Tag: Mental Health

Embrace Your Childlike Spirit for Growth

There’s a fine but powerful line between being childlike and being childish. One inspires wonder, curiosity, and joy. The other resists growth, avoids responsibility, and often invites unnecessary chaos.

🌱 Life is Simple — But It’s Not a Game

We often hear the phrase “Make mistakes, that’s how you grow.” While it holds truth, we must not glorify repeating avoidable mistakes. Growth doesn’t come just from falling — it comes from learning how not to fall the same way again.

Life can be easy when we:

  • Stay curious like a child
  • Ask questions without ego
  • Laugh often, forgive easily, and keep moving forward

But life is also important — and deserves our attention, respect, and care.

✨ The Childlike Spirit We Should Keep Alive

Being childlike means:

  • Embracing awe in ordinary things
  • Remaining open to learning and unlearning
  • Leading with heart before pride

It keeps us connected to our inner truth, even as we walk through adult responsibilities.

🚫 But Let’s Not Be Childish About It

Being childish, on the other hand, looks like:

  • Escaping consequences
  • Ignoring the impact of our choices
  • Justifying recklessness as “fun” or “freedom”

Maturity isn’t about being boring or rigid. It’s about realizing that freedom has a foundation — built on wisdom, discipline, and discernment.

🧭 Your Life: Light Yet Meaningful

You don’t have to overcomplicate life. But you also don’t have to treat it like a playground where nothing matters. Aim to live with lightness, but not with carelessness.

The goal?
👉 Be playful, not irresponsible.
👉 Be open, not impulsive.
👉 Be wise, not weary.

💬 Final Reflection

Mistakes will happen — they’re part of being human. But let’s not wear them as badges of pride. Let’s wear our lessons instead.

Be childlike in spirit.
Be mature in action.
Live light, but live right.

🔖 If this resonates with you, share your thoughts or a lesson you’ve learned by balancing joy with responsibility. Let’s grow, play, and evolve — together.

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Try to Love the Questions!

Living a life mindful doesn’t mean pushing positive all the time, instead it seeing the picture of life as a whole; realizing and giving self-acknowledgment. Remember to keep an open mind towards every aspect of it.

No matter how bad the circumstances are, please know it can get always worse. We have to learn patience with everything that is unsolved in our heart. Never search for the answers which cannot be given to you now because then it will be difficult to digest living with it. And right now, the point is to live everything!

“If You Have to Eat a Frog, Don’t Spend a Lot of Time Looking at it First. And if You Have to Eat Three of Them, Don’t Start with the Small One” – Randy Pausch

Learn the attitude of finding a way to be happy always, if you can’t be happy with your surroundings right now; learn finding a way to be happy WITHOUT IT. Give yourself permission to make mistakes, own it and above all be rational in treating yourself with what you have in hands then. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind as well! We must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives with.

We all have to search something that we love enough that it either breaks us or let us brick walls! I feel we end up at a large hurdle when we don’t have that kind of feeling for what we are doing. The emotions and war within us is the most difficult one to fight. I have a solution to this situation; just ask yourself what you would really attempt to do, if you knew you will not fail?

Neither everything needs to be fixed, nor is every decision to be taken today. I believe that the way we know we are on right path is that it eventually works out. Then, it doesn’t mean we will not have troubles or obstacles but it does mean that we can find a way around it or alter ourselves or our journey in order to find the flow AGAIN and Have it WORK!

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We Have Tomorrows For A Reason!

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster” – Dalai Lama

Ever have of those days where you just can’t win?

Life to me is a journey of the moon; we must go through phases of emptiness to be full again. I know some days are just so hard but there is always hope in tomorrow. Today, it may be one of those days for you where you are hurt physically, emotionally, or mentally. Well if I put it in my favorite word formations; I will say it is one of those days when even my coffee needs coffee.

Maybe it is difficult but some walks we have to take alone. I know it does get cruel sometimes even so you must understand that to heal a wound you have to stop touching it and the logic applies to ‘one of those days’ or ‘not in mood days’ as well. If you feel you did something wrong, own up to what you didn’t do right and that is how you learn and earn respect within self too. Every so often we create a lot of troubles by either over-thinking or expectations. Well, it is not easy to detach from work commitments or people you love but at times it is necessary in order to restore your sanity, your mind and have peace.

With time, it does get harder for everyone to let it go, in spite of that when you do move on – you will realize it was the best decision you have ever made. Remember what Pooh the Beer said to Snoopy, You Live Everyday and Die Only Once!

You become a force when you accept what you are, admit your flaws, your actions and most importantly love yourself in the process of becoming.

Have Faith in Soul, Hope in Mind and Love in Heart! Have your own share of falling, rising, making mistakes, hurting and learning stories. It is all in mind; replace the word of being “brave always” with being “okay” or “happy”?  Not every day has to be a battlefield; someday it can be a rest day too!

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To Everything, I’ve Ever Lost!

“The Trouble is You Think You Have Time” – Buddha

Life is a series of surprising and inevitable changes. We all feel lost sometimes. There are many decisions we have to make in life, so many responsibilities to cope up with, so much of the pressure we feel on how society questions our existence; our strength can sometimes become so clouded. As human beings, we want to know answers to all the questions, but I believe our lives don’t really work that way.

We worry about tomorrow…. Like it’s promised!

The best day of your life is going to be the one when you decide that it is on your own. You alone are responsible for the quality of it. There is no one to motivate, lean on or even blame too; for life becomes a gift which you embrace and it is going to be the best day of your life! It is the same old school concept we learned from trees that lose their leaves every year and yet stand strong for better days coming their way.

We can’t always predict how things are going to work out in the future. We have to trust the process and count on our family & friends when time gets tough. These emotions sometimes also signal that it’s been long you haven’t had sufficient time to connect with yourself. Take a short trip or even a walk-in nature from hustles of everyday life and routine, it will provide you the clarity you have been searching for. We experience the feeling of loosing even because we have lived through so many hardships already be it the jobs we hate, the city we don’t like to fear of controlling life against what will it unfold. We get so mentally paralyzed, but what we actually need to be is persistent, and don’t allow negative thinking to pull us back. We simply have to do the best we can with what we’ve been given, and just try our hardest each day to live life according to our own principles and beliefs.

To Everything That I’ Have Lost… I Would Thank You For The Lessons And Experiences. From regrets and pain, I set you and I free to fade and be happy!

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Something Positive Please!

I want to tell you a secret today, a great secret that will see you through all the trails life can offer. You must always remember this, “Have Courage, and Be Kind!”

We, the humans, have long forgotten the power of faith, love and hope; against the darkness of fear, failures and negativity. Believe in love, in existence of magic, in others, in yourself, and believe in your dreams; for if you won’t, who will? You can’t have a positive life with negative mind.

Almost every successful people begin with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so. The art is not seeing the world as it is, but to see how it can be – to do this all you need is courage, kindness and occasionally a bit of magic!

Be a Nice Human! For love and Kindness are never wasted. “Carry Out Random Act of Kindness, with No Expectation of Reward, Safe in the Knowledge that One Day Someone Might Do the Same for You” – Princess Diana

People should always remember that past cannot be changed and everyone’s journey is different. Opinions don’t define reality and judgments are a confession of character, so don’t over-think for it will only bring sadness. If you too believe that what goes around, comes around – well, stay positive and create because a smile is contagious and kindness is free. A positive attitude causes a chain of reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results.

Tell me this, how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

What is your simple pleasure in life?

“It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary.” – Paulo Coelho.

How underrated is a hug from favorite person, a warm cup of coffee, or even a boop on nose of dog? I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary people that keep the darkness at bay! Small Acts of Kindness & Love! Everything in life is temporary. Be patient, be positive, and watch the endless amount of blessings you will receive. You will never regret being kind and passing affirmations.

Tell this to yourself everyday – I am Enough, I am Full of Sparkle & Compassion. I genuinely want to make the world a better place. I will practice kindness and have courage to work hard. I will make mistakes but importantly will own them. Sometimes I will make a lot of mistakes, but I will learn from them because I am Enough, I am Contented!

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Let’s Talk Anxiety!

It is standard to feel anxious from time to time, especially if you live a stressful life. But for many people, anxiety is a constant companion, always lurking behind the next corner. An estimated 2-5% of the population is living with the constant worrying and panic attacks that define one of the most common mental illnesses: generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). Millions more live with social anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and other anxiety conditions. However, too few people discuss these openly. Mental illness still has a social stigma, causing many people keep their condition a secret.

Anxiety Is Real, and It Is Serious!

Don’t think acceptance of stress or anxiety is stupid. It is the threshold from where the disorder may kick in. All of those intense feelings of fear or urge of escaping or running away; losing control of the thoughts and actions, hot or cold flashes, feeling numb, or irrational thoughts; all of these are physical, psychological and emotional symptoms of anxiety. Take a moment now, stop and thank yourself for how far you have come.

Sometimes when anxiety hits, it’s hard to see or think clearly, and you just need something to bring you back down to reality, to know you are in control, and that everything is okay. You have been trying to make changes in your life, and all your efforts count. Find acceptance within yourself! Here I suggest some immediate course of action –

Learn who are your support systems, connect to family and friends, try to communicate and notice the ones that care shall help you through. Realize you WANT to GET BETTER, if you not determined for YOUR better tomorrow, no one can help you out. This has to be your biggest realization that you need to want to get better. Happiness is NOT an achievable GOAL, don’t think that happiness was the goal and everything would be great if only you could be “happy” but happiness isn’t a constant state, it’s not something you can reach one day and then live in forever. Appreciate that life is up and down but also mediocre and that’s okay. Figure out WHAT YOU WANT, sometimes it takes completely losing control over your life to realize what it is you want and which changes you need to make. Self-care is NOT SELFISH, if you constantly keep putting the needs of others above your own and don’t take any time to look after yourself, you will burn out.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer! Be Solid on your End!

 

Please Note, in next blog we shall be discussing social anxiety and mental breakdown issues and how can you deal with it.Keep Reading! Stay Happy and Blessed!

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Don’t Have A Plan, Well, It’s Alright!

It’s not about being perfect every single day. I can summarize my life till date in one sentence: It didn’t go as planned and I am still a happy human! What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our mind of how “It’s” supposed to be.

No one in life has the smooth sailing, I mean, the heartbreaks, fights, failure or giving in to any social pressure. I have seen tears of love lost in many eyes, be it of person fighting a toxic relationship break-up or divorce after vows of togetherness. Worst tears are the ones, which says they have no hopes to look for in life now, the ones shed in front of mirror because that’s only person you have, for the dreams lost or venture which was your brain child failed. Pain and Failure are part of life. Probably, life isn’t about avoiding the bruises; maybe it is about collecting all the battle scars that proves you showed up for it!

Albert Einstein once quoted, “Everybody is genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” If you don’t have a plan, you can end up doing some interesting things. Besides, life is very short to wonder what could have been. Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, lazy or stupid; those things happen when you lose the passion in yourself.

BE STUBBORN ABOUT YOUR GOALS, BUT FLEXIBLE ABOUT YOUR METHODS. Just remember if there is anything you should be willing to bet on, it should be yourself!

Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made, and I am pretty sure it didn’t come with instructions manual either! It is not always about fixing the broken; maybe it’s about starting over and creating something better. In simple words, not always a plan ‘A’ that works for you but a plan with many alphabets in row. It is passion and vision that should drive your commitment. The action plan or the road-map can be altered or rewritten. Your purpose fuels your passion. All you have and all you will ever need is your own fire!

Learn to Embrace the Randomness!

Not everything will go as you planned and it is alright! Maybe that is time when you must drop the expectations and go with the flow. People must realize over-thinking is no solution, you can’t control everything! Have faith and trust yourself, like when in water, you don’t grab hold the water because if you do, you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float!

Trust your Madness! It is alright if you don’t have a plan, at least have passion and you are still breathing. You have done it today; you shall do it tomorrow too! There are more important things in life than winning or losing one game!

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We Shall Overcome, Some Day!

Before I pen down my thoughts in the article, I want to write a big thank you to Pete Seeger, the song ‘We Shall Overcome’ is an inspiring force!

Do you ever think about going somewhere, where nobody knows you and start a new life?

Mental Conflicts, Emotional Drama and Unexplained Pain; everyone is fighting a battle within. And what all of us just wish, is some escape!

Hint – “Let’s NOT try to figure out EVERYTHING at ONCE.” 

Dear Readers, I can tell you over and over again to leave this situation or time which is tough as hell, but you won’t be able to, not until you are ready. One day you will get up in the morning and realize that this is not what you want to feel like anymore and trust me you will be done. And I think it’s important!

Things like people screwing you, fights with family, heartbreaks, loss of friends whom you thought would always be right beside you and that everyone has a past kind of feelings, which are full of tears, embarrassment and even laughter. You will experience the things that will shock you or even worst, break you. But then, there will be the time when you will sit back and realize that tough times come to people who can survive it and this is what you are.

Understand, there is always a season of wildness and a season of subtleness; news – the time right now is for neither. Don’t push yourself like fast-forward button in future that you haven’t recognized yet and even don’t be stuck in past. With all love, intensity and courage give “you” a brighter today.

Our struggles are never insignificant. Don’t hide, or refuse to cry out. We all are broken and we all are humans, and we are never alone. Sometimes all you need is probably 20 seconds of insane courage, just literally 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. Your greatest need is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that is disturbing your mind. You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you would probably select your clothes. At the end of the day, we can either focus on what is tearing us apart or what is holding us together!

You can decide how long you choose the negative things affect you. You can close-down words of self-doubt against self-love. You can let go of yesterday and start fresh at any given moments. It all starts and ends with you. Your mindset is your compass!

Move, travel, take a class, take risks, and go to 2am people who have stood by you and are still standing holding you! In case, your 2am people list is incomplete – Well, Come Over! I don’t really mind whether we talk for hours, get blind drunk or sit in silence gazing stars. I know world down here just gets a bit much, and we all need to lose ourselves for a little while!

But Don’t Worry – We Shall Over Come, Some Day!

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It’s Okay, I Understand!

To everyone who struggles either fighting yourself or the enemies you can’t see like the voices that swift unseen or whisper in ears; the darkness who feel within your heart; that anxiety or panic attacks. Today, I want to share about the importance of communication when it comes to mental illness sensed in oneself.

According to the statistics released by WHO Report in Times of India, not only do 56 million Indians or 4.5% of India’s population suffer from depression at this moment but another 38 million Indians suffer from anxiety disorders. Almost 7.5% of Indians suffer from major or minor mental disorders that require expert interventions. So, this article is to address everyone who is currently undergoing the process of diagnoses, medication, or are unable to understand what’s “wrong” with them and all they know right now is that they feel messed – Don’t be tempted to make sure you don’t make it through. Its okay, I understand!

What to do we need to do when in midst of chaos or feeling of social stigma? BE HONEST, ASK FOR HELP and most of all; don’t forget to ASK FOR LOVE. I truly realise that not every feeling can be talked about or even put to words. Tell yourself this – “It is rare and unusual but I can explain it”.

Also, I feel at times not everyone around us can explain it because they are thinking not being burdensome and that’s where social stigma enters in. People suffering from any anxiety, depression, pressure or even a hint of acute mood-swings don’t need an aggressive list of “to-do(s)” and “change-your-routine”.

People suffering NEED to understand and accept the fact that your loved ones will never ever regret saying “there for you” and you can’t do it on your own. Eventually you have to reach out and ask for help, if not psychiatrist but at least one of your own people. And you know what will happen then – they will not run away, laugh, hide or whisper but say “It’s Okay, I Understand!” Let your family or friends know that you are going through emotional chaos and have no idea why is that happening. Let them see your sickness and volunteer to help.

If you don’t understand what is wrong with you? Well, learn to realise what is right – That you have friends and loved ones who will guide you and help to discover what is wrong and never ever forget their kindness.

To everyone reading this article or even communicating the summary of this, please learn to open your heart and communicate feelings. When we can’t trust ourselves, we can trust people who love us! It’s not that you need to be fixed, but a pinch of optimism will make it right. Grow more comfortable sharing not only experiences but genuine feelings – Let you friends see you cry ugly; it is not a big deal!

 

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