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Realigning your awesome

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You inspired awe when you were born, and as time flew by so did your aura of awe.  There was no right and wrong at that time, no good or bad, your instincts were appreciated and allowed to exhibit themselves in the most natural way. There was no self editing, self judgement and you just flowed in the most natural way.

As you grew up you were moderated and controlled, told to do the right things, corrected at every step by structures of our society, families, religions and governments all seemed to know whats right for you. These structures of society dictated your actions and their lessons, which you were better without, seeped through to your sub conscious. Thereby developing a self editing software which crippled your awesomeness. The same has been going on from generation to generation.

Awesome

The social prison, which cages your thoughts, limits your natural genius, forcing you to relinquish your instincts and choose a mechanical life instead. The things which you notice least are the biggest influencing factors here. Religion, family, governments all impose restrictions on your free spirit. They make you believe social acceptance and long term stability are the actual purpose of your life rather than creativity and imagination,

The blueprint of your life is designed by someone else even before you can make sense of the world properly.  By the time you understand how the word works, you have already gone too far on the path of mediocrity to take a step back.

But there is always freewill and choice. At any point of time in your existence you can decide to realign your life and get in touch with your own awesomeness once again. There will be sacrifices, fights, feuds and misunderstandings, but all are a small price to pay in order realign with your awesomeness.

Realigning with your Awesome

Weed out the society induced stresses from your brain. There are methods ad ways to observe yourself, to find whether you are in tune with your own awesomeness and working on passions or your alignment is off, and you base your life on fear.

If you are in alignment with your awesome self, you will work on faith rather than on fear.

Here are some ways of recognizing and re aligning with your awesomeness:

  1. Pause: The first and most difficult aspect of realigning with your awesomeness is to take a break from whatever you are engaged in. Yes, the task demands you and it would be impossible for you to get away from it, but your life is more important than all the money you make.
  2. Silence Logic- Your socially conditioned brain will talk you out of all your attempts of realigning with your awesomeness, so observe these thoughts and let them pass till they get muted by themselves. Meditation or just sitting alone with oneself will be effective in doing this.
  3. Identify Bliss- It is not selfish to do whats best for you. After silencing the mind, it will be easy to identify things which make you feel blissful. These are the things you are genuinely passionate about. Things which you can work on endlessly, without expecting rewards.
  4. Flow- Once you attain this blissful picture, just let your spirit flow in this direction. Observe the resistance that you will face but do whatever it takes to overcome it to let your spirit flow.

This is how you will realign with your awesomeness. A state of mind with effortless execution of all tasks, a belief system fueled by faith not fear. This state will help you follow passionate pursuits and empower you with a relentless obsession which will help you fulfill your purpose on the planet.

We are not occupying Earth to spend most of our lives behind desks and jobs to ensure weekly and monthly sustenance. We are not here to spectate events, news, shows and the lives of those around us. We are here to contribute, and an awesome mindset will definitely contribute.  My book 6 ways to the world elaborates on other ways of realigning with your awesome, read it now.

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Is it OK to be strange?

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Misfit, rebel, freak, clown are the common nomenclature for people who stand out from the crowd. These people belong to two categories, one, who are clueless about whats going on in their lives, and the others who care less about the mediocre opinion around them while chasing greatness. The latter category justify their strangeness in due time, as to achieve anything significant one has to go beyond the status quo.

The most important factor which legitimizes your success is your conviction in pursuing your dream. The ones who find their purpose and chase it as if their existence depends on it leave no choice to themselves but to appear strange to the masses around them, who dispel anything other than their mediocre and mundane normality.

It is safe to say that if you are not labeled a freak by these normality lovers, your grind and hustle are controlled and will not reap desired results. Being  a little strange is a pre-requisite on your passionate pursuit. All great inventors and entrepreneurs were considered strange till they realized their dreams, from then on they were celebrated and worshiped.


No one wants you to stand out of the crowd

The thing about a crowd is, it always has the majority, it never wants you to separate from it, it will be the first to laugh at you or criticize your first mistake. It is the bitter truth, but human nature goes against the so called strangers who are on passionate pursuits.

The basic instincts of human propagate security and togetherness, so the first attempt of someone wanting to do something more or separating themselves from the status quo is questioned, criticized and suppressed. Everyone close to you, seems to have all the ideas as to why your new idea wont work, this quashes all your attempts and philosophies of breaking the status quo.

But only the ones whose dream is bigger than their reality can make this difficult decision of going against the crowd and bear all the criticism till a time when the crowd mutes, starts noticing the genius in your strangeness and finally starts following the new order that you live by.

Only Freaks achieve freakish goals

First they will ridicule you, then they will notice you, then they will praise you and finally start following you.

The strange people who are on passionate pursuits have desires so intense that it subliminally infiltrates their immediate surroundings. It percolates into the weak souls around them, enlightening them and empowering them to not be afraid to be strange in order to achieve their dreams .

A little insanity is a must in order to make great goals come alive. Those people who take the risk of temporarily appearing strange to a certain group of people, end up achieving much more than that entire group of people. Just like the bird who takes the risk of separating itself from security of the flock, discovers pastures richer in nectar and seeds.

If you’re going to try go all the way

All the way.

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So its OK to be strange if you are chasing passionate pursuits, just remember that if you’re going to try go all the way.  Don’t let a few people with a limited mindset distract you from the greater goals you chase. Don’t let anyone come in between you and your ultimate dreams, your critics will soon turn into your fans if your conviction towards your dreams is sustained.

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Finding peace in a fast world

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The speed of your lives has transformed from bullock carts to bullet trains very rapidly. The modern man lives through 100 times more experiences than what our ancestors used to. Your adaptable mind processes millions of terabytes of data more than what your ancestors used to. This overload of information has degrading effects on the overall quality of your thoughts. As a result finding peace in the modern day has become a pain in the brain.

People are so busy running that they never notice the little moments that make up this beautiful life. Earlier contentment was far easier to find, not because the world was any different, but people notice more in the little that there was. The abundance of information these days has lead to shorter attention spans as a result people skip through tasks without noticing the intricate details which constitute any give moment.

Finding Peace

How you spend your moments define how you end up spending your life. Without realizing the value of each moment, you will never understand the true value of your life.

The solution lies in how you approach any task. The fastness of life forces you to rush through your day making life very mechanical. But if you execute every task you undertake with complete awareness, you will perform it with a grace which will be unique to yourself. Rather than rushing through each task would be an experience which will enable you to add to the beauty of the world while finding peace at the same time.

Finding peace – Get off the Treadmill

Finding peace

Only the few who get off the treadmill and recharge, take a few moments from the chaotic madness to realign their mind end up being successful and finding peace in what they do. But for this you will have to get off the treadmill of busyness and give yourself a few moments of stillness.

Money, power and social pressures enroll you on a never ending rat marathon as you are born. This never ending rat race seldom allows you to look beyond the realms of stability. In the fear of being left behind in this race you fail to pause, in order to take steps necessary to finding peace. As you keep running at the mediocre pace in a mediocre race, your life is spent mindlessly and ends in mediocrity.

Don’t Slide, Customize

The sheep in the herd will look usual even if they are covered in gold, if you want to be more than mediocre you have to do more than you have been told.

The voices whispering in your ear never allow you to experience stillness. The voices in your ear are so perturbed themselves that they wont allow you to be still. It is only out of self realization, with time spent alone in stillness,will you be able to get rid of these common voices making you mediocre.
Finding peace

The difference between those who slide and those who customize is the same as between those who are content with the apparent good and those are willing to sacrifice the good for the great. It is very easy to get used to the fast life now because it doesn’t show any immediate tangible consequences. But, as these moments integrate over a period time, the time bomb you are sliding on explodes and out of nowhere you end up paying the price for your fast life.

Slow It Down – Be a cosmic contributor

You don’t need to head to the monasteries in Tibet and renounce the world for finding peace. You can slow down the speed of your life by being mindful of what you do till it gets ingrained to your sub conscious. Being mindful empowers you to completely occupy the present moment thereby ridding you of worries and fear. When you are free from these ailments everything you do carries a little magic with it. You become a cosmic contributor in your owl little way.

A good way to start slowing things down is by sitting still for 5 minutes every morning when you wake up and being grateful for what you have. This will set you on your way to finding peace and help you get off the right side of the bed every day.

As you move along and slow down your mind, it will start noticing much more of the world in any situation. This will empower you to see what others cant and feel what others never will. Finding peace in a fast life is difficult because you have to go against social norms, get rid f the herd mentality, but some rebellion is worth it.

 

 

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Breathing yourself to bliss

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We often take for granted what is most essential. The daily struggle makes you ignore so many minor things which work automatically to support your life. None more important than breathing.

Your negligence of vital aspects of living is emphasized by how you never notice yourself breathing.  You never realize the importance of breathing till you are gasping for breathe. If only you could pay heed to this easily ignored process, you would be blessed with eternal bliss.

The little things matter

The most prominent feature of an ungrateful life is exhibited by a person’s inability to be mindful of their breathing. When you can ignore this necessary activity and leave it on auto pilot, imagine how many other things vital aspects of life you fail to realize and appreciate.

If you make a list of the most essential and natural processes in life, breathing tops the list. You have been breathing since you were here and will breathe till the end of time. But deluded with the pace of life you never acknowledge how the magical process works.

You never allow yourselves to focus on how you inhale, feel the gentle air touch the inner side of your nose nd travel through the back of your throat towards your lungs. How it helps oxygenate blood which nourishes your body in split seconds and how you exhale the unwanted part of it through the same channel.

Imagine if you could slow life down from its frantic pace, even for a few seconds, and witness yourself breathing. Wouldn’t it be a much needed break from the daily struggles of life to give the due importance to this essential facet of life. The underlying benefits of watching yourself breathe include isolating yourself from man made worries and stresses and viewing the world in its most natural form.

Smoking is nothing but glamorized breathing

breathing

For some strange reason I have always been jealous of people who smoke. They manage to do the most stressful things and shake of the burdens in their mind by just a couple of drags. After understanding the concept of breathing I could explain to myself how the stupid art of lighting a piece of paper filled with tobacco and sucking on it and releasing smoke extinguishes stress.

Smoking is nothing but glamorized breathing. What a smoker does is nothing but focus on his breathe for the few mins he smokes for. The theatricality of smoke adds to the experience of inhaling and exhaling.  Paying attention to this most natural process, even by harming the lungs, alters the smokers perception by making him realize how he should celebrate the little things rather than give in to man made stresses. For a while the smoker feels completely free, actually he takes an indirect root to breathing.

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Breathe yourself to Bliss

Breathing not only puts things into perspective but gives you time to rejuvenate and refresh. All of us are living in a world full of speed. Thoughts race at a relentless pace. Every microsecond your mind is dumped with a million bytes of information, from all your senses. Add to this the digital apocalypse and like it or not the dose of data increases. All these little bytes are thought initiators in the super computer called your brain. Your brain picks information and goes on an endless journey of analyzing and connecting it. The process is endless.

But witnessing yourself breathe helps you pause this process for a while.  When you sit still and focus on your breathe a billion things will come to your mind initially. But with a little bit of patience you will learn how to let go of the conditioned habit of over thinking. Most meditation techniques and psychotherapies along with religious healing processes are directly or indirectly related to being mindful of ones breathing process.

Learn how to witness your breathe and you will empower yourself with a clarity which will make you stand out from the chaos.

Have a good day.

 

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Painting on the perfect canvas

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Imagine yourself as a painter with a million hues at your disposal. The cosmos being your perfect canvas wherein you can sketch portraits, paint landscapes, create a chaotic mix of color, expressing yourself in totality.

You are born with the imagination of Picasso, Van Gogh and Mozart combined, a perfect canvas which adds beauty to anything you paint, all you have to do is find a suitable brush. A brush that will trigger providence, sparking the perfect canvas to act on your side. A brush that will set you apart by giving you exclusivity. A brush with which you can create art others can’t even imagine.

The brush as your bridge of expression 

The brush represents your calling, what you are here for. The brush is like a bridge between you and the canvas. It helps you exhibit the talents you are born with and fulfill your existential imperative. The brush might be a pen, a broom, a microphone, a racket, it can be an actual brush, it can be anything which gives you free expression to add to the beauty of the cosmic canvas. 

Using the brush is like meditating, it gets you closer to God, you can spend endless hours with it, it calms you down, entertains you and defines your identity. The brush is a pathway for you to depict your intrinsic magic, a way to leave your mark on the already mesmeric canvas. 

Discovering your brush is essential in molding your perception and finding meaning in life. If you find your specific brush the perfect canvas senses it and works to your advantage. Otherwise you waste your life waiting to die while being used to paint a tiny part of someone else’s painting. 

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Not all brushes will suit you, you wont be able to use them efficiently. But when you come across the one meant for you, you would use it with an effortless dexterity, creating divine art which illuminates the universe. 

The perfect canvas senses when you are using the brush meant for you. When you discover and follow through on your purpose, find the right brush to act on what the universe wants to be done through you, the perfect canvas endows your art with an ethereal tinge. This is what separates it from the ordinary. 

Don’t be afraid to spend time exploring your options while trying to find the appropriate brush. If you show haste, fear will make you chose something common.  You will still paint, but not with enough conviction so as to become extraordinary. 

The cosmic binding

You, your brush and the perfect canvas are bound together by a glue called Love. If you are not in love with the brush, you will never have enough conviction. If you don’t put your heart to it, all your paintings will be mundane and logical. When all three are in tune, you will be supplemented by the divine energies of the canvas, which will propel you to greatness. 

Don’t waste your lives painting mechanical realities with borrowed brushes. Believe in yourself and your uniqueness. Give yourself the highest chance to express with your heart and leave the rest on the magic of the perfect canvas.