MINDFULNESS IN LOVE: 4 CORE ELEMENTS THAT LIGHT YOUR PATH
Love makes the world go round, doesn’t it? In the humdrum of my daily life, tiny scattered moments of love usually turn out to be the best part of my day. Today, it was when my father fixed my car without telling me. Yesterday it was when my little one ran up to me to […]
Mindfulness for the Millennial Mindset: Gen Z’s Spin on the Trend
On a recent holiday at Ekaanta in Haridwar, I found a young lady meditating inside the Serenity Hall one early morning, even before breakfast. We got talking and I asked her why she chose meditation to start her day instead of sleeping in late, and she said, “You know, I used to think meditation and […]
7 kinds of Rest to Master The Art of Disconnecting
“It’s not working. I’ve been trying for such a long time!”, she said, feeling frustrated and overwhelmed. “Have you tried unplugging it? Just take it off its power source, wait for 60 seconds, and switch it back on. See if that works”, he said. And voila, it did! We’ve all done this at some point […]
Mindfulness For the Festive Season
bandhur atmatmanas tasya , yenatmaivatmana jitahanatmanas tu satrutve , vartetatmaiva satru-vat “For him, who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so; his very mind will be the greatest enemy.” – The Bhagavad Gita.In these ancient words of wisdom, one can still hear […]
Mindfulness For The Young Minds
When I was around fifteen years old, I attended a session on mindfulness by the spiritual leader, Nithya Shanti, held specifically for children. He spoke mainly about how our emotions and feelings manifest in our surroundings. To illustrate this, he showed us two identical bowls of cooked rice, which he allowed to ferment over time. […]
How To Be Mindful When Anger Rules Your Emotions
If we threw a rapid fire question at you and asked you to quickly name 5 emotions, we are willing to bet that ‘Anger’ would feature as one of them. That is because anger, along with happiness is one the most frequently felt emotions in every living day. And we feel it intensely. For example, […]
DEBUNKING 5 COMMON MYTHS ABOUT MINDFULNESS:
For those who have never practised mindfulness, it can seem a little abstract. And when people don’t understand something completely, they make assumptions. Over time, these assumptions turn into myths and misconceptions. Mindfulness too has its own share of mistaken beliefs, which surprisingly are more common than one would imagine. To help you navigate your […]
GIVING MINDFULNESS A SEAT IN THE BOARDROOM
“The feeling that any task is a nuisance will soon disappear if it is done in mindfulness.” Thich Nhat Hanh For years the corporate world has been described as “cut-throat”, “ruthless”, or “highly stressful”. To a lot of professionals, it carries a negative image as the pressures and demands of a successful professional life become […]
Happiness Everyday: Why it is not as difficult as it seems
Most people have come to dread the word ‘happiness’ in a world where our new default mode is ‘restrained state of anxiety’. Regular everyday life, and the ‘normal’ ways of social bonding, vacations etc. that we used to associate with ‘pleasure’, ‘leisure’ or even ‘happiness’ are more an aberration than a norm. How then, can […]
The Pandemic of Grief: How Mindfulness Can Help In Healing
Many of us experienced grief in some form or the other when the pandemic unleashed its full fury. Some of us felt it more acutely than the rest- whether it was the loss of a loved one, personal hardships or financial setbacks. What followed was a different kind of pandemic, less visible but possibly as […]
