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Dear ,
When I look back at my day while I lie on the bed at night, I heave a sigh of relief - overwhelmed, exhausted, fleeting moments of joy, frustration, relief, and laughter, there are so many different emotions I have experienced in a day.
Juggling between various roles - mother, daughter, wife, writer, aspiring yogini, friend, etc., the list goes on. It can get really tough and challenging. I started to function in auto mode, wake, exercise, perform (duties, responsibilities, tasks, et al.), eat, sleep, repeat. Then on reflection and deep introspection, I felt the need to shake things up a bit, to make it interesting and tolerable.
Go to the hill, spend time with your plants, meditate, chant, and complete the pending book, these are the various ways I try to remain centered and maintain a certain level of sanity. What I realized is that each one of us has the capacity to choose how to spend our day - how to react, what to ignore, what to forget, what to hold on to, and when to stay quiet.
I can go on complaining about how stressful my days are, I do that too (mind you, not yet reached a saintly mindset), but things don't change after complaining, they only mess up your mind further. When we build on that capacity, things begin to change. We become wiser. The task is to break the cycle of repeated habitual patterns, when we operate out of auto mode, we miss the moments of holding back, and moments of stepping aside, when it is required. The remedy to our woes lies within us, it requires a huge amount of courage, awareness and willingness to stop operating in auto mode and take charge of our life!
Below are some articles that might interest you to become aware and make the change ~
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