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Positive mindset with musicals

The past few weeks have been elevating.  And it all started when my colleague came back from UK and told me that she watched The Phantom of the Opera (POTO).  So, please bear with me while I explain this journey. POTO has a deep impact on me.  It was introduced to me by my late cousin June back in the 90s and when she died, the only thing that I can remember were both of us singing the songs from POTO.  She had handwritten all the lyrics for me and she would play on the piano while we sang together. The weird part was years before she left, we seldom talk about POTO.  In fact, months before she left, we were going different paths, with her going more into music and performing live while me more into meditation. In 2004, 4 years after she left, when POTO movie finally came out, it took a lot of courage for me to watch it.  And when I finally did, I sobbed throughout the movie though it wasn't that sad.  And I thought I had let it go completely. ...

Being Sahaj - Going back to basics

Clothes Before Sahaj, what I wear doesn't really matter.  I didn't really care about the materials as long as they are comfortable. After Sahaj, found that cotton is the most comfortable.  Sometimes silk and wool too, though natural is a little too hot for our country, so we seldom wear them.  But still preferred them over polyester, definitely.  Rayon is not bad too, airy but not as great as cotton.  Rayon is actually a manufactured fiber, but with plants, unlike polyester, which is completely plastic.  Linen is also natural. So what's natural and what's not? Natural - cotton, silk, linen, wool, rayon Unnatural - polyester, tetron, nylon Satin is questionable as it used to be made with silk.  But because it's so expensive, nowadays people made polyester satin.  So, it depends. I didn't realised how much these materials that we wear everyday affects our lives until after self-realisation.  If I wear natural materials, ...