Self-Care With Shaki

"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...

The life we live currently is designed by our minds. Whether you accept it or not, everything you do or did is because of your mind. Our minds control our whole life. Do you often feel that your life is pathetic? Do you worry about always running out of money? It means that you have fed wrong instructions to your mind and it is leading you in the wrong way. Our mind is our asset. It is our responsibility to protect it. It is capable of yielding huge benefits to your life. The only thing you have to do is feed the right information. Read and implement the following ideas to change your mind which in turn will change your life. 1. Positive self-talk Our poor minds are imprisoned because of all the negativity we put into it. We become our worst criticizer. Self-talk has a lot to do with how your life is. If you keep on saying yourself that 'You are not capable', 'You are ugly', 'You are not good', then your life will become a replica of it. Not onl...