Offbeat Spirituality

Beaten  Bruised  Slayed  Slaughtered  Their bodies bled Clad in patriotism With eternal spirit Fought  Flow of hatred Had hearts of a lion Gave blood for the Bharat That is what it took for  The freedom To be in our hands Happy Independence Day Folks! https://bit.ly/WriteDesign1 https://bit.ly/ContentMarketing5 https://bit.ly/InstagramWD

When thoughts are too heavy, Feelings too numb, When the heart is unsteady, And the tears start to come, Put on your running shoes. Pace urself, Let go with every stride. The melody of footsteps, The rhythm of breaths, Let everything be synchronized into; A calm stillness inside the head. BE light as a feather. Let yourself fly. The world is a blur, but tonight ... You are alive.  ____________________________________________________ Nitima is a creative writer who likes to meditate & travel. She has also recently started her company WriteDesign . Follow her on Twitter Pale Blue Dot: Voyager Journey Mindful Meditation

It began with a small idea in the 1960s that mankind should send something in space. The journey was unpredictable, but the possibilities were unlimited. Over 7,900 people worked together on a single craft that was launched in 1977 to study the universe. Named 'Voyager', it did things no one predicted, found scenes no one expected, and has outlived its inventors. On 14th February 1990, it took this photo of earth from elsewhere in the universe, at a distance of 6 billion kilometers. From that vantage point, Earth was just a point of light about a pixel in size. Our home, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives, the place of your joy and suffering, everything there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. This is how minuscule we are.  P.S. Its not much to see, but if you search 'pale blue dot' on Google, you can see some varieties of this photograph.  

Sit, breathe, watch your thoughts – the daily practice of mindful meditation is not as simple as it seems. If done with focus, it helps in more ways than one can imagine. For example, some patients with chronic pain have used mindfulness to manage their suffering. Mindfulness doesn’t make the pain go away, but it certainly makes it manageable, pushing it to a place where it can be dealt with.   What is meditation? For years, scientists have used techniques to study the effects of meditation. In an experiment done by BBC , a patient’s MRI was conducted in which she was first asked to let her mind wander and later meditate. The technology captured her mind waves in both the scenario, with the right one showing significant reduction in the thoughts during and after meditation. This shows the physically consistent proof of the benefits of meditation. One of the major advantages of mindfulness it that it helps to reduce the ‘me bit’ of a personality. Called ego in common language,...

He had started to realize that it wasn’t going to happen for him. He was in his fifties.  He was suffering from a disease that had led to muscle weakness and fatigue.  Hepatitis B had already finished his liver by 75 percent.  His new venture had collapsed.  He had to mortgage his home to pay loans.  After decades of unparalleled success, his fortune had changed and he became bankrupt. That was Amitabh Bachchan before he began his second innings in Bollywood and bounced back to a stage all of us are aware of. Today, he has an international following and is worth more than ₹ 3,000 Crores ($400 million). We all get bad days. It is one thing to have a bad experience, but occasionally life takes us through entire stretches of time when nothing goes right. Like a row of dominoes, one thing after another comes crashing down. Overcoming difficult situations certainly takes time, but it also requires grit, self-awareness, and recognizing the moment when to take a break...

I’ve never seen the man raise his voice in his entire life. His parents never had any complaints, neither ever his co-workers. They always saw him as a quiet, peaceful individual who loved the outdoors and always saw the best in others. That man, a close friend, has awesome control over himself.    He doesn’t raise his voice or argue to prove his point, and never utter words that leave the listener wounded. In other words, he radiates ‘inner peace’. Is it easy for some to have that kind of control over themselves? Or to never react, no matter how worse are the situations/people around them? Inner peace is that state of psychological or spiritual calm that defines a being. It is important to our existence. It exhibits itself despite the potential presence of stressors such as the display of anger and frustration by others. It is the unmistaken ability to enjoy every moment of time, disinterest in judgment or actions of others, and total loss of inclination in getting into ...