B.K. Shivani

To Stay Happy, Mind your Mind

July 13, 2024

What is easier, to get angry or to remain calm? When there is a difficult situation, someone makes a mistake, or work is not done to our satisfaction, how do we respond? Do we stay calm or lose our temper? Nowadays a lot of people find it easier to behave...

Coping with Death, and the Art of Dying

May 18, 2024

When we look at our face in the mirror, the thing to note is not whether there is a pimple or a white hair – that is trivial. Instead, we can check whether there is peace or anxiety, ego or humility visible on the face. That reveals our state of...

Use the Mind’s Power to Solve your Problems

March 9, 2024

Suppose I live with a family member who is not nice to me. They make it a point to trouble me every day, and I get annoyed and upset. The situation is obviously not to my liking, but how I react to it will determine how it develops. If I...

Using our spiritual powers

January 6, 2024

Spiritual powers are not something we need to acquire – the powers already exist within each soul; we only need to learn to use them. The first power is the power to withdraw from situations, to not get entangled in them. The tortoise illustrates this well. What does a tortoise...

Keep your spiritual energy high

October 14, 2023

In India, it is customary to fast during certain festivals. Why do we fast, what do we gain from it? A fast is meant to change our state of mind. It teaches us self-control. This control is then manifested in several areas of our life. We develop greater control over...

Always think positive

August 26, 2023

As soon as a difficult situation arises, tell yourself that there is some benefit in it. By doing so, you can conserve your inner power, and use that power to deal with the situation. It is our mind that first grapples with any problem – making sense of it and...

How our thoughts create our world

April 8, 2023

It is our thoughts, attitude, and behaviour that have made the world what it is. Consider this, when there are loving relationships in a family and everybody lives together happily, people say that their home is heaven. Instead, if there is constant stress, shouting, and violence within a family, their...

The way to bless the self

February 25, 2023

We wish others happiness, love, health and success, and others also have similar good wishes for us, but how about having good wishes for the self? If others have good wishes for us but we do not have the same for the self, we will not easily attain success in...

THE MIND CREATES OUR WORLD

June 25, 2022

Our body, work, home, and circumstances, all comprise our external world. I am the energy that we call consciousness, or the soul. Everything else is outside us. Our outer world is important to us, but we need to understand how this world is created. Often, when a situation, health issue...

CONTROL THE MIND WITH LOVE

March 26, 2022

We often think about the people we love, and those with whom we have beautiful relationships. We also think of people with whom we have a conflict or differences—we think of them even if we do not want to, and spend sleepless nights repeatedly going over what they said or...

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