React or Respond

“Learn to respond, not react” – A Zen quote You must have heard this quote many times that we must avoid to react and try to respond to the situation. In this article, I will try to explain the difference between these two terms, why responding is better than reaction, the psychological and neurological phenomena behind these two terms and with the practice how we can learn...

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Mental Accounts

Why do we often feel pain and sorrow in inter personal relationships? Human is a social animal, born and nourished in a society. From birth to death we interact with lot of people and keep making interpersonal bonds. Our first interaction happens with mother, then father, relatives, friends, society, we keep interacting with people and keep creating interpersonal bonds with the entire group...

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Meditation (Part - 3) The Seamless Flow

Part – 3 The Seamless Flow Till now we have learnt that in meditation we select an object and keep focus on it. Focusing an object means only one thought (object) in mind and as we try to focus on object other disruptive thoughts keep coming in mind and don’t allow us to keep focus on object. By practice, gradually we are able to focus on one thought continuously by 30 to 40 seconds and now...

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