Hacking Happiness

Kindness has the power to make this world a more happy and fulfilling place. Imagine everyone being kind to each other! Imagine everyone helping each other fight their inner demons! Imagine working with people who push you to be your best! Imagine never feeling alone, or deprived of a reason to smile! Imagine the support of a billion peoples! I know it seems like an utopian thought, but, a state of existence starts with a simple thought. And the point is not to reach out to a thousand peoples and spread positivity, but to be kind and positive to the people you are already connected with. If I start being kind to people irrespective of their behavior towards me, I know it would be really hard at first, as some people would treat my kindness as my weakness but at the end of the day, I will feel happy about my own self, My conscious will be clean and I would definitely feel proud of myself when its time to part. - Always think it this way. Out of my own experiences, I know that when you a...

  Life is such a beautiful gift.  Us being here altogether on this blue planet is such a rare occurrence that we all should feel delighted and blessed just to simply exist. Aren't we all special in many terms, Like how easily we can communicate with each other, Can build a family and network of people to spend a whole lifetime with, Can laugh together and be happy as and when we want, and Imagine creative things beyond existence and, what not!   Still many of us find ourselves stuck within the loop of negativity, grudges and envy. But is it really worth it? Do we have enough time to spend doing things which make us sad? Do we have enough time to spend our mental peace figuring out why someone is not good enough? Do we really know when will it be time to part? what if, it is today? Will you want to be remembered as the person you are today? Life is too short to hold grudges!   Live Laugh Love💓

In the past few months I have watched a lot of documentaries, talks and have also met and conversed with a lot of people to understand their internal struggles.  In the process I have found that being locked away has taken a toll on their confidence level, they have lost the warmth and positivity in their life, and there is a very simple reason behind all this. The reason is zero human connection, uncertainty in life and minds natural tendency to grasp negativity. As we have discussed before as well that it is easier to clutch onto a negative emotion and feeling, but really difficult to look at the positive side of things when there is uncertainty in life.  This tendency of our mind can become really troublesome when we all are working from our homes and are interacting very less with our peers, friends or extended families. We are termed as social animals for a very specific reason and being social and interacting in person is the part of our existence. When this social aspec...

Ever since childhood I have been told by my parents and grandparents that whatever you do in life, just make sure that you never hurt someone or never succeed at the cost of others happiness. This thought has been the basis of my entire life. At the very core I have always tried to be a good man, someone who can be looked upon, someone who is a problem solver and not creator in others lives.  Then came a phase in my life when I started questioning everything around me, every person who was a part of my life seemed like a negative influence, every talk that I got involved in only led me down the path of spiraling negativity and I lost control of my own thoughts. It was the time when I had the deepest realizations, most of them eventually never made sense after a while but some of them had a life changing impact on my thought process and personality. I realized how people can be perceived just opposite of what they stand for, how our mind plays trick and fills the gap with negative t...

Thinking is a natural phenomenon for humans, we have been blessed with a brain for the same, but the problem often occurs when we indulge ourselves in the process of overthinking, when we loose control of our chain of thoughts, and when we simply get stuck in a loop of negative intuitions. During the last few months of lock down the world has seen the worst cases of depression and anxiety and most of them can be traced back to one simple action, which is constant overthinking without giving any rest to our curious minds. When we are in the state of overthinking we start connecting things backwards, every action, every word, every intuition, every gesture might connect to one another in someway, and it should actually, since most of the things are related to the single entity that is YOU. It is very natural for your past words and past experiences to connect in someway or the other. We often don't realize this fact and step into the loop of negative thinking, where everything feels ...

To overcome the negative thoughts in our heads, we first need to understand that how they take birth in the first place.  If we look closely we would find that people who are miserable in life are the ones who hold back to certain questions so dearly that they never even accept the answers to those questions. They would simply keep hanging to those questions within their heads and would never want to arrive at a conclusion, it is as if they do not even want to come out of their state of misery. We as a society and individual think that when someone comes to us with a question, we are entitled to answer it, but that is not the case most of the times. Most of the times, the person with the question simply wants you to acknowledge that he is in pain, that he has a question in his mind, simply doing this puts them at ease. It makes them think that someone out there understands their state of mind and that they can be understood by other people too. Condemning people is always easy but ...

The process of balancing life and coping with the negativity starts with the realization of 3 things 1st - That you really want to do it! 2nd - That You can do it! 3rd - That you are already doing it! The regret of uncompleted tasks and unaccomplished goals is what wears us down and creates toxicity in our present life, We keep on dangling between the guilt of missed deeds and anxiousness of uncertain future. It is similar to the situation when one gets stuck in traffic, you can either accept the fact that you are stuck, and keep moving forward gradually with a happy mind or you can choose to grim over the traffic every few seconds and distort your mental peace, The choice is always ours, we don't realize that. Suppose there is a rotten apple in a basket and its stinking, you can either choose to simply say its stinking once and move on or you can keep on singing its praises like a song for many many hours, when you choose to talk about the negative experiences of life, you are in ...

To remove arrogance from your life, you simply have to be watchful of your actions and words,  because when arrogance becomes part of your deeds it will always cause some disturbances internally, once you notice it, simply wake up and let it go. Also in the act of being watchful, don't get involved in analyzing yourself too much.  Simply be spontaneous and keep moving forward. Because if you keep analyzing yourself day in and day out, it will start taking a toll on your mental capacity, and lead to 2 situations 1- You will label yourself to be too righteous, and when that happens, you will invite anger. If you look closely and analyze the angry people on this planet, you will find that most of them will have a central thought of being righteous - That I am always right. 2- If upon analyzing you find out that your are not right, then it will bring in a feeling of guilt, and again you will be the one suffering. So either ways, you will be the one who goes through the hardship in...

मैंने अक्सर ही गुरुदेव श्री श्री रविशंकर जी को मन की शांति और आत्म संतुष्टि के लिए यह मूल मंत्र देते हुए सुना है - की कभी भी दूसरों की नीयत पर हमे शक नहीं करना चाहिए ।  और अगर आप इस बात को थोड़ा गहराई मे सोचें तो आप पाएंगे की, अक्सर हमारे मन की अशान्ति का कारण हमारा चंचल मन बनता है जो या तो बातों को खींच कर प्रस्तुत करता है या फिर हमे दूसरों के इरादों या नीयत  पर शक करने के लिए कहता है ।  कोई कितना भी अच्छा या भला काम कर रहा हो, मगर आपका मन पहले उसके नकारात्मक नजरिए पर ही जाएगा ,यह एक मानव मन की प्रवत्ति है आप कह सकते हैं।  आप इससे इस तरह से सोचिए ,  की क्या आप अपने सोच मात्र से सामने वाले का इरादा बदल सकते हैं ? क्या आपके मन की अशान्ति का कारण वो इंसान है , या आपका मन खुद? क्या आपके अत्यधिक सोचने से आपकी तकलीफें हाल हो जायेंगी? मुझे यकीन है इन सभी सवालों का जवाब ना मे ही पाया होगा आपने ।  फिर हम क्यूँ अक्सर ही कयास लगते हैं की सामने वाला जो कर रहा है उसका धेय , दिखने वाले उद्देश्य से अलग है? हम क्यूँ अक्सर अपने आप को मन की जंजीरों मे जकड़ा हुआ पाते हैं , जब...

During one of the Q&A sessions with Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar, one person asked Gurudev - I get stressed while making life choices, what should I do to make it easier for me to take life decisions? Gurudev Answered- First of all tell me, that why do you want everything to be easy in life? Step up and accept some challenges, because without challenges in life it would become very boring and bland. haven't you seen people climbing up the mountains and then jumping from top with hand gliders, that  is a challenge, some people want to scale the mount Everest, that is a challenge Some would say I want to sail through the world, All these are challenges, which keep life interesting and celebratory You should also accept some small challenges in life. The choice is never between good and bad, There is never a choice between a cup of sand and water, One will always choose water to drink out of the two The choice can only be between water and juice, and both are important in life, so ...

Someone asked Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar - I always worry about Money, Health, Childrens, Future Job and am sick most of the time, how can I overcome this state of constant worrying? Gurudev Answered- You already realize that you are constantly worried, but aren't you still surviving even after worrying so much in life! You might have been worried and wasted your whole past year, but you are still here whole and complete, isn't it? And since by your own experience you know your worrying is futile, then why don't you simply give it up? How to give it up you may ask? Start by practicing Yoga, Pranayaam and Meditation - Do Bhastrika, Sudarshan-Kriya and speed up the process of not worrying at all. And if you still think these practices won't work for you. GO and listen to people who have more problems than you in life, then yours will appear small and insignificant. And if even that doesn't work, It will work for sure, but still if it doesn't. Go and spend some ti...

Someone asked Sri Sri Ravishankar (Gurudev) that - What to do when everything around us starts to feel like a dream and superficial? This is what Gurudev answered with- When everything starts to appear superficial and dreamy, realize that you are waking up to the universe. When we are really woken up, everything do appears to be a long dream, and that is the true reality. When we all accept that everything around us is momentary and transactional we will wake up to a new paradigm of wisdom in life. The life full of happiness and contentment. The life with a bigger perspective. When the life has no set goals, it feels empty and meaningless, and gives way to depression and anxiety. But when you have bigger goals in life like, working to make this world and environment better than before, so that the planet is still healthy and livable when the next generation arrives, it will give you a sense of purpose and meaning in life. The lack of direction and purpose in life is the root cause of d...