Posts by Chakra Creations

While I was already familiar with many stress reducing techniques, I had never taken the time to do many of them, especially not focused meditation.

I was totally exhausted trying to resist grieving and finally collapsed into all the pain. I took a month off from the world into total silence. From sunrise to sunset I did nothing but dream in some sort of meditative state. I gave my thought the acknowledgement they were looking for and accepted what was.

Why are you crying? Has anyone ever said this to you?  Has it actually helped? Let me be the first to say, it is ok to cry. The Good Lord knows I have! Ive had my share of challenges, encountering the first of the 2008 terrorist bombings against westerners in India, combined with paying the…

Im not the superstitious type, but during my time in India I’d pass many water fountains filled with lotus lillys.  The saying goes, if a flower falls out of the fountain, then you are lucky.  I made one fall with the wind of my walk.  I am very lucky.  I am also very grateful and…

However, life is frightening. I realized this soon, the morning of the mass killings in India. The resort I had stayed at was attacked. I could have been in that massacre. My terminal was bombed because the attackers wanted the resorts full of Westerners. We were their target and I had managed to escape. This…

My story begins in India. It was fall 2008. I was auditing suppliers for my new business. The people were kind, the weather was nice and the food was fantastic. So when my terminal at Continental Airlines had been bombed and my flight was “to be determined”, I was excited to spend this time as a tourist exploring Mumbai. Face fear…