WAHM WannaBe....(I Now Am, At Last!)

I came across this article today and the story brought tears to my eyes the first time I read it. A must-read story - very touching and so inspiring - that I thought it is worth re-posting. Hope you will like it. This sweet story reminded me of a time years back, when I used to help organise Sahaja Yoga meetings in Caxton Hall in the early 70’s. The hall was packed and Shri Mataji had just finished Her program and people were clamouring around Her… I suddenly viewed from the stage the crowd separating just like the parting of the waters, letting through a woman in rags who obviously just wandered in from the streets; well, the scene was surreal, no one dare go near her …when suddenly Shri Mataji came down and headed straight for this woman and hugged her as if she was a long-lost relative. Needless to say the rest of us kept a distance….then as fast as it started it ended, and the woman just left without a word, with a satisfied look on her face! We were the only family with childre...

I celebrated my 3-monthsary of being a full-time work at home mom last Saturday by treating myself to a very relaxing day at a salon. I had a foot spa, a manicure and a pedicure, and had my short hair milk-rebonded. What a treat, you would say? Well, I deserve it :) Working from home can be very challenging; you're shut off from the outside world, for one, and it can get very boring. Though the internet affords me to go to each and every place imaginable, it still feels so much different mingling with friends and acquaintances every day. I had been an employee for the past twelve years and though I love the transition from being an office employee to a WAHM, I'd say it was not very smooth. My body clock has changed. I used to wake up early in the morning to go to work, now I work until the wee hours of the morning and wake up a couple of hours before noon each day. I miss my officemates and the talks and the laughs that we had, I miss the students, the parents and the interact...

Have you ever been in a situation where, after 6 to 12 months of a dieting and/or an exercise program, you find yourself still not making any headway in your weight loss efforts? And have you ever wondered why? A lot of people (some say as much as 70% of the population of wannabe weight ‘lossers’) have actually experienced this predicament, and some of them have actually lost weight in the first 3 to 6 months or so, only to gain back the ‘lost’ weight in the end. What they might not realize is that maybe they might have digressed a little from your strict weight-loss plan. You see, just a little deviation from the plan is all it takes to render all your efforts useless or for naught. So before you look at other possible reasons for your failure to lose weight, you might want to ask yourself, “Am I religiously adhering to my weight-loss plan?”. Because no matter how effective the cholesterol-control, fat binders, or whatever prescribed medications you are taking, if you are not exerci...