abhinandan

I recently got a chance to pay my 2md visit to Vipassana, the meditation camp organized for 10 days. Anyone who is interested can apply for it and experience the PURE meditation experience. It’s FREE of cost.

Following are the 4 most prominent things I learned in the meditation camp:

1. The subtle art of life: If you are an adult, chances are you are not living your life fully every day. You must have a seen successful people talk about how they live in every moment and have no regrets. It seems so easy bit still most of us are not getting that life.

The problem is you have to put effort to be at the level of an ascetic, no-regrets life. And the successful people who are living it are doing so EFFORTLESSLY. How you ask?

You must have experienced that how after going to gym for 10 days without interest, it becomes so easy to wake up in the morning and going to the gym. Why? Because it has become your system. Similarly you have to put everything you want to do daily in your system without having to cringe about it. Just do it in a subtle way. For example every time your mind starts to cringe about a new task, just notice that cringe, take 3 long breaths and thing about 3 advantages you’ll get after doing it. I call it the N-3-3 RULE. If you do this it’ll stick to you for your life and you can include anything in your system.

2. Your attitude towards life is constructed by every little thing you do: If you thing you’ll start the gym from Monday, you are including procrastination not only in your physical aspect of life, but your personal and professional life. It is making you a procrastinator.

3. If you don’t want to be sad, don’t run after ephemeral happiness : How do you think successful people are able to work for 16 hours at a stretch. The answer is they don’t seek the success and happiness which they will get after being successful. They just work, work and work, and don’t expect anything.

Happiness and sadness are two sides of the same coin.

4. Whenever in stress, focus on your breaths. Period.

Are you living your every day in the best possible way without any regrets? Do you always feel invincible? Do you wake up everyday and feel thrilled about your job?

If your answer for any of the above questions is NO, then my friend, you are suffering from the same unsatiated , unquenched desires which 90% of the adults are experiencing.

You must have tried various solutions, like meditation, traveling, taking a break and tons of other blog-read solutions which guarantee to solve all your miseries by just one blog-post. But as you must have an idea by now, that the solutions were ephemeral. They didn’t give you permanent solution, rather more tension as to is something wrong with me?

Trust me. Nothing is wrong with you. Period. You are just misguided and lack a little conviction.

That’s all for today’s episode.

Tomorrow we’ll discuss about the solutions which you can inculcate in you daily system in a subtle way so they stick to your system.

How long do you think it will take before machines do your job better than do?

Automation used to mean big machines doing repetitive work in factories. Today they can land an aircraft, diagnose cancer and trade stocks.

We are in a new Information age unlike anything that’s been before. According to a 2013 study, almost half of all the jobs in the US could potentially be automated in the next 2 decades.

But wait; hasn’t automation been here for long?

What’s different this time..?

Thanks for joining me!

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