Vipaasana

    Our body is a complex ecosystem which works in mysterious ways to keep us alive. So many functions are beautifully combined to perform a particular task. Damage to any one part leads to malfunction of the body and stress is one which has the capacity to cause serious damage.      The body is made up of bone, flesh and blood. It has its own limitations. If forced over its limit and sustained for a long time, then stress happens. Regular relaxation of body and mind becomes crucial in this ever demanding world. The materialism has led us to ignore our human tenets of limitations and has made us to work like a machine. Stress over a long period of time has the potential to manifest itself into a disease.      In this light we need to see what our media is doing. Constant TRP requirements and tight competition has made our media to target upon the consumers to affix them to their channel. They try to feed the customer with constant breaking news to satisfy the curious nature of the cust

     Mind is a powerful tool which, if left uncontrolled can become devastating. Almost all of us have gone through a rough phase of depression whether we are aware of it or not. Its a state where the mind gets clogged with a set of repeating cycle of thoughts endlessly in a loop and causes distress by keeping the person under a spell of mental quarantine!      Before we dig deep, we need to understand feelings. Feelings can be happy, angry, sad, anxiety, etc. These feelings can be triggered either due to external or internal stimuli with something that we have attached or associated ourselves. When the feelings intensify, it becomes an emotion. All emotions are a state of mind. For example happiness is a state of mind. Each emotion evokes a physical as well as psychological response. The response or our reaction gets combined with our conscience and elicits further emotions.      Now when the mind is in a sad state, it will be very vulnerable to external or internal stimulus. This vul

     Its all intriguing to talk about the mind and its complex system of thought process. The decision making happens as a result of multitude of factors. The thought process has become so complex that often we are less aware of why we did what we did.      The mind has a certain degree of uncertainty. It keeps on fluttering and fluctuating into different patterns of thought and different levels of awareness. The conscious state of mind is supposed to help us keep in the present. But since we know that there is a lot of neurological activity in the brain going on simultaneously, is it possible to have interference among the thoughts itself and lead to a complete new thought? Lets say that a person wants to concentrate on a ball as just an object without any characteristics except that it is round. Now after a few seconds or minutes depending on the concentrating ability of the individual, the person automatically becomes aware of the colour, the groves, marks, etc. and at one point of