Emotions play an important role in how we perceive and interact with the world around us. We each experience different emotions throughout our life and we experience them in response to changing situations. Similarly, different experiences in our lives incite different emotions to differing intensity. However, there are certain moments that subject us to negative …
Consciousness : State of mindful awareness
Many of us are often confused with the concept of consciousness. Sometimes we use it as a mere mental activity and sometimes we think it means merely being awake. In our day-to-day activities, we attend to so many chores, big or small. ][But most of these are done mechanically and unconsciously. Even when it comes …
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Living beyond the judging mind
“The highest freedom of mind comes from becoming non-judgmental.”Debashish Mridha As much we try not to, we are constantly judging as human beings. Our mind is constantly involved in judging, in evaluating, in thinking. Mind’s nature is to judge so that we can differentiate between good or bad and right or wrong. By judging, we …
Letting go: The path to freedom
“The mind is easily distracted; it loses its focus and becomes restless. If it is not directed positively, it’s power will be diffused.“Chin-Ning Chu Most of us identify with our thinking mind. The stream of thinking has enormous power that can easily drag you along with it. Our thoughts always buzz around like a swarm …
Self-acceptance: The key to happiness
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.Beene Brown True happiness is in understanding self and accepting your imperfections. We all experience discontentment, frustration or anger in life for various reasons. The common reason however …