Jan 17, 2018
Batool Merali is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Yoga
Health Coach, and she also helps her husband run a hotel business.
Amid all this work, she found time to write and publish her first
book in 2017.
Batool has dug deep into her ancestral heritage and has drawn on
some tried and true modern-day self-care tools to create a book
which honours ancient wisdom but is grounded in modern-day
practicality. The book has so many things to offer. Amongst other
things it brings colour and life to many Hindu deities, is an adult
colouring book, and, perhaps most importantly, is a journal which
cunningly prompts the writer to delve deep and develop
life-changing self care rituals.
Batool is an incredibly warm and generous human being, and in
this podcast she shares with us the difficulties she faced getting
her project off the ground. She explains how she was able to stay
true to her vision despite technical and creative challenges, and
bring her vision to life.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants practical
advice about achieving a dream writing project from concept to
print.
What you'll get out of tuning in:
- How becoming an author can help you get your message out
- Why self-care must be at the centre of any big goal
- How to inspire cosmic consciousness
Link:
Show Highlights:
- 2:30 – When writing a book,
start with a mind map. This way, you can organize your thoughts
with symbols, words, images, and affirmations. Then, once you
organize these ideas, they become sentences, paragraphs, chapters,
until they become a full book.
- 7:30 – Where did you come from?
Where do you want to go? What are your goals? So many of us don’t
know what we want to accomplish, what we’re grateful for, what
makes us happy. In order to figure out what we want and take steps
to achieve it, you can create a vision board for
insight.
- 10:00 – We need family, we need love, we need connection with
nature, we need friends, we need community, and we need our planet.
But we don’t need much more: we don’t need the material things we
think we need to be happy.
- 14:45 – Once you have the
Ayurvedic daily habits in place, you can create further
disciplines, or habits, in order to follow your dharma and achieve
success.
- 23:30 – Everyone teaches habits, and there is
nothing competitive about it. You just have to be creative and
teach it in your own style. This brings your experience and point
of reference into your course.
- 25:25 – Whatever means we
take toward it, whether through journal, or vision, or meditation,
we all want to achieve the end goal of bliss, happiness, and joy
through enlightenment.
Favorite Quotes:
- “When you’re in connection with the universe, the right people
show up at the right time.” – Batool Merali
- “We forget to be grateful, we
forget to be thankful, we forget where we really came from.” –
Batool Merali
- “We need guidance to connect us
back to the divine.” – Batool Merali
- “We lose what’s important in
our busy-ness.” – Rosie Tait
- “It’s our own twist on what we
think will appeal to the people we’re working with.” – Rosie
Tait
- “We all want everyone to be
living a life of balance and bliss.” – Batool Merali
Guest BIO:
Batool Merali is a certified Ayurvedic
Practitioner and yoga teacher working in the field of alternate and
holistic health for over a decade. She guides people to thrive in
body, mind, and spirit; releasing the anxiety that is holding them
back in reaching their highest potential and to
experience the magic of life through personal transformation.
Going back to her roots, she found Ayurveda. Health and beauty
begins from within. She teaches thoughtful and practical
application of yoga, Ayurveda, habit transformation, home remedies
to evolve, transform, and lead you to a vibrant, graceful, ageless
life.
Visit Batool’s
website and connect with Batool on Facebook.