Transform the way you experience life

In this fast-paced era, humans are encircled with various responsibilities and juggles with numerous things at a time; be it career, relationships, studies, responsibilities towards family and kids and a lot more. All our plans to lead a peaceful life is falling flat owing to countless anxieties, tensions, and other negative emotions and it won’t be an exaggeration to say that our life is caught between the devil and deep blue sea.

In the rush to get it all done, people forget to realize the fact that they are losing their productivity at every sphere and increasing their stress level. This stress further zaps our concentration and makes us frustrated, depressed and irritable. Stress not only gives us unnerving and harrowing experiences but also harm our relationships at professional and personal front.

However, the key to bring balance in our life and decrease the amount of stress level is “yoga and Meditation”. You must have noticed that when someone feels happy his/her sitting posture is different, and when someone feels sad, the sitting posture gets different, you sometimes even manage to analyze the person’s mood by theirs sitting posture.

Similarly, while performing yoga, your postures play a very vital role. By consciously getting your body into a particular posture, you can indeed elevate your consciousness and can transform the way you feel, think and experience life.

This is a well-known fact that your thoughts have incredible power to either ruin your life or make it wonderful heaven. The world is projection of our own mind; the external environment is the reflection of the environment in our selves. As our emotions, mind and nature are all in synch; a perfect balance is most required. We lost our control due to stress, tensions, etc. which leads us to negative thoughts, and we look for the solution in outer environment believing that nothing is well around us. Above everything else, we first need to clear our inner environment which is polluted with stress, negative emotions, negative thoughts, tensions, frustrations, etc.

Hence, the key to reinforcing our inner balance and harmonize or tune our outer world is yogic science.

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Cleaning the inner environment with Yoga

By devoting few minutes in yoga or meditation, our emotions and mind become more subtle and refined. Our thinking process and our outlook towards day to day incidents and life get transformed.

Simply sitting in a posture with calm mind and focusing on breath can give astonishing results to the beginners who do not have the know-how of yoga, On the other hand; stretching your body in a right posture increases the amount of flexibility and reduces rigidity in body which directly reflects in your behavior, mind and soul.

Power of food and yogic diet 

The food we consume daily shapes our thinking process as like other organs, our brain too is nourished by the food we take. Impure food brings forth negative thinking in the mind, on the contrary pure and healthy diets that include fruits and vegetables foster positive thinking. It becomes essential to adopt good eating habits if we want to derive maximum out of yoga. The benefits of practicing yoga and vegetarian diet has been known to Indian sages and sneers since ages and now modern-day scientists has attested to the fact that yoga and vegetarian diet is not only essential for healthy mind but can also ward off life-threatening diseases. Practicing yoga and vegetarian diet fosters good mental as well as physical health. By bringing yoga into our life, we bring precious relaxation for our body, and good food compliments it and makes our state of mind more relaxing and contented.

Yoga practitioners should always prefer vegetarian diet as it helps improves health, increases vitality and gives calm state of mind and healthy body. Wheat, barley, milk, cereals, almonds, honey, tomatoes, cheese, butter, good amount of food and sugar candy – all the wholesome and natural products of pure environment.

Ishwara Pranidhana 

Those who set about practicing Ishwara Pranidhana consider themselves as toys in the hands of God or feel like children lying in the lap of universal mother. In that case, we go unperturbed by what happens to us as we bestow our trust in the divine who knows the whys and wherefores of everything and understand what we need better than us. Once we surrender ourselves to the will of almighty, our worldly desire to amass wealth or put ourselves in strife and struggles cease to exist for we know that God will provide us everything we actually need. Our old pattern of thinking that is modeled on our doubts, fears and insecurities no longer exist instead new positive shoots of acceptance and hope emerge and bloom into beautiful flowers of compassion and love for our fellow travelers.

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AK Mishra's Art of Success for Parenting - Helping parents raise kids to...

Proper parenting is vitally important to shape the future of kids so parents ought to infuse appropriate and positive behavior in their children. Help your kids internalise all the positive emotions, give your child the required time, make him/her feel loved and special in order to help them grow as happy, successful and lovable adults. AK Mishra's Art of Success training sessions endeavor to help parents chalk up right parenting skills which enable them to pare down parenting flaws and condition their children positively.



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World Day against Human Trafficking - Lets eradicate this heinous crime

30^th July 2016 marks the “world day against trafficking” that reminds us that we all have to come together with the strong will to bring positive change and to eradicate crime & human trafficking from this beautiful world. The General assembly of United Nation declared the day, looking at the necessity to raise awareness about the situation and state of mind of the victims of human trafficking and for the protection of their rights.

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We all human beings have equal rights regardless of gender, race, age, origin, case or class, income or property, social status etc. And we all have equal responsibilities to keep our nation peaceful and crime free. Undoubtedly crime is taking a rise in our country, and each and every common man is responsible for this, as no one makes the courage to raise his/her voice. In order to bring a positive change in or society, we as individual have to be the change.

Human trafficking is a crime that is exploiting children, men and women for several selfish purposes including sex and forced labour. As stated by UN, more than 21 million people are victims of forced labour all over the world. This also includes people who are victims of human trafficking for sexual and labour exploitation. Slavery, in both its ancient and modern forms is not only shameful, but is an intolerable act.

Let’s join our hands together to overcome this transnational threat by supporting and protecting victims while pursuing and prosecuting the criminals. On the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, let us resolve to act as one in the name of justice and dignity for all.’

Explore unchartered depths and dimensions of Success

There are a lot of things around us that can inspire us to achieve phenomenal success; Seeing other successful people, quotes from great people, and even the sheer beauty of nature reminds us how lucky we are to be alive, but above all these, it's we who need to realize the unconditional potential we possess and our limitless abilities which make us incredibly competent to achieve  our desired success. AK Mishra's Art of Success training sessions help individuals explore unchartered dimensions of success.  

Explore life beyond boundaries - Art of Success training session by Success Guru AK Mishra at Amity University

With the motive to encourage our young generation to explore life beyond boundaries, AK Mishra’s Art of Success is going to organize an orientation session on its foundation course “Take Charge of Life for Teenagers” at Amity University. The seminar will be held at the auditorium of Amity University, greater Noida for the students pursuing Political science. An introduction session on Take Charge of life for teenagers by Success Guru AK Mishra will begin at 3pm and will continue until 5pm on 22^nd July 2016.

The session will aim to inculcate in participants the life skills of vision, passion and strongly encourage them to take charge of their lives. The objective of the session is to help students realize their deep-rooted desires and get introduced with their unconditional potential and abilities to reach their desired heights of success. Furthermore, the session will also help participants in dealing with their emotions and confusions in life while assisting them in setting up a right career path.

Success Guru AK Mishra, Inventor and Director of AK Mishra’s Art of Success, being the chief speaker of the seminar will also underline his trademark model, “Human Software Development Programme”, wherein he will explain how to re-program one’s mind with the extraordinary traits to move beyond the conventional boundaries and experience an unexplored world of possibilities. Apart from this, the session will also encourage participants to fully engage in learning process of life and maximize their knowledge through several experiences of life in order to grow wiser and judicious individual.

The session’s approach will be very interactive aided by inspirational videos, movie clippings, motivational songs, interactions, and a variety of other preaching techniques to keep participants wholly involved throughout the session. Students will be encouraged to share their thoughts, views, on-going issues, inherent desires, inbuilt fears and AK Mishra will interact to provide them a clear picture while answering their concerns. He will convert their negative perceptions towards the problems through problem-solving approaches while helping them setting up right goals in life.

When talked to Mr. AK Mishra on this, he said “personal empowerment and Taking Charge of life is about looking at who you are and becoming more aware about oneself as a unique individual. It also involves developing right confidence and strength to recognize one’s true potential and fulfill desired goals in life. Everyone has strengths, weaknesses, and a range of skills that are used in everyday situations, but all often people remain unaware of them or undervalue their true abilities. Therefore, with my training session, I emphasize on making every individual aware about the unique abilities they possess to create wonders in their lives. I wish all the students of Amity university a very all the best for their future success.”

Art of Success for Teenagers - Age to explore unchartered waters

Besides countless numbers of peer pressures, emotional ups and downs, clashes with parents; teenage is still one of the most wonderful phases of life. All a teenager wants is to be what he/she really is but adherence to the values and principles which he/she received from the parents is vitally important. AK Mishra's Art of Success encourages Teenagers to be stylish, Be Loving, Be Trendy, be what you are, but do not forget to be a respectful child of your loving and proud parents.

Thank God It's Friday

Another week comes to a glorious end with the arrival of Friday. It’s time to cast aside negative emotions and pursue the things you love. Ginger up your Friday to take the challenges of next week. AK Mishra's Art of Success Training Sessions help participants minimize their stress levels, rejuvenate their soul by offering them a platform to bring out their deep inherent desires & emotions and encourage them to do what they love while releasing the unwanted frustration & anxiety through soul transformation yoga and meditation techniques.

How one should evolve with time by Taking Charge Of Life

AK Mishra's Art of Success organized a life transformation training at Zorba,The Buddha. Mr. AK Mishra discussed the importance of being in charge of emotions and life in order to keep evolving in life with time as the orbit of time keep changing and the one who keeps walking and exploring newer experiences with time achieves progress, happiness and success in all spheres of life. 

Every human being is born with unconditional and unique potential, each human being has the power to achieve great and extraordinary success in life, however, right guidance and self-discovery are vital which most of the people fail to get in life which in turns keep them unaware of their true potential. My ultimate motive of Art of Success training programme is introducing people with their true selves and their true potential in order to make them explore extraordinary heights of success”, said AK Mishra.

Aromatic healing to raise state of mind

In Aromatherapy, professionals harness the restoration properties of effective essential natural oils extracted from vegetation. Drawn from plants, leaves, stems, buds, branches, or root base, these essential oils can make a capable impact on the physical body and the brain when their fragrances are breathed in. By stimulating brain regions  that influence emotions, essential oils can help calm your brain and lift your mood.

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Essential Oils to enhance Your Mood 

So far, medical support for the benefits associated with essential oils is not fully established.

1) Lemon Essential Oil 

One of nature's cheeriest smell, lemon essential oil, without a doubt upgrades positive mindset, as uncovered by a 2008 audit of 56  healthy men and ladies. After inhaling the Citrus fragrance, study members had expanded the level of norepinephrine (a brain chemical involved with mood regulation) in their brain.

2) Lavender Essential Oil 

Known as a result of its anxiety facilitating capacity, lavender crucial oil was found to lessen the seriousness of major depression in 2006 in a 2006 research of 42 woman university students. The analysis also exhibited that lavender-oil-based aromatherapy treatments helped relieve the students' sleeping disorders.

3) Rosemary Essential Oil 

While utilized in desk areas scented with this stimulating vital oil, members in a recent report were more ready and substance than the individuals who sat in aroma free workspaces. Rosemary Essential Oil appeared to enhance cognitive performance also.

Techniques to Use Essential Oils 

If you wish to elevate your mood and state of mind,try shaking several drops of essential oil onto the linen and then inhaling the elevating fragrance. You can even utilize Aromatherapy diffuser to scent an entire room with your picked oil, or put in a couple drops of essential oil to your shower tub. 

Approaches to shift your outlook

As we move ahead in life, we confront different changes; we need to relinquish some past involvement so as to continue moving with a stream of life. Change is sure, we as a whole need to acknowledge it and figure out how to suspect it, which frequently turns into a noteworthy reason for melancholy and distress for a large portion of us.

Be that as it may, we as a whole enriched with a stunning influence of our cerebrum, we can to be sure prepare our psyche to handle change without any difficulty through a couple of straightforward activities.

How about we dive into few stunning approaches to compel an outlook shift:

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Notice no less than 3 changes in a day and envision them

Make a routine of seeing no less than 3 changes in a day and their beneficial outcomes on you. By trying to watch the beneficial outcome so changes for your own, proficient and social life, you will prepare your cerebrum to recognize and take a gander at the change as an open door for development

Build up a routine of composing

Composing your encounters every day will help you recognize changes in more positive ways. Simply consider the time you joined the primary occupation, leaving your first employment, deserting great associates may have been excruciating. In any case, you acknowledged the change, you proceeded for another occupation and bit by bit you met all the more great individuals in life. When you'll compose every single experience, you will see how these progressions helped you develop in life.

Figure out how to reflect

Another approach to fortifying the muscle of your outlook and grasp change in life is to learn and hone contemplation. Investing energy alone for 10 minutes in a day to watch the things around, examine the things profoundly presents to you a more profound feeling of acknowledgment and includes positive thinker approach in your life. You can likewise pick applications like headspace application, which helps you build up a more grounded routine of reflection as an apprentice.

Envision the inevitable

Nearly everything on the planet, in the end, gets to be out of date. Attempt to envision how and why the life you are encountering right now will get to be obsolete; possibly your relationship, your work, you are either preferring or detesting at present. While finding the answers, you will become more acquainted with and comprehend that everything in life requires changes and transformations time to time to do away the drabness. When you'll envision the things along these lines, you, in the end, will turn out to be more inventive and will grasp the progressions brightly.

Make yourself a priority

Dealing with own improvement in this chaotic and quick moving pace of life is unimaginably challenging. Be that as it may, this is the best way to stay positive, grasp change and deal with the undesirable anxiety of regular life. Spiritual practice, contemplation, yoga, or just a self-inspection will help you grasp changes and take you to the way of your own development.

Figure out how to decidedly acknowledge and adore the present

Another approach to grasp change is to acknowledge the circumstances and individuals you have at present. Hanging on means trusting that there is the past, while giving up is realizing that there is an excellent future waiting for us. To overlook old memories, you have to make another one, and we just make new memories when we will give it a shot.

Gift your body a rejuvenating experience on this International Yoga Day with these simple asanas

International Yoga Day is celebrated every year on 21st of June that highlights and reminds us the importance of healthy well-being in our life.  Ancient Indian philosophers have gifted us with yoga which has been accepted and praised worldwide. Yoga not only improves your health but gives substantial benefits to your overall life paths. On this special day of Yoga, give your body and soul a rejuvenating experience by devoting few minutes of your day to Yoga. Let your body feel loved and taken care.

Let’s dig into few simple asanas that will help you stay healthier and enhance your wellbeing:

Thyroid

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Yoga has great significance in treating of thyroid disorder. These stretching, twisting and compressing yoga asanas massage the thyroid gland and instruct it to release thyroxin, thereby helps in body metabolism

Abs

You do not need to do crunches to get flat Abs, here are some simple Yoga poses that will help you strengthen your body and toned up your muscles.

Neck

These simple Yoga poses will open up your neck muscles and will keep you away from unnecessary neck pain

Heart

High blood pressure, high cholesterol and smoking are key causes of heart disease. Hence, healthy eating and these simple yoga postures are recommended lifestyle choices to prevent and reverse heart disease

Lower Back

Whether you woke up with a tight lower back, your desk job causes you aching, or you overdid it at the gym, here are few relaxing yoga sequences designed specifically to stretch your lower back and keeps you away from pain

Spending time at beach can transform your mental health and brain – Scientifically explained

Have you ever been through a stressful time in your life, and desired to go on a vacation, away from all the complexities and hectic schedules of life? Have you ever experienced a feeling of rejuvenation, deep relaxation, and contentment after having few days of your life spent at a beach area? This is quite known for most of us that beach indeed gives us a soothing and calming effect, but do you know that beach can have a powerful effect on our wellbeing and on the functioning of our brain.

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Let’s dig into few scientifically endorsed facts on how the beach can have a profound effect on our brain and health.

1.     Spending time in beaches can mellow down your stress hormone cortisol level

The sounds we hear near the beach could be one of the major reasons of the calming effect we feel. A lot of research has made by the scientists who concluded and well-differentiated the type of noise which human find relaxing and pleasant, and the kind of voice which are considered as stress inducing and noxious. The noises that have predictable wave pattern, are soft in volume with harmonic frequencies at regular frequencies are believed to be most relaxing and pleasant sounds. All these boxes tick by the voice of the waves of ocean and beaches. According to Shelley Batts, Ph.D., an auditory neuroscientist at Stanford University and a presenter at the first Blue Mind Summit says, the sound of the ocean may have a deeper emotional effect, may trigger deeper feelings of relaxation and security.

There is a stress hormone called cortisol. Airplane noise, or traffic noise or such other noises often cause this hormone to be released. Releasing of this hormone may give rise to health problems related to heart and can also cause ulcer. While the calming and soothing voice of ocean helps us decrease cortisol level which thus gives a positive effect on our overall health and may also prevent potential health problems.

2.     Negative Ions are generated by ocean waves

Negative Ions are tasteless, odorless and invisible molecules that we inhale in abundance in a certain environment. The negative Ions accelerate our bodies’ ability to absorb oxygen. They also balance our level or serotonin, which is a chemical associated with our mood and stress. The ocean waves produce these negative Ions. This is one of the major reasons why scientist believes that spending some time near beach gives us a sense of health and positive well–being.

3.     The sound of ocean waves also activates your prefrontal cortex

The prefrontal cortex is an area of the brain that is associated with self-reflection and emotions. It engages very well when ocean sounds are played.

Ways to shift your mindset

As we move forward in life, we face various changes; we have to let go of some past experience in order to keep moving with a flow of life. Change is certain, we all have to accept it and learn to anticipate it, which often becomes a major cause of depression and sorrow for many of us.

But we all endowed with an amazing power of our brain, we can indeed train our mind to handle change with an ease through few simple exercises.

Let’s dig into few amazing ways to force a mindset shift.

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1.       Notice at least 3 changes in a day and anticipate them

Create a practice of noticing at least 3 changes in a day and their positive effects on you and the people around you. By making an effort to observe the positive effect so changes for your personal, professional and social life, you will train your brain to acknowledge and look at the change as an opportunity for growth

2.       Develop a practice of writing

Writing your experiences each day will help you acknowledge changes in more positive ways. Just think about the time you joined the first job, leaving your first job, leaving good colleagues behind might have been painful. But you accepted the change, you went ahead for a new job, and gradually you met more good people in life. When you’ll write each and every experience, you will notice how these changes helped you grow in life.   

3.        Learn to meditate

Another way to strengthen the muscle of your mindset and embrace change in life is to learn and practice meditation. Spending time alone for 10 minutes in a day to observe the things around, analyze the things deeply brings you a deeper sense of acceptance and adds optimist approach in your life. You can also choose apps like headspace app, which helps you develop a stronger practice of meditation as a beginner.

4.       Imagine the inescapable

Almost everything in the world eventually becomes obsolete. Try to imagine how and why the life you are experiencing currently will become outdated; maybe your relationship, you job, your liking or disliking or anything. While discovering the answers, you will get to know and understand that everything in life requires a change in order to do away the drabness. When you’ll imagine the things this way, you eventually will become more innovative and will embrace the changes cheerfully.

5.       Make your personal growth a priority

Working on own development in this hectic and fast moving pace of life is incredibly challenging. But this is the only way to stay positive, embrace change and manage the unwanted stress of everyday life. A spiritual practice, meditation, yoga, or just a self - examining will help you embrace change and take you to the path of your own growth.

6.       Accept that change will happen with or without you

Accept that time is precious as it keeps flowing away, life is short as the number of good or bad experiences we encounter in different stages of life and the number of gifts universe has stored for us at different phases of life are more than the total numbers of years we live. Every beginning of idea has its own life cycle and an expansion. And when the idea expands, change becomes a natural process and a necessary part of the cycle. The change will happen, whether you accept or not, so let’s accept and embrace it.

7.       Learn  to positively accept and love the present

Another way to embrace change is to accept the situations and people you have at present. Holding on means believing that there is a past, while letting go is knowing that there is a beautiful future waiting for us. In order to forget old memories, you need to make new one, and we only create new memories when we are willing to give it a chance. 

8.       Embrace the sense of detachment

We are more likely to get attached to the things, in which more time and effort have been invested, even if we know that walking away is the sounder choice. Don’t let the fear of losing the things you’ve invested in guide your decision making. Learn to keep moving on while keep forging newer paths to experience.

After every darkness comes light

No one can avoid struggle or hardships in life as it’s a part of life. Our day begins with a light and ends with a darkness to introduce us with a fresh and new light, with which we start our new day. In fact, many a time, we face hardships or such situations that even shake us to the core. Any this is how our life flows, and this is how we recall ourselves the true essence of life in its purest form, i.e. challenges bring celebrations and success, the loss brings learnings learning to us, and sorrow brings us a new hope of happiness.

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We indeed forget to realize that these hardships are in fact a gift from life itself. When we face any betrayal or any low point in life; be it illness, hurt, relationship breakdown or financial ruin, we dwell into the phase of darkness. But it’s actually an opportunity for the emergence of soul. These are the situations when your soul speaks to you and make you realize that you are not what you are presently due to such circumstances, but you something or someone far greater.

Every darkness always turns to light; every cry always turns to laughter. It's just a matter of choice how you take that sorrow or darkness in your life and how better you let the new beginnings, a new ray of light and hope enter into your life. Whenever you encounter darkness, always consider it as an opportunity to come out as a more shining star.

Most painful truths which ultimately help us grow in life

Before a thing finally comes to you, you certainly have to go through various life lessons in order to become the most deserved for the thing you desire to achieve in your life path. We learn various lessons in our life path, some of those bring out our true personality and are prerequisite & destined in order to help us grow in life and reach our sole purpose in life.

Let’s dig into few most painful truths of life which become major learnings of our life

1.       You are the only one who create the life you live

You are completely accountable for the life you live because you are only one who chooses the path of your life. Others can only persuade you, but cannot decide for you. They can accompany you in walking on your path, but not in your shoes. So you must make sure that the path you decide to walk aligns with your desires and intuitions, and don’t be afraid to switch the path or choose a new one when it aligns with your intuition, desire and makes sense.

Always be patient and remember that positive attitude can do wonders while you working hard for what you want to achieve or what you believe in. even when life teaches you the toughest lesson you are not ready for, let it be. If you have no idea where you’re going to land, at least be brave enough to take a step even towards an unknown path and listen to your inner voice, you heart.

2.      Our final destination is death and life span always seems short

We all are very well aware of the fact that death will eventually happen to all of us, still we get surprised, feel bad and cry when it happens to someone who is known to us. You wish to find one more day for yourself or a moment to balance yourself to do what you couldn’t while you had the chance to live.

So, knowing and accepting the fact, live your life to the fullest. Live your life as this might be the last moment for you to live. Don’t ignore death but don’t either afraid of it. Take actions, do what you love the most because the greatest loss in life is what dies inside you when you’re still alive.

3.       Some failures are most requisite before you achieve success

Mistakes are never a problem; the problem is when you don’t take learnings from those mistakes. Don’t be afraid to give it a shot, and don’t be afraid of failure. The difference between a successful achiever and a beginner is the successful achiever has tasted failures more times than the beginners have even tried. Behind every extraordinary success, there are thousands of failed attempts, but these attempts are simply intangible to us and we only acknowledge the success and cog nominate it as “luck”.

4.       Forgiveness doesn’t always require an apology

In order to move further in life and explore ample of opportunities & surprises life has stored for you, you must let the past grudges, regrets, miseries fall by the wayside. Life becomes way easier when we don’t wait for an apology to forgive someone. Be thankful for all positive and negative experiences, negative experience helps you learn and grow wiser. Practice forgiveness, forgive yourself, forgive the people, take positive learnings and move on with open arms and open heart to give and receive love, happiness, smile, peacefulness and unlock newer dimensions of life. Forgiveness is like freeing yourself from the burden of eternal victim.

5.       Loving yourself is most important in order to be loved by others

Before expecting from the world to love you, and before expecting from yourself to be nicer with the world, be nice to yourself and love yourself. Everyone is born unique in this world, and so are you. Always be thankful to God for making you the way you are, keep your worth even if the people don’t. Let someone love you the way you are, rather trying to be someone which other wants you to be. Despite being unattractive, not too beautiful, despite having ample of flaws, let someone love you the way you are, and begin with yourself, you have to be that someone and eventually the world will start loving you for the way you are.

6.     Things change, People change, Time change

You had a yesterday, you have today and you’ll surely have tomorrow. Accept it, time changes and life keeps moving on and so we are. Embrace changes because changes occur for a reason. You might not realize the reason initially, but at the end, you’ll realize that it is worth it. Sometimes even the smallest change in our life can change the entire direction of our lives. We all have been revolving and flipping upside down, sometimes for better, sometimes for the worse on the strength of an erratic event. However whatever the situation is good or bad, will eventually change; may be for long term betterment. So live every moment, do something good every second of your life and always live with a positive approach. Even a negative change will give you a long term positive result, so just hold on and accept what is out of your hands, because it’s in hands of God then.

Conquer your innermost fears

How many times have you turned away from a relationship or a great opportunity because you were afraid to take up the challenge and go for it? And how many times have you seen the other person taking the same opportunity and doing wonders? It’s not that you couldn’t do better by taking up that opportunity, but someone else is doing better today because he/she did not let the fear overpower his (her) self-belief, confidence and willingness. The stealers of our dreams are always around us who give a rise to our fears. As a kid, do we fear to fall when we start walking? We just enjoy the moment, but as we age; through our social circle, our parents, we start analyzing the good or bad, danger or smooth, etc. Although this is very much required to an extent, but fear somehow sometimes convene us that we can never accomplish our dreams, when people around us start discouraging us by saying it’s too difficult and you cannot do this. Everyone talk what they have experienced. Because someone failed in a relationship because of arguments, he/he would suggest you to keep quiet in an argument, and you begin to keep quiet to save your relationship and keep the grudges inside because you fear to lose the one you love. Because someone failed to crack IAS Exam, he/she would suggest you to not go to for that, it’s waste of time, it’s not that easy and somewhere you get convinced and fail to give your 100% out of fear and lack of belief. And you wake up when you see other people getting success in the same field or saving their relationship by talking or by arguing.

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Fear is not bad. Fear often gives us an early warning signal to protect us. But there is a huge difference between a fear that protects us from falling from a cliff and a constant fear that keeps us away from living a fulfilled life. Here are few steps that help conquer such fears and keeps you all set to take up the challenges and win the battles. Supportive companions, relaxation techniques, positive mindset, ability to face the fears, spiritual enhancement are some of the practical ways through which one can easily win the war of life while enjoying the struggles and challenges.

Positive social connection: We either tend to resist admitting our fear because we afraid that the other person will laugh, will not understand, think less of us, or we choose the wrong person to share our problems. Our mental stress turns into fears when we share with a person who has a negative approach towards life. So always find a good companion who supports you or encourage you for your dreams; could be a trusted friend brother or sister or supportive parents. They may show you a new light covered by your fears.

Spiritual enhancement: Have faith in the power of positive visualization, law of attraction, universe and God. Be truthful to yourself, ask yourself if you can do it or not, rather letting your fear suppress it, listen to the answer coming deep inside your soul that you can do it. Positive visualization will amazingly take your fears away. 

Relaxation techniques: Fear not only keeps us away from living a fulfilled life but often becomes a cause of many health problems. Hence, you must add some healthy exercise, meditation techniques in your daily schedule to keep the fear and unnecessary stress away and live with a more positive approach. Sitting for 30 minutes in the morning in silence with closed eyes, focusing on your breath and understanding your thoughts keeps your day stress-free and positive. When you are positive from inside, negative surrounding cannot harm you.

Face your challenges and fears: One must be wise enough to understand that fears are healthy in some situations and we should keep our safety on our top priority always. But if the threat is more to your mental status than physical, taking up the challenge is the best thing you can do to conquer that mental threat, otherwise, that fear will keep threatening you throughout. Start facing your fears in steps, supposedly you have a fear of public speaking, start it with addressing few people in a small room; may be with your family, colleague or any other people who are known to you, then gradually consider leading your departmental or group meetings to gain more confidence and slowly take a step ahead towards your ultimate purpose.

Love yourself

Be gentle with yourself, you are a child of Universe, nowhere less than any stars in the sky. In such noisy confusion of life, where everything and everyone have their own set priorities, do not ever forget to love yourself and do what is right for you. Universe demands us not to harm any other living soul, but never denies to think for one own self and be good to yourself. As long as you do what you love and love what you do, the rest will fall into place gradually.

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How to embrace forgiveness and prosper in life

Forgiving someone after a betrayal, hurt or abandoned is undoubtedly a very challenging task, but in order to get an access into healthy wellbeing and to attain inner peace, forgiveness is essential.  Although forgiveness never comes instant and it requires a lot of patience, positive empowerment, and self-examination. We only empower ourselves when we accept, examine and then gently release.

We cannot choose what happens to us, but we can definitely choose how to react to a situation. Your reaction during the hours of turmoil and miseries determines how long those situations stay with you until you grab your achievement once again. By keeping grudges in mind, the person whom we harm the most is our own self.

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In order to embrace forgiveness and let go the moment of betrayal, miseries or sorrows, one has to understand that everyone has free will. Everyone has right to choose and decide when to enter or exit from our lives, we cannot hold neither the person nor those negative or betrayed emotions. Yes, you cannot stay calm and feel glad after you gone through a break-up, you have to let those negative emotions and anger come out, and this is very natural. It’s like cleaning out our soul; you have to get it out in order to make progress.

Let’s dig into few tips for embracing forgiveness and cleanse your inner being:

Set a goal

Sometimes we have to be strong and make a stronger decision that we have to let go of the past emotions and embrace forgiveness. Make a conscious choice that you don’t have to look back now and just be open to receive what universe has to offer ahead.

Forgive yourself

There is a friend of mine who lost his wife in a car accident and he is still unable to forgive himself for not spending enough time with her and for not being present at that moment to save her. As long as you will not learn to forgive yourself, you will never learn to forgive the people around you and end up keeping grudges, sorrows, and miseries in your heart forever. You cannot project something onto others what you have not done to yourself.

Start with small

Forgiveness is a process. You cannot get over the hurt right away; it even takes years in many situations or cases. But one can always start the process with willingness and an ability to tolerate those intense emotions that make us want to run away from the situation. Do not run away, rather face it; let your anger, your deeper emotions flow out. Most of the people not even begin the initial process, as they think if they let go the situation, the person they are upset with will be proved right. Forgiveness is letting go of everything, no matter if the other person proves to be right or wrong.

Look at these losses as a learning experience and an opportunity for self-growth

Life has no guarantee; anything can happen at any moment. The miseries you face due to the people around you are because life wanted to put you in such situations to help you become wiser and experienced. You have to see the positive learning on the other side of the coin. Most of us only focus on one side; the accident which happened, but we never take it as an incident. The accident happened, put you in miserable situations, but it is also an incident on which you’ll look back later on and learn from.

What is meant for you always arrives on time

We always reach our destination at the predetermined time by Universe. So no need to rush, rather work hard to achieve your goal and enjoy the journey and feel the transformation you will experience while moving towards your ultimate destination. 

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Benefits of having an open and free mind

Most of the people feel offended many of times due to various circumstances or situations life throws. But an open and free mind always stays detached from all the outer circumstances and knows that it is never the self which is offended, but it’s we and our mind which let us our inner self affected and make feel offended due to outer circumstances. If we don’t like an apple, that doesn’t mean the apple is bad, many other people love the same apple. So when someone insults you or doesn’t like you, that doesn’t mean you are bad, that simply means that the person has different choices. You know yourself the most; it’s an image of yourself to which you are attached, and that image doesn’t resonate with the image you form after or during an insult. Simply put, you highly affect your inner self and start believing on off put remarks by others on you, which even overpower your belief on yourself, and you start justifying yourself. But, if you would have been detached, if you would have kept your self-belief stronger, no offence would have been taken. Although, this doesn’t mean that you make your personality so stiff that no other person could help you become a better personality, which is against your growth and enlightenment. Criticism is always required, but self-evaluation is must. You must sit in silence, and evaluate your weaker areas to work upon in order to keep upgrading yourself and moving towards betterment and self-growth.  

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Detachment doesn’t mean you isolate yourself from socializing or accepting others’ views. It simply means making you inner self and belief so stronger that no negative outer circumstances would affect your inner being.

The power to mold and adapt oneself with different group of people in different situations requires:

Tolerance, acceptance, ability to face negative situations with a sense of detachment, ability to forgive, ability to be a detached observer of people’s actions and situations while raising your right opinions in positive and calm manner wherever required, cooperation, right and positive communication, understanding others perspective, focus more on positive traits of other person rather criticizing them for negative traits, ability to empathize, show respect to other person and remain calm.

These abilities surely help one achieve success not only in professional front but in each sphere of life, either with the relationship with others or with self.

Ways to let go and move on

We keep evolving time to time as we age. Just because you faced problems in past doesn’t mean you will still face problems in such circumstances, or something which was right for you in past not necessarily be right today. This fact can be applied in any situation, could be a relationship, a habit, a job, etc.

You keep discovering yourself deeply more and more gradually as you grow; you get to know what you truly desire, what ultimate outcome you want out of your life, with whom you want to stay and without whom you need to move on; and slowly you realize that these changes in life are required and gradually comes in your personality with circumstances and different happenings around you and inside you.

You might not feel too comfortable with the people were best friends in your school or college time, those specific routines you used to follow and the people you used to be with are no longer align with you current consciences.

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Circumstances and situations which force you to changes, let go and move on

There could be many situations and circumstances arise in our life which we never thought about in past or you might would want to be mentally and emotionally stronger because you have hurt by the ones you love one or several times. Other reasons could be, you have grown apart from someone.  Sometimes we are destined to meet someone from a set time period but we gradually evolve and understand that they are not compatible people for us and committed to misunderstand us and however moving on and letting go is the better solution for a positive flow of life. Other reason could be some negative people around you who are energy jabbers and has to cut out from your life slowly, or you need to overcome the fears which hold you back, etc.

Letting go is surely not easy, but it is necessary for our own well-being and growth.

Ways to move on and let go

Holding on the past often leads to discouragement and miseries, whereas letting go while cherishing the present moments help you realize how beautifully you've transformed and stepping towards your personal growth and becoming the person you'll love to be & destined to be. Let’s take a look at few ways

1. Take ownership and charge of your life: Whatever situations you face in life, always remember that no one is responsible for that except you. You are in completely charge of whatever occurs in your life, and should not blame other person or your parents your mentors etc. Unless and until you’ll learn to accept that you are the one who is responsible for all good or bad occur in your life, rather blaming others, you will never be able to help yourself grow as a person and take the learning of life. If you want the change in your life, you are the only one who can make it happen.
2. Accept with gratitude: Letting go is difficult, but when you be thankful for the good or bad experiences you had that helped you learn and grow, it becomes less complicated for you to let go and move on. When you accept the facts and make yourself ready to move on towards a better path, you gradually find strength and embrace the changes life offers.
3. Focus inward: To bring a change in your outer circumstances, it requisite to bring changes inside yourself. Meditate for a while, analyze the things deeply and find the right ways out. Solutions of all the minor or major problems occur in life is there inside you, all you need to do is self –discovery. Review yourself, who you are, your current lifestyle, the people around you and then analyze what change you need to bring, how you’ll bring that change, make positive adjustments.
4. Take a break for some time: Sometimes you have to see things from far away to have a bigger and clear view. Take a break, distance yourself for some time and explore newer things to transform your current state of mind. Do what you love the most, follow your innermost passion, spend time with yourself, and then return with entirely a different and transformed personality. A Better You!
5. Embrace the present and take a chance: The best way to let go the past is look at your present with acceptance and positive outlook. Look straight ahead towards you present and coming future, open yourself to experience newer realities, meet new people and set goals for future. When life throws some challenges on you and forces you to bring a change, there is some reason behind it, to take you towards a better life with more courage, more experience and more learning. So never hesitate to take a chance on something new. You destiny waits for your one decision to let go of the old memories and make way for newer ones.