Self-Care With Shaki

A happy and healthy mind is the foundation for any happiness you experience in life. You may achieve success and reach heights that no one has ever reached but without a happy mind you will not even be able to savor the happiness of being successful. I am glad that nowadays the awareness of developing a healthy mind is getting the share it deserves. It is important to tame your mind so that it is always in a great receptive state. You need a happy and healthy mind to live your best life and enjoy even the tiniest bits of your wonderful life. Below are the 7 simple yet profound methods that can help you in achieving the happiest state of mind. 1. Gratitude Everything that you do in your life or strive to achieve in life has only one ultimate goal - happiness.   If you dig deep into every one of your goals or desire, you will find that the end outcome is something that gives you happiness. Nobody will work hard for something that results in a sad outcome. Eve...

Self-acceptance is the first step of moving forward in life. It is the path towards peace and tranquility. Self-acceptance is not something that is inborn, it is a trait that you need to develop. Knowing your flaws and accepting them will reduce the amount of depression and anxiety. Self-acceptance can give a sense of freedom and increased optimism. 1. You are not your behavior / emotions Often, people equate themselves with their behavior or emotions. When faced with a challenging or hard situation you may say something like "I am depressed", "I am a failure", "I am worthless". When you are saying "I am depressed", you are equating yourself to the depression. But the reality is you are just feeling depressed. You are not the depression itself! In the same way, if we fail in something, automatically most of our minds think that "I am a failure". We over-generalize our flaws and mistakes and equate ourselve...

Most of us think that happiness lies in accumulating the positive. We try to set out for a voyage to find a better life while carrying a bag of unwanted sorrows with us. No matter how far we go in search of happiness, we will never find it until and unless we let go of our bag of sorrow. "Letting go" is more easy said than done. It is a very simple way to have a happy mind yet a very powerful one. Letting go is not forgetting a painful memory, it is not just erasing something from your mind. Letting go does not work like that. Trying to forget or erase a memory will not work most often. Because, you will actually not forget the memory but you will suppress it. Suppressing a negative thought might be a relief for the short term. But, in the long run it is obviously a problem. So, most effective and efficient way to live a happy life is not in avoiding the negative but in letting go of it. Letting go is nothing but not giving your power to that f...