Crucial Success Skills Forged Through My Journey
Over the years having been a part of varied industries from Events, Garment Exports, Retail and a Spiritual and Cultural Organization, I learnt what is communicating, organizing and managing events, building relationships, backstage management, production, artist management, creating pitch decks for Events. Garment Exports taught me production feasibility, managing people leading them to perform, benefits of motivating, backward costing, creating mood boards, design sensibilities, cost effectiveness, merchandising, research, product development, making effective presentations and much more.
Retail taught me brand building, business development, price points, visual merchandising, being an Intrapreneur, cataloguing managing the store, networking, public speaking, becoming a model, promotional campaigns and the nuances of retail. The Spiritual and Cultural Organization maneuvered me into recruitment, curating movie nights, curating a food menu based on the theme, programmed development covering various aspects of living and modalities that help in living an abundant life with balanced emotions.
All this has led me to create an initiative with a friend for emotional empowerment mostly, which covers modalities like emotional freedom technique, empty chair, mind rolling and so on which are a part of gestalt technique, neuro linguistic programming, cognitive behavioral therapy and created by psychologists and psychiatrists to help humans deal with their emotional and mental health. The idea of the initiative is to build a community that is supportive and helps the person empower themselves to handle their emotions and feelings leading to a better mental health state. We all need to learn that emotional and mental health is as important as physical and financial health.
Crafting Creative Opportunities from Every Challenge
I have learnt over years of practice to become solution oriented. The mindset is to find solutions to any given problem. As we all know that when we are concentrated on problems, we create what we call drama, and in that we get sucked into a negative mindset, which only leads to us remaining stuck in the rut. When a challenge arises the first step is to deal with the emotions arising with the modalities that have become a practice. We all know that emotions can overwhelm us. After having dealt with the emotions the mind helps with finding a solution.
The principles that guide my approach are take time to understand what I am feeling and respond in a calm state, as I suffer from CPTSD which creates anxiety in me, it is important for me to address the anxiety and not come from a reactionary space. In any case we can only create magic from a calm state of mind, and murky waters create a blurry visual, so taking care of my emotional health leading to a calm mental state is of utmost importance to me. The other principle that guides me is that Hurt People Hurt People, and since I have had close encounters with intense emotional and mental pain, I come from the space of not creating any hurt consciously.
It is a known fact that coming from the space of any negative emotion, it is important not to make any decisions at that point of time. I also do my best not to address anything from a superior or inferior ego point of view. Our egos are important only as association to the body form as we function from it. Ramakrishna Paramhansa once said our egos need to be ripe, because when it is so, it falls. The insight that I have gained are that before anything else we are humans, and the only thing we need to remember in any given situation is to be like a human being, compassion, empathy, love and kindness being a huge part of it.
My Impact
Ever since, I have been on the path of Self Work, which includes Mental and Emotional Empowerment through different modalities like EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), Empty Chair, Mind Rolling, Family Constellation, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Tarot, etc. which are a part of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), Gestalt Techniques, Divination basically modalities created by Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Psychics and Therapists for the wellbeing of people. This work has allowed me to be sensitive with people and inculcate empathy, which is the first human quality that makes us humane. Individually there are many people who have come to me for individual tarot sessions and seances which has helped them deal with their situations and circumstances smoothly.
I have personally seen miraculous results with Tarot as a tool for guidance. After having practiced certain modalities that have benefitted me personally and I have also seen people around me practicing similar modalities benefit themselves. Me and my friend started an initiative for Emotional Empowerment, called Roohani Rail (A Spiritual Coach) where we are sharing the practices that we have learnt and that have helped us be in emotional equilibrium and lead a balanced life. Through this initiative we are teaching practices designed to lead a life where one can utilize these practices for emotional empowerment.
Why emotional empowerment because as humans, we can only experience life through our emotions and that is when life is lived joyfully. AS we aren’t taught emotional or mental health while we are growing up and there isn’t much awareness about such topics, they are also considered to be taboo topics and carry stigma around them. So, we decided to share our knowledge which includes dealing with emotions that rise within us, as we believe that emotions are our strength and the key to being intuitive. Emotions help us lead an amazing life as they help us feel alive.
Scaling New Heights in Personal and Professional Triumphs
My definition of success is when we with the work that we do, become an example for people to lead a life that is of service. As humans we are social animals and we can only experience us through an interaction with another. We as a human species have been given the strength of communication via many forms which include speech, body language and so much more, with that we have come up with many choices that help a person express their creativity. Creativity only happens when there is a need to express and that can only be done in a balanced state. We can only be balanced when all our health’s which are Physical, Financial, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual are working with each other in tandem.
So, it is important to give importance to all these aspects individually and cater to them based on their needs. The idea with our initiative is to help people empower themselves through their emotions and lead lives that make them joyful. The idea behind this creative called Roohani Rail is Emotional Empowerment, where we believe that emotions are our strength and not weakness. We can only experience Life through our emotions, when we experience negative emotions, we don’t like them because we don’t know how to handle them, where as when we learn how to navigate life with our emotions using them as strengths, we can lead amazingly fulfilling lives.
The benchmark is to build a community that aids in us feeling supported, loved, cherished, nurtured and connected. A community that is the family that everyone seeks and wants to belong to as it is non-judgmental and unbiased in its approach, where all kinds of support can be found. The criteria with which I measure my accomplishments is adorning the qualities that humanity stands for which includes compassion, empathy, love, kindness, nurturing, learning, sharing, connecting and support.
The Synergy Between My Path and Recognition Values
I have a high EO (Emotional Quotient) and that has led me into situations and circumstances where I have always found comfort in expressing myself, and because at times the expression wasn’t what was a norm, I have been shunned out of friend circles, family circles and organizations, where I was expected to behave in a manner that is considered normal. This led me to explore my emotional journey and to find ways and means to be able to feel belonged and be able to express. A simple example being my voice, it has base in it and I have been told, O you sound like a man, earlier I didn’t know how to respond to this, now I believe it is my voice and it is special for me, as it is my medium of expression, just because it has base in it, it doesn’t become a man’s, just like having treble or highs in your voice doesn’t make a man’s voice into a females.
Now I know this example may sound a little off, but understand that things like these can affect a person in ways that we don’t understand. We aren’t a sensitive society and we can only become one, when we understand pain, the idea through this initiative is to help people understand that we need to imbibe these qualities which we take for granted and have lost as we have become delivery oriented and have lost touch with our own humanity, so much so, that we are not humane to other humans. When we connect to that human within us, which is the ever-listening and sharing wisdom of the universal consciousness we start to become humane with others.
This can only happen in an environment which supports that thought process. Having experienced emotional, mental and spiritual health from close quarters and having experienced the benefits of each I believe that my VOICE matters and it needs to be heard, as it will give VOICE to so many others going through similar experiences. This platform that has been created is hopefully the one that will help me do so.