Rest is very important in everyday life. If you ask me who is at a total rest, I will say anyone who is aware of their current status of mind are more likely to be in total rest. There are a lot of confusion to what is a real rest. As often we feel overwhelmed by our emotions and thoughts. Even relaxing activities might add on to the stress. As an example, how many times you have felt that the hobby you have taken disturb your peace instead of generating it? Defining a total

There is no coming to consciousness without pain." — Carl Jung "For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow." — Ecclesiastes "Consciousness is... the dagger in the flesh." — Emil Cioran "It is great pain... that makes us more profound." — Friedrich Nietzsche Pain of awareness Did you know? If you do not know, the awareness has a price. As a blog, here I promote mindfulness as means to discovering solutions for our life problems. The aw

Disclaimer : This article does not cover treatment of clinical anxiety disorder. What is anxiety? There are many different definitions for anxiety. For Me it is a reaction, from the body and mind, when I am faced with a difficult, unexpected situation. It feels like the classic, flight or fight or freeze reaction. The physical part would be apparent with feeling of increased heart rate, sweating, and strength or weakness. Mental counterpart is mainly a worry, hyper awareness

What is Candlelight theory? I was lighting up some lanterns few weeks back, in our front yard. It was a serene full moon night. With a cloudless sky and dark silent atmosphere. There were minimal winds, perfect for some lanterns with burning candles. I lit up one candle and fixed it on the floor beside me and used it to light up all the other candles, around 40 in total. One by one they started to bring more and more light to the initially dark front yard of ours. Everyone lo

I was reading a book called cosmology of the curious. Which discusses some fascinating facts about our own existence in a larger lens. Literally hundreds of mega scale telescopes looking at the sky day and night listening to the cosmos, has brought us some inevitable conclusions about our own universe. If you feel like you do not have energy to get up from your couch and move some of the stuff in your room or from your bed for it to look better, I will say think again. As, I

I realized yesterday, I am procrastinating on watching Netflix. I have 3 unwatched TV series and many movies to catch up and follow. I am below the level of their posting to watch everything I desire. Not that it is a race, but as life happens, I don't want to miss out on good stuff. That is partly why I keep each and every article of mine to a bare maximum 3-4 minutes. I just want to give a message, or a few seconds of entertainment, if I am writing a story or a poem. So, ye

This is just a list of ways to escape reality. You can choose or not choose whatever your preference may be. And please do not take these as any medical advice for your current problems. On drugs and Booze. This could be the bad way of escaping the reality. You and me can agree that reality can sometimes be too painful, too boring or too irritable. That we need to find a way to stop thoughts. Some, people even get depressed as they find no solution to their problems in curren