Category Archives: Focus

Before any strong negative feeling like anger or jealousy catches hold of you, you become alert. An alertness on all these levels, physical level and the levels of feelings.

Psychologists call this “hedonic adaptation.” We get used to our upgrades very quickly. If you own a boat and a cool car you’ll be looking achingly at a yacht and the newer version of your already sweet ride pretty soon.

In the midst of all the celebrations lie a hundreds of explanations of why we do what we do. The beliefs of them all substantiating what has come down the generations for us to follow. In many cases we do it with the fear of the ire of the Powers that be in case the […]

The thing with the spiritual process is, once you start tasting something within yourself, that something becomes the center of your life.

Dinner with family or friends, book club, craft projects, recreational sports, movie night – find something to fill in this blank.

Mornings set the mood of the day. We often find ourselves saying ‘I got up on the wrong side of the bed today’. Is there really something like getting up on the wrong side of the bed that has an impact on our mood? Of course not! However, there are a few things that we […]

We all know the great man who said it… but for those who may have tried to live by this adage, you would know the mixed chances of success it has. You will be lucky if the change you wanted to see (And were being) actually turned out that way! So think about this stay-at-home […]

Growing up and for a very long time thereafter, Navratri, or the “nine nights” was a festival of abstinence and good food.. yes co-existence it was.. and continued to be even as I learnt more and more- of the Demons and the Devis. The supreme divine form annihilating all that is not good for us. […]