Don't Just service your vehicle, Service your 'Body and Mind too'

           I am quite a lazy person. When someone points out half inch think dust on my Activa, I counter them by saying washing vehicle is such a waste of water, which is already scarce in our Bengaluru.

          About a week back I serviced my Black Activa which had turned brown. And to my surprise, it had created wonders!! Right from the efficiency to comfort, everything seemed as super smooth.

      Apart from guys like me, majority of them regularly service their 2 or 4 wheelers.

         This activity of servicing made me realize that ample amount of money and time is spent by us in servicing the vehicles. 

           A question did arise; of course it’s a good thing to service our vehicles regularly, but how often have we remembered to service ourselves?

I mean service our Body and Our Brains!!

               A tangible object which can be replaced is given lots of prominence to increase its shelf life and efficiency. But when it comes to our body and mind, which is almost irreplaceable, taking good care of it is majorly forgotten!

                 It is said that we are what we eat and we become what we think! Our Food habits determine the way our health would be. Be it for now or for future, our health majorly depends on what we EAT!

               Amidst the hopeless food habits of ours, how many times have we given a thought to detox the body, maybe at least once in a week? Or a month? I doubt we haven’t even thought about detoxing once in a year too!! In the so called busy life of ours, the nutritious food has kind of lost its prominence. Leading to our body loading up with calories without nutrients.

             Similarly goes with our brain, almost all times it would be filled with so much of stress, anxiety and junk making it to be occupied with numerous unnecessary thoughts;

              At regular intervals minds too needs to clear the cache memory to be more efficient. Techniques to release stress are numerous in number, but are we following it regularly? is the question.

               Like the vehicle that we own, our body and mind are the vehicles that would be with us till we die. They are the ones that we cannot replace or discard.

Don’t just service the physical possessions, Start servicing your Body and Minds too! 

Overthinking - The problem of feeding junk to brain

              I kind of felt it true when someone had said me that 90 percent of the problems that anyone thinks he has arose only because of over thinking.

            We humans are given the most unique features by the creator. The power to 'Think' and power to 'Speak'. These are the features that make us overpower any other species in this world.

             It at time seems like we are being much more vulnerable because of power of thinking, instead of using this unique gift for our advantage.

             It is noticeable that the awareness of physical fitness is quite ample in today’s world, where as the mental fitness is completely ignored. We highly tend to feed our brain with the useless junk without filtering anything out of it.

              With mind filled with unfiltered things, thoughts roll around our mind quite freely without much of restriction, our brain starts to think about any random thoughts that may start by any simple instances such as visual contact or oral contact.

             There are so many things that would happen in our life that actually doesn't need any kind of response. The best possible thing that we can do with such things is to ignore!

          Overthinking about useless things consumes out our quality time without giving any valuable output. The quicker we start to feed our brain with some healthy stuff, the quicker we tend to stop overthinking about junk.

Overthinking at times creates an illusional problem that didn’t even exist at first stance.

               As I heard from a person saying that “Mind is the most expensive piece of real estate’ we absolutely cannot afford to underutilise it by feeding it the junk” I realised how costly it would turnout by doing so....

Thank you Teachers!!

          From quite a few years I have developed this habit of wishing my guru's a happy teacher’s day on September 5th.

         A day remembering the ones who have contributed to our lives in making the right things in right way at right time.

Any guru would play a vital role in one’s life. 

We are the reflections of what they have moulded us into. 

         Gurus are our parents who taught us how to speak, they are the teachers who taught us how to read and write. Later they come as mentors who would guide us for leading a blissful life.

          Gurus are such selfless souls who would feel happy by the success of their students. They would be the motivating factor when one is dejected and low.

         They are the only ones who would wish that their students be much more successful than them in all aspects of life.

So, on this day taking a moment of our life to thank them for all the things they have done to us and for making us what we are today!!

It's all about your perspective

          Amidst the nature green and heavy downpour of rain, with a roof above your head and a hot steaming cup of coffee in your hand,  it feels like Einstein’s “The theory of relativity” is applied, Hours together that has gone by, seems like a fraction of a second.

          For anything that happens in this world, each and every individual will have his own set of perspective towards it. The way he sees the life is way totally different than any other individual in the world.

           Few things or event can be so much blissful to one individual and the very same thing may be of much irritation to others.

           Each Individual would have different perspective for any event or situation that’s happening in his life.

           Taking an example, a ban on plastic bags in one’s perspective maybe a bad thing where in the shopkeepers don’t give you plastic and charge you extra for the reusable bags. Whereas in other individual’s perspective, it’s a great step where in the environment is saved from being dustbin from the bags that we throw.

        Similarly, the perspective on fitness is also different, for few fitness comes as most important priority in life, but for few others it would come as ‘let’s follow if time permits’ type of approach, they feel they are busy and don’t have enough time to devote to fitness or so.

           Even during the worst situation in our life, we can opt to see things positively; because we are absolutely what we think of ourselves. This approach in turn makes even the negative things positive.

           As one quote says “Some people look at sunsets as the end of something beautiful that once was: ‘The Day’. Others see it as simply a new beginning to a different, but equally beautiful thing: ‘The Night’. 

Perspective, my people, it’s always perspective. 

 -Sunsets are both a beginning and an end; you are the one to choose

'No' is the right YES

         

         Its quarter past 12 when I started this article. In spite of writing an article on prioritizing the right things, I was hardly following it.

         Be it at any point of life which we are in, we tend to say YES in order to not make other person feel bad. It is our natural tendency to accept things given by others, after all we feel people seldom give us anything, so our mind is quite stuck with the feeling to grab anything that’s given.

         Be it as small as going out with them for a quick evening coffee and snacks or as big as staying up at night’s for days together to help them with their emotional or intellectual imbalance that’s happening in their life, we make our best not to say NO.

        I believe we are brought up in our lives with a mindset instructing us that rejecting something or someone is kind of offending. With this mindset, in spite of knowing that certain things are negative to us, we tend to accept it by saying YES.

      The more time we take to say NO to wrong things or things that drain us; we are the ones, who would suffer,

      I feel it is much more needed for us to learn to reject and say no to lots of things in our life , the quicker we learn to say no to things that bring us sorrow, the better it is to our life.

At times, “No becomes the right Yes”

After all, you too have got a life of your own that is to filled with positivity and happiness,

Why waste it by filling it out with other’s sorrows and miseries?