Reactivate Yourself

     Empower Imagination                         Inspire Wings                                                          Photo Jernej Graj (Unsplash) Recall how as kids we often saw in our mind's eye growing adult yesterday and imagined being dressed like our parents in trousers/sari. Wasn’t it exciting to adapt our baby imagination to building houses of mud and sand or playing with toy cooking utensils? Today most of us want to go back to the magical memories of childhood. This is how mind’s eye (Imagination) flies and rarely remains steady. Mind's eye is an art of developing new ideas by making gainful use of our imagine energy. It is an in built ‘get-up-and-go’ force that we carry from our birth. It helps to take appropriate steps to convert and implement our inventive ideas. From rubbing stones to producing fire, from Newton’s laws of motion to finding water droplets on moon, to   mobile internet, attempts at creating an artificial brain are just few creations of our myste

                                                          Avoid Criticism                                           Do Nothing…… Say Nothing                                                                 Photo -Brightonikon/The Gottman Institute By nature human beings are born to be critical. The moment a child is born, some work over time to criticize…Oh! Looks like father… No looks like mother… Have big eyes… etc. Once start school, we are criticized whole day. Keeps watching TV all day and gets up late, often misses school bus, complaints on petty fights, incomplete home work, neighbor’s child excelling in studies etc. The office environment is full of criticism. Day in and day out there is criticism between the spouses and their in-laws. On not meeting our desires, we criticize the God. On growing old, children criticize for being out of trend. Just name anything; we are good at criticizing or getting criticized. C riticism has played a role in who we are—from parents and teache

                              Givers                               Closer to Realization                                                                       Photo Credit-Tom Parsons I recall as a kid many saints visiting our ancestral home in Srinagar (Kashmir) and were given respect and alms by my late grandparents. I remember my late father explaining me how helping poor and needy brings us closer to self- realization. However, it is sad to witness how some business men use helping the needy as a publicity stunt, give less instead look for returns. There are number of examples where some instead of donating old clothes, utensils, and furniture etc to needy sell these in the market place. There are many rich who don’t believe in sharing and caring while some close their doors the moment a taker knocks. On the other hand there are countless examples of how parents, teachers, and others have contributed in our betterment without looking for returns. I have come to realize that givin

                                                                     Anger                      I am here. Take me Serious                                                                     Photo Credit-www.freepik.com I vividly remember being an angry school youngster.  Sadly I continue to some degree even today in spite of many successes as also few failures. Some time back, I had an argument with my consort and I kept arguing to possibly satisfy my ego. She got annoyed and said “Bhushan don’t blow your own horn instead see yourself in the mirror when you are angry. Y our temper seems hijacking your life? Why can’t you express in a better way.” Oh gosh! She ‘hit the nail on the head’. I was reminded of Maya Angelou, an American poet who once said, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."  Over the years I have realized that anger is the worst enemy    of human relat