Ignatius Raphael - cosmic traveller

Our world is viewed through the prism of time. Every event that we have experienced, are experiencing or going to experience is imprinted in a linear time continuum and our state of mind is always relative to it. The only thing we crave really bad is more time... especially when we are closer to our death. Everything else pales into insignificance compared to the lack of time. What is time? We on earth count time in seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years. How did we create this measure? The earth takes 1 year to circumnavigate the sun. From that one year we broke it down into 365 days, 24 houts per day, 60 ininutes per hour and finally 60 seconds per minute. If we use this same logic, for someone living in the moon, they are orbiting the earth once a day. Their year is equal to our one day. Their one hour is 9.8 secs for us. So if man was living on the moon would they have a shorter life span or would they live to be 2000 years or more? Now take the fact that the sun re

Day #100:  Our Creator (100 days gratitude challenge) Today is the last of the 100-day gratitude challenge and it is dedicated to my Creator, the creator of all that we see, hold, enjoy and experience. He is the reason that I am here, you are here and we are having this conversation (or monologue). He is the reason behind everything in my world and yours. The minute I say that then a few bright minds ask, “Is he behind the murders, the crime, the poverty and the ills that ails our world?” Why would a God do that?  Answer: The beauty of our creation is, he made us in his spitting image and gave us free will to do as we please. So we wield as much power as He has but since we are a prisoner of our collective consciousness we are unable to see our pure potential and live bounded by the mediocrity and weaknesses of our flesh. I am grateful to our Creator for making us the way he did and giving us the power to become Him. I am discovering more and more in myself and more and more

Day #99:     Murali Sundaram, Happyness Coach (100 day gratitude challenge) Do you want to be happy in your life? Stupid question, right? But stupid or not, most people have forgotten how to be happy. They need to be reminded of the little things that they can do that will bring back the smiles to their face, a lightness to their step and a pitter patter to their heart. And to remind us of these little things, we have a Coach called Murali Sundaram who has made it his life mission to reach one million families and help them find the happiness that is waiting within them to be released and experienced. I met him 11 years ago and we have worked together for the last 10 years in different capacities. As a child he has shared what he has learned in school with other kids through free tuitions. He learns more so he can teach more. What he learns he implements in his life, so he can speak from experience rather than from the head. He is loving, loyal friend who is willing to go the e

Day #98:     DeMartini (100 day gratitude challenge) Two days ago I received a package from Success Gyan, my friend Suren’s company. It contained a thank you note and a pen drive. The thank you note is a detailed note from Suren thanking the Universe for all that it has done for him and acknowledging everyone in his life who shared this journey with him in raising himself from where he was at the age of 19 when he lost his father to what he has become today because of his intention to keep his mother like a queen so she would never again suffer the way she did during the traumatic early years. The note was beautiful and inspiring, but the pen drive contained something even more valuable. It had an audio message from Dr. J Demartini ( https://drdemartini.com/ ) on staying focused on goals. It’s a short but powerful message on what we need to do to achieve the goals we set at the beginning of the year. If you would like to have this I can email you a link that you can download and

Day #97:     Sharing (100 day gratitude challenge) There are people in this world who genuinely want the best for you and willing to share what they know and their time to grow others. I can name many and I’m sure you would have your own list too. But today I would like to thank one person who shared this post on facebook so thousands of people who read it and implement it can benefit from the nuggets of wisdom. She’s someone I met a few years back and has always come across as someone who has the best of intentions towards people she meets. She is Puja Kapoor Gupta. I’m glad to share her post here so you can benefit too from this simple but powerful technique. The three easy steps to the best way to set goals for next year:  Are you ready? Clarity is key  🔑 Quickly do 3 rounds of walking in whichever room it is that you are sitting in Go get a paper and a pad Get into your most Happy energetic self Get your heart pumping Get ready to envision your 52

Day #96:     Rituals (100 day gratitude challenge) The rituals associated with the passing away of a family member are elaborate in most customs. The Indian Hindu customs are very elaborate and spread over a longer period than for us Indian Catholics for whom it is just 3 days of mourning and then life gets back to normal. There are a funeral service and a third-day memorial mass. The family stays together during this time. There are lots of discussions on what happened, how it happened, old memories, recent memories and a lot more so it takes the mind off the subject for the grieving members of the family. They get time to grieve heal and adjust to the new reality of a life without this person who was an integral part for so long. My sister and her sons were dealing with all of this that the shock of learning of the passing of the man of the house was cushioned and they could slowly wrap their head around the fact that he was no more amongst them. Rituals and customs play a