Keep calm and Look at yourself..

Keeping our minds calm in todays world can be challenging due to the fast-paced nature of our lives and the constant stimulation from technology and other external factors. However, there are several practices and strategies that can help promote mental calmness. Some of useful ways for our mental well being are as following. 

Mindfulness and meditation:

Regular practice of mindfulness and meditation can help cultivate a sense of inner peace and calm. Find a quiet place, sit comfortably, and focus your attention on your breath or a specific object. When thoughts arise, acknowledge them without judgment and gently bring your attention back to the present moment. 

Limit technology and screen time: 

Excessive use of technology, such as smartphones, computers, and social media, can contribute to mental agitation. Set boundaries by limiting your screen time, taking regular breaks from electronic devices, and engaging in activities that don't involve screens. 

Engage in physical activity: 

Physical exercise is not only beneficial for the body but also for the mind. Engaging in regular physical activity, such as walking, jogging, yoga, or any other form of exercise, can help reduce stress, promote relaxation, and improve overall well-being. 

Establish a routine: 

Creating a daily routine can provide a sense of structure and stability, which can contribute to mental calmness. Plan your day in advance, including time for work, leisure, self-care, and relaxation. Stick to a consistent sleep schedule to ensure adequate rest. 

Practice deep breathing:

Deep breathing exercises can help activate the body's relaxation response and calm the mind. Take slow, deep breaths, inhaling through your nose and exhaling through your mouth. Focus on the sensation of your breath and allow it to bring a sense of calmness to your body and mind. 

Cultivate gratitude and positive thinking:

Practicing gratitude and positive thinking can shift your focus away from stress and anxiety. Regularly reflect on the things you are grateful for and consciously choose to focus on the positive aspects of your life. This can help cultivate a more peaceful mindset.

Prioritize self-care: 

Taking care of yourself is essential for maintaining mental calmness. Engage in activities that you enjoy and that promote relaxation, such as reading, listening to music, taking baths, or practicing hobbies. Make self-care a priority and set aside dedicated time for it.

Mind should be calm to see everything as it is. Creativity of mind is possible only when it is calm and clear....

Delicate Life

Life not only of you and me but the collective life of all in nature can manifest in any form such as in the form of atomic cell at micro biotic level which we even can’t see directly, in the form of you and me and in the form of huge creatures like Dynasore…whether its plant or insects all living beings which take birth, grow and die are all manifestation of the same source called life. The very sweet taste of sugarcane when processed takes the form of sugar grains and we put it in the tea becomes taste of tea, in candy it’s the taste of candy and in cake its taste of cake which is sweet. Tea, candy and cake are only forms in which we take the taste of sweet and it is basically from sugarcane and sugarcane itself is a form of sweetness.There are numerous examples but you need to be yourself/innocent to feel it and assimilate this profound reality which is impossible to come into being in your understanding as long as you are very cunning and just work through your logic. All nature in totality is life and everything in it including you and me is its expressions. We are not apart and separated from each other but immensely related.

One day full of life…..

It’s very complicated and difficult to define what is living actually if we try to do so with our logics. We feel life very light and smooth when we are happy. In those moments of heartfelt happiness, maybe we are living in true sense.

There is an interesting story on living which goes like this “Once a person was very upset about his problems and used to say “I am not alive” and with these problems my life has become like that of dead person. Most of the time, he never felt like he is living truly. One day he died and after few seconds of death, he suddenly realized that he was alive.” At first this story didn’t get into my mind also. But after some days I just realized following….

 We are all admitted in the school at a very early age and in the school whatever we learn is all for living better life in the future and understand how to live and behave with the people in the society. We spent 10-12 years of our life in school learning these basic skills to understand the world, society and people. Then starts our professional learning in colleges to get basic skills so that we can earn our living and another 5-7 years of life is spent on learning professional skills. Now with all these knowledge and skills we are in the profession (job, business, professional field whatever)….to earn money or living. All over our professional life we work so hard to accumulate or try to accumulate A-Z means of luxury (car, house, property etc.) to make our living better. After 25 to 30 years of professional life, we retire and then we suddenly realize that “Oh all my life I just learned and prepared for better life and now I don’t have enough time to live”. Most part of our life is just spent on these preparations and learning, in the mean time we may be missing to live in true sense.

One day full of life is better than just years of preparation for better living because we keep on missing happy moments of our life.

Destiny and Accomplishment

A water drop in the ocean may be gets bored with its stagnant state or may be wishes to get high and begins to swing with the wind waves and eventually evaporates and takes its flight up above to the sky leaving behind all the comforts. It rolls with the cloud and faces the thunder bolts, travels far away exploring new direction and finally get encountered with coldness and chilliness of  altitude.As it cools down, losses its lightness and falls down on the slopes of  mountains, plain, dense forest …as rain or again as water drops. Sometimes the water drop is caught up in form of snow but it does not likes to remain hard rather melts and flows. Now it loves to rush to low land where it can mix itself with river and flow faster towards its origin. As river it crosses valleys, ranges of mountains and falls down as water fall and sometimes just get lost underground but all its moves and turnings are headed towards somewhere with such dedication and determination that even dams of rock can’t stop it long.Finally the water drop reaches the ocean. Destiny Accomplished.

A small hard stuff like seed of the plant no longer wishes to remain in the shield of its protective layer. It burst out of its secure zone and turn itself into tiny delicate seedlings and peeps out its head from underground darkness. There are thousand and one risks as the tiny and delicate seedlings has to face adverse weather,other many chances of being uprooted and being plugged out but still it opens up itself to get expressed to its total potential. With the passing time tiny hard seed expresses itself into a small plant with few leafs and its stem still fable. It faces chill of winter, heavy rain fall and horrifying storms but keeps on the struggle. Slowly its fable stems gets stronger and green leafs get dense and the seed turns into fully grown, tall and strong plant. With the coming of spring, buds in the plant begins to sprout and it doesn’t stops there finally it widely opens up and blossoms into colorful flowers spreading its sweetness, fragrant and scent all around. Now one small,hard and grounded seed completely expresses self into its full potential turning into free fragrant and replicates into hundreds of similar seeds. Destiny Accomplished.

What about us as human being and finest creation of the nature? 

Peace and Satisfaction is only then and there when we know our true self and express our self up to our full potential.

Do you know who you are?

Do you know who you are .. apparently you may say I am  this  and pronounce "your name" with ( further added you have) surname and cast also because you belongs to certain ethnic group. You were given certain name after some days of your birth to make other easier to identify you as there are thousands of others also similar to your gender. Since the beginning of your education you were taught to identify yourself with the full name given to you.Then starts your relationship identifications.You are son/daughter of someone.You are brother/sister of someone.When your social link grows,you are friend of someone and other many relationship identifications keeps goes on.You are someone's beloved when in affair and husband/wife after getting married.Then father/mother of someone.You are in the profession and so you get other identifications...your locality,nationality,religion,political views group ...so on and on the list of your identifications keeps growing....With some identification sometimes you become very proud because you believe these identifications are you and you are these identifications.For some minutes remove all these tags from you and then think............may be there appear blank you with strange answer.Its really mind blowing experience....