Learn To Pause Before Reacting
When we look back on how we may have handled ourselves in situations and in managing our relationships, we may well find that often we have reacted only to wish we had done it differently. The issue is not that we didn’t know better, if we reflect back we may well...
Building Our Emotional Immunity
Doctors have told us that we need to build our immunity to prevent falling sick. We know that the physical discipline of food, exercise, and rest is critical to our well-being, but how often have we stepped back and focussed on building our emotional immunity? When we...
Keep Failing
We grow up often hearing that if we have not succeeded, we have failed. This conditioning not only builds sub-conscious fear, we often restrict the free flow of the best in us, for ‘fear of failing’. When we take a step back and reflect on what failure means to us, we...
Not Every Glass Is A Magnifying Glass
A magnifying glass not only allows us to see things larger than they are, but it also has an interesting property of burning the paper below it if sunlight passes through. And yet, an ordinary block of glass will at best warm the paper below but cannot create the...
If We Stop Talking, We Stop Walking Together
As relations grow in age they often change, and what changes is communication. We may well find few people in our life with whom we carry on the relationship but don’t carry the same openness and free flow of conversation. In our minds, we may have good reason for the...
Watching Our Spending Habits
It is always good to be aware of our spending habits, being careful that we are neither too stingy nor getting carried away. We regularly take stock of what we have spent on and whether it was money well spent. However, money is not the only thing that we are...
Are We Making Enough Time For Ourselves
Our day often feels like a shopping bag, we keep filling up the space and stuffing it with things to do and people to meet, and before we know it, we’ve had a full day, are tired, and it's time to check out. Time seems to pass too quickly and even as we keep ourselves...
The Different Colours Of Love
If we are not living with love, we are not living a full life. Even though we have experienced love - given and received, and have known its true worth and value in our feeling of completeness, we often find ourselves struggling to always find it and live it every...
Thought For The Day
Building Trust Is Willing To Let Go Of Control
We like to feel in control of things and get a sense that life is manageable. Not knowing, not being in charge, and not being able to influence things not only throws us out of our comfort, but it often creates stress and anxiety. At the same time, we know that we...
