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5 steps to loving your life However much your boss may have stressed you out last week. Refresh yourself with these tips to enjoy the week ahead. 5 steps to loving your life Do what really makes you happy Mounting obligations and hectic schedules can make it all too easy to lose track. But whether it's the little things in life that make you smile, or the joy of working toward a larger goal, focusing on your happiness each day can help protect your emotional wellbeing and your physical health. Enjoy distractions When you're adding items to your to-do list, don't forget the good stuff. If you look forward to reading in bed, going out to breakfast, taking long walks, listening to music, or just sitting quietly outside, make time for at least one of your favourite diversions every day. Consider crossing out pesky items on your list that you keep saying you're going to do but haven't gotten to in over a year, like alphabetizing your bills or organizing your sock drawer....

Yoga, meditation to beat recession With pink slips, job loss and salary cuts becoming the order of the day, it seems recession is taking a toll on almost everyone’s personal and professional life The situation gets worse from bad when professionals find it tough to deal with the stress creeping at work front, thus ending up spoiling their health and losing out their mental balance. While, recession stress is no less a mental trauma, yet there are ways to deal with it in a healthy way. Recession stress is all in the mind, which eventually gets reflected in our thoughts, dreams, imagination and attitude towards life - both personal and professional. Therefore, youngsters need to chuck off the negative ways of reliving stress like drinking, smoking, drug addiction etc and opt for more realistic techniques. Body and mind are directly connected. If you use your mind too much, your body would be in trouble and if you exert your body, it would affect your mind adversely. So it’s important to ...

Socialism As the late Adrian Rogers said, "you cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." This man is truly a genius! An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little. The second test average was a D! ...

Shyness is a disorder and not an illness. Are you a shy person? It can be considered to be normal to some extent. Most people experience some amount of discomfort while entering a room full of strangers, or if they have to deliver a speech. However, sometimes shyness can take on extreme forms. Shyness is believed to affect nearly 50 per cent of adults to some degree. It is defined by the Encyclopedia of Mental Health as, “discomfort and/or inhibition in interpersonal situations. It is a form of excessive self-focus.” Dr Jyoti Sangle, psychotherapist, Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, Mumbai says, “It is important to understand that shyness is a problem and not an illness. The line between the illness as social phobia and shyness is thin, but the line and the features differ in quality and intensity. Hence, the approach towards overcoming shyness becomes more subjective and individualistic.” Dr Kersi Chavda, consultant psychiatrist, P D Hinduja Hospital, Mumbai further explians, “The mains...

In Golf, So In Life Play A Positive Game The old master was already there when the golfer reached the course at daybreak. He had sought the master’s help because more than a pleasurable activity, golf had become a torment for him. Master: First, the basics. In many ways golf is life itself. Think of the ball as your soul which craves salvation, represented by the hole in the green. The 14 clubs in the golf-set symbolise five elements — earth, fire, water, air and space — of which the human body is composed, five senses, instinct, ego or the lower mind, intellect or the higher mind and the consciousness... You play well when they work in tandem. In other words, you should strive to achieve harmony within and without. See the rising sun, smell the fresh air and feel its moist kiss on your cheek and feel the cushion of the soft grass under your feet. Then, close your eyes and feel yourself as a part of all this. When the golfer opened his eyes, the master resumed. Master: There are many ...

Who is the real guru? Two contrary views were expressed in these columns recently one by a proclaimed guru, exchanging wisdom for compensation, and the other by a reluctant guru who expected no compensation yet never succeeded in being proclaimed a guru. A guru is one who removes ignorance about one's own potentiality. Some claiming to be guru provide information drawn from scriptures. But that makes one possessed of information, which is not a substitute for wisdom. The internet is a great source of information, but the one who is a service provider cannot be a guru. A guru can only make the seeker competent and qualified to become wise with the information provided; the guru cannot make the disciple wise. Mother is said to be a great guru. What role does a mother play in the child's physical, psychological, moral and spiritual evolution? Observe a mother bird after it lays its egg. It gives the egg the warmth it needs and protects it from harm. Once the chick comes out of the...

Programme yourself for mind management In every difficulty there is an opportunity. Life is really a choice... to be either wise, not wise or otherwise. A wise king wanted advice about what to do when he faced a real crisis in his life. He met his master. The master gave him a locket and told him to open it only when he was in difficulty. After some years he was defeated in a battle and he lost his kingdom. He was worried and was hiding in a cave. He suddenly remembered what his master had told him. He opened the locket and there he found a note, "even this will pass", and a second note which said, "if one door closes another door opens". He gained strength from this piece of advice and after a month won his kingdom back. He went to his master and thanked him and asked a question: "Why does the door close?" "The door is always open, your mind is closed," replied the master. There are two types of worlds we live in. The visible world and the invis...