Self acceptance leads to acceptance of others

Nov 17
Had a good sleep. After the sinus rinse, so nice to sleep breathing easy. I was savouring the sensation and took awhile. Also yesterday did Sannidi pooja so room energy nice.
Woke up at 4.48 am as today out for appointment.
Did Bhuta Shuddi followed by cat stretch. My right elbow is swelling but I can still do, stretched at the third cycle. Now I am able to feel ease at left side.
Did 6 cycle of Surya Kriya, it was lovely. Back able to stretch a bit without pain. Still got remnants but I think should be gone by this week. Will do Surya Kriya in small bedroom hotel tomorrow. To start Yogasanas and Angamardhana next week
Breathing meditation is good.
Shakti was not good as I was coughing intermittently.
Shambavi was not great too as right elbow was too painful to do the required Suka Kriya timing and also intermittently coughing.
But I am better after the practices.
Wonder why this time take longer to recover. Then I remember me now not taking antibiotic and hence relying on my own immune system.

Today drank the neem and tumeric with honey shake. I feel better, more energised. I had so much resistance on this one. Alas that's loosen, thanks to the flu and back pain.


The Power of Empathy.
Falling down and getting back up again is the thread that holds together the fabric we call life. Empathy counsels is to dust ourselves off and keep to search for that place of balance where we can accept ourselves for who we are (all mixed up) and for who's we want to become (still all mixed up but somehow more comfortable there). If we can look in the cracked mirror and humbly accept the imperfect (but  real) image staring back at us, we can also learn how to accept the imperfections of others. 
Humility leads to tolerance. Acceptance of our own conflicted, complicated nature leads to acceptance of other people's similar but different mixed-up ness.

Soul
Saw Y and wife pix, they look so compatible. I m happy for them. When I saw them, a tinge of envy came, wondering what's next for me. But it doesn't take away me being happy for them. They are truly right for each other. Both are 'kids'.

The power of empathy
Empathy requires flexibility; to bend and flex which allows us to contemplate the possibility of change and transformation. It involves more than simply changing one's judgement of the situation, one's memory of the event and one's emotional responsiveness to them, one's conception of the person's traits and goals and even one's conception of one self.