Category: Love Class

This day I wow myself, I love truly and deeply in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I made. I make the experiences each moment, I am conscious, I make decisions.

During Love class each topic like: Problems and pain, Responsibility, Dedication to Reality, The Myth of Romantic Love, More about Ego boundaries, Dependency and it’s endless, I revisited all my journey of life through the glass of Love classes and deeply introspects in my life. I really revisits and keep checking myself that am I allign with the things which I learn? and in every introspect I came to know something new and updated myself with the same. Learning is not something which just can be learn but it should be the application and check our understanding with the previous knowledge. When I was going through the process of each topic I can very well connect it with my life and able to understand each phases through I pass and prepare for the phase which is going to be come. I am really thankful to our school to give me such an opportunity to live, to feel free and to get chance to introspect in my own life. We are doing so many things in our life but we don’t have time to look behind and to think about the future but I get that chance over here for the same. 

Thank you so much my facilitators Ravindra Agrawal & Shehla shaikh

It has been a wonderful journey of knowing and understanding the real essence of life . Love , marriage and parenting are the important stages of ones life where there are many misconceptions and believes attached.
The statement – “Life is difficult ” was the highlight of the whole journey for me. As accepting the situation and taking charge of the same makes it easy to deal with.
An eye opener of the journey was the ‘parenting session, where being a mother I could relate myself . Parenting session was a learning, understanding , reflecting and realizing.
Lastly, “Love is extending yourself “- be it a daughter, a wife or a mother……

A heartily thanks to my facilitators.

I understood the true meaning of Love,love class is Introspection in our life. It is a real life application.Parenting one of my area of interest and I am very keen and attached to my kid. My learning from this class about parenting is I have to give quality time to my kid.

Different stages of marriage life is a new learning me .Marriage is definitely not an easy ride, its a journey with lots of learning. My personal view is life is not difficult but “life is game, its play” . I am still working on balancing my life .

Would like to start with a quote from the great Dalai Lama:    ” When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace & joy”.

At the start of the first session, I was thinking why will we be discussing about love as love is a natural feeling that one experiences right from birth ( starting with love from parents and then others). Only once the session started, I realised that how love was connected to life, happiness and how it could affect the journey of one’s life.

It is a fact that ” life is difficult ” and the choice is entirely ours,  how we lead and live it. Life being not easy, we come across many problems and sometimes we make it more complicated. If we accept the fact that problems are always going to be there and face it strongly, life would go on far more smoothly rather than crying over it and end up putting less efforts towards overcoming the issues. Suffering was also one of the points covered and it is again a truth that suffering is always emotional. There is pain involved in love and relationships and pain can either be physical or emotional. How important is suffering for an individual as it is definitely an experience and learning for a person.

Another important learning was delayed gratification and how it could also affect one’s life and relationship. I could do reality check for myself over it and discovered how things could have been smooth and better, if I would had done certain activities timely instead of delaying the same. Running away from responsibilities and problems would not do any good at all & openness to challenges would really reap dividends.

Further, as love’s definition, 8 stages of love, dependency & entitles of marriage was covered, it helped me do a reality check, reflect and apply the learnings personally especially to strengthen the bond & relationship with family, friends & colleagues. I see myself calm and responsible now responding to personal issues and fulfilling the expectations of everyone at home.

Parenting & forgiveness was widely covered and the valuable sharing by everyone during the session is definitely going to benefit. Parenting tips and challenges were noted as I am yet to become a parent and various experiences shared during the session will definitely help me at some point of time. To forgive and forget is a virtue which is really difficult but once the person applies it in actual he would definitely feel light and relaxed as it would surely result in improved relationship.

Would like to thank Hasina maam & Falguni maam for providing us the space where we could extend ourselves & share individual opinions & experiences. Also, would like to thank all the participants for showing tremendous spirit & enthusiasm during all the sessions, making them very  interesting & highly interactive. Looking forward towards the next step – Integrity.

First of all thank you so much FS for conducting Life/Love classes that have actually changed approach towards life.

I have accepted that Life is difficult and once accepted, I could actually see the changes in my life and now I am able to handle it in an appropriate way and able to enjoy. One more thing I have learned is that every problem has a solution, I think the thing is that first, we need to understand the problem properly so that we can come up with multiple solutions/options to solve a problem. In daily life, we come up with a lot of problems and if we starting thinking of solutions for those problems then it will make our life easier. And sometimes few problems or things give us pain but I think that pain actually makes me strong and ultimately I’m growing. My approach towards problems has become more positive.

Now whenever any problem comes, the first thing I do is I make myself calm and cool, say myself that not to worry and let’s find a solution for it. This thing has actually boosted my confidence.

Thanks so much to all facilitators and participants for sharing and making me grow.. 🙂

Regards,
Karan Chevli

My journey of love class is an enriching one. It helped me to love myself. The  journey of my  life is now smooth to sail,  be it a professional or personal life. The power of acceptance is wonderful. It helped to forgive and build on relationship. It also helped to face challenges with courage.

The most important part is confrontation which I generally avoid. It helped to build on relationship. Listening is an art.

“Sometimes all a person wants is an empathetic ear; all he or she needs is to talk it out. Just offering a listening ear and an understanding heart for his or her suffering can be a big comfort.”
― Roy T. Bennett

It’s important to listen to understand then to reply is a key take away from the love class.

 

I always used to think, why my life is difficult and why I am the only victim. This thought was driving me from last ten years which was limiting me to perform in my life. In Love Class, I have gone through a fact that life is anyway going to be difficult and it is going to throw the circumstances to test me. Accepting this reality helped me to improve on my thoughts about life and helped to prepare myself to handle the circumstances and not to become a victim of it.

I have learned about Discipline which helped to balance my professional and personal life in a more settled manner. I learnt about Love and showing my love to my loved ones where I am extending myself to improve relationships with my parents. I also found that as compared to previous year, this year I had a better rapport with my students.

I have learned about Marriage, its stages which helped me identify my current stage and how can I take it to a next better level and also Core Dynamics which is helping me to make my marriage life smoother. It helped me to let go the things which comes across my healthy relationships. I have a better relationship with my father now after I have learned the distinction Forgiveness.

I wanted to thank my facilitators Falguni Ma’am and Hasina Ma’am who helped me in giving a ray of hope to my life. So, overall Love Class had a great impact on my life and helped me to be a better individual.

Thank you.

A big thank you to FS for providing me the opportunity to attend love classes, understand that ”Love is an action”. It has helped me to make an investment for life by nurturing my own growth and also of people whom I love. I have started valuing myself and also realised the misconceptions about love. Love requires thoughtful and painful decision making and now I have a set of tools to solve problems which come my way. I have started looking at my family members with a different eye. It also helped to know what good parenting is.

Now I believe that I cannot solve life’s problems except by solving them.

The more clearly we see the reality of the world, the better equipped we are to deal with the world.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.- Bob Marley.

I appreciate the initiative of FS, wherein the School is not just concerned about the work we do but also about the life we live! And breaking or changing the myths/paradigms for our amelioration!

I always look forward to such sessions where I can be myself and need not to be perturbed how I might be perceived. The “Epsilon Family” now is close to my heart and I look forward to meet them as to some of them, I just happen to meet during these days of Life Classes where we share our similarities and celebrate our differences 🙂

Though I do not completely agree to the idea of love of  M Scott Peck, I particularly like this quote of him: It is only( if I might say mainly) because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

The most interesting part of Love Class for me was Forgiveness & Parenting.

Open your hands, if you want to be held.- Rumi

Though I thought I knew what forgiveness was all about, I realized and could practice it more perhaps (after the efforts of my facilitators- Falguni maám & Hasina maám and my other lovely colleagues)  of freeing oneself through forgiveness as someone rightly said:

 

 

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Also the session on Parenting at certain point of times gave an altogether a new insight and I could overcome certain assumptions/ paradigms on Parenting. At times, it is lot more easier to treat a child as an individual in professional life but way back home, certain things are taken for granted and now I do make a cautious choice of respecting the child’s individuality at home too!

Hina.

We attended the “life class” together and learnt how to tackle the different situations of life with the 7 habits. The things which we even did not realize or notice in our fast moving life, we could introspect during the “life class” sessions and could work on it.  But when we heard ‘love class” we are going to join next, we had a different impression in our mind. We thought it would be based on the “love” that we generally mean and since we joined the class as a  couple so we thought it would be based on the issues of marital life, or between people in relation. So we were not sure if as a couple we are not having major issues then how could this love class be appropriate or fruitful for us. But then once the sessions started we understood that “love class” incorporates the broader meaning of love, the enrichment of one’s  spiritual soul, to extend oneself for a spiritual growth. We understood the relation in most cases deals with romantic feelings (as we encounter in movies or songs) but “real love” is more of action along with feelings.As a couple we realized how actions are equally important to show our feelings towards our dear ones.If we had any misunderstanding we basically ignored to avoid unnecessary clashes or didn’t want to discuss over it due to our ego boundaries but after attending love class we learnt how important is confrontation which really helps to resolve the misunderstanding.Not only in our marital relationship we implemented it in each and every relationship in our life.Love class helped us to live more disciplined life to give an ideal image to our next generation.At the end of this Love class session we would like to thank our facilitators for guiding us so well.And we also appreciate the school management for conducting such sessions which helps us grow in our personal and professional life.

Regards

Abheek Chakraborty and Jayeeta Chakraborty