Eat to live…nah! Live to eat!

A very recent phenomenon I guess, wherein we are constantly being bombarded with information on crash diets, calorie intake, gym memberships, yoga classes..and so goes on the list! Of course, it happens with the help of all our dedicated social media employees working on their most coveted key performance indicators I guess, knocking the doors of the secret abodes in our minds where we harbor our moments woven into memories and images of self doubts and insecurities.

Nevertheless, it is very unfortunate, how much we let ourselves get affected by all of that. I still remember my childhood, when I used to beg mom to put more ghee on my dosa, or cry for an ice cream. Like they say, when you become old enough to be able to afford all the food you want, your age denies the same. In today’s world, we are rarely beingĀ  able to eat anything with a peace of mind. Either we have a fear of weight gain, or even worse, the onset of fancy lifestyle disorders-the new era villains of our lives.

So where have we gone wrong?Here we are with all information in our hands, where to buy healthy stuff..how to cook healthy food..how to eat them..how to digest them..what to eat..what not to eat! Even then we continue to fall a victim to the various diseases and eating disorders. And then comes an advise or an online article stating that the main villain is the very famous “stress”! And another never ending chronicle of how to bust stress starts..where does stress begin..how to combat it..which yoga pose for what…the cycle goes on.

The funny part is that our ancestors had access to none of the above, and they did seems happier. Anyways, so what is there from my side you may wonder. A simple thing. Just let go off all the advises constantly being shooted at you by individuals who give a damn about you. Yeah this too may seem like an advise, but I guess see it as a request ;).

Go back to your childhood. Try to recollect what it was that gave you happiness, be it eating your leftover lunch food at 4 pm in the evening without having to worry about calories, or having an ice cream when you felt it even though you know you may fall ill, or running barefoot in the fields right after a rain. Let go, run and travel back there, because that was the place and age where you were your true self.

As you grow older, it becomes more and more difficult to remember your true self because you change so much due to all the external stimuli, that sometimes you forget who you are, and where your roots were. Moreover we have been unlucky to be a part of a generationĀ  where it has become so easy to be lost and to be a part of a community rather than an individual. And if at all we have been lucky enough to realize how lost we are, we all do the same mistake of going back to the same external world again, to seek advise on how to “find our self” in this world of eternal chaos.

We have completely forgotten who we are and also the fact that the place to look for it is within and in the past. So my friends, let today be the day you let go of all that’s going on in your head today, take a stroll back into the past and learn to re-love what you loved before when times were better and life was simpler… šŸ™‚

Intuition

Intuition – the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.

The other day, I got this sudden de ja vu feeling when something was going on…I dont remember exactly what it was but it was there..that feeling of not being aware of what was going to happen next, but at the same time beingĀ surprised at the repetition of a series of events before your eyes, as if you have been there before, seen it, felt it.

I got confused whether I was given the gift of future prediction or was this de ja vu indeed. In my quest to unravel if I have been suddenly blessed with super powers, I focused on my coworker, trying to predict his next move. He cracked a joke, which unfortunately was the same joke he cracked last week (I guess its his Friday thing). I could have predicted that in my sleep, so I couldn’t find out. I wished he had new jokes, but then lets not open that door. So in my utter failure to foresee the future, I concluded that this was de ja vu.

Back to my desk for work, I started thinking about it again. Where are these de ja vu images stored, I wondered. Not in my dreams for sure, if so, I would be dejected to have another sad dimension to my office life, the fact that I even dream about it. Nah, not that! By then out of thin air, my boss appeared before me with a new set of work to be done. Clearly had predicted this, bang on i do have some super powers!

Anyways as I nodded away to everything he uttered, my mind wandered away to this new set of thoughts. Sometimes we do feel right as if we know some things before hand, the gut feeling as they say. Recently, I read somewhere that it is called theĀ  ‘gut’ feeling because we have a Chakra guy situated somewhere near the gut, and that that guy is responsible for these intuitive feelings we have. And yeah we can develop it alright! But apart from the constant deposit of junk and crap that I gift my gut, I doubt I have done anything to pamper my intuitive abilities, however I stillĀ  do feel it at times!

Then I wondered, what if we were going about it the wrong way this whole time. We feel that being intuitive is when we feel strongly about something, which has not happened yet or we are not able to justify with reason. But what if..what was actually happening is that, when something has occurred, the event has brought such a huge impact that it has varied some element in the past, which has made us to believe that we had the thought all throughout. Also maybe if the event is too strong , so strong so as to ripple much back into the past, that it gives the people around us the mental picture that we had conversedĀ  about this to them too. Is that what it actually is..intuition..hmm something to think about…isn’t it?!