Footloose

Living like a hermit

We are only too comfortable in our skin. We don't want to adapt; we expect the world to mould itself around us; while we continue to be the fixated rock of Gibraltar. Life is simulated to a pack of instant food today; easy solutions, quick fixes, laid-back attitudes. The inertia makes the unruly clay of personality hard, and disallows any movement from the static. One becomes rigid, inflexible, stubborn and arrogant. What starts as inertia, culminates in broken friendships, messy relationships and poor social connects. All just because we were too stuck to our position and resisted change. Change that could allow growth. Change that could make all the difference. Change that could move mountains. But change that required some effort. Effort that we thought we were incapable of putting in...

Speed

There is a lot going on in this sphere around us. And indeed even more within us. This world is struggling with its own challenges and encounters, earthquakes and calamities. Some of these events don’t influence us directly. However other battles are continually being fought within us. Our health, job, spouse, family, parents, friends, income, taxes, bank accounts, vacations; nothing is short of a trial in itself. The strain on our bodies and minds is magnanimous. There’s really no time left to introspect and know who we are, what we want and where we’re headed. It’s never right to procrastinate; however slowing down to breathe may be recommended.

Learning to breathe

Thankfully breathing is involuntary; else we wouldn’t make the time for that too midst our busy schedules! Conscious breathing takes place during meditation, pranayama, yoga and relaxation exercises. It’s worthy to be aware of actuality. To know we exist. To take a deep breath and acknowledge that we love ourselves. Seems odd that we must learn that now, when we’re all grown up and mature and seasoned human beings; holding successful careers and blooming relationships. To decipher now the tenacity of life, the necessity for existence; and the requisite for survival.

Oh there’s no time

The railway train arrives at the same time everyday. It takes the same path on the predestined tracks, halts at the identical stops, at the similar speed, at the same time. How exciting, is that?  The droning lifestyle, the mundane tasks, the everyday existence, the worries, stresses, trials and battles. They’re inevitable. Yet they’re manageable. Life doesn’t usually throw things your way that you cannot over power. Knowledge of abilities allows for preparation to use them. And you always have the same 24 hours in a given day. There’s always time if you just know how to plan it right.

Agree to amend

This planet is transforming. Intellects are changing. The body is ageing. Your hair color is different today; its style too. So is the way you look and dress. Your budgets, job profile, expenses, relationships, are different from what they were a while ago. Availability of resources has gone up, their utility in addition of course. Everything is unlike what it was. Why then should thought processes stay unaltered? Flexibility in thought is the first step towards plasticity of emotions. The more you accept changes in yourself, your environment and people, better will be your adjustment and assimilation into it. It will buy peace of mind without a hitch. You only need to agree to make the desired amends.

Ego a barrier?

Ego is essentially a sense of character, an identity encompassing self-worth and self-regard. Who could be more important to you than your own self? But ego as an exaggerated self-concept; a sense of superiority and arrogance often interferes with relationships. Feeding into ego is a tiring endeavor. Proving superiority takes up energy and harms positive associations. Disillusionment about one’s own worthiness set in and one then toils to prove one’s own worth to the self. This takes up physical and psychological energies. Save them for better utility!

Footloose

Be free to sing the melody of life and dance to it too! Know your challenges and feel free to expend your energies overcoming them. Bask in the bright sun; it rises for you every day. Set rules, follow them too; but don’t chain yourself. Don’t complicate your own life (there are enough complexities in it anyways) There’s really no dead end, no corner or edge of the earth (it’s truly round) that you need to jump off. There will be sad endings, but also fresh beginnings. Enjoy the adventure. Make the most of it while it lasts.

Footloose, footloose, put on your dancing shoes…

With contribution by Ms.Nikita Vyas

Psychology intern at MINDFRAMES