Practicing Thankfulness

Writing a letter to the Universe:Does it work?

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 23, 2018 43

Writing a letter to the Universe: Does it work?

Once you write down exactly what you want and read it every day. You start to dream about it. This experiment I have been doing this since I was in the eighth standard. Does it work? Depends on what you want and how hard you can focus on it. The power of our minds and mindful focus on a single thought takes practice. But here goes.

Dear Universe

I am writing this letter because I wanted to say thank you. Thank you for all that you have given me.Thank you for the ability to be thankful, and for always remembering where I have come from and where I want to go.

Thank you for giving me a family who are my biggest treasure. and a friend for life.

A kind, understanding child, who makes me happy with her five-year-old wisdom.

Thank you for this ability to write away my tears. To write when I am happy, to write when I am angry. To write to teach and write to learn. Thank you, Universe for always guiding me with your light.

Thank you for this beautiful nature that surrounds me wherever I go.

Thank you for always protecting me.Thank you for giving me guardian angels to help me forever.

What I need help with are my wishes. Since I got over with the thank you, I need to tell you some things I need help with.

Dear Universe please help me deal with my anxiety, related to the mounting violence against doctors everywhere, especially in West Bengal. I am regretting the decision to come back. But then I think of my mom, who needs us at least in the same state. My daughter would be in the hands of strangers anywhere else.

Writing a letter to the Universe-Does it work- — *Writing a letter to the Universe-Does it works?*

So guide me dear Universe. Help me work on my expectations. Help me get rid of my tendency to expect people to be more than what they are. People can only give what they have. Unrealistic expectations help no one right?

Do remind me of this when people surprise me, with their lack of understanding of human nature and the circle of deeds. Please stop this violence and madness we see everywhere. Why do news channels harp on about murders and horrors? Why can’t they spread positive stories like We are the World Blog Fest.

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases…When you focus on the things you need, you’ll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don’t have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don’t have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose…But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person’s life.”
By Andy Andrews, The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

The universe does help me focus on the good and beautiful in my life.

Thank you, Universe for always being a good friend, a wise parent, and a wonderful teacher. I will write again soon. This was fun!

Have you ever written a letter to the Universe? Try it and share it with me on twitter @misra_amrita

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#ThankfulThursdays37 :Thankful for Blogging contests

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 14, 2017 35

I believe anything that helps me grow positively is for the good and is blessed by God’s wishes.For me writing on my blog has been a self-healing and self-discovery of sorts.Blogging contests fall right where reading, writing, gardening, and thankfulness comes from.It helps me write, it helps me learn, it helps me push my boundaries and grow my blog.

Over the past one year, I have participated in a few contests.I have completed most of them.My take away from them was the community feeling.The feeling there are people just like me, who are struggling to find themselves and their blogs.

You feel like you belong. These are the people who are trying to do more, with what they have, wherever they are.That’s powerful.

4 Blogging communities which I must mention Write tribe, Indiblogger, Blogchatter, and Blogadda!

How do these contests help me?

Helps me write and motivates me, even when I am busy and have many excuses for not writing!Its like a slow burn.Writing will be a soothing aloe vera gel!
Helps me promote my blog.That’s the power of networking.
Helps me read and discover new blogs.
Helps me learn from other bloggers.
It is the best way to get noticed by brands if you are writing useful content.
Did you know the comment links even when no follow have link juices?So reading and commenting on blogs will help to depend on your niche and the quality of the blog in question.
It helps in my blog’s health and my emotional health.
Helped me write my first two books
Blogging contests help keep the inertia of writing going.

Newton’s First law: In an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force.

In simpler terms it means

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.

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The Blogging contests I participate in starting from July last year:

Daily chatter Half marathon by Blogchatter(15 days)
My friend Alexa 1.0(30 days)
Ultimate blogging challenge /Daily chatter by Blogchatter (October 30 days)
The International Ultimate Blogging Challenge in December(30 days)
A to Z in April with Blogchatter this year.
#Tiniature on Twitter by Gayatri_Gadre.
Weekly WOW on Blogadda.
Writebravely in August with Write tribe(7 days Daily blogging).

The secret to the health of your blog is your content.Plan it well make it consistent.Make it count.But in the process don’t fall into the inertia of rest and the myth of perfection.

#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

My favorite posts this week are :

Prasanna from Team MocktailMommies

Sathya from team mocktailmommies

Dipika ‘s Instagram post

Thankful heart Appreciation for Prasanna from Mocktailmommies

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You can also link up other posts.Just comment on this post and my co-hosts post and any two of the posts in the link up.Share using #ThankfulThursdays hashtag.
We deeply believe in community spirit.Eagerly looking forward to visiting your blogs.

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10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness by Bhanu Arora:Book review I am thankful I did

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 7, 2017 25

I like learning from other people’s wisdom.That’s a quicker way to get where I want to go.Life is too short to have a trial and error for everything.This is where Bhanu Arora’s book 10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness is perfect.

Style of writing: It’s a book written in a style like The Go Giver.There are life stories which are engaging while not being preachy.This is followed by observations of the author and then take away points at the end of each chapter.Perfect format.The book’s introduction is in the same style, where the author’s intention behind writing the book is revealed.

He also gives us a quick walk-through of how to use the book to find happiness inside.

Basic theme of the book 10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness

10 Things you can follow in your day to day life both personal and professional(both are heavily interlinked)to live happier.

Knowledge tidbits I loved :

If you want to be happy, you have to first find out about you.Seeking self-knowledge is the first step for being happiness
Try to recollect your childhood.This may help you understand your adult conditioning.Excellent advice.
Surround yourself with supportive positive people.
Positive environment helps in self-improvement
Always be alert for your own well-being.
Always have adequate information from reliable sources.
Gossip is not necessarily negative.It gives us valuable information about nature and lack of workability.It helps to weed out untrustworthy people.This Is an interesting insight.
You need to help others who dream
A healthy marriage helps you live happier.

Overview:

What you do, how you think, who you have around, are all factors which influence your physical, mental and emotional state.This is the framework on which you build your happiness.

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About the Author

Bhanu Arora is a banker by profession and a passionate writer.This book is his debut book.He has also written a few short stories in the past that can be found on his blog bhanuarora.com.His other passions are traveling music, movies, and food that inspire him to write.

Book Blurb

Some people are born happy, and we often meet them in our daily lives. The same can be true for every human on this earth. Souls are born humble but are stressed by society. One of the primary sources of unhappiness is the existence of adverse individuals in our life. Remove them, and we are free winged creatures. Gossip, socialize, make friends and not a single day would go in sadness. Respect live-in relationship if marriage exhausts you. Travel and explore this beautiful earth for a more joyful you. Forget Billionaires and live your unique life. Deliberate changes in our daily lives can punch you up and make it worth living. “Ten Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness”delightfully portrays interlinked stories from everyday modern life that can change you forever with everlasting bliss.

Disclosure:I received a copy from Writersmelon in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.’

Thankful for my Window Seat View when it Rains

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 3, 2017 25

The window seat in my bedroom is my favorite place to hang out when it rains.

My cup of tea, a mystery book, and a cushion.What else do you need?

When I look out of the window I can see the top of the medical college where I work.It’s light blue in color and eight stories high.One of the tallest building in this small town.The sky above it and all around look like a giant tent tethered on top of it.The houses next to it are just small pegs holding the tent down.

With the circus that’s happening with healthcare, the lies and half-truths the Government in India and the state are feeding the unsuspecting public, this feeling of being part of a circus is becoming stronger day-to-day.On days when I am in an introspective mood I wonder at my analogy.But on days like today when it’s drizzling throughout, the only thing that comes to my mind is the song from Sound of music.

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Watching the rain from my window seat reminds me of why I need to remember my favorite things.Why this is the best time of my life.Why I need to thank God for all my powers to cope.

Why God gives me my joys and troubles.I am given the cards which I can play.God is kind that way.He wants me to win.Learn and win.That’s why he gives these challenges Those that I don’t win are even more interesting.They teach in surprising ways.

Photo by Handcrafted Homes, Inc in Houzz .My dream bedroom window seat

The friends who walked a different path but fondly remembered.The ones who are there even miles away. The people who helped me and those who I couldn’t help.

Sitting by the window I think of all these things.But I also do one more thing.I try to let go.I put my negative thoughts and my worries free into the sky.Like Dumbledore used to empty his mind in the Pensieve, I try that.Not always successful.But it gets better with practice.

“I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure. It becomes easier to spot patterns and links, you understand, when they are in this form.”
Albus Dumbledore explaining what a Pensieve is

via GIPHY

My profession shows the depressing side of life too often.To help myself cope my window seat is a blessing.It’s my turn to let go ….from the window.

‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’

I am taking part in the #MyFriendAlexa challenge with Blogchatter.

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#ThankfulThursdays 36 :Thankful for Technology

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 31, 2017 20

Living in a small town in West Bengal after spending my entire life in Kolkata and partly in Delhi, I will be lying if I said I had no regrets.I cried my face swollen with nothing to do except work and home.Then magic happened.

God helped me find the one thing(other than Rai )which could make me be happy effortlessly.Thanks to the internet I am able to read as much as I want.I don’t buy magazines, instead, I read blogs and news online.But I still buy books both e-books and the hold-in -your -hand warm new book kinds.

Now with the internet, I not only read but also write, lend my voice and support causes like this.

So today I am thankful to all those who have made the internet possible.Those who make a good connection possible even in the back and beyond.I am grateful for the open source information which helps me.The Internet is a vast treasure trove for people like me who love learning

I am also grateful that I learned to keep my plants alive by reading all the blogs online.There are people who share such valuable information all the time.It’s because of technology I am able to share my tree love with Parul every Thursdays.

Banyan tree at The bank of the river Mahananda with pretty red Fruits which the birds were picking at!(Image credit Amrita)

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#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

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Amy Lynn Andrews:Why I admire her

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 10, 2017 17

Today on my blog I am featuring Amy Lynn Andrews a mompreneur who inspires and helps.Why do I admire her?Why am I thankful that I found her blog two years back?I wouldn’t have come this far without all her help.

I have a long list.The first time I wrote about her was on my one year blogging anniversary when I was lucky to have her Knowtbook gifted to me.Till now its the most updated and easy to navigate blogging resource I use.

Why I adore Amy?

1)She walks the talk.

2)She tells us about making money and shows us how she does it with full disclaimers.

3)I have learned everything from her blog.Plus her blog has a woman’s voice, who knows all women don’t have the tech bone in their body.

Until I read her blog I was afraid of doing anything, except write on my blog.The ways she explains the backend nitty gritty of blogs, you will get rid of all your worries.

About Amy

A mother to two sons, Amy has lived and worked in Africa and knows the pains of a developing country.The empathy she shows to perfect strangers is also the reason she is successful.Do what you like and forget the rest.

Lessons I learned from Amy

Everything blogging till date.
Do what you like and forget the rest.
If you love a team .Work with one.If you like solo do it alone.
Important point is to be professional and kind.Always growing towards light .

Why you should sign up for Amy’s Useletter

If you want to let your blog support itself, you should find the right teacher.
Amy gives you a heads up for great offers and good things which you need to know when you are managing your blog
She keeps it real with no weird promises about one month to one million traffic!Maybe that happens.Lets hope that happens.But until there’s a blueprint to follow and which can be followed to mirror results, people can get discouraged very fast!

There are many blogs out there.If you are a blogger you will be regularly making the rounds to learn.But Amy’s blog is like home.Her Knowtbook is like the Faraway tree.It always makes me happy.

Today I want to tell you if you have a dream to blog with passion and make something out of it, don’t forget to visit Amy’s blog amylynnandrews.com

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Writing a letter to the Universe:Does it work?

Writing a letter to the Universe: Does it work?

Dear Universe

#ThankfulThursdays37 :Thankful for Blogging contests

How do these contests help me?

#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

My favorite posts this week are :

Sathya from team mocktailmommies

Rules of linky:

10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness by Bhanu Arora:Book review I am thankful I did

Basic theme of the book 10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness

Knowledge tidbits I loved :

Overview:

About the Author

Book Blurb

Thankful for my Window Seat View when it Rains

The window seat in my bedroom is my favorite place to hang out when it rains.

#ThankfulThursdays 36 :Thankful for Technology

#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

Rules of linky:

Amy Lynn Andrews:Why I admire her

Why I adore Amy?

About Amy

Lessons I learned from Amy

Why you should sign up for Amy’s Useletter

Podcasts by Dr.Amrita Basu

Roshan Radhakrishnan

Vishakha Talreja

Practicing Thankfulness

Writing a letter to the Universe: Does it work?

Dear Universe

Sharing is good Karma!

How do these contests help me?

#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

My favorite posts this week are :

Rules of linky:

Sharing is good Karma!

Basic theme of the book 10 Essentials to the Blueprint of Happiness

Knowledge tidbits I loved :

Overview:

About the Author

Book Blurb

Sharing is good Karma!

The window seat in my bedroom is my favorite place to hang out when it rains.

Sharing is good Karma!

#ThankfulThursdays Prompt this week

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Sharing is good Karma!

Why I adore Amy?

About Amy

Lessons I learned from Amy

Why you should sign up for Amy’s Useletter

Sharing is good Karma!

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