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Our Integrity life class was based on the book –

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

– Susan Jeffers

During Integrity life class, I came to know about my hidden fears, some of which can be overcome whereas some are not in my hand…….This introsception has helped me to know myself better and be honest to myself which is the literal meaning of integrity.

One thing that I understood through the life class journey is….we all sail in the same boat and hence we should not be worried, instead live life to the fullest way possible.

I was enlightened after going to Civil hospital, introspecting oneself, everyone’s sharings and framing own mission statement.

Thankyou Ayman ma’am and Sanjana ma’am for being the torchbearers in my Integrity class journey.

Special thank you to Sanjana ma’am and Aymen ma’am. I was knowing about my fears but not knowing how to handle it or face it.  Used to Crib on what has happened and what will happen. This class has taught me to introspect myself at a deeper level. It has taught me to love your self, start accepting things, believe in yourself. Helped me in raising my confidence. Has helped me in making inform choices. Whether to crib of not having or putting efforts to make something. Helped me to look upon where have you reach. Stop self-pity. No one can help you. It is you who can be the change.

The power lies within you.

The journey which has begun 3 years back with life class till integrity has taught me a  lot…. What is life?? To live it the fullest love…. Love your self-love unconditionally love without exception, to lead better life one must follow integrity be honest with being scared. Accept your self and your surroundings the way it is. Overcome the fear be honest to yourself. Introspect and find the real you… All the sessions of integrity workshop was very helpful. I am sure whatever I have learned from this session will help me to have a happy and wonderful life. I would like to thank both the facilitators to facilitate the sessions.

Integrity– the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, indeed this class has helped me to identify what my fear is and how can I face it in true sense. It has given me insight that what are my goals what is the path to achieve it, who are the people who are indeed important to me. The importance of being honest to own self first and than to the world. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the facilitators to make this 9 sessions of integrity class very interesting. Special thanks to Vardan Sir and Ankita ma’am for organizing and promoting such important workshops at FS. Journey from life to love and than integrity is indeed a memorable one.

A person can introspect only when he or she is honest to themselves and are principle-oriented and this is exactly what the Integrity class and facilitators did to me…they helped me reflect on my past experiences, fears, apprehension, perspective, principles, relationship and life in general. This batch has been a blessing for me as I could overcome my fear and made new friends along the journey. It again reinforced the fact that we are sail in the same boat but have different experiences…I am more fearless…I am open to the idea to see the world from other’s perspective too…at least I will an honest thought to other’s perspective…So there is no baggage of past… thank you, everyone, who contributed to my learning.

I really thank Ayman ma’am and Sanjana ma’am to facilitate this workshop and gave us deep knowledge about us.

My learning….The best way to lose your fear is to develop trust and faith in yourself.

If we were to seriously and honestly take a look at how we think, act, behave and respond to life, we will soon realise that on a majority of occasions, our reactions and responses are coming from fear, rather than from love and joy. Thank you facilitators for making me realize this!

There is always a high level of confusion, distress, uneasiness and worry about the future. And it is from this fearful, unknowing background that we act. If we were certain about an outcome, we would obviously not have any anxiety or fear. But the nature of life is such that there are no sure-shot guarantees or warranties in life, only endless possibilities and probabilities. Thank you Fountainhead for the opportunity of Integrity classes which helped me understand ‘myself’ in  a better way!

Excited, curious and a little nervous for my 2nd journey of life class. Oh! this time it was LOVE.… Love all over… when we hear word ‘love’ what comes to mind is roses, red colours, heart, music, various emojis, spouse, children, friends, chocolates, etc., and much more…

But, after the first session of love class it made me think about what exactly love means. I went back and like all of us do took help of our so called ‘google baba’. And wow! I was amazed by the definition of LOVE given by ‘google baba’ actually got more ????

It said, ‘Scientifically speaking, love is not a single over-arching entity. It is a procession of chemical and psychological changes aimed at securing the passage of genes.  From lust, where we begin to hand-pick the genes that we deem beneficial to our offspring. To attachment, where we finally get the job done. It all makes a surprising — if admittedly underwhelming — amount of sense.’

But, thanks to my facilitators who helped me discover and understand the true meaning of LOVE. I learnt, loving myself for who am I, and trusting myself, if I am happy from within I am the most beautiful person, and that my smile is my best asset.

I learnt the importance of forgiveness. Rightly said by – Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.’ 

And being a mother I learnt some important tips about ‘Parenting’. I learnt great parenting is not about child’s behaviour but, it is about parents behaviour. In order to become a perfect parent many of us make mistake. In the strive to become a perfect parent we ignore our kids talk, stories, feelings, dreams and we end up saying, ‘I say you follow’. But… but… but… that’s the worst thing that we can do to our children its about us being a friend to them. It is about ‘learning the strengths of our children and dealing with fears that we didn’t know ever existed.’ 

As I truly believe a quote stating, ‘Anyone can have a child and call themselves as ‘a parent’. But, a real parent is someone who puts that child above their own selfish needs, wants and a medium to accomplish their unachieved dreams.’

It was truly a journey worth going through and discovering new meanings and getting to know new perspectives also clearing many myths with wonderful facilitators (Ritu ma’am and Bhumika ma’am) who made me feel just comfortable to share my experiences.

Words would be less to thank them and letting them know what difference have they made in my life through this LOVE classes.

Binal Shah