The dim lighted Verandah (Thinnai) …

BGM played by the street dogs and cow from the cowshed…

The happiness I felt when all the pigeons flew away together in the net…

The anger to hit the tailor who hides the needle in the banana offered to the elephant…

Feeling Sorrow when the Rajakumari was caught by the villain and cheers as the hero comes for rescue…

Snuggling to each other…  our giggles…

I relive all the emotions whenever I recap my story telling (rather listening) times.

As I grew up, so did my world of stories. I am highly indebted to my English Teacher Mr.A. Gopal who generously gave permission to write own stories in English for our hand writing home work. From writing, narrating evolved. Most of my narrations would be the then famous movies. This was during the lunch hour and many times a movie would run for 2-3 days. That was absolute excitement.

When in college, initially language tried to bar my storytelling. When I realized it was easier to pick up Kannada than to try to make my friends understand Tamil, I learnt to speak in Kannada and lo!! storytelling again. Now it was Tamil novels which they never got to read - from Sujatha to Sivasankari, Balakumaran to Lakshmi.

Story telling has played a major role in my personal life. My marital relationship and the joy of mothering my children is a beautiful silk woven with stories of love, respect, understanding and happiness.

I stepped into NLP by choice to enrich my training abilities. And the beautiful outcome of my NLP journey with my masters Ramesh Prasad, Tulsi, Sue Knight , Colin Spencer and Arul Subramaniam was the magic of connecting to myself and realizing what is inner happiness.

I continue to enjoy my inner happiness in Chaitanyam, my NLP based training program for pregnant women and now I am happy to share Tejaswini with you, a story telling platform for women.

When it comes to relationship, art of storytelling is the art of communication. Storytelling is a natural way of learning about feelings and relationships. Most often misunderstandings in relationships occur because we stop communication and not because we mishear.

 “All sorrows can be borne if you tell a story about them”. How true!! any  experiences of an accident, an illness, a death or any disturbing event is felt better after telling about it, the more times the better. Telling stories help adults deal with life’s challenges.

“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you”  -Maya Angelou.

Unplug and share your story.