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“The Circle of Expectations”

“The Circle of Expectations”

Exercise: "The Circle of Expectations" Take a moment to pause and reflect on your expectations and needs with this simple exercise: Reflect on a situation: Sit in a quiet space and think about a recent situation where you felt hurt, disappointed, or let down by...

Reflecting on Expectations: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Balance

Reflecting on Expectations: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Balance

It’s my yearly ritual to take a step back from everything I’m doing and reflect on what I wish to release, invite, and learn. The last month of this year has been quite a roller coaster for me, and I thought I was taking a break. Surely, there were minimal...

Rediscovering Safety: The Power of Decoupling Fight-or-Flight

Rediscovering Safety: The Power of Decoupling Fight-or-Flight

Have You Ever Felt Stuck in a Constant Loop of Stress, Fear, or Anxiety?Does it feel like your body and mind are always bracing for danger? This could be your fight-or-flight system stuck in overdrive. If you’ve ever observed animals after a life-threatening...

Discovering the Wisdom of Your Spirit Guides

Discovering the Wisdom of Your Spirit Guides

Spirit guides are loving, non-physical beings who walk beside us, offering wisdom and support as we navigate life’s journey. Their guidance often comes as intuition, signs, or synchronicities—gentle whispers that nudge us toward our highest truth. Building a connection with them begins with intention, stillness, and trust. Whether through meditation, dreams, or noticing patterns around you, their presence reminds us we are never alone. Open your heart, and you’ll find their love and wisdom always within reach.

Angels and a Dream of Letting Go

Angels and a Dream of Letting Go

It's Christmas and This time of year always feels magical, doesn’t it? As part of my yearly ritual, I welcomed the Angels into my home once again. Their presence fills the space with love, warmth, and a quiet wisdom that speaks in ways I’m still learning to decipher....

The Dance of Yin and Yang: Finding Harmony Within

The Dance of Yin and Yang: Finding Harmony Within

Our existence is a product of Yin and Yang. Two forces—masculine and feminine—come together to create new life. You! These dual forces are always unfolding within you. Their invisible presence is experienced in every breath you take, every step you walk, and every...

Embracing Munay – Ki

Embracing Munay – Ki

Embracing the Munay-Ki Rites: A Journey of Love, Healing, and Transformation The Munay-Ki rites are sacred teachings passed down through the ancient shamans of the Andes. These rites are more than just spiritual practices; they are a path to personal transformation...

The Four Elements: Keys to Balance and Well-Being

The Four Elements: Keys to Balance and Well-Being

Have you ever wondered how deeply we are connected to nature? The Earth beneath us gives us a solid ground to stand on, the flowy Water near us helps in releasing and cleansing us, the warm Fire brings us passion to move forward and the light Air helps us breathe and...

What is Shamanism?

What is Shamanism?

Shamanism: A Path to Oneness and Balance Shamanism is a way of understanding life as deeply interconnected. It’s rooted in the idea of oneness—that we are all part of the same energy, the same sacred web of existence. At the same time, it acknowledges the duality we...

Body – My greatest Ally

Body – My greatest Ally

The connection I have with my body is amazing. It often signals when something is off. Yet, there’s a disconnect when it tells me what not to eat, and I eat it anyway—succumbing to years of conditioning, my love for food, and moments of greed. One thing I haven’t yet...

Forgiveness – Path to Peace

Forgiveness – Path to Peace

"It's not an easy journey to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place because it frees YOU."TYLER PERRY   Forgiveness is one of the most understated processes for bringing peace and love into one’s life.Many times, we get so stuck...

About Swati

About Swati

  I come from Lucknow, a city in North India. We were a small family of four – my parents, my sister Anju and I. It was a good life. My father passed away when I was 7. His death created a big void within me, and I grew up a depressed, reclusive child. I did not...

Surrender

Surrender

Recently, I visited Goa in search of land for my Retreat Centre, a pursuit that I have been following for years. Despite my efforts, none of the land I saw matched the vision I held.  In this quest, I got in touch with  Belinda, a wonderful massage...

Beautiful Association

Beautiful Association

    When we say being spiritually aware is going towards growth and bigger purposes, that may be true. However, in my opinion, emotional, mental, and physical awareness - Fulfillment in these areas allows one to grow exponentially.  After all, aren’t we here...

Emotions are friends

Emotions are friends

Till the time we are alive, we are in a constant loop of experiences and feelings. When we have good experiences we want to repeat them. However, When they are not so good we want to avoid them at any cost.   You see our emotions are there to safeguard us, they...

Trust more! Love more

Trust more! Love more

Leap and the net will appear Unknowingly this used to be a motto of my life till I Dhruv, my son became 7-8 year old. I suddenly became too fearful and scared to take chances. I was okay with Dhruv taking life easy, Debasish ( my other half) wanting to take any steps...

What’s your style?

What’s your style?

Last evening during the feedback of my Art Therapy Methodology book, I realized I take in too much on my plate, more that I can digest in a literal sense and otherwise. My way of learning is to look at a particular topic from a 360 degree perspective. And in order to...

pause

pause

After running around all over the place for so many years, trying to find myself. I had finally come home. I disconnected from the world around me. All I cared about was my family and my life within the house. I never expanded myself out of it. I actually didn't feel...

Discernment vs Judgement

Discernment vs Judgement

In my Chakra workshop, one of the participants asked me how to release judgement about a person. When probed further she realized it was just discernment at her end. What is judgement? We all are surrounded by judgments on a daily basis. The idea of good or bad,...

Mirrors

Mirrors

“Your perception of me, is a reflection of you. My reaction to you is an awareness of me.” Unknown People are mirrors in our life.If something bothers you about the other, it definitely means it has a trigger that has an existence in you. To explain it to you in...

Interaction between Gross and Subtle bodies 1.0

Interaction between Gross and Subtle bodies 1.0

We experience the world in 2 ways through Physical and Energetic body.Our experiences through the physical body are Gross. Experience are through our senses - touch, feel, hear, smell and the visuals.Gross body is detected by the naked eyes because the vibrations of...

Fake it till you make it 2.0

Fake it till you make it 2.0

This is in continuation of my last post, Fake it till you make it. I felt the need to explain it further. Faking it, in my understanding, tells me that I have an issue and I’m choosing not to look at it.There can be various reasons for me to not look at it - there may...

Fake it till you make it

Fake it till you make it

“Fake it till you make it”. Isn’t that a lot of motivational speakers say? Affirm everyday and you will be sorted. You will achieve what you are seeking . In my opinion and personal experience, Affirmations don’t work until and unless we know exactly where the issue...

I love you

I love you

This happened many months back. I felt like sharing it with you today. I saw a dream that I remember vividly, it was someone I knew getting shot in front of me in super bizarre circumstances and I was shocked out of my guts & trying to comprehend what happened. I...

You and I

You and I

When I was doing my Hypnotherapy course and we came to the Module of ‘Past life’ . As a demo in the class, I went through a very interesting and exciting past life regression which ungrounded me for days together. That past life experience was intense and very real to...

Break the barrier!

Break the barrier!

I have been in depression for good part of my life. If I look back now, I think from the age of 7-8 till the age of 42-43 years. A good 35 plus years. For the last 5 years I’m managing it well.Let me tell you one thing it is not easy to reach out and speak about the...

Reiki Level -1

Reiki Level -1

Reiki is that Prana/Ki/Chi which flows in us freely and abundantly. The disease itself speaks of being at dis-ease,  which is nothing but prana getting blocked. Once Prana/Ki/Chi starts to flow in us as it is meant to be, all the physical, emotional and mental issues...

Two Important Practices

Two Important Practices

I read this article somewhere and I felt like sharing it with all of you. Do leave a comment if it makes sense to you or brings some perspective. These two practices have come up for me recently, and I find them to be very useful and potent... 1. "What am I feeding?"...

Detachment

Detachment

Detachment! This word has come to me several times in the past week. This got me thinking what does this word even mean to me. When I look at it closely it, our entire journey is from Nothingness to the matter form to going back to Nothingness. Coming a full Circle....

Manifestation!

Manifestation!

Hola people!! Off lately whatever I wish for/crave for/think of miraculously happens. Now that is also a big responsibility because I have to be super careful to be positive and optimistic at all times. In my opinion, it’s a wonderful side effect of it Recently I...

Money is just an energy

Money is just an energy

  Since I am starting my venture "Daanpeti"  it is imperative that I clarify questions many have regarding my 'Pay as you Like’ sessions: “Why do you not keep a fixed amount for the sessions?’ “Why do you keep it Pay as you like?” I have gone through a phase at...

Reiki and I

Reiki and I

“A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light” Charles Spurgen When Reiki first came into my life, I was unaware that it will change my life forever. My introduction to 'Reiki was through a fellow dancer in some dance class and I saw him all glowing, calm...

‘Letting Go’

‘Letting Go’

I have clients asking me questions and whenever they were facilitated into figuring their answers out. Their response has always been “Oh, It is that simple! Yes! Life is all about being simple, being that extraordinary in life doing simple ordinary things. Struggling...

Reiki Level – 1

Reiki Level – 1

17th & 18th February 2018 10:30 am – 6:30 PM  @ Goregaon west Fine tune your inner voice and tap into the most amazing, simple yet powerful source of energy to bring in the best in you. Reiki is that Prana/Ki/Chi which flows in us freely and abundantly. The...

Society

Society

Society was made initially for our convenience and safety. As humans we are not meant to stay alone, we are meant to stay in a community for the benefit of the community, for a larger goal. Over a period of time, the larger picture has taken a back seat and we have...

Relationships

Relationships

Any relationship is bounded by the limits we put to it. Relationships are explored through our idea of it, Our expectations, and belief regarding another.Though we all know that expectations are detrimental to our relationships,yet it just happens to us all the time....

Energy Healing

Energy Healing

What is Energy healing and how does it work? To understand this we first need to understand that every thought, every emotion, every person and all that is ENERGY. And each has its own frequency and flow. All happy moments have an easy flow and sad ones don't allow...

Letting go

Letting go

It was time for Ganpati to go and an emotional time for us. Dhruv asks me if we could have him forever. Even I wasn't so ready to say Good Bye to him. As usual, HE has a dialogue with me and teaches me a very important lesson of my life of ͚'Letting Go͛'. So 'Letting...

Highs and lows

Highs and lows

Nature which is so beautifully synchronized that it doesn't need anyone to remind it to bring in Sun  and Moon at a particular time. Seasons come, serve their term and go only to return at the right time ag ain. We are able to appreciate and differentiate between day...

Death, an ultimate truth

Death, an ultimate truth

Many times I have sat and wondered how would I behave, what would I do or feel if ever a dear person very close to me passed over? I feared for my husband, my son, my nephew, my mother, my sister. I perpetually worried about people around me whenever they travelled. I...

Surrender

When I tried doing it all by myself, I failed. When I left it to HIMThere was no trying anymore. I have taken a leap of faith I know HE is there to hold me if I fall. Deep down I know, I am taken care of. There was a time when I used to have lot many expectations of...

Night and Day

When the night is dark and it's often too stark; It surprises me that I managed to reach this mark Now that this night is about to get over I often wonder what if unknown makes me go through all over I have long been in denial, may also have put myself into a trial...

Who am I?

Am I that very person people expect me to be, their perception of me? or Am I that person in search of that identity which never is going to be hers. What am I searching here? My identity, that connects me to this illusionary world or My own unique self! My inner...

God is in charge

God is in charge

When God takes something from your grasp, HE is not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. 'God will never take you where He will not protect you.' There comes a point in your life when you realize: Who matters Who never did Who...

Love is

Love is

Many times I have asked myself what exactly Love is? Recently the penny dropped. Love just is. It is not a concept. It neither has boundaries nor a definition. It is that feeling which brings a smile to your face when you can look at other creations of life and admire...

A shift in perspective

A shift in perspective

When I look around, I see so much of beauty all around in nature that is ever-replenishing itself, never complaining, never comparing. It's just that lately we have started going away from our selves, from our true nature focusing on the material world, focusing on...

Focus

Focus

I would like to share a story today: A boy went to the Principal and said: "Madam, I won't be coming to School anymore.” The Principal responded, “But why?” The boy said “Ah! I saw a teacher speaking ill of another teacher; You have a Sir who can't read well; the...

This drama called life

This drama called life

Like every story we hear, a movie we watch or play we catch, we too are characters of our own story. As each story has its beginning, process, and the end, so do we. Should the story unfold naturally to us or should we know it all before we take any step forward? How...

A balanced life

A balanced life

We hosted Ganpati (Elephant God) this year, and the energies were joyous. HE taught me so many things in such a simple manner. One evening while I was attending to him I saw that the Diya had very little ghee (clarified butter) in it. This time ghee was used up...

To love is to illuminate the world

To love is to illuminate the world

"With all that love and longingness Earth awaits the Sun to come back and shower her  with his wonderful, energising energy.  After all these years Earth never told Sun that I own you and look what happened with that kind of love. The whole world is illuminated." Dr...

On forgiveness

On forgiveness

What does forgiveness mean to you? Does it mean that you are now okay with whatever happened to you and you are now ready to move on with your life? Does this happen in the real world? Is forgiveness that easy to exercise that we start our life over quickly. I have...

On the art of unlearning

On the art of unlearning

A little while ago, I posted about unlearning and was asked this question, "How does one unlearn?" Simply, when we use a clean slate, it is easy for us to write whatever we wish. Writing on something that already has something written, however, is quite a task as...

Have you boxed yourself in?

Have you boxed yourself in?

Last year, I had this fantastic opportunity to be with a group of exuberant people of different places of the world at CapoeirAsia. Capoeira is a Brazilian martial art, and the way it is played has always intrigued me. It is high intensity and full of energy, and so...

A New Beginning

A New Beginning

A little over two months ago, I decided I needed a new website. When I started my journey, dabbling with various healing modalities, I had no one to guide me. I was pretty much on my own, working out what would work for me and what wouldn't. It took me many years to...

Little Girl

Little Girl

While I am reading Richard Bach's book "Running from Safety" a constant nagging thought running parallel in my mind what if I run into my younger self. What will I see, what will I say, what would I do? And of course the kind of a person I am, I went running back to...

Routine or Rhythm

Routine or Rhythm

An interesting question was asked by a dear friend of mine. What is more important, Routine or Rhythm? Now if you look at it intellectually aren't they the same? Yet they are so different. The moment a child is told he has to be in a routine, he must have a...

Dialogue between mind and soul

Dialogue between mind and soul

I slept really late last night, somehow couldn't get my sleep. When I woke up early morning a tiny little voice in me said, 'Go back to sleep, you deserve a proper 8 hour sleep minimum.' I told myself a little more relaxation won't harm me instead I will wake up...

Celebration

Celebration

Celebrate the vibrant colors of life this Holi Festival. Each day of our life can be a celebration. Take some time today and think – What can you celebrate today? How are you going to do it? Celebrate your health by lighting a candle and giving thanks. Celebrate the...

Act of kindness

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Self-love

Self-love

Often when I ask the participants of my workshops what is that one thing you love about yourself the most. Mostly the answers that come are: "I love that I am able to take care of family well". (Well! You are a responsible person and you have done your duty well… So...

Let your daughters fly

Let your daughters fly

  Being a mother to a 12 year old boy I will never be able to understand how vulnerable a parent of  a daughter feel. Dinner table conversation with friends  raised many questions in my head regarding dating and sex by the younger generation. Though being a...

Love

Love

Many a times I have asked myself what exactly Love is? Recently the penny dropped for me… Love is Just Being… It is not a concept, has no boundaries, and has no definition. When you can look at other creations of life and admire their beauty and them without any...

Pranayama

Pranayama

Pranayama is generally understood as breath control, it is true partially; as Prana is not intake of breath it is the 'Life force energy' in us which flows freely. When this prana can't flow freely in our body we start manifesting mental, physical emotional issues....

Meditation

Meditation

A lot has been talked about meditation. I will only share with you what happens when we meditate and how does it affect our state of being. And what we can do to achieve that state of Peace and Calm, if not Bliss. Our mind has three sections – Conscious mind,...

Thoughts

Thoughts

When we are going through an issue it becomes so big in our head that our mind starts controlling us. I have always maintained mind is part of us; we are not part of our minds. Let us understand how we can become in charge of mind. When we are born, we are an empty...

Miracle

Miracle

"What is this LIFE, if not a miracle?" Isn't it a Miracle, Magic happened to us? We come to this earth in such a miraculous way… Conception itself is wonderful and magical.There is so much joy we experience when we see a newborn child ? We see miracles, magic on a...

Drop the judgement

Drop the judgement

Always remember when you criticize something or someone you are actually criticizing a part of your own being as you will only recognize that part of the other which resonates with you energetically. To understand this in a simple language, Say you speak German and...

Life is nothing but moments

Life is nothing but moments

Life is nothing but moments. And what happens when we get stuck in our issues and spoil that one moment and it keeps coming back to haunt you? Has it ever happened to you? Where you wished that you could travel back in time and make everything perfect, the way it...

Ask and you will receive

Ask and you will receive

Ask and you will receive - Jesus How many of us understood what it meant? I didn't. I always believed why do I need to tell him what I wish to have in my life, or what I desire in life. This belief came crumbling down when I started understanding 'The Law of...

Love yourself first in order to love others

Love yourself first in order to love others

Most of us have grown up thinking and believing it is too selfish to think of oneself before others. Here I am saying otherwise. What does it mean? How could I possibly say that when our culture, our society teaches us to be selfless? Our decision are based on several...

Reiki Healing – Reiki session & attunement process

Reiki Healing – Reiki session & attunement process

“Reiki is love, Love is wholeness, Wholeness is balance,Balance is well-being, Well-being is freedom from disease” Dr. Mikao Usui Reiki Founder [toc] Reiki Session - What it does I have heard people mentioning about their brief connect with Reiki. Either they took a...

4 Bodies

4 Bodies

Our energy structure is not only the physical body. Apart from our physical body, we have ethereal, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Our aura comprises of all the subtler bodies that are part of our being. They vibrate at different frequencies. These bodies...

Clairsenses

Clairsenses

All of us mostly have more than 2 clairsenses in awakened state. Out of which one is prominent and the rest of them support it. We, humans, are not even performing 10 – 15% of our brain capacity. If we start using our clairsenses, this world will be a beautiful...

Clairgustance (Clear Tasting)

Clairgustance (Clear Tasting)

This is the ability to taste something that isn't actually there. This experience mostly comes from out of the blue when a deceased loved one is attempting to communicate a memory or association we have with a particular food or beverage that reminds us of them. If we...

Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

Clairalience (Clear Smelling)

This is being able to smell odors that don't have any kind of physical source. This could smell of the perfume or a cigar/cigarette smoke of someone alive or dead, used as a sign of their presence around in ethereal way. When our sense of smell is strong and distinct,...

Clairtangency

Clairtangency

Every place and object has a frequency of its own, and on top of it collects energy of people using them. Altogether it emanates combined energy of its own and people who used it. Clair tangent people are sensitive towards energies of the places and, situations and...

Claircognizance (Clear Knowing)

Claircognizance (Clear Knowing)

Are you the kind of person who can assemble or fix something without looking at a manual? Is it easy for you find directions to a place solely based on your instinct? Do you keep getting ideas to develop something or create something? Clair cognizance is an internal...

Clairsentience (Clear Feeling)

Clairsentience (Clear Feeling)

Clairsentience is strong in those people who pay attention to their feelings & emotions more than what they see. They can physically feel the pain and emotion of the other person. When we get a strong "gut" feeling, positive or negative, about someone we just met,...

Clairaudience (Clear Listening)

Clairaudience (Clear Listening)

This is when we hear words, sounds or music in our own mind’s voice. When trying to remember when taking tests in school, did you do best when you remembered hearing the teacher’s voice explaining the information (as opposed to recalling seeing the information in your...

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

Clairvoyance (Clear Seeing)

Clairvoyance is where the vision of past, present and future flash through our mind’s eye (third eye), much like a daydream. Many of us are highly visual and able to understand an idea best when we see it written or sketched out as an image on a computer screen or on...

Senses

Senses

Senses connect to the outer world; it is our sole connection with the world. If we didn't have Senses, we would not be able to smell, see, hear, taste, touch or perceive anything of what is happening in the outside world. Our body is the most wonderful mechanism God,...

Angels Up High – Part 3

Angels Up High – Part 3

Angels are always around us. And they never ever spontaneously connect with us or interfere in our lives unless we ask for their help. Our energetic structure and the energetic structure of Angels is totally different. Since they vibrate at a much higher frequency...

Angels Up High – Part 2

Angels Up High – Part 2

Let's do this small experiment with ourselves. Just let us try to be aware of our feelings when we are around people whom we like and whom we are not so fond of. What happens inside you? What happens to your body language? Sometimes, you meet someone you don’t like...

Angels Up High – Part 1

Angels Up High – Part 1

Angels. Who are they? Do they really exist? Can we see them or feel them? Can we talk to them or meet them? Everyone has these questions in their mind. But then we look back into our childhood, did we really need any assurance from anyone that Angels exist? We just...