Today P suddenly came up to me and asked me “mamma what’s our soul?” After I explained the best I could, she told me her yoga mam has said you must feed your soul. And the best way to do that is meditation. We were in the car back from her gym class when she said this. Her current favourite song was playing on the radio. And she said I want to meditate right now. Shut the music. She said mam has said we must sit quietly and listen to the sounds of nature (I was thinking… all you’re going to hear in this traffic is horns blaring and cars moving) so she sat in the back seat and started meditating right there. 

Got me thinking… how much food do we actually give our souls? It was nice to know that the school is trying to inculcate these things in children’s lives so early. Once they grow up they have to deal with so much stress. Meditation can definitely help one cope. Not that I meditate. Her grandfather is big time into vipassana and that’s one of the reasons he is so cool headed.

My way of feeding my soul is doing a hobby. I used to paint, then it was craft work for a few years and now it’s dancing. These are my soul foods. (May I add a couple of episodes of Friends)