Find time for what you love and bliss is what you will experience!!

My name is Enaakshi Kotwal, I teach belly dancing. My journey with dance began very naturally. As a child I would listen to songs, create my own choreographies and dance, I simply loved dance and music. My mother noticed that and enrolled me for Kathak. From the very beginning dance gave me happiness. If I was in a dull mood dance would brighten it. If I was tired and sad and the same day, I had my dance class, my tiredness would vanish. As we get energy, after we come in contact with divine, is what, dance does to me. Dance in fact is divine energy, otherwise why would one experience bliss and tears of joy when one dances or does anything which one loves.

I didn't choose teaching dance as a profession because I had to, I chose it because I knew deep down that my life would be incomplete if I took a different path. I thought I better give it a try, then regret when I am on my death bed. I tried my hand at corporate jobs and I was extremely good at them, but i always felt something was amiss from my life. The journey as a dance teacher was extremely challenging and full of difficulties, but I could face them as my love for dance gave me the strength to do so. The journey in dancing made me a better person. 

The realization that dance was something divine for me, came in when I was not dancing for a few months. I could feel the emptiness in my life as if something major was amiss. Initially I was not sure if dance is the career path for me, because if you ask anyone around, people will always tell you a regular job is the best thing. Yes if you want that stability, but if your soul yearns for more, if your soul yearns to spread the knowledge you have accumulated and learn more styles, then you would never be happy with a mundane 9 to 5 job. Sometimes circumstances will be such, that you will have to keep your passion on the back burner, and at that moment don't  be disheartened, because sometimes to get want you want, you have to be logical and go with the flow of life. When following your passion seems difficult, challenge it more and keep it alive, never extinguish the flame of your passion. I did that, so can you. Even when I was studying or working, I always took out the time for my passion. I would run for my classes and this commitment and dedication led me here. Wherever I was, however hectic my life was, I always made time for dance  

Anything in life needs consistency and dedication. So if you love something and keep making excuses to yourself, I have no time, is a lie you are telling yourself. Remember dedication and consistency can give great results. So if you love something and if you give that even ten minutes of your time daily and be consistent with it throughout, you will get results you would not have even imagined. 

In this hectic life, sometimes we don't even realise, where are we going.  We are on an auto pilot mode. Get up in the morning, leave for work, travel, get irritated, react to other people's

behaviour, come back, cook, eat and sleep. The cycle goes on and on. It is very important to find peace, happiness and contentment in this mundane life. So on regular basis, take out time for yourself, sit down, close your eyes, lock the noises outside and ask yourself what is that you love, which brings joy and peace to you. It could be anything, walking, reading, cooking and then commit yourself to do that. Trust be bliss is what you will experience...