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A smile a bring you near to me. Find out how you can heal with a smile.

Each time you tell a person how you feel and they don’t reject your for it, trust builds.

Learn how to keep a gratitude journal and how can you benefit from it.

We inhabit a world of struggle. If you just feel your inner energy field right now

Buddha is known to have stated that “Life is suffering”, I am not sure what was the context in which he spoke it..

As you move through your everyday life what is it that catches your attention the most – things to complain about or things to appreciate?

Most of us think scarce, because we have been programmed to think this way by our peers, by our parents and by our teachers.

Life Coaching and Beyond I believe we all have a self-chosen School of Life, i.e. I want to come into human form and want to advance my soul’s path by doing such and such in order to learn such and such which will bring me closer and closer to my Perfect Universe/Self. I just realized [...]

I have been asked this question several times by participants of my individuality development programme : What special quality do successful people have in them??? What makes them successful?? One important quality, out of many other qualities that all successful people have in common is the quality of being perpetually MOTIVATED. Infact many of us [...]

Why are we here? Danged if I know! However, accepting the premise I’ve been here for awhile, I’m going to give it a good shot. Fundamentally; we have somehow been dumped on this orbiting rock, to obviously educate ourselves in all of the philosophical disciplines (evolution), learning all we can about everything, so we can [...]

I have come across many individuals in my trainings who claim that they are left behind in life because they lack self confidence, they have an inherent fear within them. Why are we not self confident? Why do we fear? Who is the real self confident individual ?? How can we become self confident in [...]

Ask any one a question, what is it that we want in life?? what is it that we all are struggling and seeking?? If we go deep into this question, we will find a common theme behind all our desires – The wanting to feel better. This inner feeling may take various alternate names from [...]

I am an artist, and spend much of my time drawing and painting.  I sometimes have fantasies about being a different kind of artist – about being an artist who makes work that directly responds to the society I live in and walk around in. So, to the guy sitting behind me on the bus, [...]

The tabloids are abuzz with the dirt on Lindsay Lohan, Naomi Campbell, Mel Gibson…. Enter the hot-headed celebrity du jour here. These are the recent ones making headlines, but next week, it will be an entirely different list. Why should a celebrity breakdown make news? People like it when they see those they have set [...]

There are these two ladies who come in to the Café where I work. The only reason they stand out to me at all is their rudeness. They always come in together and almost defiantly refuse to talk to you. They are too busy talking to each other or just not paying attention. I ask [...]

Every challenge that you face in your life is an opportunity for growth. If you face life situations with this attitude you can’t help but succeed. It’s easy to blame life for being harsh towards you, but that’s just a cop out. Dealing with difficult people in the workplace is a common problem faced by [...]

Most of us live our life unconsciously. The daily routine of work keeps our mind busy. There is always the next vacation or party to look forward to. Then one Sunday afternoon, when we are lolling in our bed, it suddenly hits us – what is my purpose in life? For some this question arises [...]

Some of our deepest suffering comes from resentment. It’s common for most of us to carry resentment against other people or some past situations. The root cause of resentment of course is that our ego, or sense of self, feels “insulted” or slighted in some manner. Of course if you look at the ultimate truth, [...]

Whenever you feel guilty just take one step back and look for the belief in your “mind” that makes you feel you did a wrong thing. Then realize that a belief is just a past “mind conditioning”. There is no ultimate truth in a belief, it’s only an idea. This simple understanding liberates you of [...]

In the Zen tradition there are various “awareness” practices that help a seeker become more aware of his/her “self”. These practices, as helpful as they are, just point to the field of awareness ever present in you which does not need to be generated. But initially it’s helpful to do some practices just to step [...]

When we enter into confusion we feel anxious, helpless and desperate. Of course there are milder levels of confusion also but what we are dealing with here is the case of confusion where there is unease and anxiety. So what causes confusion? A lack of clarity about our goals or direction Misunderstanding a certain concept [...]

If you look back upon your past you will notice that your life has moved in predictable patterns. You will notice that the circumstances may have changed but your “experience” has been the same. Your life has been going in circles Look deeper and you will notice that most, or all, of your behaviors are [...]

The most basic question is why do we long for a simple life? The answer would be – peace of mind. Hectic schedules, deadlines, financial liabilities and relationship issues can haze your life completely. There is a deep longing in all hearts for simplicity and yet we go on complicating our lives. Some people get [...]

Every moment you have a choice – to be at peace or to be in resistance. When you are at peace you attract positive energy and when you resist you create negative vibes that reflect back on your being. It’s a simple choice and yet most people unconsciously choose to live in negativity. It’s not [...]

Thoughts are being down played by many people indoctrinated in the modern spirituality. The mind is seen as a noise factory and thoughts are deemed as distractive minions that keep us away from the staying in the now. Such a perspective is usually the result of a minor misunderstanding that your mind is your enemy. [...]

Alexander the great, went about conquering the world. He killed many and had several victories to his name. Eventually he died of a mosquito bite, while dying he asked his generals to lay out the arms of his dead body to show people around that he was carrying nothing with him. In his death bed, [...]

There is a lot of talk nowadays about “staying present” or in the now. Most people get it, and it seems sensible to them, but they don’t know how to live it. They know that thinking about the past is futile, but they can’t help it. They can also see clearly that obsessing or worrying [...]

We beat ourselves up wondering – why am I always thinking negative – not realizing that this is also a negative thought. This article is all about how to escape negative thinking for good and start living life more sanely. First of all it’s important to distinguish between practical thinking and negative thinking. The former [...]

The deep feeling of unease and fear that courses through our body, as we sit predicting the fearful outcomes the future will bring us, is what worrying feels like. It’s a very nauseating and physically uncomfortable state of being, and yet most of us live majority of our waking hours in this manner. Why do [...]