Out Of The Clouds Rajesh Ramani on emotional resilience and self awareness or sharpening the axe
In this conversation, Rajesh Ramani (on LinkedIn) kindly relates his journey from South India to becoming a spiritual teacher as well as a life transformation coach based in the world renowned Kamalaya Wellness Centre in Southern Thailand.
I ask him about the importance of Self Awareness and he tells me a story about a wood cutter, which leads us to discussing the pragmatic need for us to know who we are and how we understand the world. He then brings up some of the mind's restless movements and how that can be the focus of meditation.
We touch on how he takes everything into account to support the people who come to him, from mental, emotional and spiritual part of their journey and he offers advice to business executives in this time of great challenge, cueing them to put an emphasis on human connections. "Stay away from negativity" he advises, "and invest in relationships."
We then move on to talk about how to deal with grief with the backdrop of COVID-19 and how to release guilt, anger, and other associated emotions. His advice: "Let yourself grieve!"
Rajesh also goes over the new workshops he will lead online and off line, with the Self Leadership Days , the next one being focused on Emotional Resilience, a skill we probably all need to cultivate in these times. We bring up goddesses, Kali in particular, then Carl Sagan “The Pale Blue Dot” and I finish our chat with three questions:
What are you reading right now?
I know you are partial to Netflix occasionally, what are you watching at the moment?
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And any final words to share with our listeners?
You'll have to listen to the episode to discover this answer. Until next time, be well and thank you.
Thank you to Conor Heffernan for the music and Joel North for his help in improving our Zoom recording sound somewhat.
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