3 Simple Steps to Overcoming Your Unnecessary Wants

3 Simple Steps to Overcoming Your Unnecessary Wants

“Stop chasing what your mind wants and you’ll get what your soul needs.”

Just Last Night, my little daughter kept pulling me to the fridge to ask me for Ice cream. Now there is nothing wrong with ice cream is there??But at 11p.m. (well past bedtime) on a heavily rainy and cold day it’s potentially disastrous. Now we grown ups know that don’t we? But for a child its still the best thing in the world and not getting what she wanted makes her cranky and irritable. I try hard to distract her attention from it but all in vain. I actually had to drag her to bed…and even then she kept at it…she couldn’t stop crying and saying ice cream ice-cream…finally after much ado she did fall asleep. What she needed was to go to sleep, but what she wanted was ice cream! Continue reading “3 Simple Steps to Overcoming Your Unnecessary Wants”

4 Positive Ways to Be Kinder and more Compassionate

4 Positive Ways to Be Kinder and more Compassionate“If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama

We are all striving to live in a happy world and to be happy our-self too. While we all want this level of happiness, are we able to garner it for us everyday? We try. Come on, we try to remain happy and calm, but the mean people(for reasons all their own) of the world come on over into this happy bubble and spoil it all up. So, we are not happy because of the mean people in the world?! Really!?

Nah, we are not happy because we have not become kinder and more compassionate to ourselves and to all those around us. Why blame the mean people, they are probably fighting their own battles on the inside. Continue reading “4 Positive Ways to Be Kinder and more Compassionate”

Compassion Begins with YOU

Happy October darlings! 

I know this month brings with it thoughts of compassion for me. I read the news and I’m just looking for a magic wand to wipe away all the pain and suffering in the world. 

In lieu of this state of being, my mind has been thinking of ways we can do magic to heal the world and ourself. Is there really any magic that can help?

Yes, the magic is a wave of Compassion. All this month, the posts/articles will revolve around compassion. How we can be more compassionate towards ourself, the world around us and how this beautiful trait honed can lead to immense healing. Continue reading “Compassion Begins with YOU”