Sonya Syed

I am seriously getting scared now it is giving me goose bumps and also a bit drowsiness in the head. Before beginning I’ll tell you that I love to create/ design dresses, I have inherited this trait from my youngest Phuppi (my father’s youngest sister) Tabussum Aunty. Although I don’t make too many clothes but I like to form their images in my mind. Whenever I couldn’t sleep at night or simply get bored I would take up my sketch book and draw dress designs, I choose colours and so on. And most of the time I would just make a perfect suit in my mind. At times when I am free and just want freshen up I would surf net for latest western trends or classic styles from 1930’s, all done randomly.  So day before yesterday in my mind I saw myself in an orange dress. I liked the bright orange hue so I just started to play with that image in mind. Today few moments ago as I opened my facebook page I saw an orange dress exactly as I imagined it two days ago by one of my favour...

Every human being on the planet wants to be happy. Anything that anyone desires is because they think their desire will make them happy. Whether it is health, money, a loving relationship, material things, accomplishments, a job, or anything at all, the desire for happiness is the bottom line of all of them.  But remember that happiness is a state inside of us, and something on the outside can only bring fleeting happiness, because material things are impermanent. Permanent happiness comes from you choosing to be permanently happy. When you choose happiness, then you attract all the happy things as well. The happy things are the icing on the cake, but the cake is happiness. By Rhonda Byrne- Creator of ‘The Secret’ If we think about it, it is so true that the bottom line of all our hard work, our efforts or anything that we toil for is ultimately, to be Happy. We spend most of our lives praying for different things and people to come to us when the only motiv...

Before starting today’s post I need to thank you all for the amazing response which you gave for my earlier post ‘Acupressure for Beginners’. I am glad that I cleared out many things about this great form of healing and it really means a lot to me that I could be of any help.  Thank you so much for all your love and appreciation, it is only because of your encouragement and support that I am able to continue writing this blog. Do write to me, give your suggestions and feel free to leave your comments at the end of the post, I always love your input.  Ok now, woke up at 6 am- did breakfast almost like a sleepy robot only to find out that my morning class has been postponed due to a conference at the University.   So now, I am here with an entire day at my disposal. When I was in school and if any surprise holiday happened like today, then that used to be the happiest day of my life.  Today when I am at the other side of track, it is not that fun. As...

William Hazlitt was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and and far more famous for giving us the famous quote first impression is the last impression . First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions... (Essay by William Hazlitt- On the knowledge of Character) It takes only one tenth of a second for us to make up our minds about people, according to a recent research. Psychologists at Princeton University, in the US found that people made judgements about the attractiveness, likeability, trustworthiness, competence and aggressiveness of other people after looking at their faces for 100 milliseconds.  Rather than correcting initial judgements, longer glances at the same faces caused people to become more convinced of their initial opinions, the scientists found. There was a study published in Nature Neuroscience , led by Daniela Schil...