What's in the middle

Comparisons Hello, and welcome to What’s in the Middle.  Today I want to talk about comparisons. I have never been one to be envious of others, however I have always found great inspiration in others. Growing up, my family was surrounded by the wealth of our cousins, aunties and uncles yet we were the poor family who just about managed to sustain a roof over head.  Our mother would work in her little closet sewing 10 pence dresses to keep us financially afloat. But, despite the hardship, we managed to survive.  My aunties would buy trendy clothes and expensive toys for our cousins and we were fortunately gifted their hand me downs. But the fact it was good fortune was something we had to learn, at the time it didn’t feel great. It made me feel very unsure of where we belonged.  I posed my concerns to my mother, expressing my hurt and disappointment in others, feeling as if we’d never be the chosen ones ...

Welcome to What’s in the Middle, dedicated to helping you find balance in your life, mentally. So today I want to explore an issue that a lot of us have to deal with in our lives, the issue of boredom. Now, I am not the sort of person I ever expected to find herself bored and wondering “What shall I do?”   But this is precisely a situation I found myself in lately, and this was a big deal to me. I am someone who likes to keep busy and always finds something to occupy her. Whether it’s meditation, yoga, learning guitar, exercising, or doing some housework, I like to keep busy. So, discovering I was bored was a bit of a shock to me and I decided to dig deeper into why this was.   Do I lack motivation? Am I lazy? Am I short of self-discipline? Do I hate doing the same things over and over? Is there nothing to learn anymore? Do I have fewer friends than I thought? These are all questions I asked myself to try to get to the bottom of this revelation, and I finally found t...

Meditation vs Yoga  Hello everyone, welcome to What’s in the Middle?                                                                                  If you don’t know me by now, I’m Gina, meditation, yoga teacher, personal trainer, fitness Instructor,  with a love for self-care and betterment. Yoga has always played a prominent role in my life, ever since taking it up at University to help with the stress of study, a part-time job, and my father being ill. It was overwhelming, to say the least, and I yearned for a release. My preconceptions of yoga - sweaty ho-hum in garish spandex - had put me off, and I so wish I’d discovered it sooner. After checking out a hot yoga session, my life was transformed! So deeply did that impact me that I travelled the world, to India, LA, M...

Who am I?  My name is Gina full name Sangeeta Gina Soni. Currently, I am a learner.  Curious about everything and everyone. What's in the middle is a blog for us to find the middle grounding in everything we do. In today's society, we call it "being balanced"  It's bloody tough! We will talk about fitness, meditation, yoga teachers,  teachers, Indian food actually all kinds of food duh this is about been balanced, relationships, the tech world, and looking inside of our minds and truly be honest and ask ourselves are we balanced?  Hey, by the way, I am a health expert, a former radio presenter amongst a high school educator with a master’s in computing I will give you plenty of tips in all fields and share my views so please feel free to either agree or disagree as Just because I am a health educator and jack of all trades, I will not finish the latter I want to hear as I may be more unbalanced than what I think I am.  So, I kind of know what I am talking a...