Self-Care With Shaki

I would say that acceptance is something that you need to develop if you want to lead a life full of colors. Without acceptance, it is quite hard to move forward in our life. When you don’t try to accept yourselves, you will always tend to over-analyze your mistakes and get depressed over what happened to you. You will get stuck in the place you are because rather than accepting the situation and moving forward, you will always ruminate over what could have happened. Acceptance is the first step to move forward in every way. You should accept your flaws and mistakes. Most of us hate ourselves and our life only because we do not accept our mistakes. We want us to be perfect. Learn to accept your mistakes and imperfections. No one in this world is capable of being perfectly perfect t with zero flaws. You have to surrender to yourself. Surrendering is the first step to learn acceptance. Resistance is going to bring nothing to you. You will only fight against your imperfecti...

"Life is unfair to me" is the most used sentence whenever we face setbacks in our life. We feel that life is unfair because life pulls us down and drains us in the dungeon. It also lifts up leaving us floating on cloud nine. Life is unpredictable. We say "life is unfair" because we try to interpret the predictability of life. We plan things and want life to follow the path we have paved. But unfortunately, life does not work that way. It has its own way and it will drag you in its path no matter how planned you are. Life is a mixture of happiness and sadness, success and failure, ups, and downs. Life is about balancing these two poles. Once you learn how to handle these extremely different situations in life then you will seldom feel "life is unfair". 1. Live in the "Now" Live in the now does not mean that you should meditate. Meditation is not the only "living in the now". You should focus on the present. Some...

Imagine sitting in a car with the engine on. You are all ready to go. But, wait! Where will you go? Should you go straight or left or to the right. Do you know the direction? Okay, you feel that you can just drive around and figure it out on the way. So you geared up and raised the accelerator and followed the road. You keep going and you see so many turns. You never know where to go. To the right or to the left? Or should you just go straight? You choose a random path and you travel believing to reach some destination. You feel confused and frustrated because you did not know where to go. At the beginning, it seemed like fun and exploring. But as you kept traveling you kind of found it irrelevant and you even started questioning why should you drive in the first place. And then, suddenly your car stops. The diesel has worn out. Your life is exactly like a car. If you do not know where you are going and what you are doing with your life. Then you will be lost somewhere...