Diario de Mascarenhas

The stress you currently experience comes from one place, and one place only and that is from your ego-based thoughts of fear of loss. Your inability to overcome the stress that you are wallowing in, and which is affecting your performance as a person, is due to your fear of taking action, and, what might happen if it all goes wrong and you lose that which you fear to lose. https://gomcgill.com/the-only-antidote-to-your-stress/

So how do I let go of my anger? Generally, I bring it to prayer. The complaints come unbidden, so I might as well integrate it into prayer. What I’ve found helpful is to balance anger with gratitude. Near the end of my daily give-away year, I decided to intentionally note one thing each day that I was grateful for and to do this during morning prayer. I call this my “gratitude offensive.” It’s been a good experience for me. As soon as I start fretting about the ills of our society, I call to mind that at least I have electricity and running water, or that we finally decided on which car to buy and had the money to buy it, or that my back pain and cold left in time for me to enjoy a dance weekend, or that there’s a gentle breeze today, or . . .  If it’s a person I feel angry toward, I’ve taken it to confession and forced myself to think of a positive quality that person possesses and then hold him or her in prayer. This may take a lot of repetition. I keep reminding mysel...

27th Nov. Left home at 8 pm. Did self check in and bags presented at counter. After immigration went to Strata lounge. I had beef bourguignon, fish and chips, noodles and Moa beer. Zai had Danish.   Suz had ham cheese sandwich, butter chicken rice. Left lounge at 12am . Last people to leave. Heaps of people to board.   I could not sleep much on Air NZ flight.   Food of beef casserole not tasty. Also the chicken sausage and scrambled eggs just ok 4 brekkie. We were seated at end of  the plane so had to dash to catch flight from Singapore to Mumbai  28th Nov.   They checked oci at Singapore airport. Flight left 15 mins late. Brekkie was vadai and cken curry. Zai had scrambled eggs and chicken sausage. Suz had a bread roll.   We had a Singapore sling. Flight arrived at 1023 am India time. Immigration and baggage was a breeze and we walked thru green channel. Mum & Dad greeted us with chicken patties from Merwan's . Crazy traffic...