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🖌️ Featured in The New Indian Express! Excited to share my insights on Art Therapy in today’s article titled “Art Matters: How Chennaiites Are in the Mood to Make and Mend” by Ms. Diya Maria George. #ArtTherapy #MentalHealthAwareness #CreativeHealing #Wellbeing #Chennai 1/3

Vedic Wisdom Season 2 Episode 18✨ Unlock the secrets to overcoming obstacles with wisdom, patience, and perseverance! Tune into our latest episode of Vedic Wisdom on #Spotify & #YouTube as we share a divine story from the Ganesha Purana set in Bhutan’s serene mountains .1/3

There is a wonderful opportunity to learn Sanskrit from basics under the guidance of passionate and highly learned teachers. As an added benefit, participants will also receive university collaborative certificates upon completion. Do register and make the most to your benefit👍

வாழ்க்கை ஒரு நொடியில் மாறிவிடலாம், இந்தத் தருணத்திற்கு நன்றியுடன் இருங்கள்| Dr.Ashwin Vijay 🩺

Akshaya Tritiya falls on the Shukla Pakṣa Tṛtīyā of Vaiśākha. Nārada Purāṇa (Pūrva-bhāga, Chapter 113) says that any meritorious act done during this day becomes akṣaya i.e. undecaying, because of the conjunction of Sūrya's exaltation in Meṣa and the Kṛtayuga-ādi tithi. The core rituals prescribed are: 1. Snāna (sacred bath) at sunrise, ideally in the Gaṅgā or any other holy river or at any tīrtha. If not possible to be at such a place, water mixed with tila and drawn with the Gaṅgā-āvāhana mantra suffices. The bath itself is said to destroy accumulated pātakas because the tithi is yugādi. 2. Saṅkalpa and Pitṛ-tarpaṇa. Tomorrow is a potent day for śrāddha and tila-tarpaṇa to ancestors, since acts done for the pitṛs on yugādi tithis yield inexhaustible tṛpti. Tila, kuśa, and water are the minimum. 3. DĀNA is the central act. The Nārada Purāṇa enumerates: udaka-kumbha (water pot), chatra (umbrella), upānat (footwear), vyajana (fan), tāmbūla, candana, vastra, anna, sattu, ikṣu, phala, and dhānya. Giving these to a worthy brāhmaṇa, especially a śrotriya, is said to yield phala that does not diminish. 4. Pūjā of Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa with tulasī, gandha, and naivedya of sattu and fresh fruit. Viṣṇu-arcana on this tithi produces puṇya equal to that of a thousand ordinary tithis. 4. Japa, homa, svādhyāya performed tomorrow is akṣaya. The Gāyatrī, Viṣṇu-aṣṭākṣara, or one's iṣṭa-mantra are appropriate. 5. Anna-dāna and jala-dāna receive special emphasis. Feeding the hungry is the karma most consonant with the season and the tithi's nature.

🚨BREAKING: 8 weeks of gratitude practice physically rebuilds the neural pathways between your memory and reward centers. Your brain physically rewires itself every time you feel grateful. Eight weeks of intentional gratitude practice creates measurable structural changes in the neural pathways connecting your hippocampus to your ventral tegmental area. The memory center starts talking to the reward center in a fundamentally different way. New synaptic connections form. Existing ones strengthen. The physical architecture of how you process positive experiences rebuilds itself. Most people approach gratitude like a mood they can choose to feel. A psychological vitamin they remember to take when life gets difficult. The neuroscience reveals something far more profound. Gratitude is a biological intervention that sculpts brain tissue. Researchers tracked participants practicing gratitude exercises for two months using brain scans. They watched new neural highways construct themselves in real time. The anterior cingulate cortex developed stronger connections to the medial prefrontal cortex. The brain learned to route positive emotional experiences through higher order thinking centers instead of storing them as fleeting feelings. Every positive experience you’ve ever had exists as a neural trace in your memory network. Most sit dormant, accessible only when something external triggers the specific sensory combination that originally encoded them. You smell coffee, suddenly remember a conversation from years ago. Random. Unreliable. Outside your control. Gratitude practice systematically rewires that retrieval system. After two months, participants could voluntarily access positive memories with increasing ease. Their brains had built stronger pathways between memory storage areas and emotional processing centers. They experienced deeper emotional resonance during memory retrieval. The quality of remembering itself had improved. The participants also started noticing positive details in their present environment they had previously filtered out. Their attention systems recalibrated. The same neural pathways pulling positive memories forward were scanning current experiences more thoroughly for elements worth encoding as positive memories. Their brains became biased toward collecting evidence that life contains meaningful moments. Most cognitive interventions try to change how you interpret negative experiences. Gratitude practice changes how thoroughly you notice positive ones. It teaches your visual and emotional processing systems to detect opportunities and pleasures that were always present but neurologically invisible. The timeline reveals something crucial about neural plasticity. Weeks one through three showed minimal structural changes. Participants felt slightly more positive, but brain scans looked identical to baseline. Weeks four through six showed the first measurable increases in gray matter density. Weeks seven and eight revealed entirely new neural network formation. Two months. Your nervous system can physically restructure itself with consistent practice. The method was almost embarrassingly simple. Participants wrote down three specific things they felt grateful for every evening, explaining why each mattered. No meditation apps. No guided visualizations. Just pen, paper, and the requirement to identify gratitude targets with enough detail that their brains had to actively search for positive elements. Specificity drives the neural development. General statements like “I’m grateful for my family” generate different brain activity than precise observations like “I’m grateful my daughter laughed at my terrible joke during dinner because it showed me she still finds me funny despite growing more independent.” The brain needs detailed targets to practice connecting memory specifics to emotional rewards. After eight weeks, participants developed a fundamentally different relationship with their attention and memory systems. Someone whose brain automatically scans for and emotionally amplifies aspects of experience that make existence feel worthwhile. The neural pathways remain permanent after practice ends. Gratitude carves lasting roads through consciousness.

🚨 Chennai residents can deposit used plastic bottles into a smart machine and receive eco-friendly bags in return at Marina Beach. 👌

Lunchtime humour - How does a Chartered Accountant scold his son? . . . You useless bounced cheque, liability to humanity, born bad debt, dishonoured bill, I will beat you so badly that your balance sheet will never tally! . . . Happy March ending, friends! 😀😛😂 #March31

I was fired today. Well, laid off. "Budget cuts," my boss said. I packed my box. I was terrified. I have a mortgage. As I walked to the elevator, the CEO—the big boss who never talks to anyone—stepped in with me. "You're Sarah, right?" he asked. "Yes sir." "You stayed late last month to help the interns fix that presentation. You didn't ask for overtime." I nodded, surprised he knew. "I can't stop the layoffs," he said. "Board's decision. But I made a phone call." The elevator dinged. He handed me a card. "My friend runs a firm across town. He's expecting your call at 9 AM tomorrow. He needs a manager who cares about people. The pay is 20% higher." I stared at him. "Why?" "Because you held the door for the cleaning lady every single morning," he said. "I notice things." Character is what you do when you think no one is watching. Credit: Nancy brooks

Bipolar disorder is more than just "mood swings"; it's a complex condition affecting mood, energy, and behavior, with deep impacts on daily life. Understanding this fosters empathy and reduces stigma Link : thementalcompass.blogspot.com/2026/03/beyond… #thementalcompassmagazine #BipolarAwareness

1 hour of rain and the power has gone and come back 20 times. We talk of AI and what not. But basic technology/systems remain ancient and unreliable. #Bengaluru

Time for Mango Showers, here are the key regional weather phenomena in India one should know ==================== As we move into April–May, temperatures rise across India, setting the stage for some of the most dynamic and unpredictable weather events of the year before the monsoon arrives. This is one of the most exciting seasons for weather tracking full of thunderstorms, gusty winds, lightning, and even hailstorms. 🥭 Mango Showers (Kerala, Karnataka & Tamil Nadu) --------------------------- These pre-monsoon showers are crucial for mango cultivation in South India. Occur due to Line of Wind Discontinuity (LWD) when easterlies meet developing westerlies, Lead to intense thunderstorms, sometimes dumping 50 to 100 mm+ rainfall at isolated places. It is sometimes accompanied by hailstorms (Alangankatti Mazhai). Common in: Kerala, Karnataka, Interior & southern Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. 🌸 Cherry Blossom / Coffee Showers (Karnataka & Kerala) ----------------------------- These rains are vital for coffee plantations in regions like: Kodagu Chikmagalur and Hassan. Mostly seen over Western Ghats regions Caused by: Katabatic winds (cool air flowing down slopes) Interaction with easterlies creating atmospheric instability. Andhi / Kali Andhi (North India Dust Storms) ---------------------- A powerful pre-monsoon dust storm common in: Rajasthan Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh. Features: Strong gust fronts filled with dust at times the visibility can drop below 100 meters, followed by thunderstorms & rain It is also known as “Black Storms” 2025 Andhi storm in Delhi - youtube.com/watch?v=1G7wdg… 🔥 Loo Winds (Northwest India Heatwaves) -------------------- Loo mainly originates in the large desert regions of the northwestern Indian subcontinent: the Great Indian Desert, the Cholistan Desert and the desert areas of Southern Balochistan. Extremely hot and dry winds blows in Thar Desert region and other parts of North West India. Characteristics: Temperatures: 45°C – 50°C, Occur in afternoons. ⛈️ Kalbaisakhi / Nor’westers (West Bengal & Odisha) --------------------------- Severe thunderstorms that: Originate over Jharkhand & Bihar Move eastward affecting West Bengal, Odisha & Bangladesh Driven by: Moisture from Bay of Bengal and Upper-level wind dynamics. Known for Derechos and Tornadoes (rare but significant). Odisha Tornado in 2009 - youtube.com/watch?v=Caq08I… 🌩️ Bordoichila (Assam & Northeast India) ------------------------ Meaning: “Angry Daughter of Assam” occurs due to Warm moist air from Bay of Bengal and Cold dry air from Himalayas with night-time cooling over hills (katabatic flow). Affects: Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura. ⚠️ Thunderstorm Safety Tips (Must Know) ------------------------ These storms can be dangerous due to lightning, gusts, and hail. The key precautions: ❌ Don’t stand under trees ❌ Avoid open fields (School open ground) & water bodies ❌ Stay away from electrical appliances ❌ Don't tie your livestock's (Goats / Cows) to a metal pole ✅ Stay indoors or inside a closed vehicle ✅ Maintain distance if in a group ⏳ Wait at least 30 minutes after last lightning If you feel tingling or hair standing during lightning, Squat low immediately - youtube.com/shorts/58m_CUf… Pre-monsoon season are chaotic, but it plays a crucial role in agriculture, water recharge, and seasonal transition into South West Monsoon. t’s also the season where weather surprises you the most .

People are getting more and more creative. Here is a set of desi puns.. 1. My watch is stuck between 2 and 2:30; it is a do or dhai situation. 2. Vishwanathan Anand gets tensed when the waiter asks, 'Check de doon'. 3. A potato was grilled by cops; after two hours of torture, it gave in, 'Main Batata hun, main Batata hun...' 4. A well-executed theft without any fingerprints is a stainless steal. 5. Friends pay food bills on a de-tu-de basis 6. Rahul Dravid's wristwatch is technically a wall clock. 7. Toll Booths are nothing but Bill Gates 8. The way to the cemetery, 'Go straight and take the last rite.' 9. The salaried class feel that the changing nature of taxes is too T.D.S.. 😊😊😊

In the memory of our 11 dear fans. 🙏 Etched into Chinnaswamy, forever part of our RCB family. ♥️ #PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2026 #RCBvSRH

Playing XI of Royal Challengers Bengaluru ♥️ Rajat Patidar Won the Toss and chose to Bowl ✨️ Who's your winner ? . . . Follow for more updates . . #RCBvsSRH #Bengaluru #IPL2026 #RoyalChallengersBengaluru #RajatPatidar #IshanKishan #cricket #CricketTwitter

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I’m in love with this sentence: “The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

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For many #elderlypatients, a typical day begins with a handful of #pills — for blood pressure, diabetes, cholesterol and heart disease. But a new global review suggests that in very frail older adults, continuing all these long-term medicines may not always be necessary, and in many cases, carefully stopping some of them may be safe. @timesofindia #health