Know your life...as it goes by (Penultimate...)

"Forever we will go….and we will go hand in hand….its not what you see outside, the good and evil reside within you" – if any of you recognize this, this is the ancient Japanese quote that describes yin n yang, yea that’s right the funny shaped black and white description of good and evil.

In this continuing series, the penultimate part shall discover the energy that we all are a part of, how to see it, feel it and maybe even radiate it consciously. The last part of this article descends into the "dark side", most of you star wars fans would want to relate to this, but after you read it, lets see if you find this more appealing than "Return of the Sith"

Over the years, the thought of how weak and strong we can feel according to circumstances has been bothering me, I have often felt me feeling very weak after a confrontation in which I was put down harshly, or refused an explanation. I have also tried to extend the feeling of exuberance and elation, guess its not in our hands, but again if it were, I guess there wont be no emotions…right ? If there aint no sorrow, doesn’t joy lose its relevance. I remember an ancient Chinese saying "Only the bumpy roads realize the transitions as smooth"

So, to put it all into perspective, if I describe this as a flow of energy between people in a particular situation, it all comes good, people enter the group/ conversation with a "carrying energy", and during the process, if they gain confidence their energy increases, if they are put down or are abashed they lose energy. Now comes the all important question, how to feel this ? try doing this, close your eyes, think about your early days, your aspirations, in a place where you are in command of your life, and not circumstances ! me thinking about my about-to-be-born niece works.

What you will feel is an instant smile across your face, and a sudden booster shot that launches you into overdrive and makes you have a positive outlook, albeit for an instant, before you allow yourself to be diving into this abyss of never ending circumstantial oppression. The trick is to retain it and do it as frequently as possible, here are a couple of ideas that might work, for people that have kids, think about any of their annoying antics, believe me it’ll make u smile; for people in relationships, think about your first date or how your got proposed, and for singles, think about how you’ve always imagined your first date to go.

When you start to feel it….start doing your work and keep it as long as it goes, unless your sub conscious puts it away, in essence you are trying to fool your sub conscious to stay more happy than it allows you to :) .

Again, now that you have started to feel it, you will realize that whenever you are feeling low, you can instantly turn it around, over a period of time you will be bestowed with the realization of a gift "to radiate it to other people" to make them realize of this energy, and to control it. In order to commence the process you will have to tell them to look around what they see, and feel the energy themselves. You can help them by explaining to them the flow of energies that you have gained over your experiences.

And now, the final paragraph delves onto the dark side, I want to discuss this so that you can look into what it is to have control, both sides of it, when you gain the power of thinking about things and altering your current thought pattern, there is a chance that while beginning there maybe negative thoughts of your past that may make you feel even worse, and lose your energy, but its for you to decide to let it take control or not. Maybe this common phrase "There is a fine line between Genius and Insanity" describes it all.

Now that we are all done, let me reiterate the importance of yin and yang as quoted in the first paragraph. Its all about looking inside rather than searching for salvation outside, the gratifying act of pleasing your good and evil sides will be much more fruitful than an act of external attempt at salvation.

In the end, just this "For you have to look beyond the horizon to look at yourself…..What you see is all but only a part of what you do not see !"


P.S. --> The last part of the series, i.e. part 4 detailing about addiction to people, moving on and evolving yourself will be available soon enough, but today I have my bags packed and am all set to relocate to my new abode for 2 years at IIT .

I will have access to Internet not before 4 days, and that is why this post is a little long, so rejoice and smile all you can.

   [ POSTED BY Maverick @ 1:58 PM ] [ ]

Know your life...as it goes by (continued...)

We do what we do, but do we do what we want to do ? In this part two of this continuing series, lets start to explore our behavior, is it that we always do what we want ? You’ll be surprised to notice how often we behave and do things not on wants or need but on expectation, the semi dillusionary state that makes us do these things is strongly embedded in our sub conscious.

Here, lets try and explain something that is common enough for others to notice, yet extremely difficult for oneself, to start, of how about an illustration…..you’re having a conversation with someone, u say something that comes naturally to you and the other conversationalist responds "I was expecting you to say that, you always respond in that manner", I’d be downright astonished if someone came up and said they had never experienced this. In my opinion, continuing from the previous part, recognizing everyone as a person that carries a message is something we ought to do to be more alert. Not only will you be respectful & amicable, you shall learn to respect people for their content and not their color, creed, gender, social and financial background (credit to Martin Luther).

Lets come to the core topic, WHAT makes us do the things we do, I think most of agree its not need and want basis all the time, Well, according to me after reading many books and looking at the social pattern, it’s the "societal facade" or "societal drama" that makes us tick, Care for an example anyone ? How about the word "sorry", I am not of the opinion that you can get around murder by saying sorry, its not that, the whole idea is, if you did what you did, why don’t you accept that you did it, and repent by doing something to change the opinion rather than trying to misconstrue the persons perception by saying sorry, and doing next to zilch.

We all shun from the fact that somewhere down the line WE did it, so be it, as they say in hindi "hai tou hai, kya karein" the first part, true, second ..faulty, you can do everything to change the "hai" to "tha".

Think of life as this way, you are living your life as a first person story, what you do, happens to you, so why not do the things you WANT to do and be happy rather than do other things and hope to be happy, people will never stop expecting, you have to go up and start taking YOUR life by its horns and turn it around the way you like it, It might sound like an oxymoronic statement, but the first person story makes a hell lot of sense if you put a third persons perspective, like you are sitting on a drawing board, writing a cartoon strip, and watching your life as it goes by, difficult and divine like it may sound, but is not divinity inside us all ??…if whatever I said above does not make sense, maybe my concluding line will

"If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got"


Part 3 continues tomorrow, in which we talk about how we all need to experience the energy around us, and the dark side too....

   [ POSTED BY Maverick @ 12:26 AM ] [ ]

Know your life..as it goes by

In this first part of a total of four, I’m just gonna dive into some things I’ve been thinking over the years that went unexplained, I definitely believe in a higher power, but that some mysterious force controls us, well, ahem…that is something worth pondering.

I think we all control ourselves, for whatever happens to us is in a continuum of what we expect, and illustration of what some people call “sixth sense”, you are walking down a dusty road, heading to a ledge, you think the ledge is going to fall, and u discard it as fear, yet it falls……you think u haven’t heard from a friend, and they send u an email or a call or whatever….you are at home, thinking , god I’d give anything to have a chocolate cake today, and lo and behold, what is your wife/mum/girl friend baking ?..chocolate cake…..to dispose these thoughts as mere premonitions and coincidences is what makes us very dry

Think at it this way, if these were mere coincidences, would they occur over n over again, the thing is, our antennas aren’t up always, we only take notice when these coincidences come and knock us of our feet, we need to be more receptive, nothing happens by chance, we need to take stock of our lives, and listen to every clue that is passed on to us, you don’t go to a school just like that, you don’t meet people because of chance, there is a “purpose of meaning”, once you start noticing these, you’ll get to realize that you are living a first person story of sorts. You will take stock of everything that goes on, visualize beauty in all forms, you’ll see people, but the perception would be different…

Once you get this thing to work for you, you’ll be bestowed with a precious gift, the gift “to not make first impressions”, I for one don’t believe in them, but most of us do let the judgment juggernaut roll at the first time itself. I’ve been feeling so light really, and people are so beautiful…just look at them the right way. The thought that someone has something extraordinary to give to you, will give u a shot of inquisitiveness blended with amicability.

Life is too short to not know people, so go out, see the beauty that is our people, know them, feel them, and touch them

In the next part, we move on to how and why we behave the way we do…keep tuned in..same place same blog…24 hours later

   [ POSTED BY Maverick @ 8:49 AM ] [ ]