{"id":8604,"date":"2019-09-08T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T08:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.heartfulness.org\/in\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2019-11-06T15:28:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:58:55","slug":"blessing-in-disguise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/blessing-in-disguise\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessing in disguise #HumansOfHeartfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been practicing Heartfulness meditation for the past 11 years, and it has taught me to see life as a beautiful, God-given gift. I was born differently abled with a biological problem called meningomyelocele which, among other things, makes walking without support very difficult. I look at my life now as before Heartfulness and after Heartfulness, and how differently I tackle the issue of my disability now.
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\nBefore I got into this meditation system, my major preoccupation was, \u201cWhy me?\u201d. This feeling of being hard done by overshadowed every moment of my life; what deeds of mine made God punish me with such a life in this body? This negativity often made me underestimate myself because I perceived myself to be less capable and hence, less worthy than others. I fell short of will power too and convinced myself that I couldn\u2019t do something simply out of fear of being judged. I also found it hard to express myself which added to my lack of confidence.
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\nI carried around an invisible barrier of resentment and was generally not very approachable. And of course, I was full of anger, mostly for God for making me this way. There were a multitude of things which I still find difficult to talk about to date. Then, one fine day, I discovered something and I\u2019ve never looked back since.
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\nThe Heartfulness meditation<\/a> system gave me a new lease of life, it was like being reborn but in a more joyful existence. First of all, I started to love myself, my life and yes, even my disability. I felt like the chosen one and realized how fortunate I am that God blessed me with such a life, without this disability I wouldn’t respect my life. This meditation made me wiser and showed me I can feel from my heart and not with my brain. It also taught me patience and tolerance, and to be expressive. I made myself into a positive thinker with enormous will power and utmost confidence. And yes, I am grateful now for this amazing gift of life and reconciled to live it as per His plans.
\nLIFE IS BEAUTIFUL INDEED!!
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I have been practicing Heartfulness meditation for the past 11 years, and it has taught me to see life as a beautiful, God-given gift. I was born differently abled with a biological problem called meningomyelocele which, among other things, makes walking without support very difficult. I look at my life now as before Heartfulness and after Heartfulness, and how differently…… Read More<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2277],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9247,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions\/9247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writenode.heartfulness.org\/ke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}