Mind Over Body

I read some articles today about self healing with your mind. Many common problems have been linked to thoughts, emotions, stress and anxiety. For instance, stress, low self esteem, depression are all causes of acne. Myopia (short sightedness) has been linked to fearing what the future holds.

The most common recommendations are meditation, yoga, and breathing excerises but the funny thing is that I started getting so caught up in the fact that I don't do either of these enough that I started to stress on this instead!

I'm in the search for a balanced lifestyle without feeling the stress associated with maintaining that balance. I am looking for a natural way to bring that balance in my daily routine. 

A Talk on Vulnerability

The 24 Hour Goals

Focus on ahievement of short term goals leading to your bigger dream, and you might have the key to success.

Thinking too much about dreams gives the false perception to the brain that you have already achieved them. You are already dreaming about the happiness that you hope success is going to bring you, you already feel that you are there, that you have what you wish for without actually having it. 

Wanting to be somewhere else

Live in the present. Aspire for better days and work towards it, but don't let this consume your present that you forget you are still breathing. Almost always, dreams are an escalated perception of reality and when you finally reach that 'somewhere else' you were eagerly waiting for, you will soon want to be in another place. How can you find contentment with  the present? Appreciate the little things that life has to offer, it is a limited resource. 

Forgive and Forget

The motto of "Forgive and Forget" is much easier said than done, but if exercised, it can bring you a lot of peace. When someone has hurt you mentally or physically, you can choose to hurt them back or forgive them. Hurting them back will only bring you satisfaction that will last for a short duration, but forgiving them will give you a mental satisfaction and peace in the long run. Not all situations can be forgiven, but one thing is for sure.. the 'tit for tat' behavior just causes more damage to you.

Theory of Relativity

Einstein had published the Theory of Relativity several years ago which in essence states that measurements of various quantities are relative to the velocities of observers. Who knew this theory applies to happiness as well! In simple words, if you don't experience pain, you won't be able to appreciate happiness.

Everything in nature is balanced. So that means all the good things in life are shared, and the same way all the bad things are too. We share wealth, health, happiness, popularity, recognition and peace. Which means that when we are enjoying our state of happiness, or our state of great wealth and well being someone else in the world is going through a tough time. So to keep it fair to everyone, there are ups and downs in everyone's life. 

When times are tough, it is important not to run away from the pain. It is important to understand what you are feeling to be better equipped for it the next time it decides to enter your life. If you don't feel the pain, you will never be able to appreciate the happiness that follows it. Also, you won't be able to sympathize with other people going through similar situations. 

The feeling of self accomplishment that you get for getting over the turmoil in your life gives a lot of confidence and strength to move forward or start over once again. 

Zooming Out of Change

I'm not referring to the change you find in your pockets sometimes or under the car seat, but change as it comes about in your life. In life when we need start something new, something old usually ends to make space for the new beginning. This is change, whether you like it or not, it happens and it is usually for the better even if it might not seem so at first.

Change can be anything, we all experience it. It could be the start of college life, a new job, relationships and so much more. It can be scary, exciting, emotional and sometimes unwanted but we all go through it. Here is one tool that helps me deal with change especially when times look dark and your life appears out of control:

Zooming out - In your mind, imagine the zooming out tool you use for picture editing. Now scroll your mental mouse and zoom out of your life. Feel yourself floating away from your body and looking at yourself from the sky. You are surrounded by circles of time, each a year in diameter. Now try to find the situation you are currently facing. It is probably a small dot somewhere in the circle of your present. A dot that you can stretch into a line and make it cross several of your circles of life if you continue to repent on the unfavorable situation, or a dot that you can ignore and move on to the limitless boundaries that you have yet to cross.

Soon enough you will realize that your mind is what creates the problems and only your mind has the power to fix them.