Heart Vs Brain- Who is the Boss

Heart and Brain both form most essential part of our body. Heart circulates blood giving life to our body. On the other hand brain gives meaning to all the events and things we see. Heart makes us feel and Brain helps us to understand, than how can we say whether it is important to feel or to understand?

Following the heart is easy for all. Heart does not distinguish between right or wrong. It just creates an altogether a rosy picture or an altogether a horror one depending upon the mood. Heart helps us in finding happiness even in small things. Heart makes us like red color and has those innocent crushes. It is this heart which helps in creating our own dream world, fantasies which seem so real and keeps us always on our toes; irrespective of whatever is going around in reality.

Brain – YES the part whose shape resembles that of walnut holds the place above the heart inside our head. Brain is a storehouse of our memories, and experiences that shape our attitudes and perceptions in general. Perceptions refer to our way of seeing this world; giving meaning to everything that is going around us. Perception forms a large part of our personality. This is the logical region which forms relations of objects with experiences and learning there by guiding our actions. Brain controls our body movements bringing about perfect coordination of our hands, eye movements.

Hearts is very innocent and happy go lucky types. They are just wild creatures who if left uncontrolled will take you on a very dangerous roller coaster ride. At the end of the day you won’t be very happy or satisfied with your doings. Our heart tries to find easy ways to pleasure and generally shrugs away the important matters that are not too pleasing or exciting. It distorts the reality and intoxicates us to the worldly tunes.

Brain on the other hand keeps a check on our heart. Brain disciplines our heart. It is only human mind which distinguishes it from other living beings on this earth. Man by extensively making use of his brains changed and modified it from being an animal into a creature of higher level consciousness. It is through his brain that he created for himself the world, the facilities to make his life interesting and easy. So, according to my opinion mind is definitely the boss.

Boss cannot work without the attention and cooperation of heart. Heart is the hub for our feelings and emotions. Man is not a computer deemed to perform only logical operations. A living being has been bestowed with the power to sense and feel.

There are two types of people, the thinkers and the feelers. Thinkers tend to place their mind first in making decisions. They are logical, rational and unbiased while taking their decisions. These people are often seen as taking responsibilities in the areas of quality control and supervisory nature. The other lot belongs to the feelers. These people have the quality of empathy and take decisions considering its effect on people feelings. Such people are well suited to the role of being an HR or a counselor, where persons are at the receiving end and where their psychological satisfaction is of utmost importance.

According to me heart and brain should both be coordinated as best friends of each other; Rather than allowing one to dominate the other. A person should live through his heart but heart should be well guided by the mind to save one from regret.

Now what happens if we go singly through what our minds them; our mind gives a green flag only to those people and things that match our beliefs?  Heart expands our vision and compassion for others. Heart allows us to accept things the way they are. Mind sometimes is unable to see things that can be easily felt with heart; it may in the form of understanding someone’s sadness or happiness by just looking into their eyes. Whereas mind can raise the question that he is just not like me.

Nowadays the topic of emotional quotient is becoming very popular. Many job interviews and tests have now also added to their list emotional intelligence ability tests. There is one immensely popular show by the name ‘Emotional Atyachar ‘that gets aired on a popular youth channel these days. Well this suggests that the topic which we are discussing right now holds a lot of importance. To live carefully and consciously is the solution which is the need of the hour. Gone are the days when due to emotional attachment of the heart people used to ignore the wrongdoings being done towards them. Mind always wants a reason, an answer for everything. We have now entered an era where people have become more expressive and independent.  Emotions should not become one’s weakness instead should be turned out into one’s strength. One should never be an emotional fool and should make use of his great mind always. Mind has been placed above the heart that is for a reason to get the final orders from it and then to proceed further in your doings. Mind should be put to use to decode the mysteries of the world and to make best use of our capabilities.

This battle of thoughts would always continue between your heart and brain and more are the battles higher would be the frustrations. So the best solution to minimize this conflict is to team up the heart and the Brain and make them work in situations through a team effort. Both these are bosses and leaders in their own specific way of approaching situations. No one is the boss because there are situations where you need to consider the rational approach of the brain whereas there are situations where you would require the empathetic approach towards solving problems or dealing with situations. 

we cannot afford to have a situation where there arises a conflict between the brain and the heart towards taking the lead, it should be a mutual consent with a decision that comes with a yes from both the brain and the heart because a brain cannot work with optimum efficiency if it does not have any support from the heart and similarly a heart may not be able to take decisions if it is not supported by the brainy ideas and logical interpretation that is required in this world to save you from unwanted people and situations. 

There a special touch which only heart can provide to our activities.  Many a times there are things perfectly been made but lack that very special feeling. That is the miracle of doing things with your heart and mind together. It is a fact that mind always asks for a reward of doing great things and if not given its due it does not find any reason of doing it again. It is here where heart becomes the king. Heart derives pleasure from small things. Mere act of indulging in something you love gives you a heartfelt joy and satisfaction to the spirit. It is this very important job of our heart to keep our spirit alive always at all times.

It is very well said that

‘When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.’

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The Greed Beyond the Need

 

                                                    The Greed Beyond the Need

Every individual among us is running. We all are running for money as we do feel that it is the only solution to all our problems, indeed it is as well. But the problem is that there is no target to be achieved when you start running this race.

You start earning from a scratch and you are highly motivated, aiming to earn some money that would make you meet both the ends and provide a good life to your family. You dream that if and if I can afford a car, it would bring end to all my misery and I would travel happily with my family. But once you buy that car, another need strikes your mind. May be if I can have an own house of my big enough for my family, may be having this house could put me at peace and I could feel a sense of accomplishment in my life. You start working hard and invest few more years of your life. During these few years you compromise on things that you like and the moments you enjoy. Maybe you would be sacrificing some good times that you could have spent with your family or friends, but eventually you make this sacrifice to get into a new house where you could eventually enjoy with your family.

So in this way we keep on setting targets that are worldly in nature but we associate a feeling of happiness and accomplishment when we achieve it, but in the duration we compromise with the things and the moments that we actually want to live on the accomplishment of the objectives.

Time passes and flies, but we are eventually trapped in self-created targets that we eventually feel would be the source of our happiness and would add to good times for the future. But somewhere deep inside our heart we feel the pain of giving up the things we like, the small gifts the small talks and the precious time we give upon with our loved ones in order to build a house and a good future for our families.

We never realize that this habit of ours slowly gets transformed from need to greed and we just keep on running after unlimited targets in this limited life where eventually we have limited days and limited years to survive on this earth. Working for families is needed and indeed is essential but we forget the true essence of life and then comes a point when we realize that may be we have come too far in the search of happiness and indeed we actually missed upon the true moments of happiness and joy that we could have lived to the fullest.

So it is better that we start differentiating between our needs and our greed and rather invest this limited time on the feelings on the moments that really make us feel happy and also make our families feel happy and bonded because this is the real happiness and no cars, no houses could bring this feeling of joy and warmth that love, care and affection could bring to us.

It is very important to understand the difference between need and greed because there exists a very fine line of differentiation between need and greed and each one of us has to define that boundary so that we do not cross the boundary and start wasting our time chasing the greed because greed has no end and we can never satisfy our greed, even though needs could be satisfied and fulfilled and they could bring in satisfaction to our lives but by being greedy we just ruin ourselves of the precious time we do have in our life.

Thus we need to realize that we do not have infinite time with us and so we do not require infinite resources to fulfil this life with materialistic things, instead we should aim for a peaceful life that provides us with happiness, satisfaction and contentment because it is these aspects that would eventually make us feel to add a meaning to life and would eventually help us to derive more in our life.

It is rightly said that we only live once but if we live right once is enough, so it means that we should realize that what is right for us and what is not because if we do not realize this aspect it would add misery and increase more challenges in life, might be we could earn more with this approach but we would eventually drift far away from what real happiness is and this should not be the aim of life, instead we should focus on acquiring a peaceful and meaningful life.

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"How to Access- The Success"

 

How to Access- The Success

Success is actually a very common destination as every individual wants to achieve success or become successful. Everybody is running and chasing success like it is the only goal in life. Most of the people associate name, Fame and money with success. It is these aspects that term an individual successful in the modern society. However, want and desire is one thing but actually becoming successful and reaching the pinnacle of performance that brings in success is a totally different aspect.

Success is not accessible to all and in order to make it accessible, there are basically two steps that needs to be followed.

Step 1- Understand what actually success means to you as an individual and as a person

The first mistake that most of the people make is considering success as a common aspect that is same for all. If one individual considers becoming rich as an orientation for success, most probably his/ her friend would also consider becoming rich as success. This is the biggest mistake which we make. We define our success in relativenes to what is success for others. So the first step is to actually realize the meaning of success in our personal life. This step is extremely important because without this realization our efforts would be in wrong direction and we would be focusing towards achievement of things and goals that will not value to us eventually.

Example- There were two friends, one of the friend wanted to earn money and become a successful entrepreneur, so he left his house at the age of 19 and worked really hard to become a successful entrepreneur by the age of 35. However, after getting into business he barely had any time left with him for his family, his parents grew old and he was not able to manage his time between his wife and his parents because of increased workload. Time passed and he realized one day that what is the use of earning if he doesn’t have time for his near ones.

On the other hand, his friend started his own business but at a small scale, so that he could manage it while being at home, so even though he was not able to earn much but the good thing was that he was able to spend time with his family. So by the time he was 35, he was not earning very good, but he was very satisfied with the time he was giving to his family and the moments he spent with his family. He actually did not have any regrets.

Step 2- Prioritize and strategize through reflection and understanding

So it is very important that one should be clear as to what has to be achieved and once this is done the next step is to understand as to how to balance between personal life and professional life. There should be a balance and the quest for excellence and success should not put an individual in a situation where he/she gets frustrated about not giving enough time to personal life as well. It is very important that an individual reflects upon his own personal interests and desires and this would eventually help to get a better understanding and clarity about the personal goals and aspects that would bring in success and personal accomplishment.

One thing that has to be remembered is that Success is not the same for all and that every individual has a different definition for success, what is most important for you is to realize what is Success for you and how would you approach success for you in your life. Once you have an answer to this question, your quest for success would become more clear and achievable while adding contentment to your life as well.

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YOGA- The Way of Life

                                                        YOGA - THE WAY OF LIFE

 

 

 

 Sounds of Birds with Sunrise

 

Your life comprises of everything – a job, best friends, and weekends but where are you lost? Are you enjoying everything that is there in the platter of your life? Are you there living in the moment?  Or are you the one looking out for happiness? Do you think too much? Are you spending sleepless nights? Are you finding your life Boring?

The panacea for all your problems is YOGA.  It is our very own indigenous way of curing all the physical and mental agonies of your life. It is so SIMPLE; Hassle free and Free of Cost that even a Layman can revive his heath by adapting YOGA as his way of life.

The word ‘Yoga ‘has been originated from the Sanskrit word ‘Yuj’ which means ‘to join’. Hence Yoga is an art that helps in bringing about the union of mind, body and spirit out of which comes the feelings of peace and of oneness with the supreme soul. It is not just like any other form of physical exercise. It is much more an illuminating experience that will touch your soul and awaken your senses to the environment, the beauty around.

Yoga comprises basically of a series of Asanas (physical exercises and breathing exercises) through which conscious effort is made to control and calm the mind and body to achieve the total state of wellbeing. Yoga combines series of activities like– chanting, meditation, Pranayama and the study of philosophy. All u will need is just yoga mat.

Yoga has been a perfect blend of tradition and science and this is the reason that it is one of the modes that has been recommended by the doctors as well as by the Rishi’s and Munis in the traditional India, which is considered to be the nation of origin of this great activity called Yoga. The benefits of Yoga could be further verified with the fact that thousands of foreign tourists visit India, just to learn this activity. It is the impact of this great activity that the people across the world have started following this as a daily routine activity and this has added into a lot of benefit for the people as far as their body and mind is considered.

The whole process of Yoga heals your entire body. The back to back practice of Yoga, meditation and breathing provides ample amount of variety for the practitioners to firmly and enthusiastically practice Yoga daily and in making it a way of life. Asanas increase the absorption of oxygen in the body, leaving you as a more relaxed and peaceful person altogether. The best part of them that they are most effective in reducing the levels of stress hormone cortisol in the body. Asanas are basically different body postures practiced with right breathing and meditation. Various poses direct the flow of blood to different parts of the body helping to balance blood sugar, thyroid gland and thereby balancing hormones. There are various asanas like- Sarvangasana or Shoulder stand, Shirshasana, Hal asana, and Matsya asana which help in releasing anxiety, tension and opens up the heart and muscles increasing the flexibility and strength of the body. Chanting Om puts a very positive effect on our hormonal system as the thyroid gland responds to the vibrations while chanting. The practice of connecting breath with movement and holding postures has number of benefits. It enables Prana, or the energetic life force, to flow freely throughout the body, releasing stress causing hormones, leaving the practioner calmer than ever before. Even I find myself a more pure and grounded person than before after years of continued practice of Yoga.

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 What if you belong to the category of those persons who are too lazy and impatient to practice so many Yoga poses? Than I have a fix for that too. The name of the asana is Suryanamaskar or Salutation to the Sun.  It is done in a series of slow and controlled poses, each one lasting for 2 to 3 counts and you just have to inhale and exhale correctly as you move in and out of the poses. The continuous, fluid, repetitive sequence of Surya namaskars becomes meditative and releases built up emotional and physical tension.  I also on some days when I am short of time in the morning I make sure to practice Suryanamaskar as it comprises of nearly all the Yoga poses which can be done together in one go. Suryanamaskar has proved out to be immensely beneficial in reducing weight and bringing about the desired stamina in our very own Bollywood stars. To name a few Saif Ali Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Shilpa Shetty, Lara Dutta, Bipasha Basu have all successfully achieved their desired fitness level all thanks to Yoga.

Nowadays office work is also very demanding.  Bad appraisals, scolding from Boss, achieving targets, meeting the deadline, fulfilling your own dreams and demands, family needs, children and you get a heart attack.  Life is far too beautiful to be bogged down by these pressures. They will be there. I have a technique through which you can combat and overcome them easily. Whenever comes such an occasion that makes you feel that so many thoughts have entered your mind and have taken away your peace of mind practice Shava Asana. It would be best to do it every morning or in the evening as you return your home. You just have to lie down on the floor on your back with your placed paced loosely by your both sides. You just have to relax each every part of your body one by one starting from your and moving down to your feet. Just relax and focus on the sounds around you. Get up slowly and I assure you that there will be smile on your face.

Through this article I really want to declare than remaining Fit and Young forever is no more a dream but a reality that can be achieved if you make Yoga a way of life.

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 Sounds of Birds with Sunrise