Lunar eclipse last night

Last night because of lunar eclipse I had to be hurry to home before 9.30, but still I reached home by 9.40 pm. But it was not too late because I came to know that lunar eclipse will be starting by 9.55 pm. “Religiously, eclipses are not considered good. A set of rituals are performed during this period”, said by pundits. At 9.30 pm I saw a big hallow around the bright moon, it was nice to see from the terrace. Didn’t continue seeing the whole process of lunar eclipse, slept off. I’ve read the newspaper Times of India early the morning through net. For us it was not so clear when compared to the city of Lucknow. Here in Vizag, people got disappointed with the clouds shattering the moon to see the complete and longest lunar eclipse. Last night large numbers of people were gathered at the beach road to witness the lunar eclipse. It is the history of the astronomical science; most of the parts in the country had completely witnessed it with naked eye. In the city of Lucknow, people witnessed the century’s first total lunar eclipse last night. The creamy white moon looked like orange.

some superstitions are good while some are bad! my personal experience!

I’m feeling really bad that I’m not regular these days in blogging. No new updates of mine in facebook, no updates in Twitter too. From past one week I am being dreaming different kind of painful dreams at nights. Along with these I’ve become weak and loosen strength.  Currently I’m absolutely fine, recovered soon.  So far in this generation most of the people don’t believe in superstitions as they think it’s the most unwanted and unimportant time waste categories. Ofcourse I too believed the same so far. But recently when personally I’m coming across such kind of things, I thought I may have to believe.  

I’m just thinking how to start telling you on a topic about superstitions as per my opinion right now…

Okay let me start in this way….

Especially in India, we do believe some common superstitions like,

    1.  Do not proceed if a cat come across your way… it is a sign of omen.

    2. Never ask the question, “where are you going?”, while when someone at home leaving house…. It’s is a sign of, the purpose of going will not be fulfilled.

      3. If a lizard makes a sound when you make any statement, it indicates what you said is true.

     4. Sneezing odd number of times indicates something bad could happen.

    5. Cutting nails, hair cuttings, shaving or stitching cloth after sun set is a bad practice.

     6. If there is itching on right palm (left of female), it indicates that you will get money or some favors.

7.      7.  Never sweep the house during night times, it indicates that Lakshmi(money, fortune) will not enter our home.

Etc., etc., etc.,       

From the above, almost all of us believe those common superstitions including me, even my family members too. For some superstitions I argue against those.

I’m not totally against superstitions; I believe some of them are good while some of them are bad. And for the 5^th point from above, it is so obviously because of no electricity during old periods of times, cutting nails, cutting hair etc., in the dark could be dangerous, but it is still believed as a bad practice.)

These days I have experience with some bad dreams. Like a five floors building height of cobra(snake) was chasing me, cutting my hair with scissors(could clearly seen the scissors in my hand and finally short hair in dream), got stuck in a dark palace where the witches are torturing me etc…

On these kinds of dreams I’ve asked and taken advice regarding what’s the meaning of dreaming these scary plays at nights to my dad, mom, and sisters, and my well wishers. And also I’ve surfed in net. Some of these have got some meaning. I’ve shared my snake dream in facebook such as, “May be i'm being threatening by something these days which even I'm not aware too. What's the meaning of dreaming a snake at nights!!! I'll explain... To see a snake or to be bitten by one in dream, it signifies hidden fears and worries that are threatening us. My dream may be alerting me to something in my waking life that I'm not aware of or that has not yet surfaced. I had a dream of an evil kind of snake which was bigger than a 5 floors building which was hurting me...!!!” Therefore dreaming a chasing snake indicates our hidden fears and worries that are threatening us or it indicate a little bit stress about the tasks we got to do. It is considered evil, yet it is the snake, created by God, that tempts man to gain knowledge. In dreams a snake can represent hidden fears. Falling into a pit of snakes may represent many worries that are threatening you. Sometimes snakes can symbolize the poisonous words and innuendo of the people around you.

Regarding hair cut dream: Dreaming of cutting of hair is symbolic to a variety of things. Since you were doing the cutting it means you feel a loss of control with yourself and also suggests that you are experiencing loss in strength. You may feel that someone is trying to censor you.

So finally these are the dreams which I’ve been experiencing since one week. I do think these are common dreams to everyone. This is all about the stress and strain we are having consciously and unconsciously. If we are stressed, our sub-conscious mind plays a scary role.

Later on, to avoid this, I’ve started total focus on Pranayama more than doing asanas, and as per I was not feeling well these days I was not able to do yoga asanas. I can feel the changes when I’ve started total focus on pranayama. Doing of pranayama brings our body and mind in control. It’s a very vast subject, even when I was doing my course in yoga training in Andhra University, I’ve studied lot of stuff regarding pranayama. It has became really very helpful now. All I could say is, the main theme of pranayama is to awaken the kundalini which resides in the sacrum bone at the end of the spinal cord. Only the severe practice can takes us to that stage.

It heals our body and mind. The procedure that takes place in our body when we start doing pranayama, click here to see.

I’ve an idea about writing the subject of yoga in my next blog. That new blog of mine exclusively will be on yoga. I‘ll start shortly…

topper in batch!!!

I’m really proud that I’m a student from Andhra University.  I’ve expected the highest marks in yoga, as no wonder I’m the topper of our batch. I’m very thankful to my teachers for the training they have given us. Being in course period they have taken us to a yoga camp which helped us for our consciousness. I could only say that Yoga Village of Andhra University is the best place in Vizag to learn and practice yoga. Being located on the sea front makes it even more pleasant experience. As the silence is very much needed for yoga, I could definitely suggest yoga village for practice and learning as there is absolutely no pollution and hassles.

The institute of Yoga and Consciousness, Andhra University.

Rolling waves across the road, coconut palms, and red-roofed practice halls surrounded by greenery; the Yoga Village’s idyllic appeal is ideal for yoga. This centre offers certified courses as well as regular yoga classes. For those who want to teach yoga, there are various courses. For those who want to stay fit by practicing yoga, there are General classes.

I personally suggest everyone who are interested in learning yoga or getting trained in yoga for teaching, Yoga Village of Andhra University is the best place. 

ad film for manepalli jewellers

It was nice experience to work for an add film of Manepalli jewellers of secunderabad. The location which they have used for shooting was too good. It’s an Egyptian resort, papyrus port in Hyderabad, 3 star hotel.  The resort was simply awesome. I could say papyrus is an ideal place for shootings. We were supposed to start our shooting by 9.00 am. But the arrival of jewellery van got delayed to the papyrus port, so the whole things have gone so late.The costumes were actually not altered at the time of shoot. But for the luck, all the ready-made outfits got fitted. The shooting has gone so smooth, I was like really tired with the continuous changing of costumes, till 7.00 pm shooting have gone. And then, for one hour they did photo shoot on me particularly on the main costume. It was nice experience that I found myself in traditional look completely. Ad film is not yet released, post production is going on it seems… I’m waiting for it to be released… It’ll release shortly… I’ll update the video as soon as possible once the ad film got released. 

I'll prepare and some day my chance will come

Beginning of this year, I've planned to take revolutionary steps regarding attitude, to build positive attitude. Ofcourse I always try to be positive. Sometimes the situations will not allow us…right?

I've read quite of few books. I’ve come across lot of people with different attitudes, behaviors, mentalities etc… I saw people who works hard. I had seen people too with acting and showing and people who speaks well as well as people who don’t… etc..etc…

Sensitive, Emotional, Greedy, Jealousy, Anger, Ego, Possessiveness and so on…; these are the distractions that are affecting everyone’s happiness and spoil our work too… And obviously I don't say that I’m not getting distracted by any of these feelings. We are human beings, so everyone does have… But trying to control these feelings is the most important.

I think certain steps for building up positive attitude to be followed. Some of the following steps that I personally take care of.

Step 1: Change focus, look for the positive sense.

Step 2: Make a habit of doing it now.

Step 3: Develop an attitude of gratitude.

Step 4: Get into a continuous educational programme. (It doesn’t mean that to sit at home in front of the books and study continuously.  Educational program..what I mean is, which cultivate knowledge, awareness of the real happenings in this world.)

Step 5: Build a positive esteem.

Step 6: Stay away from negative influences.

Step 7: Learn to love things that need to be done.

Step 8: Start our day with something positive.

From the above, starting the practice with the 8^th step, I've been experiencing good changes. I start my day with yoga; I do believe this.

“I will prepare, and some day my chance will come”, these are the words of Abraham Lincoln.

These are my first revolutionary steps taken in this year 2011.

Groggy!!!

Arghh!! Not getting time to do yoga these days…yet I don't miss it, I don't want to be lazy…Sometimes it seems I’m not working hard for anything. Today I got up early by 4.00 am, may be this day is not mine, it might be the reason I’m dull today for my work… I've forgotten my charger at home and came out with 10% of charging… Then again I had to send one of my friend to home to get my charger, it was 12.30, my iphone has been charged. Now its 2.30 pm, I’m very much sleepy and groggy… Late night sleep makes me groggy the next morning… but this time I’m still feeling groggy…

Today here it is 32 degrees temperature in Vizag, because of 82% of humidity it feels like 42 degrees centigrade of temperature, in fact… I’m feeling so cold in this hot temperature, maybe I’m not feeling well…

I think it’s better to return home and take some rest or I should drink some hot soup. It may be helpful to get back my energy.