the land is clueless

By Navni GujralPosted on November 12, 2019Cat IPI, Poetry, PsychologyLeave a comment

an invitation to get lost. to leave yourself behind and jump into the stormy waters. you're in before you nod waves fighting each other to wash you clean, stripping off the falsehood you preciously built. ''hasn't life taught you to swim?'', asked the ocean. you paddle confused, tears adding to the weight you carry. ***… Read More »

The Beginning

By AditiPosted on April 20, 2018April 20, 2018Cat IPI, Self & Personality1 Comment

8 years ago I turned to the discipline of psychology to seek answers to certain fundamental questions which have kept me busy almost all my life. I was looking for the sense of “I” which was not limited to the one that acts but something or someone more who is behind the one that performs.… Read More »

What it really is

By Navni GujralPosted on October 30, 2017October 31, 2017Cat IPI, Poetry, Psychology5 Comments

He strokes my hair with sunlight and lays his palm before each step, so I may tread. When he whispers in my ear, the ocean dance begins, flowing waves of abundance. My heart is swelling from the pain of fullness and his smell in the air. There is much to say, but tonight I am… Read More »

About oceans

By Navni GujralPosted on September 29, 2017September 29, 2017Cat IPI, PoetryLeave a comment

It's settled, its official, the ocean resides in my heart. My heart is its birthplace and it is the home of my heart. They're married together by an inseparable knot. Whether this makes sense, when it got to this, how I reached here, I have no idea. Because not many years have passed since it… Read More »

The start of the disciple’s journey

By DivyaPosted on December 21, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology2 Comments

For the longest time I had always imagined that the only reason one goes to a Guru is because one is unable to deal any longer with the blows Life has meted out to you. The blows can be various: a deep existential crisis, a broken relation, a persisting physical pain, an emotional imbalance, the… Read More »

The art of communication – through the lens of Equanimity

By AditiPosted on December 7, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, PsychologyLeave a comment

How much ever I wish and hope telepathy to be the official channel of communication, the role of language and active communication cannot be denied in today’s world. We all live together, grow together and it is human interactions that keep us alive. Exchange of ideas, sharing our happiness and sorrows, the feeling of being… Read More »

A taste in the mouth

By Navni GujralPosted on November 16, 2016February 17, 2017Cat IPI, PoetryLeave a comment

O unknowable land of familiar stories, your secrets concealed behind invisible masks for us to uncover. A teasing now and again, sparkles and glimpses that hide before they show. A taste in the mouth just enough to know there's nowhere else to be, nothing else to do. Lured by your mystery, holding in a wait… Read More »

Invitation

By DivyaPosted on November 9, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Poetry, PsychologyLeave a comment

By Sri Aurobindo With wind and the weather beating round me Up to the hill and the moorland I go. Who will come with me? Who will climb with me? Wade through the brook and tramp through the snow? Not in the petty circle of cities Cramped by your doors and your walls I dwell;… Read More »

Equanimity

By AditiPosted on November 2, 2016March 22, 2017Cat IPI, Psychology2 Comments

The word equanimity brings to my mind the image of a vast ocean in which different streams come from all sides and completely merge into it but the ocean remains unaffected and continues to ‘be’. There is a sense of calmness when you look at the ocean, no matter how rough the waves are, we… Read More »

Detaching from a situation while in it

By Guest BlogPosted on October 26, 2016Cat All, IPI, Miscellaneous musings, Psychotherapy and counseling, Uncategorized1 Comment

By Prema Sankar All of us have our issues or disagreements with certain people or situations, which we address as our “problems”. How much so ever we try to run away from these “problems”, they eventually hit us and hit us hard depending on how far we have tried to run away from them.Earlier I… Read More »