https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhat is easier, to get angry or to remain calm? When there is a difficult situation, someone makes a mistake, or work is not done to our satisfaction, how do we respond? Do we stay calm or lose our temper? Nowadays a lot of people find it easier t...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen we look at our face in the mirror, the thing to note is not whether there is a pimple or a white hair – that is trivial. Instead, we can check whether there is peace or anxiety, ego or humility visible on the face. That reveals our state of m...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSuppose I live with a family member who is not nice to me. They make it a point to trouble me every day, and I get annoyed and upset. The situation is obviously not to my liking, but how I react to it will determine how it develops. If I start thi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSpiritual powers are not something we need to acquire – the powers already exist within each soul; we only need to learn to use them. The first power is the power to withdraw from situations, to not get entangled in them. The tortoise illustrates ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIn India, it is customary to fast during certain festivals. Why do we fast, what do we gain from it? A fast is meant to change our state of mind. It teaches us self-control. This control is then manifested in several areas of our life. We develop ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingAs soon as a difficult situation arises, tell yourself that there is some benefit in it. By doing so, you can conserve your inner power, and use that power to deal with the situation. It is our mind that first grapples with any problem – making se...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingIt is our thoughts, attitude, and behaviour that have made the world what it is. Consider this, when there are loving relationships in a family and everybody lives together happily, people say that their home is heaven. Instead, if there is consta...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe wish others happiness, love, health and success, and others also have similar good wishes for us, but how about having good wishes for the self? If others have good wishes for us but we do not have the same for the self, we will not easily atta...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOur body, work, home, and circumstances, all comprise our external world. I am the energy that we call consciousness, or the soul. Everything else is outside us. Our outer world is important to us, but we need to understand how this world is creat...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWe often think about the people we love, and those with whom we have beautiful relationships. We also think of people with whom we have a conflict or differences—we think of them even if we do not want to, and spend sleepless nights repeatedly goi...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOverthinking has become a habit with a large number of people. How do we change it? We know the answers: see the good in others, not their faults; remain happy; do not speak ill of anyone; accept others as they are. We need to practice just one of...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSituations exist outside us but they become a part of our consciousness and start to influence our behaviour when we think about them again and again. We meet many people during the course of a day. If we want, we can find something to criticise i...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingSometimes, when we are unhappy or irritated, if asked why we are in a bad mood, we say that it is because of the way things are going in our life, or that another person made us angry. Similarly, we credit our happiness to circumstances or other p...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingWhen there is a tragedy in the family, such as the loss of a loved one, many people are bewildered as to how to deal with the emotions that come up. They wonder how they can be positive in that situation. What does positive thinking mean? It is no...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingThere are times when some families face a situation that cannot be resolved even if they spend all their money on it. In contrast, some other families easily come through seemingly insurmountable problems, as if by a miracle. But miracles do not h...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingA lot of people commonly complain of lacking enough time, money, or space. The habit of grumbling about the perceived shortage of things creates an atmosphere of lack in our homes, and locks our mind into a state characterised by dissatisfaction, ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingOne of the main aspects of our life is relationships—with our family, friends, and colleagues. Whatever we think or say, the way we behave, creates vibrations, which radiate from us to those we interact with. Similarly, others send us their vibes ...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-stay-happy-mind-your-mind/July 13, 2024, 3:50 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Happy-300x194.jpgSpiritually SpeakingToday we have advanced treatments for diseases, and so many medicines, yet more illnesses and medical complications are emerging. Why? Because of complications in our minds. Our relationships have become complicated for the same reason.  When...https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/to-cope-with-change-we-must-look-within/August 1, 2020, 3:48 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/first.pngSpiritually SpeakingIt is lack of inner power that results in wrong ways of thinking and behaviour, which are at the root of the problems we see in the world. https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/spirituality/protect-yourself-from-fear-and-anxiety-in-these-covid-times/July 11, 2020, 6:03 amhttps://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sp1-3.pngSpiritually SpeakingCoronavirus will be gone in a few months, but the effect it has on our minds may not go away easily. So, it is important to take charge of our emotions. We have to keep our energy level high, our aura bright.