Disclaimer: This is a philosophical argument. Neither about mathematics nor about reverse Engineering. Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. If you have some background in intermediate mathematics, you may have encountered this theorem. It basically explains how the Derivatives of a function, and the integration of a function are the opposite processes. Let's look at an example for anyone who haven't encountered the theorem. However, understanding this is not essential to read on the rest of the article. Imagine driving a car: the speedometer tells you about your speed at each moment (the rate of change), while the odometer tells you the total distance you have traveled (the accumulation). The theorem says that if you know the speed at every moment, you can calculate the total distance traveled, and if you know how the total distance changes, you can recover the speed. In simple terms, it creates a bridge between how things change and how much has changed. Change Reverse Engineering. Reverse engineering is a concept used in, engineering and computer science. When you are given a working piece of equipment, with some background, you are supposed to separate it's pieces apart and tell exactly how they fit and function. And probably use that knowledge to fix it back again into working state and, also to create a replica of your own. You can call this process deciphering. Sometimes these kinds of problems occur in very unexpected places. When archeologists dig up ancient machinery, scientists can use reverse engineering to detect their composition and use. Few examples are given in following. 3 Historical examples of reverse Engineering. Antikythera Mechanism, a 2,000-year-old device whose intricate system of bronze gears was reconstructed using X-ray imaging and computer modeling, revealing it to be an ancient mechanical computer capable of predicting astronomical events. Roman concrete, discovering that its unique mixture of lime and volcanic ash makes it stronger over time, inspiring more durable modern building materials. The Lycurgus Cup was analyzed to understand its color-changing properties, which result from microscopic gold and silver particles embedded in the glass. Reverse Engineering of life. Imagine your life, as this fascinating machine. From the day 1 on earth you started functioning, with the crazy efficiency. Gaining information and storing them in memory than any other computer we have built. Adapting to the environment, consuming energy and conserving energy. Not by effort but by design. A machine which is even capable of understanding itself. So, how are we going to do that? Don't you think reverse engineering this incredible human machine is not a fascinating task. Who is capable of doing that, unless you? There is already a process well developed by humans, and it is called mindfulness. Now imagine for a moment this is possible. Like explained in fundamental theorem of calculus showed there is a reverse engineering process to life. Just like life accumulated from chemical processes of the universe, we are able to reverse this process and disintegrate life back into it's inherent nature. Wouldn't that be a bliss? I am not sure about how you would accept this idea, but as far as life is concerned, I see death as an inevitable obstacle to anything I wish or prepared to do. But not to this alternate route of reverse engineering my own life. As, if someone is able to achieve that, that would be the greatest achievement of all.

Knives out - a surgeon. Have you ever used a knife? If you haven't used a one, better go check it out. You will see it has started to rust since it's last use. In fact common kitchen knives do not rust fast, Yet they do, at a microscopic level at a faster rate. If you do not know, ask a surgeon. He would tell that a surgical knife starts to rust as soon as it is exposed to environment. So, they come in a special package sealed. And once it is in contact with body fluids it starts the process of oxidization within seconds to minutes. Having a tangible effect on its performance, within minutes. Even after few minutes of exposure, the level of precision needed for the surgery may not be there due to this process and he will have to replace the blade entirely. As, these are reusable there is no problem, however we cannot throw away our kitchen Knives every day! So, we have to sharpen them before reuse. Rusty Knife. Story of the Lumberjack Maybe you have experience in cutting some wood. And just like the surgeon's knife after using the axe for a while, the lumberjack will find that it needs a bit of sharpening. At this point he has two choices. Either stop his cutting, and sharpen his axe, or continue to chop wood at an increasingly decreasing rate. Guess what, most of them would do. They will stop, and sharpen their axe, before starting again. This not only gives a rest to the body, but to the mind as well. You can call this a tactical break. But, from the point of view of the employer, you may feel reluctant to pay for the time spent for the "Resting and sharpening of instruments". Like that is not part of the process of cutting wood. And you do not have to be a lumberjack or a surgeon to find these phenomena, in practice. Even a nursing practitioner doing a 12-hour shift, or a driver doing a long journey, a machine operator, or even a bartender would need some rest from time to time. Even during their supposed working hours. And if you are the employer, it is better to understand this fact and ease the schedule for such unless you want to fill the time with less efficient hours from exhausted workers. No matter how many CCTV cameras you establish to monitor the workers, might not help in the long run preventing exhaustion, and burnout. Rusty minds of Student life. If you are a student or someone working most of the day with creative activities or even something boring like mathematics. You would need a rest as minds get rusty just as knives. Which should be pre-determined and scheduled into your busy day. Otherwise, there can be a crash, and the internal machine might break beyond repair. Do not think this is going to reduce your productivity in anyway. Paradoxically it is going to increase your productivity. Like the axe of a lumberjack cuts better and more wood. If you are still not sure Maybe you should learn the diffuse thinking mode, which I gained insight from Barbara Okley. Yes, the famous and slow math professor. So, when you are well rested, just leave a thank you comment. :)

Part 1 - the inside man. Imagine a man, in a house. While within this house he would know, everything inside of it. He would know the tables and chairs. He would know what pictures hang on the walls of his living room. He would know the smell and the color of his bedsheets. He would know people inside of it. Basically, he would move from one place to another inside his own house. Without disturbing anything. But re-arranging them for his use. Part 2- the outside man. Now consider this man outside of his house. He would know the sunlight. He would know the Robbins. He would know the garden and the orchard that exist. He would know the green apple tree and the willow tree. He would look up at the sky from time to time while resting in the Medow. He would touch the dew on daffodils before they were evaporated by the summer heat in the morning. He or she would feel like they are living. And they possess a soul. outside man Part 3- the middleman? Now imagine This man is your soul. The same soul you think exist within you. Now we can ask some serious questions about our own existence of this soul. Or the person we think that is inside of us. Consider following questions. Does this soul lives outside of your body? Beyond your eyes ears, skin and the tongue? Simple answer is no. They do not live in so called outside wall. It cannot go beyond the walls of the prison of the body. You can touch a flower, see its colors, smell its fragrance and even bite a petal. Yet, all those are possible as only as you are there with that flower. The moment you leave that and move your consciousness into something else; the relative existence of that thing you touched becomes questionable. Does this soul lives inside of your body? beyond your eyes, ears, skin and the tongue? Simple answer is no. The moment the piece of cake stopped touching your Tonge, the taste it produced will disappear. You cannot feel the taste of the food inside your stomach. You cannot taste the mango you haven't eaten yet. So, the taste of a mango cannot be known while it is outside, neither when it is inside. What does that prove, is that the knower within us, which we like to call the soul doesn't live outside, or inside of us. We just meet him at the exact moment there is friction between so called things and senses. And it disappears, the moment friction is lost. The friction, creator of things. We can further explore characteristics of this friction. However, that will be beyond what I wanted to tell in this short essay. You might take it from here. As an example, you would understand that the soul which exists due to friction, only last for a short period of time. And it moves from one sense to the other like the pointer of a Turing machine. Nothing permanent remains from each of these interactions, but just another memory which creates ripple effects over time. I find it fascinating, when I learn a truth about myself. When I realize, I am the creator of the world with my own frictions. Maybe I can choose when it exists, or when it disappears. Do you think there is a possibility, that this relative world of ours only lasts only as long as we choose it to exist?

Beginnings. Information theory is a fascinating concept, connecting mathematics with computer science, biology and even philosophy. Previously I have written about information sphere, and how the personality is just a representation of information. However, only recently I have read about mathematical representation of information theory. As an example, the human DNA contains only 1.6 GB worth of information in its base pairs. Yet here you are reading this article with complex brain such as yours. And here I am with all my biological systems functioning in sophisticated patterns towards a rhythmic function of writing. Just from 1.6 GB of data, I received from my parents. How is this even possible? Does it mean that we are capable of creating a complex life just with few gigabytes of data? Entropy Another fascinating concept associated information theory is the entropy. I use entropy to explain why and how my room is always messy. But for scientists and philosophers' entropy is a fundamental concept to describe natural phenomena. If you do not know more complex systems like humans have less entropy (very unpredictable). When the predictability of a system increases entropy also becomes higher. Naturally the universe tends to flow towards higher entropy. Which means predictable disintegration into a high entropy state is the norm of the world. Well, I am sure you are just a commoner like me. So, I will give a clear explanation on what and how, information theory is connected with entropy and us. Entropy Evolution and information theory If we try to explain life in the universe, we can say that we are fundamentally binary machines which have the capacity to predict the future comparing with information from the past. And this ability is inherited to our offspring through our DNA. Through the natural selection, in each iteration of inheritance we become better and better in processing information. How and when this initially a chemical process became a distinct life Is not clear. But at some point, it did, and we have now developed a brain which we can ask ourselves who are we? Intelligent enough to understand the whole process, which is arbitrary, obsolete and unnecessary when we compare the longevity of the universe. Continuous change We know that the universe is incomprehensibly vast in space as well as time. And in this vastness, we cannot expect any permanence. Whatever which needs to persist has to change and adapt. Otherwise, that existence would perish. 😌 but change itself needs effort, against constant tendency of the universe to go into chaos. How exhausting that could be. I can only compare this to the Sisyphean punishment of the God. (It's not a claim that there is not 1 and his fate is different from ours) it is clear, even if God exists, he also has to face the same problems of changing universe. Questioning existence But here is a problem. If a thing that persist is continuously changing over time, can we call it exist? If you know some philosophy this is the ship of Theseus argument. At some point whatever is there would not resemble the thing that existed sometime back. It's not only true for imaginary ships. You and I are also caught in this continuous eternal flux of universe with interwoven reasons. I see nothing in this life which I should collect, even information doesn't make sense. As it is formed by binary data relevant only to a fixed time frame on the universe. But that is all I can do. Just collect information as pass it forward, so it might make sense for everyone else in the future Including my future self. Summary of information theory. Information theory is the mathematical study of how information is measured, stored, transmitted, and processed, where the information in an event is: Information = -log₂(probability) and the average uncertainty of a system is measured by Shannon entropy: Entropy = -Σ [probability × log₂(probability)] In words: Entropy is the average amount of information (or uncertainty) in a random process.

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 rest by means of what is not? Let's discuss what is not a rest. Work is not rest. As the work needs your attention from both your mind and your body. It tends to be draining. Sleeping is not resting either. Sleeping soothes your body and freshen up your mind. Yet you're not aware of the process I cannot define it as a rest. A total Rest Thinking is not resting. In thinking you just try to force your mind in specific area of your life. It burns calories. But there is another way. There is a saying that "All the man's trouble are due to him not being able to sit on a chair for 1/2 hour." What this statement indirectly implies is of a rest. I think we all should try this here and now. Direct experience of a total rest. I did try and this is my experience. I just sat on my couch, watching nothing, staring at nothing, doing nothing, thinking nothing, not sleeping, not expecting. I was aware of everything which comes to every door of the mind. I wasn't feeling energetic. I wasn't feeling drained. As I wasn't expecting thoughts to arise or go away. During the period, I was aware of thoughts pictures and sounds even feelings. Yet there was no chase no contemplation. There were thoughts of past and future, an urge to get up and do something about problems. Even a feeling of calm and peace at a time. But I didn't pursue any of it. I didn't want to stop this state of mind, neither I wanted to continue it. You can call it being mindful or meditating. Or even wasting time. But another name for it would be a rest. Introns of existence. At the end of this exercise, I was left with a pleasant experience of nothingness. It is different from any other experience as I wasn't gaining or loosing anything. It Is just like a DNA. In DNA there are specific sequences of nucleic acid base pairs, which code proteins. Which are important and useful for all the functions of a cell. However, there are areas there are no genetic information. These areas are called introns. They serve no specific function. Nobody pays attention to these areas. Nobody wants them. But they serve the function of bringing out the continuation and holding of space until next exon sequence arises. If not for these moments of nothingness the exons would not exist. In this perspective the rest serves an important function. Giving a meaning to the action itself. So I wouldn't fill all my day with a busy schedule of actions. As if I do, after some time it would lead to malfunction of the whole process of living. Hence you should always have a definition to your own rest. And it doesn't have to be sitting on a chair. Even a walk would be fine. Understanding the ground zero of life greatly helpful in the process of the total rest.

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 awareness gives access to more information, so we can clearly see problems, and define it's fundamental nature so we can solve them better. Consider the problems arise with money. Or lack of it. When you are more aware of your day, you will see more opportunities where you can solve the problem by doing smart work, or acquiring new skills. However, if you are aware of your money problems and your patterns of spending, you will see more solutions, such as ways to reduce your expenditure. Or lower down your expectation, or greed for materialistic things. If you are more aware, you will further see there is minimal connection with your daily fluctuations of happiness level with amount of zeros in your bank account. Then one day you realize money has not been the problem all along, that you have not been aware, about other things you miss in your life, because you have been only thinking about being or getting rich. Happiness might come form a bee, or a butterfly or even a falling leaf. At this point, you might start questioning your life. How it all began, and how everything became an entangled ball of yarn. Where did you lose simple joys of living like a child. And you might start regretting or move towards an existential criss. So, this is the price you would pay for being aware. Or I would say, the pain of awareness. Trees. Nobody might see when you're in a party or a family gathering, that you are being aware. You would not only see just men and women happily drinking wine and chit chatting. You will see beyond their eyes in their brains and notice all the selfish reasons they are there. You will see, existence is a game, and we sometimes play, co-operatively as we would otherwise perish. That is there to it. If you were given the powers of God, and reassurance to there are no consequences to your action, who knows there might be a great villain who would crush all other beings just for the pleasure of it. This all may sound imagination, but if you are aware of rich and powerful people and their actions in this ethical world, it does follow the same pattern. So, then you question even when someone spend a billion dollars on charity, whether their intensions are pure? or just another glory seeking act. Acceptance of the present as a solution. But there is hope. As I believe the awareness is the key and only path for true happiness. Other paths which follow the stories and subjective truths, will ultimately cease to exist. But, if there is an objective truth, it is only through awareness we can understand this. As past seems just memories and future seem just a dream, awareness which helps to us be in present is a great asset. It could even be a great joy to be aware, as much as pain of the breaking up of every foolish idea that the society teaches us in our schools. I am not saying all education is useless. But they fail miserably at teaching life. Life cannot be learnt at school or a university. It can only be realized by direct experience by you and me. In our own separate worlds. So, How have been your awareness doing today. I am curious to know.

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 or even freeze. Like when there is a storm. But there is a spectrum of feelings you can get, starting from exam stress to a generalized anxiety disorder where you might not find a specific reason but just anxious. Stress generally has one reason; anxiety can be with multiple reasons. Simple solution for anxiety When I said simple solution, for anxiety it may not be applicable to every type of anxiety. Specially to severe forms where you are not under control of any of your emotions or thought. However, for most simple forms of anxiety, which makes you procrastinate on everything important in your life, this should work. The trick is as following, and you might need little understanding of the mechanism. nature Consider when you were happy last time. Not just happy, very happy. Maybe you won a medal from some competition. Maybe you passed an exam. Maybe you were out at a party with your friends dancing whole night. What did you feel? racing heart rate, super aware of your surroundings. Elated and excited. Even anticipation of good things. Compare with this your anxious feelings. Can you see any similarity. I would say a lot of similarity is there. Except where we anticipate bad things compared to good outcomes during episode of anxiety. If you agree the feeling of excitement is similar to feeling of anxious, we can do our trick. That is to reframe anxiety to excitement. Reframing anxiety as excitement as a simple solution. It really does work. I checked last time when I was anxious to start writing. This blog post!. It might work for anything simple. Like, if you're anxious to take a walk, reframe your anxious feeling as "I am feeling excited to take a walk". If you're feeling anxious to open your textbook, reframe the feeling with "I am excited to open my book". Not because you are trying to lie to yourself. But because that is the true nature of the feeling. The label we put into our feeling is just a label. What you feel inside never came with a name. So, who knows, there maybe a language out there where people do not have the word "Anxious" and these imaginary people are never Anxious in their entire lives! now that is a happy thought. Let's have an exited day.

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 loved it. And the first candle which I used to lit up all the other candle was still burning, with the same brightness, as it started. And this simple analogy is the candlelight theory. Candlelight theory is some ancient wisdom, that I picked up from a 1000-year-old book. In simple words it explains how good deeds or intensions can be spread around the world, just like the bad ones. As you can see, the initial candle I used to spread the light, did not lose anything by lighting up some other candle. Not one, not two, even after forty candles, the light it produced did not dimmed out. Similarly, when kindness, empathy or good intension, that you give to others would never will exhaust you. It will only spread the light through dark spaces of the world where you cannot reach. Like a ripple travels afar from it's origin. A Living candle. Life is like a candle. You were born, with the light of the others, a father, a mother, with a bit of kindness and empathy perhaps. Against the constant wind that tries to put way the light you create, you burn your wax called years, into creating light, for yourself and others. Perhaps by lighting some other candles. And one day the wax would end, and the light you created will cease to exist. But, the light you helped to create will carry on, until the wind is strong enough to blow them all. But beyond your short existence on this earth, you have no power, responsibility or influence of what happens. I am not sure to be happy or sad about this notion of life. A burning Candle. I find it fascinating when I do think about life as a "Living for others affair". There is a constant battle inside a person, with the selfish reason. But, the inevitable burnout of the candle wax reminds me, the selfish reason, of making a brilliant light while it lasts is not the best possible way of living. Instead, the guilt of the selfish reason is only overcome by lighting some other candles. So, what is your experience with candles, other than occasionally burning fingers and tampering with hot wax?

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 just found out that there need to be only 10^-26kg/m^3 density for the universe to collapse on its own. That means if the universe has 6 protons per square meter, its fate is sealed into a gigantic collapse in the far away future. We are just lucky to have so much density around us, while most of the universe is empty space. But I am not here to discuss about the shape of the universe according to its density parameters. I am just wondering what does even matter. As, I do not and will not live in such a vast space and such a vast time scale. I have a little universe to worry about. Galaxy Little Universe. The little universe I am living is just here. In this empty room with one another unknown person I am sharing it. This notepad, I am typing some words. The book that I have in front of me halfway read, for reference, and a Cup of water, to cool me down. I share the room with a bothering fly which has a liking to the smell of my skin. To be honest beyond few hundred yards, I cannot see or feel anything. My senses are not even sharp enough to hear the vibrations of earth like a seismometer. Someone just asked me whether I believe in astrology. My answer was yes and no. As you understand the answer is yes in the point of view of the big universe. In the big universe everything is interconnected. How far away each and those tiny stars are, there are few photons hit our eyes once in a while which were emitted by them. And mind you, millions of people look at the night sky each and every year, and couple of them change their actions because of stars, which eventually lead to an alternate universe due to the chaos theory in action. So, yes in the big universe everything affects everything. Astrology and happiness in Little Universe But from the point of view of the little universe, astrology has no effect. In this limited portion of subjective reality, weak starlight is just a weak force. The lunch I had just a while ago has a bigger impact on my course of actions than starlight. In this little universe what matters is what I have immediate access to. The quality of my thoughts, the things I can touch feel and taste. Sounds I am hearing now have more meaning to my life than anything outside this scope of influence. Hence, I do not worry about people I do not see, forests I cannot reach or cars that I cannot drive. As I can create a beautiful garden inside my own mind with all the tools available at my disposal in this little universe. I am not sure you get the idea. But, creating happiness in such a little space is very simple, and as rewarding as chasing ambitions and dreams.

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, yesterday, I watched and finished full series, watching eight hours straight. I only had slept few hours, and by the time writing of this I feel like crap. I am a crumbled piece of paper in a waste bin. Pain of existence. I can clearly remember how the yesterday started. I did not feel this low. I was high on my spirits, galloping my way to work like a Shire horse. I know this was a rare high for an ordinary day, but as you can see, the day did not go as planned or at least did not continue to be productive at the same level. Someone reminded me yesterday, that every high is followed by a low, and every low is followed by a high. I really understand this to be true. What is travelling forwards in time is a wave function, not a stationary bullet. If you have looked at the sky lately, you would have seen that the moons tend to shine brighter when they appear after a rain. I am not sure whether it is due to the washing away of the atmospheric dust created by modern automobiles. Or whether it is an illusion of mind. But that appears to be true. Waves Roots of the pain. While sitting in this half empty cold library room, I try to figure out truth about my life, thinking in line of great, wise people who happened to be ancestors of myself. If, there is a high, that I am wishing for in my life, I indirectly agree I am not currently in such a state of right now. As an example, if I am wishing to cease my suffering and death, I agree to the fact that I am salvageable being living in this cosmos. If I say yes to the heaven, I am opening a door to the hell as well. If, I say yes to happiness, I invite sadness into my world. If I embrace success, I do embrace the failure which defines the nature of the success. What should I do now? Not embrace anything? How can I logically overcome the pain of existence by not embracing existence? At the moment, it is just a question more than an answer. I am not eager to solve it either. As, I know, if I try to solve that thing, I will create another problem. Instead, I choose to do some mindful observation of the present.

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 current reality. Some proportion ending up drugs and Alcohol. However, the problem with these is that it does not stop problems, but temporarily suppress consciousness to it cannot comprehend anything. You might wake up feeling worse the following day. In my opinion not a good way of escaping reality. Virtual Reality On TV, video games and virtual reality. Getting addicted to screen is also, a way of escaping reality. Whenever we are looking at a screen we forget what our feelings, instead get involved in the virtual reality of the pixels. As, these provide us to be in somewhere we are currently not, again it is highly addictive. You can stay on your couch eating Pizza making your body unhealthy while watching someone travel around the world and living in a jungle. You can do anything to a human body which you cannot do in reality without getting jailed permanently for life, even watch realistic videos of someone killing someone. I am not sure these are perfectly healthy ways of escaping reality. But I would rather watch dolphin videos. Books Blogs Newspapers Art I am a big fan of written material as an escape of reality. Fact that they do not produce noise makes it more fascinating to me. Books contain, journeys people took, their imagination, surely produce different virtual realities, depending on the person who is reading them. You can take your time doing it. And it is silence. More closer to your reality than anything else. You do not have to suppress your consciousness to enjoy a book. But generally they demand you are calm and at peace, as the processor of pictures in this case is your own consciousness, and if it is heated with arguments with your Ex, it might just not work. On work and flow. Work and flow are also ways of escaping reality. You might not feel hunger, when you're stressed at work. You would not remember problems at home. You might get into a flow of feeling mildly drifting in cosmos if you're deeply engaged in creating activity. This could also mean you might enjoy nurturing plants in your backyard vegetable plot, while forgetting you have a diagnosis of cancer, and 6 month death sentence from the oncologist. Is, it a good way of escaping reality? It would be if it doesn't give you problems of kind, that you like to solve, inherently. How not to escape reality If you do not want to escape reality but to embrace it, I suggest you sit on a chair and do nothing of above sort. Just letting the thoughts like drifting clouds. You, might get sleepy. Other than that being mindful is the only way to embrace reality. Simply, it is just being aware of your awareness, noticing its inherent nature of non persistence. Who knows you might understand something about yourself, that you have been looking for all your life.

Why you should be a listener? The world is filled with chaotic noise. Most of the modern problems of Homo Sapiens are due to the fact, they are confused with this messy overflow of information. However, most minds, unless diseased is capable of figuring out the path, navigating through the chaos, when a clam and natural space is provided. I am sure throughout the working day, at least you once feel, overwhelmed and need of someone to talk about it. So, is everyone else. We all love to talk, about ourselves, as it is refreshing and calming. Even if we are not provided with solutions. Imagine 8 billion people speak at once, there would be nobody to listen. Which is happening nowadays, and a root cause for our ever-growing selfishness. So, indeed there is a great vacuum for listeners in current world. Also being a listener will make, you feel that you are indeed, needed by someone else. Listen. Listen more. Listen further more before speaking Listening is not therapy Fundamental difference between therapy and listening is, the latter do not try to provide a diagnosis label, and there is no structured approach. Yet, it is a very powerful way, to help someone who is in need of a companion. In listening, the listener do not try to give a solution. Instead, be non-judgmental, and empathic. Something we all crave for. We all crave for a validation of our feelings, by another human being. We might expect it from our partner, a family member, or even a stranger. And If you become a listener, It will be a great assets to the people who live closest to you. Lot of, unspoken words and feelings which will be unearthed, would provide a fertile soil for more natural solutions. However, there are dangers. Dangers of being a listener. Dangers of listener are twofold. Unless you are an empty bucket with no feelings, you would feel heavy after the listening. Naturally some people are better at being listeners than others. Second consequence being you might be a target, by people with hidden agendas. Unfortunately, these problems cannot be avoided. As, it is utmost important to keep your mental space clean and safe during hearings. If it disturbs your day, to listen to someone else, we can always revert back to our baseline level by listening nothingness of the nature. You might take a walk and listen to natural song of earth, in the local park, which might provide some healing to your soul. Where and how you can become a listener. At home, where your partner may need one. Just try it for a once without reacting. At work, I am sure there are hundreds of co-workers who has to say something. At school, in the park, in Hospital ED or online platform. While you're alone, you can listen to your own voice in head and we call this special case of mindfulness. Remember to be a sponge while you're doing it. So you do absorb everything and give out nothing. If you try to squeeze out your openions, it will prevent the flow of the sound.