Sex attracts  

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Sex attracts 
The tendency for togetherness, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune. Sex issues begin by deconstructing the layers of sexual repression that the condemnation of sex has inflicted on humans.
CJ: rudraksh 01,  10 Jan 2009   Views:6206   Comments:10

SEX IS important to us all. The approach to sex begins with an understanding of how important love is in our lives, while at the same time it acknowledges that the journey into love cannot exclude our innate biological energies.

With this perspective, it becomes clear that the tendency for togetherness, and for society in general, to associate sex with sin and morality has been a great misfortune. Sex issues begin by deconstructing the layers of sexual repression that the condemnation of sex has inflicted on humans.

Throughout sex matters, in response to questions about everything from jealousy, heartbreaks, to premature ejaculation, the role of intimacy and the differences between men and women. I propose a vision that embraces sex as a fundamental gift from nature. We learn how orgasm offers a glimpse of timelessness, thoughtlessness, and pure awareness -- biology’s way of pointing toward the consciousness that helps us to understand ourselves.

Finally, we are presented with a clear choice: a repressed sexuality that leads to pornography, perversion, and a stunted humanity or a playful, respectful, and relaxed innocence that supports us in becoming fulfilled and whole, as nature intended. Its not about making two plus two, its all about acceptance, and looking at things with openness, its fifth dimension as rigidness and less lubrication of thoughts and non acceptance of nature creates ruptures on mind, body and soul.

Marriage after infidelity is a painful experience  

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Marriage after infidelity is a painful experience 
Healing from infidelity is hard, painful process. Both the partners must be committed to repairing the damage. One of the greatest challenges people attempting to recover from marital infidelity experience is dealing with feelings of loneliness .
CJ: rudraksh 01,  30 Jan 2009   Views:4781   Comments:25
“IF HE/SHE cheats once, get help. If he/she cheats twice, get out.” Not a bad advice, really, because sometimes one can make a mistake and realise all that they stood to lose in choosing to cheat. When that happens, if the party which cheated realises this, makes amends and comes back to the relationship with total honesty that relationship could actually become stronger than it was before because they will realise just what they stood to lose and will do everything in their power not to lose it again.

Marriage can survive infidelity but it hurts. Healing from infidelity is hard, painful work; both the partners must be committed to repairing the damage. One of the greatest challenges people attempting to recover from marital infidelity experience is dealing with the feelings of loneliness and isolation. Every relationship has some good days and some bad days and that’s normal with marriage too. Only you can decide to heal and offer forgiveness, just make sure the partner is worth it. Marriage will be successful again after infidelity if both agree that they will try to make their marriage work. This is possible only if the cheated partner forgives and tries to forget the offence and the cheater mate promises not to cheat again and regrets or makes amends for the wrongdoing.


Think hard and you will find the answer within. Deep down you could be dissatisfied with the marriage. Instead of insulting the institution of marriage as well as your partner by indulging in extra-marital affairs, get out of the marriage before it gets worse. Nothing can be worse in a marriage than cuckolding your partner by being unfaithful.

The lesson that one learns from infidelity is that there is difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul that loving doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security. One accepts the fact that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises and embraces defeat with a head up attitude, with the grace of a man or a woman, not the grief of a child. One learns to build all the roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans.

Is today’s Alpha man not a happy creature  

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Is today’s Alpha man not a happy creature 
A woman is selling her virginity on the Net to collect money for her studies. The funniest part is there are many Alpfa men bidding a high price to have the first physical dip in her body. Life is nothing but an opportunity to love and be loved.
CJ: rudraksh 01,  1 Feb 2009   Views:2627   Comments:12

ARE WOMEN really from Venus and men from Mars? No, man is from our very own Earth and he is happy being earthy. Actually, man is the finest creation of God. He does not have to be anything else, he is so complete in itself. Man’s traces are required to make a woman complete. Man does not have to show to anybody, “come and see how I make a woman complete.”

I have read that a woman is selling her virginity on the Net to collect money for her studies. The funniest part is there are many Alpfa men bidding a high price to have the first physical dip in her body. Why is there a controversy over everything? Why do two people, who are supposed to be complimenting each other, live life like opposite ends of a river. Is ego of a person so strong that a man keeps making a mockery of himself and keeps killing himself every day, without even knowing it.

Is the answer in evolution process or is there total absence of love. Is it due to less understanding of self or is it a low self-esteem disorder. Love of a man is not dependent on the object but is a radiation of his subjectivity - a radiation of his self and his soul.


Today’s complication of lifestyle, relationships, rat-race in professional life, excessive pressure situations has brought man to the point where happiness in love, relations, material possession has ceased to exist. Will it happen one day that we have auctions of first kiss, first fellatio etc, etc.

Life is nothing but an opportunity to know self and to love and be loved. If you are alive, the opportunity is there - even to the last breath. You may have missed your whole life: just the last breath, the last moment on the earth, if you can love and be loved even for a second, you have not missed anything - because a single moment of love is equal to the whole eternity of love.

Man is divided into false personality and authentic individuality. Every man on Earth, who is not in conscious state of his being is schizophrenic; there is no need for any other symptom. It is just the natural, almost natural condition, from being told for thousands of years to be hypocrites.

I urge every man to understand the concept of ‘ardhnarishwar’, although it’s not propagating dostana but knowing the deep mysteries inside.

Be aware of desperate woman on the prowl?  

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Be aware of desperate woman on the prowl? 
The million dollor question is how do you know that there is a webbing going around you? She has a pet; name immaterial, it could be ripper, shipper, tipper or anything else, what difference does it make, watch how she interacts with them.
CJ: rudraksh 01,  12 Feb 2009   Views:4560   Comments:46

ARE YOU blamed for being a monster, the man who never commits, always on the look out for new pastures, a black panther on the prowl? But may be it’s not you, it could be the same woman you are involved with right now, who has showered you with all these adjectives. It’s because she’s a desperate woman. It could be a permanent disorder in her brain or it may be it is her intrinsic nature, which never allows her to settle down.

Although you can overlook some of her behaviourial disorder by behaving cool in accepting some of her demands but believe me, you are heading towards a disaster by getting caught for ever with a woman not made for you. But how will you find out that you are getting yourself in a trap of such a woman?

Just look out for some of the signs and you may thank me for telling you some of the utmost secret truths and findings. Find out, is she showing consistent signs of extremely ‘needy’ behaviour? Such women are intense, clingy and unable to keep a man because of their frantic desire for a serious commitment. So, they always create an image of vulnerability and the one who has never been understood by anyone. She will make you believe that you are the first and only one who understands her. She keeps cursing all her ex’s. But the million dollar question is how do you know that there is a webbing going around you?

Read her relationship history to find out is she a serial monogamist? Does she jump from one relationship to another? It could be because she cannot stand being alone. Look closer – is one of her ex’s a rockstar, while another a financial wizard and still another a fashion photographer or a naturalist? The warning bells should clang if she doesn’t seem to have a particular type. Ouch! Just run fast and far away, save yourself without having any regrets. Believe me, you will not be the last in her list.

She knows what she will be doing on the last Saturday of August, next year. She’s named her future children and grand children and even picked their careers. Well documented list of all the names she has to take revenge from, in short, she’s got a whole life planned. As soon as you begin dating, she keeps asking you if you love her. She starts discussing marriage and future plans directly and indirectly as if you’ve been together for years. This type of woman is eager to start her well-planned life immediately and will try to pressurise you into a premature commitment.So, she has a pet; name immaterial, it could be ripper, shipper, tipper or any thing else, what difference does it make. Watch how she interacts with them. Is she coochy cooing or pampering them excessively? Does she treat them like people? Does she keep talking to them excessively. This type of woman channels their affection and need to control through animals.

During the initial days of webbing, she agrees with you all the time? Are you surprisingly pleased with how similar you both are? You often get a feeling that you got your soul mate. But if she is a woman anxious to get hitched, she will fake compatibility in her rush to the altar. But would you want to be with or spend life with a mirror image of your tastes and opinions.

She might disarm you by asking some questions you have never been asked before by any woman living, like how do you rate women? Or tell you, what is a worth of a woman? She makes you believe that the woman you are with is not from this earth, and you are the most fortunate to find her or have been discovered by her. Such tricks automatically make her different from the rest. Be aware it’s another mantra of the trickster to hook you up.

All the indicators point in the direction of the woman you’re with. Don’t confuse yourself into thinking that all that clingy, needy behaviour was affection. Take a walk on the road to freedom. But be aware she can make a frog out of your Prince Charming image, which she has cultivated in your mind. And you have spent hours gazing at the mirror to find out the angle in which you look similar to Hrithik, John, Saif or Shahrukh.

Don’t commit, confuse and disarm her by admitting you can’t commit. Accept it as your fault. Tell her you got carried away.

  
Even a fake fight at this stage will help you. I am sure you know that this will make you a heartless manipulator, a cockroach or whatever name she can think of. Believe me you are not the first one to be cursed by her and for sure not the last one. It’s a chronic disorder with all such desperate women.

But is it not your freedom what you are craving for? The more she cries and creates a scene of a perfect Hindi potboiler in emotionally blackmailing you into staying in the relationship, the more you should be convinced that she’s fake. "Mystery is, there was never a mystery."

I know it seems heartless but you have to be tough, if you don’t want to be in mess all your life. Take your friends and family into confidence after break-up , explain why you broke. Avoid her, avoid her calls, change phone numbers if you have to, block emails from her ID too. In short avoid at all cost, to have bliss and a fresh clean slate for a new more meaningful beginning.


Secret of successful marriage  

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Secret of successful marriage 
Perfect marriages don't exist in the real world. But couples who are willing to put the time, energy and commitment to making their marriage work, can surely reap the flame of love and keep their marriage growing .
CJ: Rudranjali 01,  25 Feb 2009   Views:4632   Comments:26

DO YOU envy the couples who seem to have a perfect happy marriage? No need to be envious, you can have one too. These couples are in no way perfect, probably not even happier but they know how to keep their marriage fresh and exciting. The longer we’re married, the more we tend to forget that we’re married to another person.

We begin to think of our spouses as extensions of ourselves - then we get frustrated when they act in ways that we wouldn’t. We say things like, “Why would you do something like that?” or “How can you think that?” These reactions overlook the fact of difference that our partners are not a part of us and that they have their own individuality. Your sweetheart will inevitably have certain qualities or interests that aren’t appealing to you. 'Otherness' is part of being married - no two people are completely compatible.

It doesn’t take a major change to improve a marriage. The path to a more loving relationship is tread with small steps - with an unexpected compliment, the touch of a hand or a call just to say 'hello'. You can spend thousands on a big anniversary bash for your spouse but the celebration won’t mean much if you haven’t said 'I love you' on the other days of the year.
 
Some little things that can make your marriage better. If you're looking for ways to improve your marriage, you can start with a compliment.
  
So, when was the last time you gave your special someone a genuine compliment?
 
With good manners and politeness getting less and less common in today’s society, even romantic relationships and marriages are starting to suffer from a lack of common courtesy and compliments. Sure, your wife or husband may already know that you think they are attractive or exciting or intelligent. But why should that stop you from using romantic ideas and complimenting them every now and then?
 
Compliments shouldn’t only be reserved for new acquaintances or people who you’re trying to impress. The special people whose support we sometimes take for granted need an occasional compliment, too. A simple 'you look very nice today' or 'your smile is too much' can make your lover feel like a million bucks.
 
There’s no reason to go overboard with compliments, of course and too many can go to a person’s head or start sounding cynical. But promising yourself to give your significant other at least one nice compliment a day or every other day is a great way to make your lover feel appreciated and add some good old-fashioned romance to your relationship.
 
If you cannot think of a reason to give your spouse a compliment, wait until you can think of something to compliment them about -  "You look wonderful," or "That shirt really shows off your eyes." These compliments are more personal and let your spouse know that you find him/her desirable. We all like to be complimented on our appearance but it's common to receive this kind of affirmation more from friends and relatives than from our partner. This is sad because we most want and even need this appreciation from our spouse.
 
When you give sincere compliments to your spouse, several things are accomplished, including but not limited to:
  • Your spouse's self-confidence is increased.
  • Your spouse will feel more appreciated.
  • Your own self-worth is increased.
  • You will feel more romantic.
  • The friendship between the two of you is strengthened.
If your spouse doesn't compliment your appearance, don't look for it elsewhere. Talk to your partner about how you wish to please him. Find out what you could do to encourage more of these compliments and then try some of these things. On the other hand, if you haven't complimented your spouse lately, it's time to start. Don't miss a powerful opportunity to communicate your love and strengthen your relationship.
 
When your spouse does something good or kind or sacrificial, what do you say? Too often a spouse says nothing. I recently heard a psychologist explain that it's normal for a couple to take each other for granted. He said we should accept this as the typical progression of marriage — the longer we are married, the more you take each other for granted.
 
Well, I refuse to accept this. It's not right nor is it healthy.
 
Your spouse does a lot that deserves your appreciation. Maybe it's keeping the house in order; it might be managing children or finances; it could even be going to work or to the grocery store. It is very easy to begin to take your spouse for granted after years of marriage and to just assume that they know how you feel about them.


Everyone needs a pat on the back for a job well done and your wife/husband is no different. If you let your partner know how much you value and appreciate them, it will create an encouraging, nurturing environment and can help you be a more effective team. Don’t take your wife/husband for granted anymore, start complimenting today and you will see that it will create a whole new atmosphere in your home, it truly will.

Some of you as you read this are probably thinking, "Yeah, all that sounds real nice but you don't know me, my spouse or what we've been through." You're right, I don't know. But what I do know is that you will reap what you sow. Perfect marriages don't exist in the real world. But couples who are willing to put the time, energy and commitment to making their marriage work, will be able to reap the flame of love and keep their marriage growing.

 Mark Twain once said that he could live a full month on nothing but a single compliment.

 

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Suicide: A permanent solution to a temporary problem? 
It is vital not to pressurise the person into talking if they don’t want to but giving them the time and space to talk openly without interrupting or offering solutions or judging them can provide the first step in helping them cope with the crisis.
CJ: Rudranjali 01,  10 Mar 2009   Views:5210   Comments:45

ONE QUESTION, which has troubled me so often is what could be the reason, which makes a person decide to end his own life? What are those circumstances that living becomes so difficult? Why a person decides to destroy God’s finest creation? Why can’t we just stop worrying and start living...? There is always a way, we need to have the will.

Most suicides appear to be associated with a long-lasting depression; they are often "a permanent solution to a temporary problem." Others who commit suicide are not depressed. They kill themselves because of terminal illness, intractable pain, and/or the loss of dignity, control and love.

It is almost as though the darkness of an evil has a hold on our minds and hearts in those darkest moments when suicide seems right, rational and eminent. The main problem with suicide is that it is murder. You would be murdering a person even though it would be your own self -- you are still a person. It is a health issue -- the health of our brain determines how we perceive and feel the world. When we are depressed, we must consider that our decisions will be based on a body system that is not functioning as it should. The thinking and feeling process is not working right. It is our pain and a "broken" brain that is leading us to suicide. Through our tears and our suffering, we must try to recognise that we are not well, and our thoughts are a danger to us.  But sometimes we cannot see this.

We usually don’t want to kill ourselves over a broken leg. We have more experience in knowing that the body can heal itself, in this case with a doctor’s help, to set the leg so it can heal. Emotions have so much power. And these are unbalanced thoughts and emotions of an almost "injured" brain. It is almost as if a dark force is whispering in our ear, trying to hurt us, trying to get us to hurt ourselves, and sometimes, to hurt other people. Many commit suicide not for their own hurt, but they feel that it would hurt the person who has hurt them.

Most people have thought of suicide at some time of their lives and not all people who commit suicide have mental health problems at the time of death. However, a majority of people who kill themselves do have such problems, usually to a serious degree. Sometimes, this has been diagnosed before the person’s death and at times not. People who kill themselves have often told someone that they do not feel life is worth living or that they have no future. Some may have actually said they want to die. Whilst it may be the case that some people talk about suicide as a way of getting the attention they need, it is very important that everyone who says they feel suicidal be treated seriously. People who have attempted to kill themselves are significantly more likely to eventually die by suicide than the rest of the population.


Feeling suicidal is often a temporary state of mind. Whilst someone may feel low or distressed for a sustained period the actual suicidal crisis can be relatively short term. This is what makes timely emotional support so important. People may talk about their feelings because they want support in dealing with them. In this sense it may be that they do indeed want attention in which case giving that attention may save their life. The majority of people who feel suicidal do not actually want to die; they do not want to live the life they have. The distinction may seem small but is, in fact, very important and that is why other options at the right time are so vital.

Suicidal behavior differs from person to person. Some people show very positive behavior such as happiness or relief once their decision to take their own life and end the pain has been made.

Unusual behavior, such as being very withdrawn or excessively animated can also be a sign that there is something wrong. If someone is going through an emotional distress they can feel very isolated and will sometimes show anger or impatience towards the people close to them. Low self-esteem, being close to tears and not being able to cope with small every day events are also signs that someone is struggling to cope with overwhelming feelings.

Physical symptoms of depression and distress also include sleeplessness, loss of appetite or irregular eating, stomach aches, panic attacks, low energy and loss of concentration. Signs that someone is suicidal can include talking of tidying up their affairs or expressing feelings of despair and failure.

If you are worried about a friend, colleague or family member they may really appreciate your asking them how they are. You don’t have to be able to solve their problem, or even to completely understand it, but listening to what they have to say will at least let them know you care.

Remember to act quickly. When someone is distressed, it may be a seemingly small thing or something which only affects them indirectly which acts as the trigger to them becoming suicidal or acting out suicidal thoughts. Letting someone know that you are there whenever they want to talk is the first step in offering help.

If you feel able to, offer support and encourage your friend, colleague or family member to talk about how they are feeling. Ask direct questions and don’t be afraid of frank discussions. If someone is talking about suicide always take it seriously. It is a myth that talking about suicide is attention seeking.It is vital not to pressurise the person into talking if they don’t want to, but giving them the time and space to talk openly without interrupting or offering solutions or judging them can provide the first step in helping them cope with the crisis.

Remember that it is difficult to support someone who is suicidal on your own. Take care not to take on so much of other people’s problems that you yourself start feeling depressed. Encourage your friend to seek emotional support and talk to someone they trust -- maybe friends, family, medical services.

If you are worried about a friend, colleague or family member they may really appreciate you asking how they are. Talking about a problem is never easy. You don’t have to be able to solve their problem, or even to completely understand it, but listening to what they have to say will at least let them know you care.

Loneliness: Enlighten yourself  

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Loneliness: Enlighten yourself 
As Osho stated, one wouldn't try to push darkness out of a dark room so as to bring in light. That is impossible because darkness doesn't really exist. Rather, it's simply the absence of light. So the answer is to turn on the light..
CJ: Rudranjali 01,  4 days ago   Views:1086   Comments:8

 
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. 
For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, 
and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon

WE ALL find ourselves alone in the world and believe that we are so. I know we've all felt terribly lonely, at some point, in our lives when, amidst a room full of people, we felt as if we were total strangers. I think it happens to everybody, even those with a busy social life and a lot of friends. We feel lonely within and, at the same time, we are socially related and surrounded by others, whether we like it or not. There are times when we isolate ourselves from the crowd to experience a sense of separation from others and this sense of being separated shapes and enhances our personality and our identity. This loneliness can also be termed 'good or positive loneliness' and poets describe it as 'solitude'. Philosophers term it aloneness. Solitude or aloneness is a point where a person is alone by choice. We can develop a multitude of talents if we are given space and time to develop them. A lot of good paintings, writing, art, and poetry were born out of solitude.

I read these words somewhere and liked them and now I share them with you:
"Loneliness is when you think of others, miss them; it is a negative state. Aloneness is the presence of oneself, it is very positive, you can fill the universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody."

We are sometimes not sure how to describe loneliness, to characterise what exactly it is. Well, we don’t have the exact words. We work our way around the thought, then hesitate and stumble, but fail to get to its heart. I sometimes think that loneliness has to do with having intimate relations with other people, but that’s not all. It has much to do with our inability to relate or connect with others, or, perhaps, to put it better, our irresistible ability as human beings to imagine our existence as individuals.

You and I are trying hard to understand this concept of loneliness. I mean we are trying to think in ways that bring us closer to understanding the truth, the basics of it… maybe we are trying to be philosophical. As lovers of truth and to achieve higher levels of sensitivity, we want to be close to it and understand the concept.

When we get married, we sign on for a life of sharing the room, bedsheets, bathroom space, cold germs, families, emotions, moods. As per the marriage vow: “To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part." Couples sometimes may not realise that "for better or worse" may mean that they will share their emotional states as well. You still love each other, but other priorities take up more and more of your time. You may end up seeing each other at home only between other responsibilities.

You share your house, your expenses, your children, but you aren't sharing your love, your goals, your dreams and your life. Rather than husband and wife, you feel like room-mates. Monotony creeps into the lives, and this monotony causes almost everything - even tenderness, sexuality, and intimate conversation - to become routine. Quite often both partners react to such a situation with desperation, depression and resignation. There’s nothing to say to the other person; regardless of how badly one wants a point of contact; he seems to encounter nothing but inner desolation and emptiness.

This emptiness, isolation from each other and the feeling of loneliness when you're married is harmful; it can damage your marriage; this feeling of vague dissatisfaction can be the end of your union. Because most of us do not expect to feel lonely after marriage. The idea that an individual can become lonely in a committed partnership is often too painful to deal with. There is no guarantee against loneliness. It is a myth that marriage will end your loneliness, because the feelings of loneliness exist after marriage too. I think the quality of marriage, or, in other words, what the marriage provides is an important factor in determining the levels of loneliness. Having a pessimistic approach and saying that 'I deserve a better marriage than this', or, 'I deserve someone who can meet my needs', will never bring you any healing.

What do you say?

Do you know what the first thing to overcome loneliness is?

Be at ease and be satisfied with your own self. The feeling of loneliness need not, necessarily, stem from being alone or having nobody with us...it’s caused by dissatisfaction with the people in your life. And it includes dissatisfaction with yourself.

As Osho stated, one wouldn't try to push darkness out of a dark room so as to bring in light. That is impossible because darkness doesn't really exist. Rather, it's simply the absence of light. So, the answer is to turn on the light in that room to make darkness disappear.
Loneliness is simply darkness that has enveloped us and this can't be dealt with directly because it doesn't really exist; it's simply the absence of light at that time in our life.

You will be able to overcome your negative feelings only when you learn to create a conducive atmosphere yourself.
Your need to be special, to be loved, could only be met at a spiritual level, from deep within yourself, from the divinity within. You will enjoy others’ company when you enjoy your own first.

You have to be confident about who you are and how you feel. I am sure there are a lot of people who are your friends and want to be with you as friends. Do not wait for other people to visit you or approach you. You take the first step and start thinking them as your friends. You open your heart to let people in because nobody likes to knock on closed doors.

You are very special and there are so many people who want to be with you. Just realise that, and life will be so good. Sit with your self and see what you have to offer. I am sure you will be surprised to see how much you can do....

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself: Mark Twain