”. This whole idea of deal sites is like yoga, affecting body, mind and soul.

The most difficult part is selecting the stuff. Once that is done, my happiness is just a click away. And, when the payment is through, I literally count days to receive the product. I have a strange smile on my face till I get it, a smile like I had in the initial days of falling in love. I feel enthused and wait eagerly for it...like a child waits for his Christmas present. And finally, finally the day comes when I get it, I feel like I have just come out a meditation. I feel calm and serene for the next few hours. And guess what?...this feeling vanishes sooner than expected and I go back to some deal site.

This is a very viscous chain of actions but as long as it is related to shopping, I don’t think I’m going to care because as I said it rejuvenating. It is no way a lesser experience than going for shopping on the streets or in the malls rather in this way I don’t have to take my husband with me and later listen to his long complains of how boring it is. I think I’ll give full marks to e-commerce. Thumbs up!

So it begins…

It has been a long time that I’ve been thinking to start my blog. Life is very uncertain in a true way. As soon as I finished my MBA, I got married and shifted here (the city I live in). I started working in an IT company, which is completely contradictory to my past experiences. This gave me an exposure towards web marketing. And My, Oh My, what a world it is…deeper than ocean and wider than sky.

It keeps opening its layers to me like an onion and guess what - I haven’t peeled it off yet, :) a lot remaining. I am learning a lot every day, from a lot of people…I think I am writing a lot of “lot” here. Anyway, I come back to my beginning of this blog. The name of blog just came up in a casual conversation with someone. I was kind of boasting myself that I am a marketing fairy and your product/service has had a magical touch of mine, and there I go...finally found the name for my blog, which seemed to be the most difficult part.

This blog would have all kinds of conversations. My thoughts, my talks to myself and talks with others. Hope this blog will see me maturing as a digital marketer. I love this place called INTERNET and I am here to stay. Cheers!