Awakening Of A Mother

Amrita had a mind of her own and she would not settle for anything that her conscience won’t agree with. Her doting husband Lalit ensured that his family had everything that a comfortable life deserved. They were blessed with two beautiful kids. Lalit’s professional life kept him fully occupied with little or no room to get involved in chores and errands of the household. Amrita was leading a dead routine ever since she became a mother. She was completely engrossed in mundane tasks day in day out. Though she had everything she had started feeling a vacuum inside her. She often pondered where is her life headed and what was the purpose of her life. It was March 2020 and a pandemic had made the world stand still. With an online way of life during the pandemic, there was no rush to cook early as all were supposed to stay at home. So she had a lot of free time in the morning before her family woke up. She usually used that time to sip tea in solitude, practice yoga, and then cook for her family but now she didn’t know what to do with that extra time. One day she came across a phrase that “if you cannot go outside go inside”. This came to her as an extraneous WhatsApp message that she preferred to ignore initially. Later that day the message lingered in her mind. She started reading about the same and came across the term “mindful living”. She started with the simple mindful practice of wa

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tching her breadth in solitude during free morning hours. This started doing wonders within a month. She could better understand her daily routine and started appreciating her efforts. Progressing on other mindful tools like pausing a moment before starting a job, maintaining a gratitude log, and looking for areas to improve her creativity, she started brimming with energy. She is still leading the same life within the same environment but the way she is doing things has made a paradigm shift. She is not only a caring mother now but also aims at raising creative and smart thinkers. She is also helping her husband cope with work stress better. She found herself peaceful in most of the daily hustle of life with an awareness of her thought process. There is more room for understanding and compassion in her life now. She finally found the purpose of her life that she will dedicate herself to evolve into her best self.

Managing a positive environment in the family is not an easy job. Here we deal with human emotion which is quite complex to understand. It’s not a mundane job and needs skill update as much as a paid profession does. Life is changing every moment and updating ourselves to deal with it better is the most important task of a homemaker. If we are happy, healthy, mindful, updated, and peaceful we can create a healthy environment for our family.