When I went thru this article, I liked it in some way. Though all the points are well known to us, we don’t remember them when needed or don’t follow them at the appropriate time. So among by other favorite articles, I keep this one too – handy in my desktop to read and remember as frequent as possible. Here it is.. The needy may keep this. 

Relaxation 

Simple relaxation tools, such as deep breathing and relaxing imagery, can help calm down angry feelings. There are books and courses that can teach you relaxation techniques but here are some simple steps you can try:

 1. Breathe deeply, from your diaphragm; breathing from your chest won’t relax you. Picture your breath coming up from your “gut.”

 2. Slowly repeat a calm word or phrase such as “relax,” “take it easy.” Repeat it to yourself while breathing deeply.

 3. Use imagery; visualize a relaxing experience, from either your memory or your imagination.

 4. Non strenuous, slow yoga-like exercises can relax your muscles and make you feel much calmer. 

5. Keep telling – getting angry is not going to fix problems anyhow and won’t make you feel better.

 Above all, learn to use them automatically when you’re in a tense situation.

 ~ Priya Dhivakar

The first thing we did was to surf the net as usual in search of ideas for dressing up our kid for the grand event. (It was a grand event for us since it was her first stage show). We came across details of costume hiring shops. We were first surprised by that idea, but what surprised us more was the long list of shops that were hiring the dresses in Chennai.

Again the net reached out its helping hand to help us find a shop that matched our requirement. To our surprise, most of the costumes were already booked well in advance. Somehow we managed to book a pineapple costume for the D-day.

The DAY arrived and our little angel was all ready with a small speech to deliver about her invaluable costume – The Pineapple. We were on the way to pickup our costume and a shock awaited us there. Due to shortage of costumes and bit of confusion due to the rains, the costume company went short of the Pineapple costume. They managed to give us a costume which was neither a pineapple nor an Orange.

With bit of irritation and anger, we started thinking “what next”? We somehow altered the costume a little bit and made it to appear like an Orange and started convincing our little angel to change her narration to an Orange. Poor darling.. She was confused a bit – but managed to.

In the heavy rains, we sailed through the Chennai waters and reached the school. There amidst a small gathering and in front of the judges – stood our little angle – all set to give her first performance. We were standing before her among the crowd with a proud look to watch her over there. Among the participants, she was the first to give a bit long and bold talk and the whole gathering ended up with a loud clap for that tiny tot. She was in all beams with a huge smile on her face and a big victorious look. Tears ran in our eyes watching her so proud and happy over there.

Thus ended her first performance very well and we pray God this may be the starting step to many more success in her life!!

~ Priya Dhivakar

One fine evening I received call from South Africa, was bit eager to seen that number. Because my Brother-in-Law (Senthil Kumar) went in to participating Common Wealth Karate Championships, 2009. The news I got that, he won the bronze middle in the single championship and looks like he missed the gold in 4 points, but he was delighted. Am glad too because Senthil uses to talk about these kind of international tournaments and his dreams on participating for his department and demonstrating for the country.

Tamil Nadu Police who received about a dozen medals in the 5th Commonwealth Karate Championship held in South Africa two weeks ago called on Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Friday. Mr Karunanidhi congratulated them.

Aside from the gold, the team bagged three silver and eight bronze medals.

The medal winners are: N. Mohan (gold), M. Samiya Sulthana, K. Dhanam, J. Motcharakkini (all silver), R. Parandhaman, R. Tamilselvan, M. Dhanasekaran, K. Senthil Kumar, J. Nagarajan, P. Dharmaraj and A. Marimuthu (two) (all bronze).

The team was felicitated by the DGP K.P. Jain. Also present was the Chief of Special Task Force, C. Sylendrababu, who had prepared the team for the championship.

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While Venkat was explaining about the concept and why we should read this book, my mind was thinking something else in the back ground. It is about my another colleague..

He has been always impressing me by saying small small stories and relating that to the way personal/official life works. He has spoken many such incidents from Mahabharatha during his explanations. Hence, my mind said that I should gift this book to him and ask him to read and explain from how he perceives what has been written.

Immediately that weekend I went to LandMark to search for the book and came to know that both the two copies of the book are being reserved. However, I somehow persuaded the shopkeeper to give the book to me as I am very curious to buy that. He confirmed and handed over the book to me. The moment I got the book on hand I felt that I have achieved my first milestone of buying this book.

Now next step is to read!!!

Came home and that night before sleeping I read the book… I was taken by surprise to the read the first few pages on Mahabharatha. Coz I have heard Mahabharatha many times from childhood from my grandma; however the book reflected exactly the same way my friend used to narrate Mahabharatha to me… Every incident, their depth, the sayings etc….

I was very impressed and felt that he is a guy who really will cause an impact on the society because everyone can talk about anything however, conceiving the needed things and narrating them back in effective manner is more important.

Person with such a skill will definitely impact the society correct??? What say????

With this thought in mind, I started proceeding further. Now I am more curious to know how the author is narrating this in the book…

I will read further and write here more….. stay tuned ………………….