SKELETAL LEAP: The Mind Body Connection: LIFE

Lurking Fear Inside Out Vs Horrific Monster Scare Imposed

Laadi Ojas — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:06:54 GMT

LIFE LESSONS STORIES SERIES

Lurking Fear Inside Out Vs Horrific Monster Scare Imposed

Lurking Fear Inside Out Vs Horrific Monster Scare Imposed. Image courtesy of the author.

Another memory hits my mind. It’s of the time when I was 6 years old. My parents had got me admitted in a school in class 1 when I turned 6. It was when the principal of the school who was my father’s friend reminded him that I had come of age to join a school. So, the next day my parents took me to his school and got me admitted there.

I stayed in class 1 for 10 months when teachers decided I already qualified for being a class 2 student. So, I was promoted to class 2. I had to write my class 2 exams within 2 months of getting promoted there. I don’t know how but I was ranked 1st in my class 2 exams and got promoted to class 3 when I was 7.

Anyway, I was still in class 1 when it happened. Every day, after the school was over, I walked back home with my friends carrying school bags on our shoulders. We also carried a ‘Takhti’, a small wooden slate with an extended handle to carry it to the school every day. As children, we used to write on it with a straw pen dipped in black ink to master the art of calligraphy. Every day, the slate would be coated with Fuller’s earth to absorb the ink and then we washed it off. After washing, we dried it by swirling it up and down in sunshine. While doing so, we would sing in chorus: Come sun great, dry my slate.

Chatting On Our Way Back Home

Chatting On Our Way Back Home. Image courtesy of the author.

So, while going back home, we kept chatting in groups walking on hilly roads. One day, a friend walking in another group splintered from there and moved back to say something to me. It must have been something of importance as he immediately pulled my arm to draw my attention to him. But I was in the midst of another important chat within my group. At least that was what I thought. So, I asked him to wait for a moment and continued with my ongoing chat. But my friend wouldn’t wait as he thought his thing was more important than what I was involved in.

He again pulled my arm to draw my attention to him. I again asked him to wait a bit. But he wouldn’t agree. He again pulled my arm for the third time to listen to him. It turned me angry this time and I hit him with my wooden slate on his head.

His Head Started Bleeding Profusely

His head started bleeding profusely. Image courtesy of the author.

His head started bleeding profusely. All of us including me got stunned not knowing what to do. Incidentally, there was a group of our teachers coming from behind us. They took notice of the accident and immediately took my bleeding friend to a doctor for first aid. We followed them along.

I was feeling bad for my friend as well as guilty of being emotionally impulsive. Luckily the doctor assured our teachers it wasn’t a very serious wound, and a few stitches would do the needful. His wound got stitched and the doctor bandaged his head. Surprisingly none of the teachers scolded me for what I had done and that made me feel even more guilty.

My friend had to take a few days’ off from the school. When he came back to the class, he was still wearing a bandage around his head.

I Grew A Fear in My Mind

I grew a fear in my mind. Image courtesy of the author.

Days passed by. Everything came back to normal but for a fear that I grew in my mind. It was the fear of his father hitting me for having hit his son. I knew him as his shop was on the main road joining my house to my father’s shop. I used to cross it every day to visit my father’s shop. But now I feared he would catch me anytime in case he ever spotted me passing by his shop.

So, I avoided walking down to my father’s shop via the main road linking it to our house. But luckily for me, there was a side road that bypassed his father’s shop. And I could safely go to my father’s shop without getting spotted by my friend’s father.

Months passed by and I didn’t step on the main road passing by his father’s shop.

My Fear Turned into An Imaginary Scare Now!

My Fear Turned into An Imaginary Scare Now! Image courtesy of the author.

One day it happened so that my mother was accompanying me as I moved toward my father’s shop. As I habitually took the side road, my mother raised an objection because I wasn’t going via the main road. I tried to avoid her question but smelling something foul, she insisted on me for an answer.

Ultimately, I was forced to hesitantly express my fear to her. She started laughing and immediately took me to the shop of my friend’s father. My heart was pounding as we entered the shop. She took me straight to his father and explained to him how I had been avoiding facing him for months.

As his father heard the story from my mother, he started laughing aloud. I was shockingly surprised as I heard him saying, “What an innocent child! And a stupid one for that matter! Things like these keep happening between friends. I am not a demon who would hit an innocent child for having hit my son in a childlike impulse. Come to me, my child!” Then he took me in his arms and kissed me on my face.

Freedom From Fear And Scare

Freedom From Fear And Scare. Image courtesy of the author.

I felt I was freed from the burden of a yoke on my shoulders I had been carrying for months.

I feared facing him although he had never scared me with anything that I had imagined in my mind. This fear had grown from within me out of my guilt for what I had done to his son. It didn’t have to do anything with a scare that was ever imposed on me from outside. It was entirely different from the scare of God punishing me that I had faced then and there. This was when my parents had tried to impose it on my psyche when I was 3 years old.

It taught me we needed facing our fears in real life situations exactly like facing imposed scares within our mindset. It’s simply so because fears are generated from instincts within whereas scares are imposed from outside making home inside psyche.

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Face Your Fear

Laadi Ojas — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:08:15 GMT

LIFE LESSON STORIES SERIES

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I was hardly 3 years old. Our family lived at a small but a very popular hill station in the Himalayas. It was a beautiful town with a permanent population of 15,000 people, everyone knowing everyone else by name. But it had a large capacity to house as many as 150,000 tourists who visited it in summers every year.

So, the rest of the year its accommodations and roads kept lying vacant and empty. Also, there were no cars allowed inside the town those days. Hence the roads were very safe for kids. And I was one of those lucky kids traversing those roads alone like I owned them all.

No one had taken care to get me admitted in a nursery school yet. In fact, they used to be very rare during those days. And my parents weren’t very fond of trying those new upcoming trends in the field of education.

The old system was there to get kids admitted straight in class 1 at an age of 5 or 6. Hence, I was left to be a free soul to decide for myself how I would like to spend my time all through the day.

Roaming Routine

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I remember I would take my breakfast and leave home to roam around the town aimlessly on its hilly roads. The scenery around at every spot on those roads was breathtaking. I was of the opinion that the entire world must be looking like our town was.

I knew there were other places out of our town too since our relatives used to visit us from there. But I had never visited them in my memory. And it didn’t bother me too. I was very happy roaming fondly on curving mountainous roads enjoying the breathtaking scenery around every single morning.

My routine turned me into a chronic wanderer enjoying beauty around at every step of my regular wanderings. Everyone in town knew me well and hence my parents were least bothered about my safety during my daily excursions. I would keep roaming until I got too tired to walk further. And the best way to take a rest was to lie down for a nap wherever I felt.

By the time lunch was ready at home, someone or the other from the family was sent out to look for me and take me back home. They didn’t need to toil much for locating me as someone or the other on road would tell them where I was sleeping that day. I remember being woken up and taken back home with the information that the lunch was ready.

Life Was Going Good

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Life was going good until one day my parents took me along to their weekly religious congregation in their temple. I was also eager to visit a new place with them. As we reached there, I was instructed to bow down in front of a canopy in a big hall. And then we took our seats in the hall.

The ceremonial worships were going on and everyone was sitting with their eyes closed and heads swaying out of reverence. I could neither close my eyes nor could I sway my head. Perhaps my wanderings had corrupted me to always keep them open staring at beautiful scenery without ever swaying my head.

After a while, I started missing my excursion which I had opted against to experience this new promised heaven that day. I got immensely bored sitting over there in a passive mode all along. And when the congregation ended, I took a deep sigh of relief as we came out in the open in my familiar territory.

Fear Comes In

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Next week, my parents again asked me to accompany them to their temple. But this time I was cautious enough to plainly turn their proposal down. I said, “No.”

I think they had got a bit amazed as well as a bit offended. “Why?” My father asked in an authoritative tone.

“I didn’t like it there the last time,” I said.

“Why? What happened?”

“I got bored.”

“No, never use such words for God’s home. He will feel bad.”

“Who is He?”

“He is our master.”

“Have I met him? Has He ever visited us?”

“He doesn’t need doing that. He is omnipresent, He is present everywhere.”

I learned a new word ‘omnipresent’ meaning present everywhere. Then I applied my logic, “If He is present everywhere, why does He have a home? And why do we need going there if He is present here right now?”

“We need to visit His home to pay thanks to Him.”

“For?”

“For giving us life!”

“Did we ask him for that?”

“You are arguing.”

“No, I am asking.”

“He gives us everything without our asking. And He is not only omnipresent, but also omnipotent.”

“What’s that?”

“Strongest of us all!”

“More than you?” I wanted to clarify my doubt.

“Yes, much! And He loves us all.”

Fear Scares Me

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By then, I had made an image of His in my mind as a very strong man who had a very big house. And he loved all of us to visit His place and sing His praises. I kept quiet.

“So, you are accompanying us to the temple,” my father gave his verdict.

“But I get bored there,” I again put my point across.

“God will get angry with you,” my father tried to scare me.

“But He loves us all!”

“Only the good ones! The bad ones get punished by Him.”

I had never been punished by my parents. But I had seen other kids getting punished by theirs. I kept quiet.

“He will punish you too if you don’t go there. Do you want to be punished?”

I Face My Fear

I Face My Fear. Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash

Another image came to my mind of His preparing a list of those who don’t worship Him. He might be keeping that list intact with Him until He had punished them for not worshipping Him.

I got a bit scared. But I remember I wasn’t ready to submit to my scare. I had never been scared till that point of time in my life. I was not accustomed to it.

I didn’t like getting scared. It wasn’t a good feeling to relish. I weighed all pros and cons of His getting angry and entering my name in His list to punish me.

I immediately realized I would always have to live with that scare if I didn’t face it right then. And then I took my decision.

“Okay, let Him punish me. I am ready,” I declared.

“He has gone agnostic,” my father said to my mother and added, “Let’s go without him,” as they left.

I didn’t know what agnostic meant but when I look back today, I realize my father had analyzed me right.

I chose to face my scare and get ready to accept its consequence if it ever came true.

I am still waiting for His punishment that hasn’t yet been materialized till this point of time in my life. But it turned me into a carefree soul living my life on my own terms, not someone else’s.

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The Mind-Body Connection: 14 Core Principles to Master Your Energy

Laadi Ojas — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:57:08 GMT

SKELETAL LEAP PREQUEL SERIES

14 Core Principles to Master Your Energy. Image courtesy of the author

It’s time to move on to my book excerpts discussing a collective skeletal leap via opening sociocultural chakras on the planet from my first book of Skeletal Leap Series which I have already started with Episode 17 of my podcast.

Here we discuss where we, Homo sapiens, went wrong resulting in an evolutionary crisis as on date; and what we can do to undo the wrong done, today.

But we should take care not to ignore what all we learned in the first 16 episodes showing the the book excerpts from my Prequel of Skeletal Leap Series.

We need to master the basic foundation of Skeletal Leap which is available in my Prequel as a memoir narrating how I initiated my journey into this discipline and how I completed it for my personal self.

And since an example is any day better than a precept, you must dive deep into it to ingest its procedure and activate the same into your personal life.

In case you have any doubt left in it, you must first master the core principles I described in the Prequel through my first 16 episodes.

Before we dive into the advanced chapters of my book, The Mind Body Connection, it is essential to understand the foundation. Over the last few months, I’ve explored the 14 core principles of the Skeletal Leap—the movement to reopen the biological and sociocultural chakras that evolution has closed.

This guide serves as your ‘Start Here’ roadmap. Each part below includes a deep-dive article, my full YouTube masterclass, and the high-fidelity Spotify audio episode. Dive in to begin your realignment.

Whatever purpose you are here for, whether personal alone or species-wide, this master-list is where your journey begins!