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...

At a point in time, every middle-class person who is working hard to meet ends and keeps up the pace faces a situation where he/she would have gone completely broke. Broke is different from losing money. Broke is having only 1000 rupees in your bank account while you have 15 long days to go for the next payday. Being broke teaches you so many things. I have been broke, having nothing in my hand, losing money and being frustrated to the extreme. One day, I was surfing an e-commerce website and found a product I really wanted to buy, It cost around 500 rs. I then ordered it without even checking my bank account. My payment got canceled. I was wondering why it got canceled, and then I checked my bank account. My balance was -351. I was shocked and I let that sink in for a bit. That night, I did not sleep, I was scared of my future. I don’t want to live with the fear of not having enough money for the rest of my life. That is when I became an Action taker. Being broke has be...

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...