Tag: Spirituality

Being Productive Through Trying Times: 4 strategies to keep working

We all face challenges and difficulties in our lives, whether it’s personal, professional, or global. Sometimes, these hardships can make us feel overwhelmed, stressed, or demotivated. How can we maintain our productivity and performance when things get tough? Here are four strategies that can help you cope and keep working through trying times.

Being productive

  1. Acknowledge your emotions and seek support. It’s normal and healthy to have emotional reactions to stressful situations. Don’t ignore or suppress your feelings, but rather acknowledge them and express them in constructive ways. For example, you can talk to a trusted friend, family member, or colleague, write in a journal, or seek professional help if needed. Sharing your emotions can help you feel less alone and more understood.
  2. Focus on what you can control and let go of what you can’t. When facing hardships, it’s easy to feel powerless and hopeless. However, you can regain a sense of agency and optimism by focusing on the aspects of your situation that you can influence and change, and letting go of the ones that you can’t. For example, you can’t control the outcome of a global pandemic, but you can control how you protect yourself and others by following health guidelines. You can also control how you spend your time and energy, and what goals you set for yourself.
  3. Prioritize your tasks and set realistic expectations. When you have a lot on your plate, it can be hard to decide what to do first and how to manage your time. To avoid feeling overwhelmed and burned out, it’s important to prioritize your tasks according to their urgency and importance, and set realistic expectations for yourself and others. For example, you can use a matrix or a list to rank your tasks from high to low priority, and then focus on the most critical ones first. You can also break down larger projects into smaller and more manageable steps, and set specific deadlines for each one. Don’t forget to celebrate your progress and achievements along the way.
  4. Take care of yourself and practice self-compassion. Being productive doesn’t mean neglecting your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. In fact, taking care of yourself is essential for maintaining your energy, motivation, and resilience. Make sure you get enough sleep, eat well, exercise regularly, and engage in activities that bring you joy and relaxation. Also, practice self-compassion by being kind and supportive to yourself, especially when you make mistakes or face setbacks. Remember that you are not alone in your struggles, and that you are doing the best you can with what you have.

Art of Doing without Doing

Is action the only way? Do we constantly have to strive with doing? Who is the doer and what is being done? If the Tao, is already flowing in the universe, what are we trying to “do”? Is there a path of effortless effort or the art of doing without doing?

Is action the only way? Do we constantly have to strive with doing? Who is the doer and what is being done? If the Tao, is already flowing in the universe, what are we trying to “do”? Is there a path of effortless effort or the art of doing without doing?

This video packs in a few lifetimes worth of concepts/understanding. To realise the statements made, it needs us to practice and viscerally know in our being what is being said. While that happens it is still good to listen and absorb the words, as the “happening” takes place.

Video Length: 12 min

Kundalini 101

How do you feel the energy that ancient Mystics called Kundalini, what is it and is it really there?

Kundalini: Why do we need to know more about this energy in our being, what is it that activates our body, and where does this energy go when we move on from the body? How do you feel the energy that ancient Mystics called Kundalini, what is it and is it really there? The video below at least gives us some intellectual understanding of the same. Probably a good ten minutes to look at something interesting today. Enjoy.

“Shiva, Oh Boy, Don’t Kid Me”

Listen to this video; it is not just a normal video. What you are doing, by listening to it, is giving yourself the opportunity for transformation. Words are just the surface, your longing for the highest in you, is what will transform your awareness.

Make the time, make the time, make the time. Make understanding yourself, the biggest goal in your life. Become like an Olympian, have one singular goal, in this case the goal to understand who you truly are; an Olympian in bringing to the fore, that you are the ecstasy of the universe, that you are Shiva, that you are what it is you are looking for. Listen to this video; it is not just a normal video. What you are doing, by listening to it, is giving yourself the opportunity for transformation. Words are just the surface, your longing for the highest in you, is what will transform your awareness.

Video length: 10 min

You took birth, you came through millions of souls, you found a womb; now don’t waste it. It takes only 10 minutes this morning, then the next, then the next, then the next….and slowly you would have built a full practice over the years, that will give you the greatest bliss inside. It is worth every bit of the joy and fun, even while living with all your earthly duties. Do it. I am only speaking now after almost twenty seven years of spontaneous practice and not to boast, but to inspire, that it is possible at anytime, create the inner environment.