mindfulness - Arv' Musings

Learning from Imperfect Actions: Turning Negativity into Personal Growth

In your daily life, you often encounter situations where you witness people making poor decisions. Or engaging in actions that you find distasteful. It's natural to react with judgment or disapproval. But instead of reacting, you can use these experiences as opportunities

diet

Get healthier without missing out on your favourite foods

I'll help you eat lesser. This doesn't mean you will starve. Instead, it means you will eat the amount you need rather than overeat without knowing.

guilt

On visceral reactions and understanding them

Ideas are useful. Ideologies are restrictive. Useful. But restrictive. My opinions and previous learnings are ideas. They are a torch to find a path. They are not the path itself.

life

A wake-up call

I think we are all being pulled down a bad path. It is on each of us to reject it and fight the current. Swimming upstream is awfully hard. Or get out of this river and find another one.

mindset

Find Your Sweet Spot

If I could turn back time and teach myself three concepts as a teenager, they would be (a) Introversion (b)Lifting weights (c) Self-awareness.

coaching

do we strength train to the exclusion of everything else?

Strength work need not be done to the exclusion of everything else. But done smartly, if you are struggling for bandwidth, it is a good one-stop shop.

framework

the 8-fold path

I was reading my favourite philosopher, Bruce Lee, and he talks about Buddhism's eightfold path. Well, can we use that to think about our fitness and health? Absolutely!

habits

3 quotes for Jan 29

If we can stay switched on for longer than the bare minimum, good habits bleed over. Bruce Lee, Thich Nhat Hanh and Pavel's quotes on this thought.

discussion

3 quotes for Jan 8, 2020

Expectations and how we suffer because we push our expectations on others. Three quotes from Bruce Lee, Thich Nhat Hanh and James Clear to inspire you.

mindfulness

3 quotes for Dec 11

All great thinkers point us to the same things. (1) effort over results. (2) do what makes you happy. These two keep repeating!

coaching

buying time

if it is not about cramming more work, then what?! If I don't cram more work in, how will work get done? Plus, work is not a bad word. I am here to do work. That only I can do. That I want to do. And if I don't do the work now, will I have a secure future?

habits

practicing being in the moment

I am still unsure but it is easier to learn by action, than by reading other people's experiences and asking 100s of questions. I am still unpacking what a seemingly simple statement one of my students made about washing the dishes.