Do things which you feel good about

Today I want to tell you something. Do things which you feel good about. Yes, I mean it. Do not hesitate about what others will think about it. You can do things which make you feel good about only thing is to make sure no one else is hurt because of your action. And one more thing is that never ever regret it later.  

Many of a time we might hesitate to do the things which we like the most because others will think you are stupid. I like this hair style but what my parents will think if I do cut my hair?. I like him, I would like to talk to him. But others think he is a nerd, so what my roommates will think about me if I go and talk to him?. Do not hesitate. Just do it because you feel good about it right now. And later never regret doing that. Because you did it and you felt good about it. Now say this to yourself instead of worrying I might not have done that. I did it and I felt good about it. That was the right thing to do at that time.  Why? Because you felt good about it. 

Now let's state it in another way. Do only those things which make you feel good. If doing something makes you feel bad, don't do it. Sometimes you might feel that the only way of doing it. But if your feelings about it are bad never do it. Why? Because you will surely regret it later. 

So let me put it here. Do things which you feel good about and Do only those things which make you feel good about it. 

Being Positive!! How important it is...

Today I am going to tell you about how important being positive is...

Let me tell you difficult time comes to everybody. But how do we approach it is what make it difficult or easy. Sometimes what happens when we analyze the situation it might seem a very difficult one. And you might not see an immediate solution for the situation. And you start worrying about the situation. 

What happen usually here is, you miss out on the possible solution because you are depressed or worried about the possible situation. Now, what you have to do here. Simple, stop analyzing the situation. Think that the situation is under control and you have the solution. If a situation is under control what you usually do. You will concentrate it some other things. Do the same here. 

So what are you doing here? There is a difficult situation but you stop analyzing how difficult it is. and you concentrate on something else. By doing this you are actually telling your subconscious mind that buddy that situation is already solved as per the conscious mind is concerned. Then what? The subconscious doesn't have a choice.It has to make sure that your conscious belief is correct. It will come up with a solution for the situation. And we call it as intuition. 

Tell me how many times you thought like "Oh man! why didn't I thought of this in the first place? It was so easy." So here you have to trust your intuition. Now where is being positive here? That is the part of letting go. Even though you know that the situation is difficult, believe that it is already sorted out. Be positive on it. Be positive on the availability of a solution. Be positive on the ability of your subconscious to come up with the solution on the perfect time. 

Try this today. Reading and learning is one thing but implementing what you learned is the important part. Take it in small steps. Find a small situation on which you want to experiment this. Once you find out it's working on small things you can apply it to bigger stuff. Believe me, I am telling you because I had experienced this in first hand. And I am practicing this in my life regularly.

All the best guys. Take care.

My Feelings Today...

After almost three years, I am writing today. I had not decided the title of this post yet. But I just feel like writing something. Okay, may be I can write about how do I feel today. Yes, thats the title "My Feelings Today". This three years in my life had been dramatic. Talking about life being dramatic, last seven years had been full of it, not just three. I completed my B-tech in 2007 and the seven years from there a lot happened. I had changed more than I changed in my first 22 years. I tried a lot of things in my life and in my career. Read a lot of books, met a bunch of great people, and gone through many materials online and ended up changing my entire perspective about my life. I had done the job, got into the business, network marketing, again job and visited South Korea, and finally got settled in Dubai, UAE. Now my life had come into a beautiful mod, It's been two years here in Dubai and I learned a lot about the market here, the fast culture, the kind of growth of the economy here, the way of life, made good friends and all. 

As I told you I had done a lot of studying and came across Law of Attraction, Manifestation using deliberate intent, Ashtavakra Gita, NLP, Crystal Healing, Energy Meditation, Brainwave Entrainment, Brain Activation, and Chakra Balancing. My energy level has been increased tremendously in these years and the understanding that how the energy works. I am not saying I know it all but my understanding had definitely become better. Now if you see me you can tell that I am calm and not worried or tensed at all about anything in my life. And you will see that I had been through a difficult situation in my life but I handled it very peacefully, not getting panic or angry about any situation. It's been great to be like that, and it is a result of implementing what I learned all these years. 

Oh, let me give you an advice. I had seen many people who follow, read, and learn from many Guru's and great teachers easily available in this era of advanced technology. And when we talk about either LOA or NLP they seem to be knowing what we are discussing and easily agree with what I tell them. But later I understand that they just have the knowledge but not the wisdom to implement it in their life. So let me tell you one thing if you learn something beneficial to your life from any of you Guru's first try to implement it in your life before you go on learning things. Of course, you can clear your doubts by going deeply into the matter, but prioritize implementing it to your life too. 

Today is the third day I bought my set of crystals. Its two black tourmaline tumble stones, two citrine tumble stones  and a bracelet of black onyx. I can already see the difference in energy level. Right now I am enjoying my life in all positive aspects and it really feels great. And Thanks for reading this., Don't scold me now, I told you it's just the way I am feeling today

The Secret

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne tells you the secret of the universe. The essence of the book is Law Of Attraction, yes the secret is LOA. Honestly, “The Secret” isn’t the first book to come up with the theory of the law of attraction, and any internet search will come up with thousands of articles and books on the subject. But it’s the first I’ve seen to put the law of attraction so simply. And it’s the first I’ve ever seen that has had so many quotes from so many sources (including the Bible) and so many contributors, including scientists, doctors, life and business coaches, authors, ministers, and metaphysicians from both the past and the present.

The Secret is The Law of Attraction. This is a concept that states that whatever is going on in your mind will be attracted into your life. Therefore, think thoughts of abundance and wealth – and let no contradictory thoughts in – and you can have anything you want. Likewise, thinking about negative things in your life will only produce more negativity. In essence, The Secret explains that the intentions in your mind send instructions to the Universe and you get exactly what you think about. The process is broken down into three steps: ask, believe, and receive.

The Law of Attraction goes beyond positive thinking. The book emphasizes the use of visualization techniques, gratitude, faith and affirmations to help focus your mental energy. The overall concept requires that the individual believes strongly in the process. Believing is defined as “acting, thinking and speaking as if you have already received what you are asking for.”

The book describes The Secret through the voices of many highly successful experts from many different fields including philosophers, psychologists, life coaches, motivational speakers, and business professionals. Each explains their understanding of the Law of Attraction and how it affects reality. The underlying theme is all the same: you are the creator of your own destiny. Your thoughts have the power to manifest your desires.

The Law of Attraction is no mystery. It always attracts exactly what we ask for. Wallace Wattles, one of the early authors on the Law of Attraction wrote: "There is a thinking stuff from which all things are made...which fills the interspaces of the universe... A thought in this substance produces the thing that is imagined by the thought.... In order to do this, man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind...."

This is what Quantum Physics is telling us now. That energy can be a wave or a particle, and Neils Bohr discovered that its form is totally dependent upon what the observer expects. And, if, while looking into a glass of waves, the observer is convinced that they are particles, they will change to suit his belief! What does this mean? It means that we are creators. We just need to apply the appropriate system to manifest whatever we want in our lives.

So why aren't we all rich and happy? Because we haven't learned to implement the system. Our lives are definitely manifested, but as our emotions flip-flop from day to day, so does our creation, our life.

Napoleon Hill was clear: “If you're one of those that believe that hard work and honesty, alone, will bring riches, perish the thought! It's not true! Riches, when they come in huge quantities, are never the result of hard work alone! Riches come, if they come at all, in response to DEFINITE DEMANDS, based upon the application of DEFINITE PRINCIPLES, and not by chance or luck.” He was talking about the Law of Attraction although he never named it.

Hill, after studying almost 500 of the most successful people of his era wrote further: “Once you apply the process, when riches begin to come, they come so quickly, and in such great abundance that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.”

The Energy of the Universe flows according to your thoughts. What you think you can, you can and what you think you can't, you can't. Your Thought becomes Things!

Trust Your Heart, Do you?

Hello Dear,

Do you trust yourself? What a silly question to ask, isn't it? Everybody do trust themselves! But here I am asking about your inner-self. Does your inner subconscious self believe in your external conscious self? Think about it. Still not clear? How often you break your own promises like 'I will get up early tomorrow' or 'I will clean my room today itself' or 'I will not smoke today' or 'I will not lie to my parents or partner'. Every time you break your promises you are giving your subconscious self a message that your conscious self is a liar. Do you believe in a person whom you know as a liar? Never. When you break these small-small promises of yours, your inner-self loses the belief in you. And when a challenge comes to your way and when your conscious-self prepares to face the challenge your subconscious self says to you "No I don't trust you, do not take the challenge, you never keep your promises". You eventually end up with running away from the challenge.

Now the question arises "How can I make my subconscious self-believe me?" You cannot do that by giving commands to your inner-self as it doesn't understand commands. The only way is to make your subconscious self feel that you are a trustworthy person. Give your inner-self promises that can be achieved very easily, only those promises which you can keep and always keep those promises. For example, 'Tomorrow I will get up half an hour earlier than I did today' Keep that promise and then feel good about that. It is very important to feel good about that, as the feeling is the process of passing the message to your inner-self that 'Now you can start to trust me'. Stop giving excuses like 'Yesterday I slept late, so not able to get up early today, tomorrow I will get up early for sure'. All these excuses picturize you as a cheater who finds out silly excuses for not keeping your promises. "Always keep your promises".

Let's begin now itself, start giving small promises to yourself. Always keep your promises and let's get ready to face any challenges in life that you believe you can conquer.

Jai Hind.

The Change

Andrew Carnegie once said, " Dealing with people is like digging for the gold. When you go digging for gold, you have to move tons of dirt to get an ounce of gold. But when you go digging, you don't go looking for the dirt, you go looking for the gold."

How do you evaluate a person? Do you always complain about the nature of the person you deal with? Do you believe that people around you are not so nice to you? Change your vision; Change your perspective. Everyone will have something positive in them. Find out some time to appreciate it( at least in your mind). Go looking for the gold around you, not the dirt. The more you appreciate the positiveness in a person, the more positive he will be towards you. Feels like a bull**** write up? This theory is not only for people but for everything around you. Change your perspective and read it once more: and feel the change!

My First Trekking Experience

One of my friend Mohammed Rafi, who is a hardcore trekker was asking me to join him on trekking from a long while. But you know how it is in a professional life, I was not getting time to be with him. This time, I had decided that I will join Rafi and was lucky to join him on a trekking to Dudh-Sagar Waterfalls. I am a very social guy who used to mingle with people very easily, but you know when Rafi told that there will be 34 people I was a little bit embarrassed, as I know only Rafi in that group, who call themselves as 'Bangalore ASCENDers'.

As a fellow trekker, the first job assigned to me was to collect a tarpaulin sheet from Mr. Ambareesh a core member of Bangalore ASCENDers, who is not coming for this trek. I reached Majestic Bus Stand at 8:20 and collected the tarpaulin sheet and waited there at platform number one for others to reach. All of them are new to me, so I was searching each person coming to Platform number one that whether they have a sleeping mat with them and I found none. I got worried as the time reached 9 pm and the time of reporting was at 8.45 pm. At that time I got a call from Rafi asking where I am as they all reached the Platform number one. Then only I came to know that reporting place was the Intercity Bus stand and not the BMTC bus stand. I was standing at the BMTC bus stand for previous 40 minutes and was getting tensed. And when I reached the Intercity bus stand Rafi introduced me to the fellow trekkers as 'Guys meet Mr. Anand Pai, the person who asked what is the sweeper's duty in trekking and the person who bought the new sleeping mat only to forget it in the room'.

You know guys as I was new to trekking I was not knowing what a sweeper does so I just asked it openly, that was the biggest mistake I had done. And the next one is really my mistake, I disturbed one entire day Rafi by calling him from each shop at Jayanagar to select a sleeping mat for me and I forgot the same in my room.

We started our journey in Raja Hamsa by around 9.30 pm. 31 people in a bus(three girls were coming on the train by their own to join us at Hubli) of 40 seats. You should understand how unlucky the other co- passengers are! we were shouting, taking snaps, talking loudly, roaming around the bus; it was very nice to be in a group. To be frank I never felt that I was in a group of 30 people in which 29 of them were total strangers to me. They were talking in Kannada and specially translating it for me(I don't know Kannada as I am from Kerala)- so nice of them ha! Five of us had our dinner from the bus itself. Vivek PC bought some tomato rise and idly chutney which we shared(I was not able to take my dinner even though I reached early as I was really tensed). Nothing much to say about our bus journey as we all fell into sleep one by one.

Hey, I forgot to write something! It was Rafi who counted 31 at the first. The bus stopped at some place in the midway, to have food, for a few minutes. After the bus started again Rafi counted us to 30 only. Oye, one person is missing, how come? And as we checked everyone is present but the count is one less! At last, we found out that Rafi is so good in counting that he counted the person who is coming from Pune directly to Hubli as present on the bus at the first time to make it 31.

We reached Hubli by around 6.30 in the morning and our train to Castle Rock was scheduled 7'o clock. As it was early in the morning there was not much rush in the train and we enjoyed a lot taking snaps of each other and the view outside also was beautiful. Once we reached the Castle Rock railway station heavy rain welcomed us. We repacked our luggage after sharing the food items and started our trekking through the railway track. The first thing I noticed is the historical old railway station of Castle Rock, of which only two walls are left, that too with full of green bushes on it. Traveling through a railway track was never so much interesting in my life. I approached each railway tunnel with a little bit fear as there were rumors about poisonous snakes in that, but we never came across one.

Just before reaching the Goa border we had seen a beautiful place where a small stream is coming( there were much more streams in between and after but none of them were so beautiful and accessible). Few of us spend fifteen minutes there in the stream clicking snaps and enjoying the water. The water flowing was so pure that it felt like the 'Amrit'. Castle Rock to Dudh Sagar is around 15 kilometer and middle of which is the Caranzol railway station behind which there is a small Ganesha temple. After having chapathi and thokku(PC bought it for us, tasted wonderful with chapathi) instead of continuing the trekking by walking some of us get into the last compartment of a goods train. Wow! that was a wonderful experience.

After reaching the Dudh Sagar railway station we rested for a while to let others who is really trekking to reach us. And what we saw is four of them including Ashwal came in the train engine. They got a lift from the middle of trekking. They told me that to travel in the engine is also very amazing. Once we all reached the station we moved to the waterfall which is around one kilometer ahead. And you know I felt like I reached the fortress of the historical Princess. It was such a beautiful view of my life.

For those who don't know the history: Legend has it that a beautiful princess lived in the forest on the edge of the King's palace grounds. She enjoyed bathing in a lake nearby and ritually drank sweetened milk from a Golden Jug upon finishing with her bath. One day while enjoying her jug of milk she found herself being watched by a handsome prince standing amongst the trees. Red with embarrassment at her inadequate bathing attire, the Princess poured the jug of milk in front of her to form an improvised curtain to hide her body, while one of the maids rushed to cover her with a dress.

The sweetened milk cascades down the mountain slope to this day as a tribute to the virtue and modesty of the Princess.

That evening we camped at a place which is very near to the princes. Hats off to Rajesh and team who cleaned the camping site to make it a livable space. We were jam packed with the space available but the co-ordination within the fellow trekkers was amazingly the best. It clearly showed the culture that the BASC is following. I love you BASC! That evening we had so much of fun which I cannot describe in my words. Next day morning some of them went to have a bath at a smaller waterfall nearby and continued their trekking towards Kulem which around 10 kilometers. Some of us were more brilliant we went ahead towards Kulem about one and a half kilometer from where we had a beautiful and full view of the waterfall and had a very good photo session. After that, we went back to the Dudh Sagar railway station to board our next goods train!

It is not like that we don't want to trek but we were not having enough time as we prepared our breakfast at the camping site. Those who had the trekking didn't wait for the breakfast as they had to hurry to reach Kulem in time. Oh, I forgot two things. One is the taste of the Maggie prepared by the Viveks(There were two of them Vivek PC and Vivek Bhat) and the kindness of the Pai sisters to bring as much food as possible to share within. From Kulem we boarded the train back to Londa in Goa Express at around 4.30 pm. This journey was a different experience as it was jam packed and we don't even have a place to stand properly, but it was only for one and half hours as we reached Londa. There we had 'Garam Garam Vada Pav'. I bought my first plate and I didn't get a single piece from it. From my second plate, I somehow managed to get one bite. From the third plate only I got one full vada pav. Then I stopped buying and started to eat from others!

We spend around one and half hour at Londa station resting and chit-chatting. We were about to start dancing to the music when the train came. Inside the train, it was time to review the pictures we took while trekking and after that, we went sleeping. Early morning five twenty is the time at which my alarm cry, as usual, I switched it off and slept again. But all of my friends got up because of that and they didn't get sleep after that. Then around 7.30 am we reached back to Bangalore.

But the story will be incomplete without two things. One is about Mr. Nishant; he was the heart of the trekking by cracking jokes and pulling others legs whenever possible and not letting us get bored(even though I was not able to understand many of them as they were in Kannada). The second one is my own experience: I forgot my camera at Londa station which one of my fellow trekkers found out and gave it back to me. But after some time they hide my camera only to make me tensed and gave back my camera only after- Oh1 they covered my face with my own stinking jacket(stinking because it was wet due to rain) and started hitting and kicking me. I lost the count of the number of bumps I got within five minutes. Then they gave my camera back and asked me never to forget it again. You don't know how caring they are!

At the end of the day, I decided never to loose a chance of trekking with the Bangalore ASCENDers. Yes me too in the list of people who are addicted to the trekking!

Jai Hind