We are all born complete and yet go about trying to find ourselves with that elusive thing we think we lack while all along it lies within us.
This is the real life journey of an Indian woman who, from being a wild child, goes on to resolving her identity crisis and finding herself in the most unusual ways by comparing, seeking, clinging, withdrawing and eventually shining through thawing and emerging in her true avatar. For her life begins at forty…
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The author, Latika Tripathi now goes by the name Purvi Beri is a sales professional whose career with leading publishing houses include The Times of India, India Abroad (a http://www.rediff.com/ publication, U.S.A.) and Gulf News. A career spanning more than eighteen years across India and Dubai with assignments across the world, she has founded her Media Representation company All Directions Media in the U.A.E.
Over a period of time she has strengthened her interest in holistic development and learning. She is a practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Time Line Therapy ™, Hypnotherapy (recognized by the American Board of NLP, Association of NLP, The American Board of Hypnotherapy), Emotional Freedom Technique ™ and Reiki.
She also consults on Numerology, Feng-Shui and other practices based on the energy fields that surround us.
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Introduction:
This book is the tapestry of my life. As the master weaver, I have woven complex, unique patterns into it without a blueprint to guide me.
I have recorded the journey of my life in eight chapters, each one a colourful strand stretched between my past to my present. Each chapter has a theme that journeys alone as well as intertwines with all the others. The overlapping of strands and themes create an amazingly harmonious design of diverse colours and patterns.
Like an onion being peeled layer by layer, so does each chapter begin by addressing the outermost reality. Bit by bit, the inner contents are exposed. I didn’t peel the onion perfectly, but I approached each layer with joyful anticipation. I also had to accept that tears and blurred eyes were a part of the deal.
The peeling of the many layers of the onion is the most difficult part. There certainly is joy in having the tears pour down without any shame, anyone who has peeled an onion would agree. Even though the tears sting and the eyes burn as the tears pour out, the sinuses clear up. It is the ultimate process of healing.
In crying we release. In releasing we let go. In letting go, we start accepting. In accepting we are. In being we become. In becoming we fly. In flying we see ourselves as the tiniest beings, a mere speck on this planet and the universe.
That is when we are willing to put aside our bad moments and look at the whole picture.
As we see our tapestry from a distance and notice it in its entirety for the first time, we see that it has a unique pattern to it. The patterns are familiar too. It is the beautiful design of our life and very dear to us. All parts of it. Even the parts where the design was woven wrong.
The good, the bad, and the ugly. The happy moments are appreciated more because we have known what sad is. The giving and the receiving. The joy of finding your love and the sorrows of having lost your loved ones. The wows and the hows. The yes has more meaning because of the previous no. The complete picture. At a glance. We don’t have to rework the strands, we get the ability to see it all at once in all the hues and get all the insights at one go. When you reach the core, everything is heightened. Even the silence has definite sound to it.
Then everything else ceases to matter and we are able to live in the now. We finally accept. With unconditional love, to anything that has been or will be we can simply say, SO BE IT.
Chapter 1:
Being:
Who we are is primarily defined for us by our caregivers and parents. Despite the best of intentions, they sometimes get it wrong. In my opinion, aspiring parents to be should be put through compulsory counselling together to ensure they realize and agree on what parenting entails before they create a new life.
In earlier times, children had more siblings, and parents enjoyed the support of extended family nearby. Problems were solved with the input of uncles, aunts, and grandparents, and even sibling rivalry helped to give a clearer sense of identity. In odd cases of incompetent parenting, a child could look up to a better role model within the family.
In these days of nuclear families and single parenting, it is imperative to prepare for this role with the utmost caution. It would be a safer and better world if we made our children our priority. Most certainly we would not see so many kids go astray in these disturbed times with its overexposure to everything. In this imperfect world, we often have kids first and realize the gravity of what we have done later.