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Lord Buddha sought Nirvana under a Banyan tree. He found enlightenment and could free his life of the miseries that life presents us with. But as he had said, "Craving is root cause of all miseries", it seems it holds good even today. If you can free your soul of Cravings, you can surely find the true happiness within. Happiness is not just presence of people, luxuries or other beautiful things around us. It is a feeling of being truly content at heart, soul and mind. If one can feel satisfaction in his life and end his craving for materialistic things, he can truly walk on path of happiness. This is probably not humanely possible, more so because in today's world money and power reign supreme. They are the top two things that everyone is running after. Ultimately both are supposed to give happiness - Happiness of being rich, richer and richest or Happiness of being powerful, more powerful and most powerful! But in most cases than not, they return misery.Do you think the richest and most powerful man/ woman on this earth would be the happiest too? "No". The answer is "No". One Craving leads to another and creates a long chain that just keeps extending along with our life. Though doing what Lord Buddha did is not possible today (leaving his kingdom and family to attain Enlightenment), the least we can try and do is to feel satisfied with what we have, to stop comparing our happiness on the basis of what others possess. This does not mean that we put an end to our ambitions, but means that we do not run a rat race. Just as happiness is quite a relative feeling, feeling content, satisfied is also relative. To feel this peace within you, seek what gives you satisfaction and contentment. If it can make you feel at peace with yourself and your life, then probably you have attained your own small but significant "Nirvana" or Enlightenment - – a secret to Happiness!
Recessional Woes? Slowdown Fears? Well, these are the most familiar terms that entire world knows today. This recession has not only brought the world to a slower pace, but also brought immense disturbance in some people's lives. Losing jobs, money or real estate have been some few consequences. But as we say, there is always a scope for hope. Once in while we do need to learn our lessons, sometimes the whole world learns it together! And in this entire learning, some of us forget our basic need to be happy. Probably the damage done cannot be reversed or fixed immediately and quickly. But we can always hope for this slowdown to subside and wish for happier days to return again. While happiness cannot be enforced, it surely can be found in the smallest of the things around us. Your family, children, relatives and the beautiful world around is is enough to find it. If we can keep our happiness intact through these trying times, we can look back at our life with pride and renewed strength. After all, in good times too we aim to be happy with all the resources (money, spending etc). Then why not maintain it while we face the tougher days? After all it does not cost you anything!One who can stride through these days with happiness would emerge stronger. And after all, isn't survival all about endurance to environment? Probably after a year or so, you will be happy to say, " I'm a survivor because I could keep my happiness intact".Times change and so should you. But why forget something that we all strive for? "Happiness"Let this slowdown be an era of Survival of Happiest and there by the Fittest!Keep Happy!
These days it is quite common to go for various kinds of rejuvenating therapies, like Spa, Massages, Body Detox, Face Detox, Mind Detox etc. Wish there was a Life Detox kind of therapy too? Wishful thinking!
When our mind is tired with worries and thoughts, we seek peace and happiness. In trying times we tend to blame our Life for everything. But do we ever care to know how our Life is faring? If our Life is shaping up in the wrong direction, it is only we, as an individual work towards re-shaping it in the right direction.
Everyone faces obstacles of a kind or another in their Life. But few of us find an opportunity in them. Rather we create a problem out of every small obstacle we are faced with and unnecessarily increase our worries. If we keep messing our Life with one ‘problem’ or the other, how can our Life be faring well? We cannot expect our Life to be happy unless we spread happiness around us. And this does not mean smiling or laughing all the time, but it means that you find an opportunity in obstacles that you come across, you keep your Life simple and uncluttered, feel blessed to have yet another day in your Life, feel content about all that you have and not crib for what you don’t, spread joy and peace amongst people around you, feel good about the beautiful world around you and much more…
Happiness is the easiest emotion. It is one emotion that we can definitely create and spread around. A happy person spreads much more joy, peace and happiness around him. All of us feel good with presence of some people in our Life. It is because they bring about happiness in our Life and hence we seek their company more often. So why not become one of them? Why not spread cheer of Life amongst those close to you?
Life is short, uncertain and quite unpredictable. If we can make most of today, feel blessed and joyous about our Life, hope to make it better in future and spread happiness around us, we can be sure about having a good Life, a happy Life. This is the least required for detoxifying your Life and sure it comes free!
So turn around obstacles into opportunities, feel good about what you have, spread a smile and give goodness to your Life.
There are some small but adorable acts that have continued through ages, like wishing for something when you see a falling star or may be throwing a coin into the wishing pond and many more. Many of us dismiss them as just another myth, without realising that someone really benefited from that act. These and many more acts of wishing from your heart are nothing but a way of asking the 'Supreme Power' for something that one truly wants. We either believe in God or some 'Power' that guides our life and the well known forces of nature and universe. When we pray, we really put forth our belief, our wish for something that we really want, in hope that it will be heard and answered. What we may not realise is that at that moment we are also having a positive attitude towards this wish that 'it be answered'. When a person is positive about his desires and wishes, he really gets them one fine day. This is not just a reckless statement, it is something we all experience many a times in our life. Sometimes we really hope for some miracle, like, 'I really wish I get selected in this contest' or 'I really pray that I pass through these exams' etc and many more. And the wish turns out to be true. Is it not?
Similarly, being positive from within about your life, people, your health keeps you hopeful. By being positive, we induce our body to be in a positive frame, thereby ensuring a healthy body. Ever tried telling yourself that you will be fine, when faced with some illness? There have been examples of people getting cured of most serious illnesses, just by keeping a positive attitude that they will be fit and fine soon. A positive attitude not only helps you achieve what you really wish for, but also helps our mind stay in a good frame without bothering to get mired in negative thoughts and their side effects, thereby ensuring good health. Your positivity also affects people around you, by transmitting positive energy. So now we may be able to solve the jigsaw puzzle of how things like Reiki, Yoga work on people. Its just a matter of thinking good thoughts, thinking positive and being positive about any situation. And you would surely find things turning around in your favor.
Go ahead, be positive!
The whole world is bound to something or the other - rituals, traditions, religion, desires, greed, wants and everything else. Don't you feel sometimes that life is better off being a simple virtue? Having a belief in something (like religion, tradition, ritual) is one thing, and tying your life with complexities of it is another. If one's belief begins to suffocate us, or bind us in an unwanted condition, then its time to reconsider whether a belief remains a personal choice or is becoming a social obligation. Life is not as complicated as we have made it through our own choices, beliefs and considerations. Most of the times people exert their self and their ego / importance through such obligations, while at other times they have been made to control life patterns of others. Just as religion is something too sacred and a very personal way of life. Its how a person connects with the Supreme power or tries to find a meaning of his life. Yet, undesirable exertions and over the top acts make it a burden for quite a many people. Life is a very beautiful expression, which needs a lot of love and strength to grow. But obligations in the name of virtues like tradition, culture, values and religion can stunt its growth towards a beautiful journey. Lets share but not impose our personal beliefs and practises on others in a way that it becomes a burden. Lets be thankful for a life that has little wants and gives you more than you can ever think. Lets keep it simple, just like a flower that blooms, spreads its fragrance and colour and makes world a colourful place!Live it, completely and let others too...
We all have tried to search for that one power, that one solace, that one destiny of our life that would change our life. After running around the world for mortal pleasures and desires, one day we all search for that enlightening peace, that solitude, that calm which will change our life, and take us on path of freedom. Freedom from this worldly occupation, worldly desires and wants. Or may be even that power which we always wanted to exert and yet have been waiting for some miracle to happen. But few of us realize that our search begins and ends at us. Its only we, our self who can climb the Everest or dive the oceans. Its our inner power, our inner strength, a strong will power and a positive attitude that can move mountains and split oceans. But hardly few of us realize it. One doesn't need to search for solace in any other spiritual person, for he himself has already found his solace, and even by his guidance we may not find it, unless we search inside us. If anyone on this earth can make you happy, peaceful, satisfied, content...its You. Realize the power of your own will power, your own strengths, your own mind and soul, and you will realize that its right within you. Life is truly a miraculous incident. But most of us can't figure out where we are and where we can be. God made us, but he also Incorporated his powers within each of us, but left it to us to find and decide how and where we want to utilise it. Its never late to do anything in life, and may be never early either! Today make yourself confident, strong, positive and happy - and you'll surely realize the power within!
Sometimes its difficult to believe how our strongest anchors in life detach fastest away from us and leave us in the lurch. And it mostly happens when our faith in them is growing stronger. May be that's the way its planned to be, so that we grow stronger through these hardships. The best explanation is that people come in your life for a Reason, Season or Forever.... Those who are there for a reason or a season have been God sent to protect us, care for us, teach us, nurture us... And then when we are on verge of attaching ourselves to them, God takes them farther away...so that we learn to swim the tide on our own.This again is not such a bad situation, as it may seem. Because its through these lessons we learn that its our Own self that has to be strong willed, strong hearted, strong headed. Of course the love, care, affection and attachment of our loved ones is always there... yet its You who'll tread the path of life alone. So take it in your stride, learn, walk ahead and feel the completeness of life. Everything in life is for a reason. Its good. For nothing will leave you without a lesson. And life is all the more beautiful when we've learnt our lessons well.... Life is and will always be beautiful... Always live it to your fullest!
