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Posts published by “Vidya Sury”

Hi! I’m Vidya Sury. I am a writer, editor, and the voice behind Collecting Smiles. Here, I share practical mindfulness guides, personal essays, and book reviews designed to bring calm and joy to your everyday life. Brand collaborations and creative partnerships are always welcome—let's connect!

Cold Reading

Cold reading is a technique often used by mentalists,fortune tellers, psychics, and mediums to determinedetails about another person in order to convincethem that the reader knows much more about asubject than he or she actually does. Even withoutprior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold readercan still quickly obtain a great…

Cold Reading

Cold reading is a technique often used by mentalists,fortune tellers, psychics, and mediums to determinedetails about another person in order to convincethem that the reader knows much more about asubject than he or she actually does. Even withoutprior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold readercan still quickly obtain a great…

Revisiting an old post

Sisters, I am becoming an old bat – but this ball has been rolling around a bit and will continue to do so for a while I guess. I am referring to an earlier post because it is relevant to this post.https://vidyasury.com/2008/03/that-sticky-issue.htmlWe are back to that icky sticky issue. Well, this…