On this World Mental Health Day, we recall a story full of wisdom for the self, as narrated by OSHO.
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Imagine that you decide to volunteer for an experiment. You reach the laboratory and are asked to perform the boring task of filling the beakers with water and placing them onto the trays for a good 15 minutes. Once you do the needful, the experimenter thanks you and tells you to describe your boring task […]
Nanak naam jahaaj hai. Charhe so uttare paar. (O Nanak, the name of Waheguru is like a ship which will take you to your salvation) This saying by Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, is what so many souls around the world turn to during difficult times. His life was full of events […]
Let’s see what the ancient Greek Philosopher had to say about life! 1. Pain Is Essential Aristotle believed that to learn something important, one had to exert both physically and mentally. And many a times, this effort towards learning involved pain. He encouraged us to embrace this pain and see its bright side: the learning. […]
Client-centered therapy or person-centered therapy is a non-directive kind of talk therapy developed by Carl Rogers. Coming from a humanistic perspective, Rogers believed that people are innately good. He also strongly believed that people have an actualizing tendency or the ability to work towards achieving the best they can out of themselves. And based on […]
Reiki is a Japanese healing technique based on the idea that an unseen “life force” runs through all of us and it is this life force which is responsible for us being alive. If the levels of this energy are low then we are more likely to be sick and suffering. On the other hand, […]
Adult social life operates under the premise that it is the seriousness of our conversations that determines how close or far away we are from the person sitting next to us. If we talk to them about how our day went or how the sky looks particularly stunning that day or how we detest the […]
If there’s one man whose words continue to serve as a beacon of hope, of light generations after they were penned, it is Kabir Das, a 15th century Sufi poet & mystic. Kabir’s couplets believed in overcoming age-old superstitions and myths, and bringing down humans to their roots of love, warmth and care for each […]
The schools of Indian Philosophy can be broadly divided broadly into two classes, namely, orthodox (astika) and heterodox (nastika). Under the first group fall the six philosophical systems of Mimamsa, Vedanta, Sankhya, Yoga, Nyaya and Vaisheshika. These schools belong to this category not because they believe in God but because they believe in the authority […]
Mindfulness is the intentional practice of becoming aware of the present moment, without any judgement. The term has been tossed around, by motivational speakers, app creators, websites, businesses, doctors and so many more with such ease that the term has almost lost its original balminess in the minds of many. But when practiced with intent, […]