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A perfect life with Charnita
Emotional intelligence is garnering all kinds of attention today and is also a big determiner of one’s success in life. Charnita Arora, the founder of Perfect Life Spot (PLS) trains her students in mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and non-violent communication. She started out at just 19, and today has around 150 teachers trained under her wing who provide skills for emotional health, resilience and happiness. PLS also specialises in redesigning existing classroom, work, and home spaces for more efficiency, fulfilment, and joy. Ever since the pandemic started, PLS has conducted many virtual classrooms, online sessions, masterclasses, etc. The participants of these classes are parents, professionals, entrepreneurs, school and college students, and more: basically people from all age groups and all walks of life.
Inside a classroom, students are taught simple yet practical exercises which one can apply on an everyday basis. These tools are in the form of focus, awareness, relaxation and release practices, guided meditations, journaling, tools to recognize and understand one’s feelings and needs and act with awareness. After-class audio notes, prompts, reminders and reinforcements of the skills learnt; and techniques to let go and release withheld negative emotions etc. are also given in an all-inclusive and non-judgmental environment where one feels emotionally safe to open one’s heart unapologetically. She also offers online video courses on self-love, authenticity, relationships and mindfulness. They all come with worksheets, experiential prompts and self -awareness assessment sessions. PLS also has physical office spaces set up both in New Delhi, India and Lund, Sweden.
Charnita also does one-on-one and group life coaching and workshops, both at her office and various schools, institutes, and corporate spaces. One of the major techniques that Charnita employs at her work is ‘Everyday Mindfulness.’ She believes offering your complete presence to anyone or anything has the power to transform it. True presence can help a person experience subtle magical things, be more creatively aligned with the task at hand, and also do it to one’s fullest capacity. She says that mind and body are deeply connected; hence, coming back to the body helps to gain emotional balance and respond responsibly in a given situation, anchoring a person in the potent ‘now’ and allowing the space to self-enquire, identify the emotional wound, and simultaneously heal it too. She expands more on these subjects in her books Mindfulness for Beginners in Plain English and Self-Reflection Journal.
On being asked how to deal with fear, especially in these times, she says that one must sit down and contemplate on it objectively and inquire if it is logical or psychological. If the fear is logical, one must listen to it, for it can be a well-wisher which has come to protect us. Also, at other times it can mean going outside and taking action.
An Atypical Advantage for the disabled
A unique online initiative called ‘Atypical Advantage’ was launched on December 11, 2020, by founder and volunteer Vineet Saraiwala, to create a place for talented people with disabilities to generate their livelihood.
According to Atypical Advantage, India has over 2.1 crore disabled people, with 70 per cent unemployment. Not that they can’t add value, but there is a lack of medium to use their potential. Vineet believes, “This is the only platform on the planet for disabled people where corporate and individuals can hire talent, buy product/art, mentor, and commission services.”
The idea is simple. Atypical Advantage maps the skills of people with disabilities across the country and matches it with potential employers. Vineet says, “Our talent needs a chance and an opportunity based on their skills. We aim to empower PWDs (persons with disabilities) across our country by highlighting their abilities. You can hire models for your product shoot, sign language interpreters for making your events inclusive, singers/dancers for your shows, masseurs to relax your body, and other services and products from a wide array of 272 plus talent pool, 161 plus artworks, and 55 plus products.” Many aspirants have shown an inclination towards interests like singing, graphic designing, content writing, dancing, modelling and photography, and want to connect with a mentor. Anyone who wants to help them nurture and grow can come forward to donate at least one hour a week of their time and knowledge.
This platform is not only providing employment and a chance to showcase their talent but is also a medium for the aspirants to infuse their lives with confidence and dignity. From the launch date till now, 5000 visitors have logged in, without much marketing efforts, and Rs 1.5 lakh worth of work has been commissioned.
Corporates and individuals can access this site and so can any NGO or disabled person to directly register their special talents, along with disability details, to become part of the talent pool. It is completely free of any charges or hidden commissions.
To name a few examples are Abdul Shukoor K M (disability—deaf; hard of hearing), a graphic designer who has found work, and Karishma Kanan (disability—Down syndrome), a painter who got a painting commissioned from California, US, and delivered it in time. Atypical Advantage has amazing talent spread across various categories. You can hire the likes of Abdul, Karishma, and other amazingly gifted differently abled people from various categories and experience their talent and creativity!
Vineet’s journey has been exemplary by any standards as he himself struggles with a rare blindness disease which can’t be cured as of now. Despite this, he continues to volunteer on a daily basis. He concludes: “We may not change a million lives, but the happiness of one is enough for us to keep going.”
Future of medicine: Quantum Energy
While modern medicine focusses primarily on physiology, the human organism has many aspects that are not physical. The truth is that physiology interacts with the environment via ambient fields such as light, sound, electricity, magnetism, and with all other living organisms. So, when healing and spiritual mentoring is done in alignment with the use of quantum energy science, transformation and healing become much faster, fuller, and deeper. The use of this force is the foundation of Dr Rita Mahajan’s healing and transformation practice that combines ancient Indian wisdom and modern quantum technology to achieve health and well-being for the people.
Dr Rita is a spiritual coach and social entrepreneur who has been teaching, healing, and propagating quantum energy medicine for more than 10 years. According to her, knowledge of the existence of the human energy field is the first step to understanding integral physiology, which unites our body, mind, and spirit to treat the human being.
She says, “Our energy field is electromagnetic in nature and works on wave-particle matter, transmitting and receiving vibrational energy governing the physical body. Disturbances in the coherence of energy patterns indicate disease and ageing. Healing is achieved by directing coherent, harmonic energy into distortions caused by stressors and disease.”
Quantum science provides scientific evidence for the ancient healing system of acupuncture which uses the meridians (vital energy pathways) and which has been practised in India and China since long. Dr Rita says, “Many scientists are validating ancient practices and giving a clear explanation supported by clinical studies and cases. Quantum Energy Medicine (QEM) has a universal connection which can bridge the divide between modern allopathic medicine and ancient healing systems.”
Dr Rita started organising international conferences to spread the wisdom of QEM through her platform WOQEM (World of Quantum Energy Medicine). She has been doing this for the past five years, and the last one was held in December 2020 in which the best practitioners, scientists, and research experts from India and abroad had participated.
Dr Rita uses spiritual energy and cutting-edge quantum energy devices and high precision diagnostic tools like Radionics, Scenar, Cosmodic, SE-5, QRMA, Low Level Laser therapy, brain light, intranasal light, Hydrotherapy, and Infra chambers on her patients who come to her after trying every possible treatment available without much relief. She says that one doesn’t have to always be physically present to get the treatment for many diseases. A girl from Indonesia suffering from multiple organ failure was treated remotely and successfully by Dr Rita within six weeks with QEM.