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Life gives us novel lessons- in life. Each one of us learns one thing or the other from life. However, as You would agree, on most of these lessons, there are differences and arguments among people who experience life everyday- people like You and me. Opinions, conclusions, interpretations galore, what is right and what is wrong. On one such lesson arguments give way to a consensus: ‘One must be able …
You and Happiness. And in-between the two there is ‘Thought’. Yes, ‘thought’, the imaginative snapshot that crosses your eye every moment. Thought sets the tone inside. Each Thought as it crosses leads to an environment setting inside of us. This environment (internal) is precisely the feel-good or feel-bad of our life. Why it stands in-between You and Happiness? Thought has a tendency to run, run and run itself. It runs …
We know what misery is. We know misery precisely because each one of us has felt it somewhere inside her own life. Some days, some months, some years spent in misery. Misery: the degree & recurrence The degree, of course, varies. At the lower end constituting very faint feeling- so much so that some of us would happily refuse to acknowledge its existence. And rightfully so. At its peak, it …
Dance is a hobby, a profession, sometimes an exercise too. Looks like one has covered all perspectives there are to dancing. Perhaps a couple more and we may have a set of utilities that more or less defines the act of dancing and its uses in normal human life. And that’s how we lose the greatest of all happiness-tuners that dancing is. We just missed the essence of dancing. We …
See a child smile. Then, watch her smile turn into laughter. And then make yourself doubly sure that it is the smile that enlivened the atmosphere, including You. And then You got to learn from this. Why does a smile come so naturally and so effortlessly to a child? Is it not because a child’s world is so much simpler? Simpler not just in terms of amount of knowledge of …
Anticipation of the future takes up a lot of our time. We anticipate good and bad events, good and bad fortune, good and bad life-situations. In its healthier avatar, this process of anticipation is demanded by life herself. We need to predict life-pathways and strategize. So we anticipate. But don’t we overdo it often. So much that people end up spending a lifetime in some kind of anticipation. They know …
Life as is gifted to You is all Energy. Energy- its reservoir, its interaction, its sink- all operating through You. It appears as if we are handed over a quantum of Energy for a lifetime. To do whatever we want to with our quantum. ‘You are your Energy. Our Energy is our possibility.’ It makes full sense to invest your entire Energy quantum towards growth. Most of us indeed attempt …
Anxiety remains the single largest contributor to lower performance. Anxiety- like a hidden spy- gets onto your nerves during the most critical events of your life. Ain’t it? Anxiety often strikes one during those ‘high-return’ events in life that can change a lot of things for the better. As if anxiety sniffs where it is destructive the most- at events where your performance needs to be the best. Anxiety strikes …
You often experience the best learning incidentally. Often while looking around to find ‘Similarities’ You discover ‘Laws’. Finding Similarities is great fun and finding Laws, great value. And where is more value than in learning the laws of life- incidentally. So are laws of life floating around You? Waiting to be discovered by You? For, if You discover the Law, You possess the best knowledge on action (what to do), …
Celebration is important for You. Celebration not just limited to the conventional meaning of the term. The art of celebration lies in celebrating your life. It simply means celebrating your life each day, as much as possible– with your everyday chores included. Celebrating a small noble deed by You. Celebrating all that You have. And celebrating all that You give. It is not impractical at all. Celebration becomes a natural …
