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.