“Neurons that fire together, wire together” – whatever you think many times becomes a pattern for brain. Becomes your habit. Like worrying or being negative. At times just relax, breathe and watch the thoughts passing in your mind. Your very mindfulness of thoughts will distil the thoughts and give you calmness, quiet tranquility. It will recharge your battery from inside. You …
The Universal Conspiracy: What We Resist, Persists!!
What a universal conspiracy!? Whatever we wish to avoid seems to bump into us again and again. As such it is not a conspiracy but the simple consequence of a universal law in operation: The Law of Resistance. Whatever we resist, persists. If we review our life in a flashback we will have many memories that prove the truth of …
Getting Your Mind Out of Its Rut
“The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence, but by oft falling.” Lucretius Each drop of water may look very small but over period of time it could create an ocean. So also our attitudinal deficiencies may look trivial, but once it becomes a tendency, a habitual rut, then it creates unpleasant worries and tensions. …
Do You Live Your Life through Another’s Eyes?
Most people spend their lives impressing others, or even go into depression because of others. Are we here to live our life through the eyes of others? This is a kind of slavery. Meditation gives our birthright back, to live consciously and conscientiously. It helps us see our self with unbiased clarity so that we realize that true happiness comes …
Mindfulness: The Transforming Power of Your Life
Take one day at a time and live it totally. The challenge is to live consciously, for your subconscious programming drives you. Watch how your mind drifts and moves into an old rut that creates tensions and worries. How you feel irritated by the negative attitude of those who are close to you. If you are alive and awake you …
How to Be Simply Happy!
We all want to be happy. We all want to be peaceful. The question is how to be happy and how to be peaceful? The answer is ‘it is so simple to be happy but it is so difficult to be simple’. The small little things of our daily life are more important than the major events. For their accumulation …
Hurt Feelings Don’t Leave Until We Leave Them
One of the major obstacles in life is not related to the external situations; it is the unconscious mind’s natural tendency to cling to the PAST. The past is dead and gone, but it is breathed life by resurrecting it, by bringing back the memories. By chewing on it. As long as the memories are sweet, it is good, but …
Mindfulness Meditation Creates Emotional Resilience
I have always seen that one’s pain always comes from the ones you love the most. Why it is so? Simply because it is not the other person who causes you pain. It is your deep attachment which is the cause of the pain. If the person to whom you are not attached to causes you pain, you can overcome …
Mindfulness – The Key to Love and Peace
We have always been dependent, dependent on something or the other to be happy in life. This has led us all to be obsessive, compulsive and clinging to externals. But like our ego-driven mind and its thoughts, the externals are in a flux of change. Like a river, we can’t step into the same river again! So, we cling to …
STRESS IS INEVITABLE BUT NOT INSURMOUNTABLE
How can you avoid stress in life? Just impossible! Even if you want to, no body would give you the chance to be truly peaceful. It is like a virus most active in the air, both within and without. I have heard even Lata Mangeshkar, after attaining the status of living legend in India who has Guinness record of highest …