Living
We are all in a long journey of lifetimes. While we may be mostly involved at work there is a larger propose of life that unfolds only through greater awareness and contemplation on the “process” of life. Our world has largely been “doing” oriented with our center of energy almost totally moving to “head space”. This leaves most of us almost completely disconnected to our other vital energy centers.
In this section I will attempt to make readers aware of their other energy centres and possible tools for awakening & integrating them that can lead to discovering the larger purpose a life. This can make our journey to this planet many times more joyous and meaningful.
Spirituality: East vs. West, can the twain meet?
“Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet”, said the Nobel Laurette Rudyard Kipling. Today, we will examine this chasm from the angle of spirituality.
Eastern cultures have typically...
5 Nutritional Supplements to Help Your Body Cope with Resistance Training
Those who train with weights have different nutritional needs from those that do not. This even applies to those who do exercises that are not resistance-based, such as cardio, swimming, spinning, etc.
Here are 5...
Why Modern Medicine Fails, and How Holistic Science has Answers
In our last blog, we discussed the concept of perfect health. We talked about the fact that medical science looks at the body in a very rigid way; as a fixed structure that is...
How to Achieve “Perfect Health”?
The concept of health has been evolving over the last few decades. What was initially thought to be simply the absence of disease, is now perceived as an integrated universe in which our minds,...
What Does It Mean to be Healthy? A New Frontier in Understanding
As the age of enlightenment progresses, new scientific dimensions are uncovered every day. Sometimes they cause a diametrical shift in thinking. One such area is health, and what it really means to be healthy....
5 Health Supplements for The Average Gym-goer
Different genders, body types, genetics, and activity levels have different nutritional needs. But general guidelines based on scientific understanding and averages can easily benefit anyone that chooses to follow them.
Fish Oil
Not to be...
Diet – The Fine Line Between Fad and Fab
Diet prescriptions and trends are something almost everyone thinks about. Often to reduce weight, people flock to this or that diet in search of answers to their weight problems.
The answer is both more simple...
Sushi is one of the most beloved foods of many people around the world...
Sushi is one of the most beloved foods of many people around the world today. A Japanese dish made primarily with ingredients like rice, seaweed, and raw seafood, sushi has become a worldwide phenomenon...
Becoming Conscious Through Conscious Breathing
Two functions in the human body are constant and (mostly) involuntary: the beating of the heart and breathing. Of the two, only one can, with effort, become a conscious act: breathing. From a biological...
Philosophy, Spirituality, Mysticism and Religion
Such words can have loosely interchangeable meanings depending on whom you are speaking with. But are they really interchangeable, what do they actually mean, and is it important at all that one differentiate them?...
(a2+b2=c2) = (E=mc2)? Pythagoras, Scientific Philosophy and Beyond!
You might remember, and definitely would have studied at some point in trigonometry, the theory for finding the length of the hypotenuse of a triangle (a2+b2=c2). You might even know that Greek mathematician Pythagoras...
Make Coronavirus Feel Pathetic! Boost Your Immune System Immediately
The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest since the Swine Flu of 2009-2010 and Ebola of 2014-2016. While the death toll doesn’t even compare (estimated 12,000 deaths till date) to the Swine Flu pandemic (200,000...
‘Just Rolling With It’ vs ‘Going Against the Flow’
We have all heard both these phrases and have an idea about what they mean. Which one is a better life-philosophy to follow? The truth is that both are natural and valid ways of...
Finding Truth Amidst Nihilism, Science, Atheism and God
American Indie rock band Modest Mouse said it best. The lyrics of one of their most iconic songs is:
“I've got it all most
I've got it all almost all figured out
But always when I get...
Fight, Flight and Just Being
We all experience periods of turmoil in our lives. Sometimes it is an event such as the loss of a loved one, being fired from a job, or a breakup. Or, sometimes we feel...
HBR’s “To Overcome Your Insecurity, Recognize Where It Really Comes From” Is a Superficial...
In late June 2018, the Harvard Business Review published an article titled “To Overcome Your Insecurity, Recognize Where It Really Comes From”. The authors claim that insecurity in the workplace is a social issue...
Meditative Metal: 5 Rock Bands That Are Unexpectedly Spiritual
Rock music has traditionally been considered mindless noise. It is often thought of as dirty – hedonistic, drug-plagued, and even as downright devil worship. At best, it is treated as a genre that is...
What is love?
What is love? Baby don’t hurt me…
In 1993, Trinidadian-born German vocalist and musician Nestor Alexander Haddaway posed this essential question that has been in the hearts and minds of people since time immemorial.
Is this...
The Psychology of Addiction – and How to Quit
Alcohol, cigarettes, sleep, sex, food, sugar – the list goes on. People today are strongly addicted to one or more objects that give immediate but fleeting pleasure.
8-Step Programs, rehab, support groups, de-addiction medicine, counseling,...
True Ahimsa – Nonviolence towards Yourself
The Buddhist principle of ‘ahimsa’ or nonviolence is today a central tenet in many spiritual circles including New Age Philosophy. It suggests vegetarianism and a general attitude of respect towards all living things. Obviously,...
Passion and Grace
Divine grace is the greatest thing that can transform our lives. Whether it be a simple force that helps you in your career or business, the grace that finds you someone to love, or...
The critical difference between Allowing and Attracting
The idea of “attraction” have been given a lot of attention in recent years.
Perhaps a better idea is ‘allowing’ rather than ‘attracting’.
The universe is infinite and is already giving us what we need. We...
“Positive thinking” may not be most positive!
It is said by many life coaches that one should ‘think positive’. That ‘thinking positive’ is the key to success.
If one really looks closely, one finds a contradiction.
First off, one does not always think...
Love Actually…is all around us
What is our conditioning? That we are something finite, comprehensible and concrete. Why are we conditioned? It suffices that you can exist beyond this conditioning. It is a call of awakening – and indeed...
Of Self-Awareness and Self-Love
Life…or Something Like it
Life is life. How often have we heard this? But is life – life – or is it deeply impacted by our perception of it – or indeed, by our perception...
The Origin of Disease – New Insight
Gabor Maté (born January 6, 1944) is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician with a background in family practice and a special interest in childhood development and trauma, and in their potential lifelong impacts on physical and mental health, including...
What causes Cancer?
Anita Moorjani fought cancer for more than 4 years. Her body finally began shutting down, as her organs failed she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized the cause and origin of her...
Heal your Life
Physical illness has its origin in mental & emotional issues:
Scientists have proven this now. Let us see some of our physical issues and how they have their genesis in thought and emotional patterns:
BOILS AND...
The Way Out of Pain
Thinking: Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it so it is considered normal. The constant mental noise does...
FROM EXTRACTS “DYING TO BE ME”- From Anita Moorjani who was...
I was overwhelmed by the realization that God isn’t a being, but a state of being.
Every single encounter was woven together to create the fabric that was the sum of my life...
Ego and its outcomes
Because we are so identified & addicted with mind-thinking it creates a phantom self, the “ego”. To the ego, the present moment hardly exists, only past & future are important. The thinking in the...
Difference between Mad & Sane People
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don’t realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, So it is considered normal. The constant mental noise does two...
Negativity & its Delusion
I read these beautiful lines early in the morning today & would like to share who are experiencing any negativity in this moment….
All negativity arises out of our resistance to something or the other....
Manage vs Delight
Recently returning from Gartner’s global conference in Identify & Access management, I boarded an Emirates flight (economy class) from Dallas to Dubai. I had checked in online. As I approached the line to check...
Mapping your Physical, Mental, Emotional & Spiritual energy system
It is possible to organize the entire universe in terms of nested levels (one level is inside another) of systems, from the micro levels to the macro levels. Energy is the force that maintains...
J. K. Rowling : Commencement speech at Harvard
Many of you would have seen this. For those who have not this is as awesome speech, parallel to that of Steve Jobs at Stanford. She talks about the benefits of failure & the...
Instinct, Intellect and Intuition
These are the three layers of the whole science of mankind.
Instinct relates to the functioning of your body. Breathing, heartbeat, digestion, blood circulation…. A thousand things are going inside your body in which you...
Fear of Death
The fear of death is a natural mechanism through which one protects itself and prolongs its existence in time. It is imprinted in your DNA that you don’t want to die. That’s why, you...