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Grief makes you understand contentment

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on December 6, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Contentment, Detachment, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Grief, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Pause & Reflect, Resilience, Sadness, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, AVIS Viswanathan, Contentment, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Gratitude, Grief, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Live in the moment, Loss, Mindfulness, Pain, Sadness, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas1 Comment on Grief makes you understand contentment

The key to Happiness

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on November 12, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Faith, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Let's Talk Happyness, Life Lessons, Live in the moment, Mindfulness, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Pause & Reflect, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Just Keep Walking, Let Go, Life, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Move On, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas1 Comment on The key to Happiness

What Happiness is

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on October 29, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Celebrate Life, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Face Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Pause & Reflect, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, ZenTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Meditation, Mindfulness, Mouna, Non-complaining, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on What Happiness is

Make each moment a celebration

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on October 22, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Celebrate Life, Contentment, Crisis, Detachment, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Face Life, Failure, Faith, Go with the Flow, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Let's Talk Happyness, Life Lessons, Live in the moment, Move On, Non-Suffering, Pain, Pause & Reflect, Peace, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, ZenTags Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Celebrate Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Life, Life Lessons, Live in the moment, Mindfulness, Move On, Non-Suffering, Pain, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Make each moment a celebration

Learning to uncling from your sadness

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on October 20, 2022Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Awareness, Detachment, Enlightenment, Equanimity, Face Life, Failure, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Help Yourself to Happiness, Inner Peace, Let Go, Life Lessons, Move On, Non-Suffering, Pain, Pause & Reflect, Peace, Sad, Sadness, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Unhappiness, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Awareness, Celebrate Sadness to Celebrate Happiness, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Mindfulness, Sadness, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Uncling, UnhappinessLeave a comment on Learning to uncling from your sadness

On being present

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 6, 2021Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Equanimity, Happiness, Life Lessons, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Living in the Moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Mindfulness, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on On being present

Celebrate Life in the present

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on February 11, 2021Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Life Lessons, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Impermanence, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life Lessons, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Mindfulness, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Celebrate Life in the present

Mindfulness is an art, you too can learn it!

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on September 15, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Mindfulness, the happynesswalaTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Live, Live in the moment, Mindfulness, the happynesswala, the happynesswalasLeave a comment on Mindfulness is an art, you too can learn it!

How you get to where you are meant to arrive

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 16, 2020April 16, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Happiness, Happyness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Mindfulness, Quest, Seeking, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, UncategorizedLeave a comment on How you get to where you are meant to arrive

COVID-19’s forcing the whole world to jump off the ‘becoming’ treadmill, to being home, ‘just being’!

In over 33 years of loving each other and 31 years of living together, Vaani and I have never cooked together. Which is, I have never attempted learning cooking. 😊

Now, with the COVID-19 lockdown situation, for the first time, I found myself hovering around the kitchen and asking Vaani if I could learn to cook from her. It sure was a bit unusual as I asked her that; I couldn’t believe that I was ready and willing, finally, to learn cooking!

But there has to be a first time for everything, right? Plus, apart from being my BFF, my soulmate, Vaani is also a great teacher! So, I told myself, “let’s go do this”!

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AVIS’ adai

I made half an adai last evening for dinner – spreading out the maavu on the tawa. And this morning I “understood” how a vegetable korma is made – I chopped the veggies, stirred up the gravy and basically soaked in the entire process. I even ran my understanding through our daughter Aanchal (who herself loves to cook) in Singapore and she signed off in approval!

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Vegetable Korma – the first dish AVIS learnt!

I am very amused that I am doing this. I have always been the housekeeper at home. I find cleaning a deeply meditative practice where I engage wholesomely with the process of cleaning up, dusting and polishing surfaces, often doing the dishes too. Even so, somehow, I have always postponed the idea of learning cooking. I have learnt to make filter coffee some months ago. But being with Vaani in the kitchen and watching her cook, assisting her and learning from her – well, that happened for the first time today!

And I am lovin’ it!

On a spiritual plane, this “event” reiterates to me that everything happens in its own time and at its own pace.

There’s one more learning on offer here – from the overall COVID-19 situation. If you think about it deeply, it is forcing the whole world to sit down in one place and just be. You see, everyone has been so conditioned to running amok, imagining that if they don’t hurry, if they don’t rush and grab whatever they think they deserve, they are going to miss the bus or that something grave is going to befall them or that they will lose some thing. So, everyone has been on this spree, this crazy race to become. Become more visible, become richer, become more recognized, become more successful…which is everyone has been trying desperately to become someone else, to become better than the other…everyone, in some way or the other, has been on this becoming trip. In the past decade, social media has only fueled and grown this frenzy, this becoming angst. And then COVID-19 comes along and, in less than a quarter, shuts down the whole world and is forcing everyone to be.

Just be.

Isn’t it amazing? Don’t you see what’s happening? The whole world has surrendered; it has been forced, in fact, to capitulate – to jump off the becoming treadmill, to being home, just being!

AVIS-on-HappynessIt is possible that many find the transition from “becoming to being” a very difficult one to make. But let me tell you this, from our own lived experience, just being is not complex. It is simply being present. It is all about bringing your full attention to whatever you are doing. It is only when you are present, in the moment, in whatever you are doing, that you are non-worrying, non-frustrated and non-suffering. It is only then that you are happy despite your circumstances. Now, just being is an art – you have to train your mind to be that way; this is what Vaani and I have learnt through living with our bankruptcy for 13 years now. This is the quality that has helped us to live fully with what is – not complaining about what we don’t have, but celebrating whatever we have!

And it is this choice to just be, in this COVID-19 lockdown scenario that is expected to last for a long while, that led me to embrace cooking – a space that I have consciously avoided getting into for over three decades now. This gives me one more beautiful reason to be with Vaani and to learn from her. I hope to learn quickly. And I also hope to soon raise a toast to Life and to COVID-19 for giving me a new, immersive experience to thrive on!

Note: AVIS and Vaani are the happynesswalas. They believe their Life’s Purpose is Inspiring ‘Happyness’! They are going through a fascinating, Life-changing experience – a crippling bankruptcy!! If you would like to invite them to inspire your team(s) or explore other opportunities, please look up: www.avisviswanathan.in and www.avinitiatives.co.in.

 

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 24, 2020March 26, 2020Categories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Adai, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Bankruptcy, Becoming, Cooking, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Filter Coffee, From Becoming to Being, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Just Be, Just Being, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, lockdown, Meditation, Mindfulness, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, SARS-COV-2, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Uncategorized, Vaani, Vegetable Korma, Worry

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