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. 😉😊

Think <-> Feel

So.. a comment on my previous post reminded me of the thought above. When I came across this thought for the first time, my mind simply said.. "How?"

This sounded like something that was much easier to say than actually to practice and just another piece of gyaan; but what caught my attention firstly was that this was apparently said by Lord Buddha! I thus, decided to read it again word by word, and started seeing..

What I am today is because of what I have done, and I have done whatever I have, based on my beliefs only.. and I believe what I have (my mind has) thought, based on.. what I have seen, come across, learnt or been taught only!

What if there was something beyond this? After all, there was a time when everyone believed that the world was flat, right?!

I read the quote again and asked myself that if the validity of facts can be influenced by our own thinking, then maybe even how we feel can be impacted by our thinking.. So I thought of several stories I knew about (those of others, my own or even movies!) and realized that the outcome was always in accordance with the belief with which the actions had been performed !

And by outcome, I mean the end result after one gives up trying.. which is when (s)he gives up believing .. and this happens when one gives up thinking !

So it's all inter-connected . Crazy right?! 😉

But think about it.. You believe you can do it, so your mind pictures it, your mind starts thinking of how it can be done and then you just do it! What say? 

So Weird..

Hello there! Nice to catch-up with you again! 😊

Today I'd like to discuss with you something that caught my attention and got me thinking as somebody said to me that "Weird is good, and weird people are actually gifted people."

This first of all made me think of the renowned personalities that are such a huge inspiration to so many. What I found common among all of them was the fact that they all have..

1. Dared to be other than how the society expects/expected them to be 
2. Accepted and respected themselves for who they are/were
3. Been on the Road To Excellence to be their best selves
4. And finally, been accepted and looked upon by others with respect!

Interestingly, Mahatma Gandhi had something similar to say..

To continue.. I then got thinking more about the 'words' that had been said to me and what came to my mind was that this probably is a mere perspective that our thinking is clouded by! Don't you think that how you define weirdness is actually subjective? .. Especially since the word 'weird' simply means 'abnormal or unusual' ?

So anything that doesn't conform to how your mind is used to thinking would seem weird right?

Also, if we simply start seeing our problems as weird/unnatural situations, we can enjoy dealing with them and life can be fun .. So, Be You and Own It, what say?

In the end, the thought I'd like to leave you with today.. Sanity doesn't exist. Some people hide it better; I don't. 😉