life – Piyush Sharma

Friends, this post is a part of an upcoming webinar series for a life of fulfillment and happiness – “Emotional Mastery”, with my dear friend Suresh Sivaraman (Blog: themindfulinfluencer).

We will soon announce the dates for the first live event. As a prelude, here are the links to a gift pack of 5-video series, “Emotional Mastery: Channeling your Anger”. Thank you so much Suresh for such an insightful conversation!

We start the conversation with an interesting question – are we witnessing a culture that excessively glorifies and ignites anger? We share some statistics and discuss how anger has become such a common attitude in day-to- day life. Be it in the form of aggression, a part of discipline or even so called “macho” image and “fighting” spirit.

Do we ever take a pause and think “Why are we so angry and with whom?”

In the next part we discuss impacts of anger on our lives. In Suresh’s words, “Anger is a KILL JOY of sorts. When you allow anger to fester for too long, it is difficult to find happiness. You tend to ignore the positives in life, and focus excessively on what is wrong and out of order.”

The final part of the discussion covers a simple 2-pronged framework – “Recognize (Notice and Take stock) and Handle (Regulate, Figure out and Move on)”, that you can apply easily and channel your anger for better outcomes in life.

Suresh and myself eagerly look forward to your comments, personal experiences and suggestions.

Stay well and stay inspired!

~ Piyush

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Are we living or existing?

It was a casual discussion with friends over tea and the conversation revolved around one question…”Are we living or existing?” Profound question indeed!

Though I honestly wanted to have an easier topic for the first blog post, I could not stop thinking about it. So here is my attempt at thinking out loud.

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” – Oscar Wilde

Some say it is the ‘dreams’ that differentiate living from existing. Some say it is the ‘control over life’ that makes living empowering over mere existing. Some suggest that if we have ‘power to drive’, then we are living; and if we are watching our life elapsing from the back-seat, then we are quite simply existing.

No doubt, they are all correct. But before we get into answering the ‘bigger’ question, there are some ‘simpler’ questions that we need to ask ourselves:

How do I feel right now?

How do I want to feel?

Am I even ‘existing’ consciously?

If we have answers to these then we are on a right path. If not, then this is where we need to begin our journey of contemplation.

First step is to acknowledge and have gratitude that we ‘exist’; add feelings to it and we are naturally on the second step – existing consciously. Next when we start feeling happy in existing consciously, we start to have dreams.

And once one of those dreams start keeping us up at night, we start ‘living’!

“Dream Dream Dream…Dreams transform into thoughts and thoughts result in actions.” – A P J Abdul Kalam

Until we start ‘living’, let’s thank ourselves for ‘existing’.

Stay well and stay inspired!

~ Piyush

Piyush Sharma

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Emotional Mastery: Channeling Anger

Are we living or existing?