MAGICAL MINDFUL LIVING: FINDING JOY IN THE EVERYDAY

Example of a simple life. Let's analyze the character Leon. I watched this movie when I was almost a teenager. About Leon the Professional American Hitman and the little girl Matilda, a girl whose family was murdered by DEA. However, Leon reluctantly takes this 12-year-old girl under his wing, initially just to save her, but later he works as her "Hitman" to take out the DEA agents who took the lives of her family, including her brothers and sisters. It seems a tragic the way

Mastery is the way? Mastery is the way to achieve higher standard in anything you do, in performing anything. Mastery does apply to anything, from laying bricks to building rockets. However, such achievement of mastery would eat up significant amount of time and resources of a person. The opportunity cost of this can come up resurfaced in the Middle Ages of a person as depression or existential nihilism (personal experience). 10000 hours spent on mastery can either, make you

What is thinking in decades? This is not at all new. In eastern philosophy there is a method which you divide a 100-year human life into decades. First -> childhood. second -> play hood, third -> Beauty, youth, fourth -> power etc etc. However, I recently came across similar concept, where why we should think in decades. If you have read my previous article about next hour, I emphasize that why we should think about next hour and next hour only. But as you can see thinking ab

Background - self help I have been busy studying self help and positive thinking all my teenage years. And I made good use of them to excell in my career. However, as you already know, I missed the whole point. By limiting myself to one subject and one path, and commiting to that I made a mistake. Opportunity cost of not making correct choices in life are huge. And the sad part of it is I have no idea of this alternate route. But, indirectly that made me a wise person. Here I

Value of truth From early life in my life, I was told not to lie. By teachers, by parents by tutors' mentors and numerous adults. And with great respect I believed them. And I try to adhere to the protocol of the society, as far as I can and knew I was doing a wrong thing when and if I told a lie to my six-year-old friend at school. Then you may question me why I asked you to lie. Not to others not for any gain. And strangely why you should lie to yourself? I can explain, wit

In top of a hill there lived an old monk. He had an old tea cup, which he used to make a cup of tea in every morning. It was such an antique old porcelain tea cup with decorations. One day a young monk who was travelling to the town, visited the monastery. He stayed overnight and rested. And following morning he was served with a cup of tea. While he was enjoying a cup of tea, he asked the old monk. A broken Tea cup That tea cup looks really old and really valuable. I wonder

Rest is very important in everyday life. If you ask me who is at a total rest, I will say anyone who is aware of their current status of mind are more likely to be in total rest. There are a lot of confusion to what is a real rest. As often we feel overwhelmed by our emotions and thoughts. Even relaxing activities might add on to the stress. As an example, how many times you have felt that the hobby you have taken disturb your peace instead of generating it? Defining a total

Disclaimer : This article does not cover treatment of clinical anxiety disorder. What is anxiety? There are many different definitions for anxiety. For Me it is a reaction, from the body and mind, when I am faced with a difficult, unexpected situation. It feels like the classic, flight or fight or freeze reaction. The physical part would be apparent with feeling of increased heart rate, sweating, and strength or weakness. Mental counterpart is mainly a worry, hyper awareness

What is Candlelight theory? I was lighting up some lanterns few weeks back, in our front yard. It was a serene full moon night. With a cloudless sky and dark silent atmosphere. There were minimal winds, perfect for some lanterns with burning candles. I lit up one candle and fixed it on the floor beside me and used it to light up all the other candles, around 40 in total. One by one they started to bring more and more light to the initially dark front yard of ours. Everyone lo

I was reading a book called cosmology of the curious. Which discusses some fascinating facts about our own existence in a larger lens. Literally hundreds of mega scale telescopes looking at the sky day and night listening to the cosmos, has brought us some inevitable conclusions about our own universe. If you feel like you do not have energy to get up from your couch and move some of the stuff in your room or from your bed for it to look better, I will say think again. As, I

This is just a list of ways to escape reality. You can choose or not choose whatever your preference may be. And please do not take these as any medical advice for your current problems. On drugs and Booze. This could be the bad way of escaping the reality. You and me can agree that reality can sometimes be too painful, too boring or too irritable. That we need to find a way to stop thoughts. Some, people even get depressed as they find no solution to their problems in curren

Why you should be a listener? The world is filled with chaotic noise. Most of the modern problems of Homo Sapiens are due to the fact, they are confused with this messy overflow of information. However, most minds, unless diseased is capable of figuring out the path, navigating through the chaos, when a clam and natural space is provided. I am sure throughout the working day, at least you once feel, overwhelmed and need of someone to talk about it. So, is everyone else. We al

Why magical to mindful living? I am not sure some may have wondered why there is "magical" to the mindful living. Mindful living is supposed to be about truth, reality and everything which is not abstract. But whenever I take this minful approach to life more and more I am convinced of the magical part of it. Life is a continous flow of abstract ideas, which have no name, but named after our ancestors. Do not believe me? I have just found the 100th example on the list ( rest

"A washing machine has never made any women Happy." Have you ever wondered why you hate sunday afternoons, where you always have to come back home for monday? Maybe you live alone, or you take care of the house. Then one essential origin of this uneasiness comes from the pile of dirty laundary overflowing baskets. Generally on sundays. And you would dream to see the bottom of it -Sky2035 , as it seem it never ends. And it reminds me of Francosie Sagan, the french screenplaywr

Surface tension - Essay There are many things, which happen in the universe, other than you. Yes, you! the selfish egoic humble proud subjective isolated consciousness which is reading this now (you are allowed to add or subtract adjectives as much as necessary, but what matters is the core, the bare consciousness stripped out of adjectives). How about surface tension?

I was reading the book by above name written by Rosmery Friedman. More likely assembled by him as all the quotes were produced by who came before him. Many writers in the world have contributed to the book. If you do not know, being a writer is hard at times, when nothing seems to come into the blank mind occasionally. Some call this a writer's Block. Some do believe in such phenomena, and some do not, as for the ones who do not believe in this, writer's block, I assume they

Waggle dance - the story of randomness It's not only humans know how to dance and convey a message. Honeybees also do this, not for burning calories after full stomach, but to inform other bees of potential direction of flowers. If one bee finds out there are flowers in a part of the forest, after returning they would do a waggle dance in front of other worker bees to show exact location of the honey patch. Most of the bees would follow this advice but 20% of the bees ignore

Someone told the life is about balance. If you compare the life to a balancing act in a circus there is some similarity. It seems easy when we are just spectators. Even laugh when someone try to balance a ball on a stick on tip of their nose. Even harder is to eat an apple while balancing the stick and the ball. But there is a problem. The difficulty doesn't come from not only the act of balancing but also from the fact there are multiple elements in life to be balanced. And

"Boredom is the Means and ways to Novelty and Creativity." What are the unusual places you get bored? I often Get bored, in usual and unusual places. Sometimes, I do not want to wake up from the bed. Going to work every weekday can be overwhelmingly boring, if you just have to put caps, on bottles, Or have to wait for a customer to arrive for you to sell something. But if you ask me, I will say I might get bored in a crowded party. When others drink wine and talk about variou

The simple answer is anything that interests you. Trust me there is no bad kind of reading. Just like exercise, there is no bad exercise right? As long as you're doing it any exercise is good. Similarly reading is a good habit. There should be no need to put barriers to what you should be reading. Read My reading habit. I started reading as a very small kid. First thing I can remember was a big book with Russian fairy tales. Now as an adult I can see that wasn't a big book at