Mind Body and Soul...

Currently I do not have a career path (job) - so in a way there is something missing - hence cant say I have achieved it all. Why I need a career/job - well, so that I can earn money and do good with that for my parents and for other humans in need. So even though I'm at peace, I'm happy and satisfied - I'm not sitting idea - i'm working on achieving my goal. And that's the beauty of life - the ongoing process of working towards your goals.    

I learnt this long long ago as a kid that the only way I can be AT PEACE is when I achieve the true balance of healthy Mind Body & Soul - unfortunately, having true peace is an on going process. One needs to keep on working towards it to maintain it. Like we need to take shower every day, to keep ourselves clean; we need to do the same everyday for our inner-self too. As on ongoing process, review your Mind, Body & Soul - keep it clean and you will be at peace.

1. MIND - Define what is food for your mind and what gives growth? 

Does basic financial stability give peace to mind? Mostly, yes, it does. And one needs have a job/career to earn basic living - this is absolutely needed to sustain life on earth. The amount of growth one needs depends on what one wants to do with that money and power. So mind is at peace when we attain the growth or achieved the goals in our career/society. 

This is an ongoing process, we keep setting new goals and we are at peace when we are progressing towards achieving it. So, keep reviewing your goals - follow Agile - might help. 

2. BODY - Define what is food for your body and what will keep it healthy? 

Healthy eating habit, exercise is the key. I try to work on all aspects - the inner and outer beauty - lot of water, long showers keeps the skin healthy. Balance diet to keep health strong. I spoiled my health by ignoring the basic rule - Garbage in - Garbage Out. I used to find it cool to say - "i eat anything" "no healthy boring food please"... 

I learnt the hard way - thankfully, I had the support of family and time to gain back my health.

3. SOUL - Discover what is food for your soul and what gives peace?

The much ignored, Soul. In the fast pace of life, most of us don't even think that the soul need food too. Our soul need pray & blessings of elders. Our soul needs clean clutter free air to breath. Our soul need positive energy in the space we work or live in.

Family and friends: Life is relatively easy when you have family and friends around to hear your heart and to encourage you, to guide you in the right direction, to support you. Its a blessing to have parents and in-laws (ELDERS) who are just full of love and blessing for you. And again, its a blessing to have true friends with whom you can play and enjoy the different stages of life. But more importantly, try not to hurt anyone. Remember, what goes around, comes around.

Parents blessings - THAT'S THE CORE. You have to walk that extra mile to get that. Elders play a very important role in our life. As per Hindu mythology and as per 10 commandments - You got to take care of elders (parents). Without their blessings, you will continue to struggle... think it over. 

Clutter free house and life: I have always been a cleanliness freak. And it became more important after what I learnt from Feng-Shui. All it says is - the house should be able to breath ... :) ... each and ever space in the house including the hidden wardrobe, shelf, drawers, table... everything should be clutter free. And should be hygienically clean. I say, your space is a direct reflection of your inner self. 

Keep the house or your space on this earth clean and simple, close to nature (dont trap or cage it, let it be natural). Anything which is pilling up for weeks or months - sort it out. Backlogs of any sort is a bundle of negative energy - get rid of all the negative energy. Same works for life - backlogs will always pull you down, pending chores will always make you loose your smile... Dont let that happen. Its a continuous and ongoing process - cleaning and keeping the air clean and free. Start with your extra storage space (if you have one) in the house (and every space eventually) - Ask yourself, what is in there? DO YOU NEED IT? DO YOU WANT IT? What is NOT needed - LET IT GO. Same applies for are deep feelings and thoughts (soul needs to be clutter free)- what is just lying in there for long and doing no good - let it go. Forget and forgive... and continue to review...

Social media...and its complexity

When we had limited ways and means of getting in touch with our family and friends, we needed mobile and internet technology - mobile phones, Internet-Social media, instant messaging apps etc... and now that we have all of these, a lot of people dont like to use it. I'll come back to this point.

Also notice, we have matured up from hand written letters and telegrams to emails and instant messaging. Of which, writing emails are now primarily for official use, or for information exchange etc... The time has also changed from the beautiful hand made greeting cards to eCards; again, I wonder how many people are still sending eCards?

So, coming back to my point, I'm 100% sure we need the social media but there exists some complexity to use it... as its not easy (though not impossible) to mirror the complex brain settings of real social life in to our, say, FaceBook settings.

Earlier, since there was only limited ways, the "complexity" was not there at all. If you wanted to be in touch with someone, you would just land up at his/her doorstep... or drop in a letter, make a telephone call... And if one did not want to speak to someone - it was just simple ;)

Let me put it this way - we needed mobile phones, Internet-Social media, instant messaging apps and we still definitely need it; in fact we are blessed to have it - BUT we need it only for the near and dear ones. For the rest of the world, we still want it to be "limited ways and means of getting in touch" (may be).

At times, its an obligation - you JUST DONT have an EXCUSE for why you didnt wish someone on his/her birthday? There are just so many means to reach out to anyone - if you dont wish to talk, you can just send a gift online ;) isn't it?

So, in my opinion, internet and mobile connectivity has eliminated the EXCUSE factor which we still want in some cases. And I hope the next generation social-media will have the user-friendly brain-mirror technology. 

Sad that I have to write about this...

Racism is actions, practices or beliefs, or social or political systems that consider different races to be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to each other, based on presumed shared inheritable traits, abilities, or qualities. Source: wiki

If I choose to not comment, it is because I respect all the culture and different religious beliefs... and I choose to ignore the part which is not in sync with "21st century", or which I feel should improve over time.

Strangely, people don't discuss culture or life style to learn from the richness that it brings; they discuss it only to make one sound better than other. 

I have family members with different religious belief (Hindu, Sikh, Christian...) coming from different States of India (Shimla, Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, North East, Karnataka, AP...). How can one be better than other? The life style differs due to the geographical location - how is one better than other?

On the same note, how is it weird if someone choose to have a baby sooner/later? Or if someone choose to retire early/late in life. Or when someone decides to remain single. All these things are individual's choice. Yes, it can be different to yours and yes, it can be difficult to understand it as you are not in the same shoes - but discussing it would only mean that you think your way is THE ONLY (best) way! 

One could be liberal or conservative in thinking - either ways, no ONE way is THE BEST way... Like I say, what works for one, not necessary is best for other. 

It is just too sad when I'm in a group of people who are only busy discussing others "wrong way" - shouldn't one be looking at self before commenting on other's life's choices? 

Well... I call it being rude and insensitive...     

(continuously trying to refine my thoughts...no intention of becoming "rude" myself...)

Price Tag

(Draft) I was just remembering 2 interesting characters from Amir Khan's movie (Bollywood).

Dil Chahta hai - the "Time Table Guy"... It's little weird when people are just too particular of their routine or habits. I too am a little particular and I am sure people find it annoying... ;) But then again, this can be debatable... the higher degree of "not flexible" can be annoying but at the same time if its not harming you, let it be...

- Take it easy when you are with others...

3 idiots - the "Price Tag guy"... Remember?  (The guy engaged to Kareena)... Apparently this type is very common. Their specialty - they end up price tagging each item! Which of course I find very annoying and at the same time amusing. I just find it too shallow. Wonder why they wont just wear the tag? Or put a label to the items at their place...Hmm...

- your price tagged item might not be of other's interest or approved standards...

I'm not very proud of this post but these thoughts did come across my mind... I dont intend to be judgmental. And sound shallow myself. But I definitely cant respect (or may be i should say, cant understand, to be polite) people who enjoys materialistic talk. 

Right balance...

30th March 2014:

Health, wealth, love and peace of mind- the right balance in my opinion defines true success. One can't afford to keep ego before health - that's not path to success by the definition above. 

Beauty of our existence...

5th April 2014: (Draft) 

The beauty of our existence on earth is that all of us have a very different meaning/definition to life :) 

The life style differs, the thought process differs... No two person or families have exactly 100% same fundas of life. And that's what is the awesomeness of life.

I suppose, our ways are right, until it starts to harm others (in any way) ...or start to disturb the basic pattern...

I have my moments of weakness, when I end up judging others on their "different than mine" style of living. But I do realize that life can be defined (lived) in various way (millions of permutation and combination that are possible)... So, what works for one person might not be the best for another (and might not be of any interest to another person).