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Dandapani’s Blog

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Apr 4, 2020

Dealing with Fear & Worry

During these times it is natural to feel and experience fear. I’d like to share with you a couple of things that can help you mitigate the fear that you may be experiencing. Let’s start by understanding what fear is. Fear, like worry, is a result of awareness going into the future, creating something that has not happened and returning to the present and fearing it. Fear is one of the worst area...

Mar 31, 2020
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It’s time you made a difference

Hope this finds you in good health, staying home and using your time wisely. We are getting a really nice response to the 31-day gratitude practice that I invited you all to do. Thank you to those of you that have started to do so and have been sharing your daily gratitude with
Mar 27, 2020
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A Simple Morning Practice

Greetings from New York City. I hope this message finds you healthy, staying safe and more importantly, staying home. During this quarantine, which many of us around the world are experiencing, it is vitally important to maintain our mental health (along with our physical health
Mar 23, 2020
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An opportunity for a great many things

As cities around the world enforce a quarantine and many people are encouraged or forced to stay home, we need to look at this situation as an opportunity rather than a challenge. This is not to say that these are not challenging times but if we can shift our perspective we can s
Mar 20, 2020
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Where do we start with COVID-19?

Where do you, as a person, start with dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic? When a situation like the pandemic we have now arises it is easy to experience a myriad of emotions. These emotions are usually not positive and prolonged indulgence in them only leads to a downward spir
Mar 12, 2020
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Joyous Children

Today I thought I’d share some images that I photographed of smiling and laughing children during my many travels to India. These pictures remind me of my favorite quote from my guru, Gurudeva Subramuniyaswami: “Life is meant to be lived joyously.” Whether you are going through a
Mar 9, 2020
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Do you know who is in charge of your awareness?

Most people unknowingly give people and things around them permission to move their awareness from one area of the mind to another all day every day.You can think of this like the same way you give a director of a movie permission to move your awareness all around the mind while