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| A good friend whom I met online in one of the Facebook’s Freelance Writer’s group introduced to me the Santosha beads. I got interested when I read about it in her blog. She said her Santosha necklace is composed of 108 mala beads which is meant to be used by the wearer to say gratitude for 108 good things he received each day. I just can’t imagine if I can reach 108 good things to thank for each day! But she said it is easy because there are really so many good things a person receives each day; example is saying thanks for waking up alive; feeling healthy and strong, and the result is being happy for your good state of health. Saying 108 Thank You’s A Day Could be a Challenge And so, though I am naive on the use of mala beads or Santosha beads, I asked her to make one for me. She said she makes the “garland” based on the requester’s intentions. She also said she could sense even from afar the character of the person who requests for the Santosha beads. I will challenge myself if I can make use of the Santosha beads effectively. Before I came to know about Santosha beads, I got interested in it during my student days. Usually we rode passenger jeepneys inside the campus to go from one building to another depending on the subject. While I was on board, I met students wearing orange robes and their fingers were busy feeling each bead in their side pockets. A portion of the “garland” showed, and I saw it was composed of brownish-blackish beads, bigger than corn kernels. While they were touching each bead, I noticed some sense of calmness in their faces. Maybe they were also silently uttering some mantras or prayers for each bead. Now that image of those students became vivid in my mind. If they were able to concentrate and say their mantras while riding the jeepney, I think I can do it also even when I have my morning walks or while riding my trike. It is easy to think of 108 good things/graces when you focus on things/people around you. Excited to Receive my Santosha Beads My friend sent me a message saying she had my Santosha garland sent through a courier, and now I am just waiting for it to be delivered to me. I hope I can also help in her advocacy to spread goodness by patiently making the Santosha beads, and for the wearer to also spread goodness to others. Do you also wear something that attracts positivity? I would be glad to read about it in your post. Thanks for reading.
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| @acelawrites, hi friend? Is this discussion you told me lost? Here it is now, so long.It will be better for this to have been posted in blog post. About the flower mentioned here, it seems I have not met this flower in my life hehehe. I do try to ask my friends if they have idea where to locate this flower so I will not be ignorant of the beauties of nature. I do try to search on line if this kind is very useful and popular, This flower kind great looking and it seems a sister flower of Gumamela. We had at home Gumamela before, but it was not liked by my family, so they cut the body and extracted the roots so they won’t anymore grow. I hope this is the one Gumamela. Congrats friend for joining here are Literacy base. Take care nd have a nice and happy blogging. | |
| Thanks @Cely. This is a blog post. This is not the one that got lost, but it was a reply in one of your comments about my predicament on editing published posts. You are right, the flower in my post is a gumamela flower, (Hibiscus rosa sinensis) which is a common flower in the Philippines. I also read a reply in one of the newbies’ queries about how to edit post, and the LB admin said they did not put an “edit” button at the end of each published post for security; to prevent spammers. I will always edit first before clicking “publish.” | |
| @acelawrites, Really? Where is your blog now? By the way, try to click above the line the words written are ; WRITE HERE and click DASHBOARD to check if your blog is there. Who knows it reaches there in dashboard.’ By the way, I am thankful that the flower mentioned here is Gumamela, very nice but I no longer see this kind of flower this time in our place. By the way, I hope that you are now oriented with some sections in this site. Enjoy blogging and discussing my friend. Have a nice weekend. | |
| Thank you Cely. I am trying my best to be familiar with the site, though I find it hard to navigate to find my blogs. Hope the admin can do some fine tuning so members will have an easier time here. | |
| @acelawrites, should you like to read some blogs, try to click the blogs posted here and when you are there you can see many related blogs you may want to read and pattern for your own writing. | |
| Uh ha, I didn’t know what happened. Why is my blog about Santosha beads was placed here at the forum? I clicked “write now” but it did not appear there in my list of submitted posts. I should have four now, but in the Dashboard, it’s only 3! Please help me. Are you one of the admins here? Who are the admins./owners of the site? I wanted to know.Thanks. I will send them a message how to transfer that blog.
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| @acelawrites, you write Support, the administrator and owner of this site.All people here are writers. By the way, you may not post this in a blog , the category you chose might not suit to the title. Check the categories first found in the home page. Bye for now I have a saturday class. Have a nice weekend. | |
| @acelawrites , hahahahaha, friend, your blog is here now starring in the blog site post. Hurray. say thank you to: Support. |
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