A PLACE CALLED HOME AN INVITATION TO FALL IN LOVE WITH YOURSELF AND EARTH

NITHYA CHELLAM

INDI A

SINGAPORE

M A L AY S I A

Notion Press Old No. 38, New No. 6 McNichols Road, Chetpet Chennai - 600 031 First Published by Notion Press 2019 Copyright © Nithya Chellam 2019 All Rights Reserved. ISBN 978-1-64650-744-3 This book has been published with all efforts taken to make the material error-free after the consent of the author. However, the author and the publisher do not assume and hereby disclaim any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. While every effort has been made to avoid any mistake or omission, this publication is being sold on the condition and understanding that neither the author nor the publishers or printers would be liable in any manner to any person by reason of any mistake or omission in this publication or for any action taken or omitted to be taken or advice rendered or accepted on the basis of this work. For any defect in printing or binding the publishers will be liable only to replace the defective copy by another copy of this work then available.

Dedicated to Mother Nature.

Infinite gratitude to Nivedita Awasthi, Cynthia Turrentine, Aatmn Parmar, Gary Douglas, Dr. Dain Heer, Bhagyalakshmi Murali and everyone else who contributed to my journey.

An invitation to fall in love with yourself and fall in love with Earth.

Contents Foreword 

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Preface 

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  1. Growing Up 

15

  2. Being Childlike 

23

  3. Existence 

29

  4. Family 

40

  5. Friends 

45

  6. Judgement 

52

  7. Where is Home? 

57

  8. Who is Home? 

60

  9. Emotions and Your Body 

63

10. Your Physical Home 

66

11. The Joy of Living 

69

12. The Earth 

73

13. Our True Nature 

76

14. Creation and Co-creation 

79

15. The Space That You Are 

84

Epilogue 

87

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Foreword No matter how close the friendship, it’s still a surprise to be asked to write the foreword for a book that is so close to someone’s heart. I am both humbled and honoured to be a  part of A Place Called Home. Every being on the planet has a unique way of looking at life. There may be a whole lot more perspectives on life than there are people on Earth. Each one could be as fascinating to the one who shares it, as much as it is to the one with whom it is shared. Nithya is a multifaceted personality and her bio is really long because of the many amazing gifts, talents and abilities she has been blessed with. Her innate desire to create more and more allows her to explore many different paths in her own inimitable way. This book is one such exploration. You, the reader, will feel as if the content of the book resonates with you in many ways. It may even inspire you to write your own perspective of this incredible blessing called life. All good wishes to the author, the reader and the book. May it be the gift that allows everyone on the planet to know how unique and special they really are!

– Bhagyalakshmi Murali

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Preface Have you always felt different and weird? Like an outsider not belonging to any place? Not being able to find someone who understands you? What have you done to try to fit in with the others?

Have you wondered why you were born? Why there is a lot of pain and suffering in life? If life is just too good to be true?

Have you wondered why there is so much war? Why the world is full of judgement? Or why you feel wrong about most things all the time?

Have you felt lost at times? Have you wondered about where you belong?

Have you felt like running away from life? Have you felt like running away from people? Have you felt betrayed by the ones you trusted or those you truly helped?

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Are you at a place where people, whether it be family or friends, no matter how kind they are to you or you are to them, something still does not feel right? That something is missing? If you have come across any of these questions in your life, in this book I attempt to give perspective on these and also help you ask yourself a different set of questions that will open up something greater for you, if you are willing to take that journey. So come with me to start experiencing what you can be and do. None of the above questions are actual questions. They are conclusions we may have made seeing what life has given us. To live a truly empowered life, we must start questioning everything. Lots of gratitude to Gary Douglas, founder of Access Consciousness from where I learnt to use questions to create an empowered life. What if there is really a place for you to belong and be yourself? It does exist. And what if the way you were trying to find it could be changed so that you can figure this out? What if life on Earth is truly beautiful, and what if you could really experience that? For that, first, you have to realise the greatness and gift that you truly are. You were not born without reason or created without any purpose. What if there is a dream within you that is waiting to be unleashed? And what if it isn’t actually a dream, but the person you are? 12

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This book has a lot of questions which are not conclusions and asking these questions consistently with fun and joy can start changing your life. Your thoughts are what create your life. Your thoughts are powerful. So, if you can use them to help yourself by asking questions instead of concluding, you open your self to greater possibilities.

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Growing Up After you were born as a baby and were growing up as a child, did you look forward to each day as the sun would rise? Was it really sleep or rest you were looking for back then that you now seek as an adult? Or was it the joy of living and playing and learning that you woke up to with every day? It would have been the joy of living. Babies learn very fast and they don’t learn with just words: they learn by observing everything around them. They understand things beyond words. You do not have to tell them that you are sad, but they can perceive the sadness, bitterness, happiness, etc. Basically, they can sense the energy of the adults around them. There is a time in life where the fun and joy of being a child starts changing. And from the space of joy where you look forward to the sunrise every day and what life has to offer to you, you find yourself moving into a space of wrongness and judgement. This usually would start by you being constantly told not to do something or what you had done was wrong. Also, you would pick up on many others being sad and what many others conclude about their lives. By the time the child becomes seven or eight years old, they would have lost a lot of this joy and are more in a routine of going to school and feeling wrong and trying to do the right things. In this battle of trying to do the right thing and pleasing your parents, you start losing out on who you truly are. Then, your thoughts start solidifying more, and from the open-minded joy, it starts drawing conclusions. 15

Some of us have a longing to belong somewhere, we feel that we do not fit in anywhere and with anyone. Some of us would like to live and be in place of joy, peace, and happiness. This book is intended to expand your space and knowing about life. May you find “A place called home for you” that nurtures you to become who you truly are. “Home is not just a place, it is the space you can be. Be that space for yourself and everyone around. Whoever seeks your shelter, let them in. Whoever chooses to leave, let them be. Whoever leaves and reconnects, welcome them back, You can choose this, irrespective of what anyone else chooses.”

Nithya Chellam is the founder of Chellam Healing Center that focuses on working with minds to shift realities. She works on counselling and life coaching apart from being an IT professional and a mother. She is a Reiki grand master, Redikall Facilitator, Hypnotherapist, Access Consciousness Facilitator, Tarot reader and Shamanic facilitator. She has empowered people shift lives towards awareness, different perspectives and a better journey of life. Price 175