Understanding your sensitive self
Have you ever thought: Maybe my over-dependence on other people is because I lack a connection with something bigger? Maybe my fears, in part, have to do with not having a sense of security in the overall goodness of the world?
Writing is nebulous. Sometimes, I think of it as an energy that grows or shrinks as I pay more or less attention to it. Sometimes, it feels like a raw nerve that twitches when I touch it. It electrifies my life. And sometimes, it slips out of my hand and falls into the outer world. […]
I haven’t written for what feels like long centuries. It’s actually been a few weeks, interspersed with a visit by family from India and going out of town for my anniversary celebration. And I have been itching to come back and write again. But when I’ve sat down to form words, my mind feels clamped shut. […]
“Children don’t belong to us. They are little strangers who arrive in our lives and give us the pleasure and duty of caring for them – but we don’t own them. We help them become who they are.” Gloria Steinem remembers her mother saying this in her wonderful book Revolution from Within. […]
When it comes to increasing our happiness, there are so many things that we can do. We all know the theories. But how do we choose among all the areas that we can possibly work on? Where do we begin? In my search for a directed way, I pick up the book The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky and leaf through its pages, guessing which happiness activities would be recommended for me to start with. […]