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Meditation, the train of thought.

This post here is not for the veteran, not for someone who has been practicing Yoga and meditation for decades. This is for the novice meditator, someone who is new to it and going through the initial snags that come with the Art of relaxation. When I wrote this(the first draft), I had been meditating for near to two years by now. When I started I had trouble getting my mind to focus and my body to stop fidgeting for even 2 minutes.  I started to read up about meditation and come across quite few different methods, but then I came across a Reddit post about meditation that just spoke to me. I then took what I had learned from the post and applied it.  The first step is to find a comfortable position to sit in. Most times if you´re practicing yoga you´ll be able to sit cross legged with your feet tucked in under your legs, arms placed on your knees and eyes closed. However you don´t need to be in this position to practice meditate. You could just as easily do it while l...

Meows!

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With all the awful happenings in 2017, I can say it wasn't all that bad. By the end of it Puma, my labrador, had befriended two kittens. About these kittens, they were two of three brothers, four siblings in total. Their mother, who had given birth to them in the heat of summer, I spotted in my backyard. She had given birth to them in a corner where it was cool due to the shade of all the scrap we stored. Smart as they are(felines), she hadn't thought of what would happen if the doge who inhabited this house were to sniff their feline scent, which un/fortunately didn't happen for a few days. Scared as the mother was, she accepted milk and bread from me till my brother took Puma near where the mama meow was taking refuge.  Three barks of puma and the meowlings were carried away by momma meow to a safer abode. Giving them food had almost became something for me to look forward to. My mother who had at first said, very adamantly I might add, that she would ...

Dog eat dog?

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It’s been two days since my friend from left and there’s a mental that I can’t get out of my bed. It’s a mental picture I’ll never be able to forget, especially once I’m done writing this. We were in an auto on our way back home from buying books for my friends. This is when I saw two doggos. Two puppers, to  be honest, who probably just reached adolescence. Now these two beautiful souls were on the side of a road, with one pupper having his front right paw up in the air and yelping in pain. The other pupper had his arm around the yelping pupper. While one kept howling in pain the other was joining him in his screeches with his own barks. When I saw this so many emotions went through me, starting with sorrow to the bittersweet joy of seeing empathy in these two lovely canines. While one was in obvious pain, probably due to his right paw being injured by a vehicle driving over it(human beings are assholes) the other was sharing through pure empathy.  I made a feeble attemp...