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"I love you," she emphasized. "And it's ruining my life."
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"I love you," she emphasized. "And it's ruining my life."
Name: Priya Kumar Age: 19 Birthdate: 25/08/1996 Gender: Female Pronouns: She/Her Species: Phenomenal Place of Origin: Hammersmith, London
Born with total colour blindness, Priya developed an appreciation for monochrome painting from a young age. Although her parents made many attempts to find something to alleviate her colour blindness, it wasn't until discovering a strange, star-shaped crystal in an old antique shop that Priya was suddenly able to see colour- and control it too. Under the secret identity of Lady Stardust she protects Hammersmith from crime, on the hunt for one criminal in particular: The Magpie.
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The salt cleanse and the shit bath...
Priya Kumar's LinkedIn page shouts out that she is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker, bestselling author of 12 books, executive coach specializing in peak performance, personal breakthroughs and team/leadership building, and now a screenwriter. The page also says that she is a biographer of Late Shri O P Munjal, the founder of Hero group and is now working on Pulella Gopichand's official biography. It finally claims that she has worked with about 2000 MNCs in 47 countries and has touched the lives of over 3 million people through her books and workshops.
Wow! If all of this is true, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, she is a raging success in her life. Congratulations to her!
Of the 12 books she has authored, I have read only one - "I am another you." Through that book, Priya Kumar touched me like few others have.
The book is a true account of a small, yet significant period in her life. It begins with a chapter called The End. In this chapter, Priya Kumar reminisces the past few years of her life and feels like a complete and utter failure. She has just wound up her failed business, broken up with the love of her life, has no more money in her account than to last a month or two, and most importantly, no conviction in her future. She wonders how an intelligent, responsible, good looking, academically bright, gal like her, ended up screwing her life so bad.
Ever been in such a situation before? I suppose we all have, to varying degrees. I most certainly have.
So, Priya needed some me-only space and enrolled for a Shamanic workshop, in Netherlands, for a couple of weeks!!! By the way, Shamans are a kind of native European or American monks, who have spent their lives practicing spirituality in communion with nature, in their own unique ways.
The book - I am another you - contains a few of the Shamanic rituals that Priya went through, that resulted in a profound transformation in her life.
One of the chapters was titled - The Salt cleanse. In this chapter, Priya takes us through a ritual - a kind of spiritual challenge.
One morning, Priya and her co-participants (ten odd or so) were given only carrot juice for breakfast. They were then taken to a nearby barn, where the head Shaman, a guy called Kahuna, gave them instructions - They had to drink five jugs of salt water.
“The jugs contain salt water. It is thick and some will find it difficult to consume. It will flush out the last morsel stuck in the folds of your intestines or even the bottom of your stomach.
Most diseases start from the stomach. If your stomach and intestines host uncleared food particles they eventually grow toxic and diseases will be born.
The salt will move in your body all the way from your mouth to your anal canal and out, bringing out all the crap that your body has stored.
Outside this barn, there are cubicles that you will use to excrete when you feel the pressure build up. There are small metal containers outside the cubicle in which you will excrete. On the way out, you will close the lid and place the container in the corner assigned to you. Is this clear?
You drink the salt and you poop, simple.”
Priya and others looked at each other in disgust, wondering what they had signed up for. But they had no option. So they began.
Priya first took one sip, almost puked, looked around at others struggling with their jugs, mustered some courage and bottoms-upped her jug. Her head spun and her stomach churned. In a short while, a sharp pain in her stomach signalled her pent-up pressure.
She ran towards her cubicle, saw with horror a lone metal container and some toilet paper, with nothing else - no commode, no chair, no nothing. There was no time to complain - the pressure was intense. She sat down and released her pressure with an embarrassing explosion, all the while, mentally denying that this was happening to her. As she got acclimatized to the unbearable stink in the cubicle, she remembered, she had to drink four more jugs. Pink with embarrassment, she wondered how the others are coping. This is how she shares her thoughts in the book.
The salt cleanse challenge took all morning. Priya alternately emptied her jugs and bowels all day. Finally, when her stomach and intestines cried out that there was nothing left in them, she dragged herself to her room, took a long, good scrub bath and fell into a deep sleep. She woke up late next afternoon. That's when she was told that the second part of the challenge was to come that evening.
As the sun set, all the participants sat around a bonfire. Some Shamans were drumming rhythmically. Kahuna sat in front of the fire, lost in a trance. After a while, the drumming stopped. The drummers vanished for a while and reappeared holding long sticks on their shoulders. The sticks held the metal containers of the previous day - their poop buckets. Priya and others grew nervous.
Kahuna stood up and said, “You will now be engaged in a ritual that will challenge your spirit to sit up and take notice of its existence. These containers contain your excreta. We don't know which container contains whose.
This drummer will take one container at random and empty it in your palms. You will accept and acknowledge the contents of the container. I want you to feel and experience the contents and when you have fully acknowledged what your hands hold, release it with into the fire.
You may leave now if you don't want to ahead with this challenge.”
Every atom of Priya's body revolted with revulsion. Every cell in her brain - grey, white or black - screamed, run. Only a small voice in her heart said, stay and face the shit.
As the drummer poured shit onto Priya's outstretched palms, she realised with irony, that in life too, we often have to face the shit created by others. The reverse is also true. Despite our best intentions, others are forced to face the shit created by us. We are all intertwined in a Karmic web of give and receive - sometimes, the good stuff, most of the times, the shit. She says it best...
The last chapter of the book is named The beginning. In this chapter, she says that the above and many such other spiritual processes all taught her that the one place where all the wrongs of the world are righted is inside us. There is nothing wrong with the outside world if we sort out our inside word.
Today is Teacher's day. I dedicate this post to that greatest teacher of mankind - Life!
☎ priya and oliver <3
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LAST TEXT RECEIVED: i'll be home shortly my love
LAST TEXT SENT: you said that over an hour ago : (
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