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Enso Circle - 1

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Enso Circle Enso circle is a hand drawn circle in a single brush stroke to express a moment when the mind is free to let the body create. I’d like to explain more (I might do later) , but I don’t feel like doing it right now. Here's my first enso circle. Express a moment… At this particular moment, I have drawn my first enso circle but I’m not really sure about the reason I’ve did it. Today, I’ve also raised a poster of  ‘yin and yang’  in my room. There is a lot going on in my life and I think this is a way of taking time for myself and doing something different from the usual. I’m planning to make it as a habit to draw enso circle in regular periods (maybe once a week) , and also at different emotional levels. Let me see how it goes.

Vipassana Meditation Experience - a 10 day journey into myself

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Backstory Vipassana Meditation is a meditation technique involving mindfulness of breathing, thoughts, feelings and sensations to understand true nature of the reality. I found this meditation while I was researching about mindfulness 2 years back. It was quite intriguing to read about it, especially when it mentions you are disconnected with the outside world for 10 days and also you shouldn’t speak with any person for 10 days. I planned to go this program in 2014 October (perfect in my tight schedule) , but I didn’t attend. I’ve convinced myself that I was busy, but the truth being I wasn’t mentally prepared. In 2015, I regretted twice that I should’ve attended the program, but was busy preoccupied in other works. In 2016, being free in the summer, I’ve decided to not waste this opportunity. Even in 2016, it was surely a hard decision for me to attend this meditation program. I visualized it as some form of mental institution and you get brainwashed or manipulated into some...