Category: Brain Have Fun

The infamous gut feeling – can we trust it?

In certain situations we may need to make decisions based on limited information. Some rely on a gut feeling consciously or subconsciously. But do we question how well our gut feeling does in retrospect? It’s hard to say because we can’t live our lives in parallel universes. As a rationally inclined person, I use the …

In versus Out: How everyday activities can remind us who we are and who we’re not

One day while grocery shopping, I faced a lovely baby ahead of me and I naturally smiled at him. I was watching my smile and my mind. I suddenly felt glorious joy from deep inside myself like a subtle fragrance of a flower that would rise and directly after, the smile transferred from me to …

Hundred shades of ego – brighter anyway

“How do you know that your ego is not getting ahead of you?” – my friend asked me recently. Good question. I thought about it and realized that I examine my ego quite frequently, on everyday basis. I am just not calling it ego anymore, and it does not necessarily have a shameful and regretful …

A curious case of evolving from within

I find myself saying many positive things about my recent change in employment. My former colleagues say – wow, can this company be so wonderful? But I heard completely opposite things – people are hard to work with,  workload is not commensurable with rewards , and so on. That made me think. Over the course of four years …

Meditation as Medicine

Meditation is continuously making headlines as people and studies are increasingly showing benefits for physical healing and over all well being. Meditation is being offered more and more in hospitals around the country. For treating all sorts of conditions and symptoms from headaches to HIV. Recent research shows meditation’s soothing effects can be detected in …