Growth & Change
There Is No Winning or Losing in Life. Just Lessons.
Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught to see life as a scoreboard — wins on one side, losses on the other. We chase the wins, we fear the...
Knowledge Hub
Mindfulness & Life Coaching Articles
Reflections and practical guidance on mindfulness, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), emotional balance and self-mastery, written over the years by Dhivya Kannan.
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Coaching Insights
Building High-Performance Workplaces: Wellness Strategies for Enterprises
How forward-thinking organizations are boosting employee engagement and reducing attrition through executive mindfulness workshops.
Coaching Insights
Mastering Emotional Stability: How NLP & Mindfulness Rewrite Your Mindset
Learn proven NLP reframing techniques and mindfulness tools to break free from subconscious anxiety and decision fatigue.
Coaching Insights
10 Transformative Benefits of Mindfulness Life Coaching
Discover how integrating mindfulness principles and goal-oriented coaching reduces burnout, improves emotional stability, and builds self-trust.
Growth & Change
Growth Is Awkward. That’s How You Know It’s Real.
“Did I even say that?” “Oh my God, don’t tell me I said that.” “That’s weird.” “No, that’s not how I think anymore.” “I don’t like this now.” “Ouch. I...
Feelings & Emotions
It pains and I watch!
My dog is sick, it rips layers and layers of my heart and soul to see my dog suffer. I watch myself rip and bleed.
Reflections
Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Silently sitting with a friend by the beach. Admiring the all might ocean.
Mindfulness
The Firefly
Deep into the wild The firefly lit her eyes. She froze in the moment She wasn’t able to blink.
Mindfulness
Covid care needs to be done for the mind too.
When everyone talks about the physical symptoms of covid, I would like to discuss here the emotional or the psychological difficulties I experienced...
Life & Living
The Two True Blessings
Everything around is a blessing, no doubt. A few are able to see even the little blessings and a few are not able to see any blessing at all around them...
Relationships
The Zen Tangle Of Relationship
Everything in the world is complex yet at the same time simple. Knowledge makes things easy at times, still we also know innocence is bliss. There seems...
Feelings & Emotions
Happy Memories Can Also Haunt You!
Can happy memory hurt? This was a recent random thought that popped in my head. In the beginning, I thought, what’s the big deal, there is no two way to...
Feelings & Emotions
Have You Ever Experienced The Peak Of Pain?
The midwife in my prenatal class, explains the process of birth. She says hold on, keep breathing, keep exhaling, and only push when the contraction...
Life & Living
How much is too much?
The first rain drop that fell on me , brought an instant joy, for it seem like the heaven was blessing me. I lookup and send my gratitude.
Relationships
The Essential vitamin F
I woke up today to see my WhatsApp overflowing with Friendship day wishes, I am sure most of you had the same experience too. The first thought was, is it...
Life & Living
What Time Should You Wake Up?
Is it my upbringing or my choice? It is neither. It is just me. I best function with 8 hours of sleep and I prefer stretching through the night than...
Growth & Change
Age Is Not Just A Number But A Blessing.
I am 40 and for the first time in my life, I am liking the fact that I am getting old. I was for many many years stuck to the age of 16 and then with 21...
Mindfulness
The Moment made Limitless
That last bit of vanilla ice cream, the climax of that interesting movie, the last few pages of the book you adored, the car ride where you peacefully...
Reflections
Have You Ever Judged Someone?
The train starts to leave the station. Travelling alone, I just wanted to have my dinner and settle with my book in the upper berth, so that I have enough...
Feelings & Emotions
Is It Possible To Increase Happiness?
A conversation with a friend, about my plan to attend Vipassana in 2020 turned deep and thought-to provoke. He asked me the reason for me to attend a...
Relationships
To get a new one or to take care of the existing one?
I own a windows laptop core i3 processor. It is not the latest version but it serves my purpose. It was a handy partner in doing all my digital work both...
Life & Living
Books to people, what is your choice?
Travelling with books,has been a way of life since my college days as a literature student, even a little before that from my teens actually. Started with...
Life & Living
Do you think pets care about what I think?
I have been debating this for long in my mind as much as to people. Do domesticated animals have a better life or limited life?.
Reflections
The stage !
“All the world’s a stage and the men and women just players ” said Shakespeare. Now I wonder are we only the players? Are we not the director, make-up...
Growth & Change
The new page..
As I write the engineering record for my son(Karma does return), I become aware that certain things haven’t changed in me since high school…I still get...
Reflections
You need to know this big world
The more I travel, the more I meet people, the more experiences I get, the more adventures I indulge, the more I realise that I get to see the world...
Reflections
Did you know, mirages can be seen and felt too!
I didn’t know the physics behind it nor its name. But I have seen it- the Mirage. I peddled through the NH4, the national highway connecting Kashmir to...
Life & Living
Schooling or Googling
How many of you have cursed the schooling system as a child, and how many of you curse it still? I was definitely one who cribbed and cribbed through...
Growth & Change
LETTING GOooooooooo
I am no Saint or a Monk. But I wish I was one. I am a normal human in the process of learning to let go. As with everything in life, when you desire to...
Feelings & Emotions
Hungry for more
I am thirsty, I feel like having tender coconut, ”How about a lemonade?” asks my mom. I pause, but I don’t agree…logically yes lemonade can quench thirst...
Reflections
Time Travel
Time machines, time travel …amazing concept but still a fantasy…would you trust me if I say otherwise. No doubt it is amazing,time travel I mean…but it is...
Reflections
Wings are wings, be it on butterfly or dragon fly!
Bumper to bumper choked on a Monday morning traffic, surrounded by the concrete jungle. I ease down, a butterfly caught my attention, in the hot humid...
Feelings & Emotions
Did u press me on Depression?
Depression amongst grown ups are equally prevalent as much as in kids. I want to shout out to all parents that they are not alone. Personally I feel ...
Reflections
The day doors of heaven open.
I love the rain as much as I love the Sky, the Stars and the Moon. What makes Rain extra special? It is not always around, the surprise element attached...
Mindfulness
Thoughts
If thoughts control you, then why meditate to a state of thoughtlessness ? Now that’s thought proving for me. Thoughts cannot be seen…yet it’s super...
Reflections
The Traffic signal
Hitting the red light on the signal, just a fraction of a second before you can join the rest. A little disappointment seeps in . Now with the green on...
Relationships
Holding hands
Hot Sun above, one end of my grandma’s saree protects me from the heat and the end of her pointer finger protects me from within, as I walk my way back...
Relationships
Just Friends
It might not make much sense today, to this generation. But it did for me and my generation. Having a friend of the opposite gender was rare and was...
Reflections
The theory of everything
I was floating on Cloud nine literally and figuratively. Flying back home from China- my well-earned incentive trip. Every time I travel I get excited...
Reflections
Comedy or Tragedy ?
Shakespearean tragedy is famous than comedy. Here comedy means happy ending stories and generally happy subjects. Now, u know what is tragedy. I learnt...
Reflections
Like the two faces of a coin!!
Driving on a super rainy morning through Siruseri into the Concrete jungle, I lose myself to the marvelous man-made structures. Looked like Singapore...
Reflections
An eye for the best
Eyebrows raised, shoulders drooped, whining to say “oh not again”….That’s a typical teenager reacting to your advice and whenever you want to share your...
Feelings & Emotions
This too shall pass
I am trying hard to remember when was the first time I heard this “This too shall pass”. I can’t exactly remember, I grew up with this phrase. Was it from...
Feelings & Emotions
Pain and healing
I am not old enough to talk about healing and pain. Experience is more powerful than age. I think, I have loads of experience with it. So I thought ,Pain...
Feelings & Emotions
Feel- good-factor
The smell of the first rain, the green grass ,Sky, sunrise, sun set and many more can be a feel good factor for a lot of us .I am now thinking about the...
Growth & Change
Comfort in the uncomfortable
you must have heard of many people and motivators asking you to get out of your comfort zone, to excel in life. yeah u got it right ,that is my random...
Mindfulness
The art of stillness
Random thought of today ,might be because of the extra pleasant weather in Chennai .Rain brings freshness,I love the stillness that follows.lately I have...
Reflections
Blog to break my block
It needs a push or a jolt, now and then to make it scale higher….I mean the Brain or the self. Blog has been around for ages now, the reader in me has...