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From Failing to Falling to Read!

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 Very few people would believe me if, I said that I hated reading. I once loathed the sheer thought of sitting quietly with a book! I was quite restless as a kid maybe, that's the reason I didn't love turning pages. But, all of that changed and finally an incorrigible me started loving books!  I was in class eighth when my parents took the decision of dumping the black box. I call television the big unproductive black box. Some people won't agree with me on this but that's not the aim of this blog. I was quite devastated after I lost my dear television but, I had to move around with a complaisant attitude as I couldn't share my grief with anyone. It was my addiction with that black box that had costed its departure!  With no television I had a lot of free time to spend not knowing what productive to do! My mother kept pushing me to read books but I abhorred them until one day. I along with my parents visited my aunt's house for a house warming party. While every...

Alternative for Meditation

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I began writing blogs in the month of April. Meditation was the first topic that I had touched upon. I had started meditating then quite regularly and couldn't curtail myself from expressing its wonders! I am quite grateful that many of my friends and family members read the blog and commented honestly that meditation had a soporific effect on them! I can't deny the fact that meditation may make you sedative. To be brutally honest even I have dozed off quiet a number of times while meditating. Well, this blog is all about an alternative for the tranquilizing meditation.  I was restless as a kid. Constantly fidgety and distracted. Ergo, learning word meanings, or memorizing mathematical equations and tables were some of the toughest tasks. I needed something to instigate my concentration effectively and so my parents came up with this wonderful idea of performing omkars before studying. No doubt,  omkars had a surprising effect on me. Omkars  for hardly 5-7 minutes and lea...