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Anxiety not only drains our energy, but make us more tiered day after day without any hope. The constant fear of anything and everything, makes us lose the interest in life. This devil never gets tired, years might pass without any improvement.. The more we fight it returns with more power. The more we hate, the more we get tortured. How to win this devil how to tame it?? It took me almost 8 years to understand, befriend and manage it. Anxiety may look like a devil, which is too powerful impossible to win over and can never be cured. The reason for it is – it’s our own mind acting against us. The more we hate it, and more we are averse to the sensations in our body the more difficult it becomes … The panic attacks, anxiety attacks, nervousness, palpitations, stomach issues, headaches , constant tiredness   etc.. Because, these feelings and struggles are different   for different people. No two people can undergo the same symptoms. Medications rarely hel...

Nature wants every being to survive, sustain and reproduce. This is the reason that the happiness and satisfaction become very important when it comes to sexual pleasure and food. We can see how animals fight for food and sex. We are no different  when it comes to how our mind is designed. That's the reason hunger and breakups hurt deep. Normal people fall in the trap of nature's design. That is, they get easily carried away by the opposite sex. Because more than you, the nature is more interested in reproduction because that is the only way to sustain living beings. But not all humans are insane, very few use their mind to know that irrespective of the sensation nothing remains constant. They understand the impermanent nature of worldly stuffs. When someone who completely controlled by his or her sensation, goes mad for sex or food.. That is a person who has not much control on his or her sensations. The moment we are controlled by our feelings that is the m...

The only way to live a life is to live in the present. But most of us fail to live and carry the burden of regret when our time comes to an end. Everyone of us are blessed with some thing to rejoice. The most important of all is to be alive. What plays a major role is the way we handle our mind ands it's thoughts. The moment we let it to wander the more we lose control of it. Our mind either wanders in the past or in the futures and keep generating the thoughts of aversion or attachment. This makes the mind more vulnerable to external things when the true happiness lies within. We become more reliable on external events, outcomes, people etc... When no external thing is in our control.The moment things go wrong we are tossed with emotions and pain. When we maintain our conscience to stay in the present, our brain fails to wander.This makes it more strong, this in turn helps one to live a quality life with out regrets. It might be tough in the beginning to concentrate the mind...

  Of all the complicated stuffs in the universe, the most complicated one is the cause and effect of our deeds and actions. Which, we keep committing day in and day out. Pic courtesy: http://www.greenstein-law.com/laws-of-life/   It’s complicated because, each cause may be connected to many effects, these effects again become causes of other effects. So, How to break this chain of causes and effects and release our self from the dhukka of life ? Nature has put in lots of efforts to keep every being immersed in sex and food. And, tied with the chains of fear and doubt. That’s how the brain works. The more we crave for the sensual please the more deep we get into the sufferings. Because we generate lots of anger when we don’t get what we want, ill-will towards others - who insult us, animosity when we fail, loss of interest when we lose some one or some thing, disgusted when we are let down, arrogance when we win, Finally we crave more for, few thin...

Everyone has got some talent, few never recognizes it and some fail to follow even after recognizing. Why is it so? I’ll explain it with a small story. This is a story about 2 friends Gopi and Karthik. Both of them graduated from a premier institute. Gopi and Karthik both were very much interested in cooking. Gopi was afraid to get into cooking thinking that he has studied so much that getting into cooking will not look great and his parents and relatives will feel bad. So he joined the BIG MNC company and went to foreign. Whereas Karthik stayed back in his country worked for 3 years to save money to start a cooking business. Due to the challenges in his startup he was not able to earn any in the span of 2 years. Everyone was comparing Karthik with Gopi (see your friend has saved 5 million, having a great life but you, even after studying from such an Institute you are just doing the cooking stuff.) Karthik felt low at times, when his parents also lost faith in him. Ev...

Most of us take life very seriously, In the process, we lose our happiness, health, people etc . . Because of our emotional strain we put in. Pic courtesy:http://www.tenfourmagazine.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/JanWOWpic1.jpg We tend to become more vulnerable either with failures or with success. We get easily carried away. Tending to be more judgmental or believing stuffs without research, taking huge uncalculated risks, not planning well monetarily will cause us more damage. We all know that nothing remains constant and everything changes with time, including our body. But we fail to understand the same concept. There is a huge gap between what we know and what we understand. Give yourself some time to understand so that you can act wisely. When you start understanding nothing remains constant for long, you tend to calm yourself better. Whatever may be your situation? My teacher says that “sun, moon and truth cannot be hidden long”. So one day truth alw...

Just take a moment and contemplate about how much time you spend about thinking about the same stuffs again and again in your day today life. pic courtesy:https://www.firmex.com/thedealroom/take-a-break-the-simple-secret-for-ma-dealmaker-success/ Most of times our thoughts are about the same set of stuffs.   That’s because the kind of life style we have. We lead a more mechanical one. Like 8 to 10 hour job 1 to 4 hour travel Or the same household stuffs Same kind of thoughts, work or problems. Right? Breaks not only refresh your mind but also give you the energy to face your life better. Try to explore new hobbies, travel to a place which you have never been, Try cooking a new dish, arrange a small candle light dinner with your loved one, Read a book which talks about your interests, Express your feelings, explore your mind, it doesn’t matter how old you are always plan dates with your loved ones.Have a pet if you are an animal lover. Never carry anger in y...

Time is the most precious asset everyone has. Some times are so tough you just want to escape, Some times are so pleasant and happy that all you need is just to experience once more, some times are   very painful that even a thought about them can make your eyes wet. pic courtesy:https://www.fastweb.com/college-scholarships/articles/college-scholarships-2019-edition But at the end of the day , nothing stays with us forever. All we can do is, utilizing every moment in the best possible way. Every one of us has the same 24 hrs per day but each one of us utilizes it in a different ways. The way we use the time decides our future. Our life is our best teacher and lesson. All we need to learn from our life is how to utilize our time in the most productive way. In general, every one of us should always invest sometime for our self. Because, self-care is very important.   When we know about our self well, we will be able to decide what is right for us and plan our li...