We are pleased to announce the following addition to the courses offered by Shahin Fidai at The Vitality Cafe.  To know more about Shahin, click here.

Musings by midnight is a video series featuring reflective exercises for various aspects of this human existence.

This video includes an exercise for changing the direction of your life by reflecting on past, present and future. Some of the points in the video include:
  - Clarifying the understanding about Past, Present and Future
  - The 'Present Moment' is the gateway to infinite possibilities in the future
  - How emotions help us choose the future possibility.
  - Reflective exercise to be conscious about the moment and the future

Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments. ?

Meditation is one of the ways of reconnecting and making the connection stronger. When you are connected, you feel energized, enthusiastic for life, feel love for others and overall you are a positive person. You can understand others situation and are willing to help. More connected you stay better your personality becomes. Meditating every day is one of the best practices of successful people. But is meditation possible in this age?

Meditation can be as short as 2 minutes and can be longer than 2 hours. Given below are few tips that can be helpful.
1. Start Early
The best time to meditate is as soon as you wake up. Yes you need to get on with your day, but 1-2 mins in your bed before you get on with your day will not cause much harm. Before you get up, close your eyes for 1-2 mins and just breathe.
2. Your Breath is the Key
Whenever you feel confused during the day or when you wish to meditate, start with your breath. Focus on your inhalation and exhalation for few breaths. Close your eyes and just breathe normally. See the difference. Doesn't take long, try it.
3. Your thoughts are guests
Most asked question is what to do with the thoughts that come when we meditate. Your thoughts are like your guests in the house, they are meant to leave right. Watch the thoughts come and go. Don't go out with them. You stay in your house.
4. Don't punish yourself for not doing it
When you have made a routine for meditation, there will be time when you are unable to follow it. Don't get mad on yourself for this. Let it go, there is next day to practice. Don't stay in past, look forward for next moment to meditate.
5. Don't expect
Let yourself free when meditating. Don't expect any particular experience during meditation. You will be surprised at what will come. Just enjoy the nothingness


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Do you feel tired during some parts of the day? Can you spare 10minutes sitting and listening for more energy? This 10 minute meditation may be for you.

It has been one of our goals to make energy available at The Vitality Café in such a way that people sitting in offices, at homes, waiting for something outside, can access it and recharge themselves. Here is ashort (10minute) meditation that you can listen (preferably sitting and using earphones) and enable your body to receive energy from around you.

It is a fact that energy is everywhere, all around us. It is all a matter of our receptivity, alignment, consciousness, whatever you want to call it. This meditation will enable you to do that. It will enable a subtle, gentle and gradual energizing process within you. There is no sudden energy burst, it will be gradual and the more you do it, more the process will continue. Please do not do it again if you don’t feel any effect immediately. Please wait for some time to notice the difference.

You can access the meditation here: soundcloud.com/nazia-hirani/recharge-your-body

Everybody in this world, is on a journey to wellness all the time.  Perfect wellness is what we all are aiming for.  We are looking for improvement in one or other area of our life - sometimes it may by physical wellness, sometimes emotional, sometimes mental (peace, stress relief etc), sometimes relationships, sometimes finances, and some more others.

We love being in the state of wellness, don't we?  And the journey towards more and more wellness is amazing and so much unique for each and every individual.  All our journeys cross paths with each other and what do you think we should do when we come across some other's journey?  Help them towards wellness ofcourse.  Do you think other's wellness will take us away from our path to wellness?  Think about it... Have you ever felt bad when you helped someone?  Sometimes, yes.  In that case, ask whether you felt bad when you were helping or due to events/thoughts after helping?  I am sure it is after the event.  Any guesses on why we feel bad after we have helped someone due to course of events/thoughts?  There is only one reason:  We left our path to wellness and started walking on theirs.  We were supposed to help them and go on our own since our paths had crossed on the way, instead we helped them and started walking on their path... what can we expect to happen?

We need to be aware that it is our own individual journey, it is unique and we will meet others on the way.  We need not walk their path.  We can walk with them for some time, till our paths coincide, but then we need to choose our path when the paths separate.

We need to remember - we are on the journey to WELLNESS, any thought or any incident that feels otherwise, means we are moving away from Wellness.  We need to learn to deliberately bring ourselves back to our own path.  Being on our path to wellness will feel the best... the best form of happiness, the best form of peace, the best form of love.  We need to find what makes us feel the best.

Counseling plays a vital role in one's healing journey.  Whether it is a group counseling or personal counseling, it greatly helps you restore the balance in your life.

The Vitality cafe is proud to offer counseling services in collaboration with Shahin Fidai. The sessions are offered one-to-one and also in group.  Shahin also offers short-duration training courses for becoming a counselor.  The duration of the courses range from 2hours to 18hours.  A certificate is also provided to the qualified participants.

Shahin has recently completed a wonderful course from Mc Master University through Coursera.  It is about discovering one's hidden potential.  Her certificate is available to view here.

If you are interested in knowing more about the counseling services, please leave your contact information below and we will contact you.

Shahin is a teacher, lifelong learner, healer and master trainer with great soft skills to learn and get inspired. She can be contacted at [email protected] or +91 9167457151

The Vitality Cafe has a new partner in helping you recharge, rejuvenate and restore different aspects of your life. We are proud to partner with Shahin Fidai.  She is leading the counseling services at the Vitality Cafe. 

​Dr. Shahin Fidai (PhD in educational counseling and psychotherapy) is a teacher, lifelong learner, healer and master trainer with great soft skills to learn and get inspired. Given below is her short profile.
 
         
  Education

• PhD in educational counseling and psychotherapy
• ​Bachelor in Commerce from Mumbai University
• Diploma in Early Childhood Education from GSB (Gandhi Shikshan Bhavan)
• Certificate & Advance Certificate Course in Counseling from SIES Institute of Comprehensive Education
• Certificate Course in Islam from Mumbai University
• Certificate course in Arabic from Mumbai University
• Certificate course in Pranic Healing & Pranic Pschycotherapy from All India Yoga Vidya Pranic Healing Foundation 
• Tarot Reading
• Certificate  in  Nutrition Reeducation Programme from Health Awareness Centre

 
Areas of Expertise:

• Early Childhood Education Consultant
• ECE Curriculum & Organisation
• Child Development
• Issues & Trends in ECE 
• Counselling: Individual as well as group
• Parenting Workshops
• Child Development
• Time Management
• Stress Management
• Meditation Techniques
• Breathing Techniques
• Pranic Healing
• Chakra Balancing
• Pranic Psycotherapy
• Emotional Advisor

If you have any questions or need to book a session with her, kindly email her at [email protected] or call at +91 9167457151

Here is some information about the guided meditation for self-healing, de-stressing and for harmony within the family or at home.

Benefits

The meditation is much more beneficial when done together with the family members or in groups.

Recommendations

Feel free to email us on [email protected] for any questions or clarifications. 

You can also book your complimentary meditation session here.

​Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
In a lecture entitled 'Brain, Mind and Body Connections' - the latest installment of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar's monthly Medicine and U community health forum, Dr. Abdel Moniem Abdel Hakam explained that the symptoms of psychosomatic disorders range greatly in severity and type, from mild complaints such as slight fatigue, weakness and insomnia to serious symptoms like mutism, chronic fatigue, paralysis, abnormal movements, blindness and deafness.

Low back pain and psychological disorder
A research conducted in Qatar between March and December 2012 concludes that the symptoms of depression and somatisation were prevalent among low back pain patients and that functional disability was higher in the patients.

There are many other researches done worldwide on psychosomatic disorders.

What can we do?
It is very important to analyze and try to understand whether the pain/discomfort you are going through is purely physical or is of psychological origin.  The smart move will be to identify it in the beginning itself.  You can surround yourself with more positivity than before, make conscious efforts to make yourself feel happy, engage in activities that you enjoy and similar other activities.  Meditation is one of the great options in such cases.  Meditation and mindfulness can greatly reduce your stress levels, making your thought process clear, removing any blockages and thereby reducing any pain/discomfort which was caused by stress.

Can Energy Healing Help?
If the intervention is done in the beginning, energy healing sessions can help within a week or few days.  For long-term illnesses, the best option is combination of medication, regular doctor visits and energy healing sessions.

How does Energy Healing Help?
If you are going for Pranic Energy Healing, a pranic healer will work on the energy center responsible for emotions in your body along with the other energy centers.  Malfunctioning of this energy center or chakra generally manifests as stress, fatigue, fear, lack of confidence, abnormal appetite etc and therefore, this is the primary energy center that needs to be worked on for a psychosomatic illness.  Once this energy center starts functioning normally, the pain/discomfort that had resulted due to this gradually start disappearing and you can feel normal again. The changes can be subtle and gradual.  

Some of the people who have experienced the healing sessions say, there were instances around them that used to anger them unusually and no matter how hard they tried, they could not control the instant outburst.  After few initial sessions, these uncontrolled outbursts were controllable and the person could remain calm in situations that he/she could not think of acting normally.  Along with these changes, there was physical relief experienced in lower back pain as well.

What next?
If you have a slightest doubt of your issue being psychosomatic in origin, you can try out any of the free healing sessions offered by various healers.  You can also send an email to [email protected] for more information.