Mind It!

Hi there .. long time, no read! 😉

Hope you're treating life well!?! 😊

So I recently got the opportunity to visit a wonderful place, the culture of which woke me up from my slumber and inspired me so much that I had to share my thoughts with you!

I basically noticed one specific quality among all the people I came across that made me think.. why am I seeing it less around the place I permanently live in, especially when it is supposed to be an integral part of our value system !

Can you guess what I could be talking about?

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Won't keep you guessing anymore .. am talking about Mindfulness 😇

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Before we discuss this, I want you to take a moment to think if you are Mindful or Mind-full ?!

Are you able to truly enjoy the beauty of what Nature has to offer, or are there too many other more important things occupying your mind right now?

So what is it that you are giving the most priority to right now?

You think it's doing you good and it's helping you shape your life as you want it to be?

And are you able to see the kind of world that you want to live in?

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I get that I have asked a lot of questions today and since I don't want to leave you with just that, I'd like to share with you the following words of famous Hollywood actor Jim Carrey, which I feel are a sure-shot way to begin creating a world where we can all co-exist peacefully..  

Do let me know what you think! 😊

Lights . Camera . Action (2/2)

Presuming that you are in tune with the thoughtful discussion going on, I would today like to first and foremost ask you if Your Actions have the power to change the course of your life?

(Reminder: You know now that there are more than just two options in any situation.)

Have you ever thought about the difference between Dreamers and Achievers?

Don't you think that Dreamers are Idealists and vital in setting the standards to aspire for?
And Achievers are Realists who find ways for achieving the set standards and making them happen?!

So, being a Dreamer can give us the best dream to aspire for, and being an Achiever can help us make this a reality through Action.

Let's now club this with the words of Confucius.. "Going beyond is as wrong as falling short." i.e. nothing should be in extreme; everything should be in moderation.

Therefore, if You can find the balance between dreams and reality, You truly can Achieve what You Believe. 😊

And hence, it is time now to get the balance right and set our lives straight.

With this, I'll sign off and Sincerely wish you the best in all your future endeavors. 😉😊

P.S. Found an excellent image to summarize the thought process being discussed in the form of the following Acceptance Cycle..

P.P.S. You might further like to think about the following words by Swami Vivekananda.. "Blessed are those whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others." 😊

Lights . Camera . Action (1/2)

"It's your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you." (Rumi)

We know this. We do things and yet we don't get the desired results always . So we just put it on destiny or come up with some other excuse to give up and move on, right?

And what is the result ?

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We learn to accept things the way they are and make peace with it .. and life goes on right?

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D'uh! Of course it does.. Isn't our life just a sub-set or a small part of Life, the phenomenon?

Now, that we have (Sincerely hope you're with me) become aware & accepted our own stature i.e. our littleness as compared to the vastness of Life; we can see the irony as we begin to understand that the only way we can make a difference to anyone or bring about any change in Life is by changing ourselves!

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Read the topic of today's post again and think..

My previous posts were like an attempt to Turn on the Light ; and today, I have just turned on the Camera 😊

And frankly, I thought I'd write about the third word in the topic today, but since this seems to be enough for the day, I'll do that tomorrow and leave you with the following thought for the time being..

"Words may inspire, but only action brings change." (Simon Sinek)

An Important Recap.

Hello again! Before I delve into the topic I have been leading up to, let's have a Recap of my ongoing train of thoughts so that You and I can have our thoughts in tune 😊

We began with trying to figure out the relationship between our thoughts and feelings [Refer to the post titled Think <-> Feel (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/think-feel.html) or My Thoughts - Rephrased (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/my-thoughts-rephrased.html)] 

Then we decided to get comfortable with ourselves [Refer to the post titled Y B U ? (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/y-b-u.html)]

We hence woke up and became Aware [Refer to the post titled Good Morning ! (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/good-morning.html)]'

Thus, we started seeing things just the way they are [Refer to the posts titled Eureka! (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/eureka.html) and B.D.O. (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/bdo.html)] 

This gave us clarity and confidence [Refer to the post titled Absolute Power (https://beyonddobvious.blogspot.com/2018/08/absolute-power.html)]

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I sincerely request you to please take out some time for yourself & your life, and read & think about the above ASAP, so you can experience owning your life and living it freely. 😃  

Pop Quiz: Can you make out from the logical flow of the topics above, what the next topic should & would be?

Absolute Power

The post title seems like a pretty cool thing to have right?! 😉

So let's see today how we can own this!

Considering that you have truly accepted yourself for who you are and learnt to be present to your surroundings, am sure you would have gotten a lot of clarity; and since all this just subtracts fear and adds to ones confidence, you must be feeling empowered? 

Now one thing we indisputably relate with Power is Confidence right?

As can be derived from the image above.. as we become more & more clear in our mind about anything, it becomes easier and we become more sure, or confident, about the thing right?
And as we feel more & more confident, we start owning the situation and feel more powerful since we begin to realize how much more we can do than what we had initially thought!

It is after-all only a consequence of Your Choice .. to do or not do a thing!
(Eureka! Maybe this is what Shakespeare meant when he said "To be or not to be .. that is the question" ! Everything we are or not is because of a choice we have made right?!)

Anyway, as you might have realized your Limitless nature by now, I would like to caution you again to always remember that "Going beyond is as wrong as falling short."

"Build" your Confidence . More Power to You . 😇

B.D.O.

Happy Sunday and a Happy Rakshabandhan to you! May you always have the security you need in life 😊

Just thought of sharing with you my thinking behind the name of this blog today .. Beyond D Obvious 😇

As we have seen (and sincerely hope you have realized too) how our reality is clouded by our judgments and we are intentionally or unintentionally going beyond reality to view life! Thus, to see things for just what they are, I believe that we need to take the extra step of going beyond what is obvious to us.

In other words, it is only when we make the effort to go beyond what is seemingly obvious that we are able to clearly see things for what they are! And hence, Beyond the obvious is only the very obvious.

For instance, in the logo above, if you go beyond obvious i.e. remove the letters B and O, what and how clearly do you see that remains?! 

P.S. You might like to turn up the volume and listen to the following song today.. 😊

                     

Eureka!

Today, I'd like to share a story with you..

This is the tale of a bright young fish which entered a competition with a monkey to climb a tree. Now obviously, the fish couldn't climb the tree and couldn't succeed.
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The tale doesn't end here . The fish then got so gloomy and disappointed with itself, it never became aware of its potential i.e. swimming in water. Thus, it never could see anything beyond its loss, gave up and hence truly failed in its life.

Think about it.. Had it been a swimming competition instead, the fish would have easily won right? 

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So do you see how not realizing your potential can be preventing you from achieving your best?!

Disclaimer Time: This story was based on the following words apparently by Mr. Albert Einstein.. 

This story gave me a glimpse to how much we are dominated by our preconceived judgments in our lives! And interestingly, as I thought more about the story, I saw my own judgments and thoughts .. and as I came to terms with who I am, those judgments just disappeared!

It was like the burst of a bubble and then, things just were .. are.

I suddenly became clear about the fact that things around me just are what they are, WITHOUT the adjectives that can be associated with them.

In other words, I realized that any thing, person or situation is just what it is ; and that it is our emotions or the words that we use to describe them or relate with them (that are anyways dependent on how we view them!), that influence our idea about them.

Therefore, whatever we experience is actually dependent on our own previously formed idea about them! . You with me?

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So with my shenanigans gone now, I began seeing things in a new light.. (please excuse me .. am a little out of words here) .. Do me a favor to look at anything around you and just observe what comes to your mind?
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Is there any adjective or emotion associated with it?
Please do let me know. 😊




  

Good Morning !

You might have noticed me talking about how things come down to Perspective and that how you see things determines your reality ; Today, I want to talk about the other side of the coin i.e. Awareness.

Think about the words in the image above for a minute .. does this make sense?

Wouldn't your view about anything be dependent on your understanding of it ? ..which in turn would depend on your knowledge of it ; and that, would be coming from your awareness ?!

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(Read the above question again word by word if it didn't really make sense please)
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Just to clarify, all I mean by awareness here is.. how present are you to your surroundings .. over and above what your mind tells you ?

..For the way I see it.. the more aware you are, the greater control you have and the more deliberate can be your actions ..and results 😊

As I read the words in the image above, I thought to myself.. Everything that I am or face today is in some form or the other because of a choice I have made; and my choices have been based on my perceptions in accordance with my understanding or awareness of the thing !

So how would it be if instead of focusing on making choices directly determining results, I shift my focus to first understanding the thing ?!

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Would like to conclude today's post by some words apparently by Mr. Albert Einstein I just got reminded of.. If I had an hour to solve a problem I'd spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and 5 minutes thinking about solutions.

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Y B U ?

Hello! Hope you are seated comfortably and ready to reflect on yourself for the next couple of minutes 😊

I'd like to begin with the words of famous writer Mark Twain.. "The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."

So the first thing I'd like you to ask yourself is.. Are you truly comfortable with who you really are?

And let me clarify.. Am referring to the person you are when nobody's watching you, and not what you are in front of anyone else.. 😊

• (1/3): If yes, awesome .. you really know you!
• (2/3): If not, why?! You are as unique as everyone else; and the best you can give to anybody is only by being who you really are you know?!

Think about the statement in the above image . Nobody is responsible for your life other than you; And isn't that just logical ? (For Eg. If you get caught up in somebody else's life, won't you end up creating a mess in your own, considering humans can focus only on one thing at a time?!) 

• (3/3): If you don't know for sure, that's OK .. you're just human and in the process of discovering yourself! 

Here I'd just like to remind you of the golden words by Confucius.. Going beyond is as wrong as falling short . So hope you always find and maintain the balance!

In the end. I'd like to leave you with a very interesting thought I came across while writing this post 😊 

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My Thoughts - Rephrased

On popular demand, I have decided to rephrase my thoughts on the quote apparently by Lord Buddha.. All that we are is a result of what we have thought; The Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

After a lot of thought on these words, I derived our thought process to be as follows:

1. Thoughts: What we think determines what we believe
2. Beliefs: What we believe determines how we feel
3. Feelings: How we feel determines how we are going to act
4. Actions: How we act determines our outcomes

So if you think about it..

And the choice is yours.. Give up, Give in or Give it your Best 😊

P.S. How do you feel about my thoughts now? Act now to let me know what you believe. 😉😊