Keeping calm
"Chanchalam hi manah krishna pramathi balavad drisham tasyaham nigraham manye vayor ina sudushkaram" "The mind is very restless and turbulent, O Krishna. It is more difficult to control than the wind" Have you ever found yourself in a deep thought? How long does a single thought last before being interrupted by the ping of your cell phone or before your mind wanders off to a new direction, a new thought? Studies say our minds get distracted every three minutes. We find ourselves imagining situations, imagining the future or a different past. We find ourselves constantly fretting over little things. Our minds makes up stories and a million "what ifs", mostly based on a past experience or an observation. We then decide our course of action or reaction. We claim to foresee our future recurling the past. Yes, the past may influence the future but it doesn't control it. Why are our thoughts constantly fiddling over the past and future, neglecti