1.28 How fear can be an educator
Have you ever met someone who had no tension in a situation you were tense about? Maybe you were coaching them for a critical interview, [...]
5.25 You don’t have to be fear-free to be courageous
Whenever we try to change ourselves for the better, fear whispers, “If you fail, they’ll laugh at you.” Such fear will hold us back, till [...]
16.1 The courage to change
Courage isn’t only found on battlefields or in blockbuster-style heroics. The greater courage is quieter—shown in our daily life, when we dare to face our [...]
In pursuing self-discipline is our imagination working for us or against us?
Whenever we decide to discipline ourselves, we are often jolted into action by external situations. For instance, we may notice how much weight we have [...]
Do we have an inner deception detection mechanism?
As we go through life, we learn that we can't always take things and people at face value. Part of growing up involves realizing that [...]
How purposefulness helps us move through complexity to clarity
Purposefulness helps us move through complexity to clarity Life is often characterized—and sometimes confounded—by complexity. Externally, the world around us offers an overwhelming array of [...]
Break up with our mind or a break from our mind?
Break up with our mind or a break from our mind? We can't break up from our mind, yet we need to have breaks from [...]
Inability vs. unwillingness: Facing challenges and understanding ourselves
Inability vs. unwillingness: Facing challenges and understanding ourselves Whenever we face difficult situations—whether a work deadline or a family emergency requiring us to stretch beyond [...]
Why change is challenging
The mind wants us to stay in our place because often our current place is a place of subordination to the mind. There are times [...]
Graduating in the university of adversity
Graduating in the University of Adversity. The universe is a university, and in this, the subject that we learn is adversity. The Bhagavad Gita states [...]
Becoming Bitter or Becoming Better
Why do some people become bitter when life gives them problems? And why do others become better, not bitter? That's primarily because people view themselves [...]
To guide effectively focus on others’ potentials not their problems
To help others, focus on their potentials, not their problems. Whenever we are in a position of guiding others, it is natural that we will [...]
Intelligent mind management
Intelligence means to focus on not just the thoughts that are maximized by the mind but also the thoughts that are minimized by the mind. [...]
Gita 02.40 – Explanation from Bhakti Shastri Class
2nd ch - 4th sec 38 to 53 -> Now Krishna will answer Arjuna’s fear of sinful reaction argument: He will address by telling [...]
How thinking about negative truths can stimulate positive thoughts
How thinking about negative truths can stimulate positive thoughts - Our mind often keeps us dissatisfied by looking at those who have more than us. [...]
Why we need to scan our consciousness regularly
When somebody is canned from their job, that means they are dismissed, often unceremoniously. Our conscience is our inner watchdog that sometimes gets canned, even [...]
Why some fears are healthy …
We are often constrained and sometimes crippled by our fears. Consequently, we may think of fear as something undesirable. While some fears can certainly be [...]
Appreciating our spiritual identity can anchor us amid the turbulence of contemporary society
Appreciating our spiritual identity can anchor us amid the turbulence of contemporary society In today's world, people grow up bereft of many of the supports [...]
A rigid structure may not work for us, but without a structure, we may not work
A rigid structure may not work for us but without a structure we may not work We all have various structures that bring order to [...]
Better to be crazy in being busy than to be just crazy, better still is to be busy without being crazy
Better to be crazy in being busy than to be just crazy better still is to be busy without being crazy We sometimes feel, “I [...]
Be not self-seeking be seekers of the self
Be not self-seeking be seekers of the self Self-seeking people care for their own pleasures, without caring for anyone else. Such people can’t be seekers [...]