Self Development Freak

Mindfulness by monks: You have probably seen monks on your phone, tv or if you are lucky enough, then in your real life. Sometimes you have seen them and thought that " How do these people remain so calm? " There is a simple answer to this question. Monks have practiced meditation and mindfulness to such extent that their brains in their normal state is just like a novice person meditating. As monk Takafumi Kawakami has said in a Ted talk "We suffer due to our thoughts of past and worry about future". So our sufferings mostly occur because we are not mindful. In his Ted talk monk Takafumi Kawakami has said that the best practice of developing mindfulness is meditation because it is itself a practice of remaining in the present moment. As our present actions determine our future- what you do today will surely determine your future. I won't go into detail on how to meditate for developing mindfulness but the most common practice is inhaling slowly and ...

Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already  have -- Buddha If you are reading this blog then I am certain that you have done meditation or are keen about learning meditation. Although there is a very little chance that you got here randomly. In this blog I am going to tell you about a very common mistake which many people make. Many people start meditation so as to get supernatural powers like telepathy, looking future, astrology etc. but this leads to discouragement because normally meditation does not lead to this. Meditation is just a tool to train our mind to be present at the moment and that is known as mindfulness. Mindfulness itself is a skill which is no less than a superpower. If you are mindful then you don't think about the future or past, you enjoy the preent moment. Many people including me just dwell on past mistakes and tasks to be done in future which leads to stress. But mindfulness cures this problem because...