How Important Is Journaling In Your Life? Our Life on Autopilot Most of us are running our life on autopilot without even knowing that is the case. For us, to be happy, sad, frightened or expressing any other emotion is dependant on the situation we are in; in other words, we respond to a situation emotionally. Now, the question is, why do we respond to a situation in a particular way? And why is it on autopilot? For example, a black cat in the dark evokes fear in one person…
Journaling – A Tool for Planning Journaling – A Medium To Track Our Behaviour In one of the previous articles, we had seen how Journaling allows us to take a closer look at ourselves every day. Such a close look enables us to comprehend our behaviour and take steps to improve ourselves. By Journaling, we can focus on the behaviours which we need to change while enhancing those which serve us well. We looked at this part in detail and those interested in reading that article,…
How Important Is Gratitude in Your Life? Gratitude – Is It Powerful? To be honest, when I first heard that the idea of appreciating and expressing Gratitude for all that we have, I give it a genuine go. But within a couple of days of expressing Gratitude in my mind, I felt that things hardly changed. I didn’t think there was going to be too much of a change and worse still I thought there was hardly anything to be feeling Gratitude for. Now, the latter thought was…
How Do We Practice Gratitude? Gratitude – A Way To Find Ourselves In one of my earlier articles, I had spoken about the importance of gratitude and how it impacts the way we see ourselves, our environment and others in our life. The idea of feeling blessed for all that we have ensures that more flows to us. This is the basic tenet of gratitude, not just as an exercise but also as a way of life. Why? Because we have been conditioned to look at what we do not have instead of…
How Important is Forgiving? Forgiving – Macho Or Not? Let’s admit it – forgiving is for the lame and powerless, isn’t it? The vast majority would believe this narrative as that’s what movie-after-movie from Hollywood to Bollywood teach us. Revenge is the only way to show our strength and every other way is lame. In fact, we ended with phrases like “revenge is best served hot” to undermine the idea of forgiveness further; whoever came up with that. But those of us who have…
Are Appreciation and Gratitude the Same? Appreciation and Gratitude We have grown used to using both appreciation and gratitude as an interchangeable synonym of each other, and it does fit well. Take a look at this definition of gratitude from the net: ****gratitude – the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness**** You see that? Even the dictionary definition seems to be hinting at both being the same. Well, we have nothing to…
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