Life Simplified

The following article has been published in People Development Magazine- 7 March, 2023  "Declutter Your Mind and Keep it Freshly Cultivated" https://peopledevelopmentmagazine.com/2023/03/07/declutter-your-mind/

  You may be planning for a long time to exercise daily but have yet to be able to start. The thought of exercising may not bring you enough enthusiasm. What if you can view the process holistically and incorporate some spiritual flavour? Sometimes when we change our perspective, we enjoy and gain more of a job. Exercise usually brings to our mind pain, sweat and exhaustion. However, exercise is associated with a sense of fulfilment, energized and enhanced living for some. Whatever the outcome, exercise is essential for our daily life, and we all must do some kind of exercise every day. However, exercise time can be immensely fruitful and fulfilling if we add a spiritual flavour. By spiritual flavour, we mean surrendering our efforts and the fruits to the Almighty and doing it with the spirit of selfless service. Keep spirituality at the core: During exercise, we usually push ourselves for better performance, which causes exhaustion. We cannot continue for long if our mind is fixed

    The power of meditation can be harnessed in daily life. The scattered mind can be concentrated and focused on a positive thought in meditation, increasing its capacity in manifolds. Meditation is the panacea for the disturbances of modern life. Many of us don’t find enough time to meditate. But even fifteen minutes a day can be sufficient to bring some positive life changes. If done with dedication, meditation can change life’s perspective, increase work efficiency and evoke spiritual growth in us. Those who meditate regularly have a definite advantage over those who don’t. From mindfulness to meditation: The practice of mindfulness in all activities helps to concentrate. A person who remains attentive to all activities can meditate easily because his mind is constantly focused. This focus is further deepened in meditation as we introspect within ourselves. Introspection gives us clarity of mind that translates into specific mental power. The journey from mindfulness to medit

  A famous devotional song in Bengali has these lines: “O mind! You don’t know how to cultivate. / The human field remains barren, / Would have grown golden crops if you cultivated it properly.” Nothing can be more appropriate than this. If managed properly, your mind can give you a repertoire of golden ideas. For this, you must declutter your mind from time to time, and must store there productive thoughts carefully. A cluttered mind can include: ·          Overthinking a subject ·          Focusing on the negative ·          Worrying about things that you cannot control ·          Holding onto negative emotions and experiences ·          Keeping a mental to-do list, including incomplete dreams and goals ·          Having external distractions and constant sensory inputs A cluttered mind wastes your time and energy. It gives rise to mental confusion, distraction, and disorganization that comes in the way of identifying priorities, making decisions, having focus, and be

  Are you devoted to a consistent routine, but do you find several areas being under-represented that can make a big difference in your life? You can sincerely invest in self-improvement to realize the goals that you have been dreaming about. Constant self-improvement is the secret of a successful life. When you strive for a higher standard than the existing one, you push your boundaries and, in the process, develop your qualities. Investing in your capacities will give you manifold returns, whether it is related to health or intellectual well-being, relationships or personal finance. However, the process requires a lot of self-introspection that comes with maturity in age. Unless you find your inner characteristics, you will not be able to work on them. To reduce destructive tendencies as much as possible and at the same time increase the share of good habits is all about self-improvement. You need sufficient willpower to achieve this that can be mastered through regular practice.

  Ever imagined why a person excels in managing his responsibilities so well as to rise in stature and popularity? What makes a person stand apart from others? Surely, it’s effectiveness that matters.   In our daily lives, all of us want to be effective, but we don’t know how to become effective. However, with proper mindfulness we can surely identify the life changing habits of these effective people and follow those habits. A little bit of sincerity and practice is needed to grow these habits and our effectiveness can be multiplied by following them. Effective people are often seen to have the following qualities: They are proactive: One of the habits that set effective people apart from others is the ability to be proactive. Most often effective people take early initiative in all their activities. By preceding others in the job they gain a certain advantage that they continue to exploit. Being proactive is the key to gaining importance in social circles. This habit makes a per

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