An essence seperable from the physical reality of the body. It is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. A throbbing human apparatus it is with infinite potential and possibilities. The most remarkable difference it is between the man and the animal kingdom – Yes, it is the Mind all by itself!

                  As a land is improved by sowing it with assorted seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with offbeat studies. The intellect is so powerful that it can beget, experience, undo or even delete things if it wishes to! Phenomenal ain't it? Well, this piece of witchcraft can burn with flames of imagination akin to anything under the sky and afterward, sprout with a lot of new theories since it embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to a evolution.

                It is a mere open parenthesis; you can fill how much you want , there is no close parenthesis. But it's the question of how much that stuffing is cultivated, since sometimes it becomes a metaphor for the Bermuda triangle: once any iota of information gets magnetized to it , later it becomes no picnic to look for it. This is plainly because you have stacked up more than 5 years of information material galore. By now beyond any doubt your mind must've been filled to the rafters. All of which can be downloaded and shared! If not rendered rightly it is a breeze to get it hacked. Highly demiurgic it is with a colossal capacity.

                 Some days you may feel your thoughts are just cocoons hanging from dripping branches in the grey woods of your foresight. There is abyss amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines. Any new idea or brain work is infallible. Leave your mind open to race and it will end up reaching the last star of this universe.

                  Anything and everything learned by the mind holds an invisible ingredient and this invisible ingredient makes the difference between the better and the best, the ordinary and the extraordinary, the good and the excellent. Did everything you learn cohere to your mind with full devotion or with apathy and reluctance? The crucial question is that are you fully dedicated to cracking the books, store it in such a way that it can be used, put back and reused? Or pile it in bulk and wait for it to expire? Thoughts will be various, but with time it musn't become carious.

                 Albert Einstein in popular culture has become synonymous with someone of very high intelligence. People like him are born once in an era. Brain is physical, mind is not, you have the adequency so give it a shot!

IPOD - Inner Peace Outer Dynamics.

                     A state of watching your thoughts, gradually coming to a state of zero thought, deeply connected to your consciousness, a soulful act – 'meditation'. Closing your eyes whilst absolutely thinking of nothing and purely feeling peaceful is what it is. It is a journey to the inside world of the body, mind and definitely an exploration of one's level of awareness.

                     Our body is the wick and our mind is the flame. As we fall deeper into meditation, our internal energy keeps building, to slowly expand the flame (our mind). This indeed is a very religious practice that is used to clear the mind and ease a clump of health issues. If our mind reaches the core of meditation, that power is enough to activate the inner potential.

                    Imagining honey trickling down right from your head, to your face and to the rest of the body or tasting your favorite delicacy or doing that which gives you ecstacy with all your mind can also be a form of meditation. By being 100% 'now', one can plainly experience it!

                   Watching your breath closely, helps in this process. A tranquil thinking pattern is enabled in relaxation. 

An everyday cycle of meditation, washes away mental disturbance and guarantees a sheer stress-free life.

Eventually, this person with the belief for this power can be wholly serene!

- Surabhi Jain IX-A1

Who?..

“It is said, God is omnipotent and omnipresent

on whom there is no trademark or no patent”

“Something many like to believe”

“But many use this notion, just for short term

feeling of relieve”

“God is beyond logic”

“God is some taste of spiritual magic”

“He is beyond science and he is beyond art”

“He is closer to people who live less in the

mind and more in the heart !”

- Surabhi .N. Jain

VIII 'B'

Spiced Up & Sane

           Why do you think people come and ask you if you're crazy or wired in the head while displaying some knee-slapper action? Because they think a normal person wouldn't be uncanny. But when you are that way, you are being yourself. So does that mean you are bats in the belfry? No, not at all! You're just doing so to feel completely you in your very own cosmos. Keep going, you're perfectly good!
           Perhaps to your eyes, you are en masse compos mentis, and that's more than enough! Be impassive about what others think. Play your favorite hard rock and dance like no one's looking. Chow down like there's no tomorrow. Talk to yourself. Talk mumbo jumbo. Wear your 'moon over' togs and click sundry selfies! Your absolutely fine. viz. you are Spiced Up & Sane.

You give me everything, and a little bit more..

Here's to how my world stood tilted toward the dark side. Every moment my mind held a different vibe. Be it a fear of death, the high of an adventure or a dreadful nightmare. At that very time of the year, I was being pampered by the best. I declared to him that in my life when he came, I was taught that love is not a game. Needless to thank him for sharing with me ample amount of that emotion. Accepting me in every form was his notion. It all seemed like a real life block-buster movie in slow-motion. From then on, everyday turned out to be a better fairytale. The whole year was intoxicating. Pure innocence it all was.

Amidst the merriment, I was being drawn away completely, not realizing I had lost myself into another world. My big sister knew it all and so she steered me like always. She assured to me that I can live a souped up life with healthy relations, a clear mind and heart, if I don't get carried away by all this. For my betterment it was I knew, so I agreed to it tout de suite. We talked like dead-on best friends and I was so glad that we soliloquized every small-big episode of our life to each other. One hell of an inspirational figure she is and forever will be. My Father, My King – His art of writing, jocosity and every other thing has taught me just a lot. My Mother My Guardian Angel – the most worshiped Goddess. How smoothly she handles responsibilities goes without saying.

In my small world I thought I was taking the right path. Nevertheless, I didn't know that the wrong one disguised itself! Hadn't I realized that I'm embedding every feeling and thought into me? Hadn't I known I'm not doing the right thing, because a few days later when my mind and heart became saturated, I burst every dollop of emotion into many tears. So many tears. For years together, not a single thing I shared to my parents nor did I involve myself in anything. I was notable by talking less and being cocooned in the room with my phone. They said I was once a jovial, bubbly girl who always chirped and awakened the aura. But that so called 'love' hit me without my permission and wholly changed my being. It slowly began tasting bitter to me. I felt caged. A free flying bird I desired to be.

One fine day made its way when I spilled the beans to my mum, dad, kiths & kins collectively. Crestfallen, I made a statement about my foolishness of not confessing anything to them. My statement was interrupted positively: they told me that above all, they are happy to hear from me my feelings and whatsoever I shared to them. Once I was done with my entire story, I felt like helium: light as ever. I was tickled pink also. It was the best thing I could ask for! It was the time when I found out my parents are my first best friends and my everyday well-wishers. Very much to my surprise I had forgotten 'him' soon after the massed counseling (by my friends too!) They almost celebrated toward getting the old me back. My life caught hold of a different route and today my family and friends make me burn with the brightest flame!

Dance out loud.

               A feel of complete trance it is: Only got by waking up the inner part of you; you know, like meditation. Deep meditation. Drawn completely into it, your mind and body play the co-ordination game. Your hands stretch out with your legs,and you feel like your going to touch the ground and begin to rise again. Like your flying!

               When you dance, your whole self is involved. Believe me, it's something a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious mind would've invented! I love wiggling and jumping and moving myself: otherwise, 'dancing'. Maybe it's funny to hear, if I'd say I even boogie to any rhythm I hear in malls, supermarkets, friend's place, school sometimes and home of course. I actually do. Giving me the high, it makes me forget every troublemaker in my life. I dance at that point, that one point when I want to express something that I feel.

               More important, it's not necessarily a talent or something someone has to learn in depth. It can display slow waves or quick shuffles in any unprofessional way because that's the action the body commands to carry out as a result of the current message in the mind. In other words, the symphony(the wrong, the right, the good, the bad) is input and dance is the output( frustration, blue devils, merriment). You can be just yourself in the not so mundane thing titled 'dance'. Wriggle and spin and shake to yourself and laugh upon it if you wish. Connect your soul,body,mind. Freedom will follow..

             

The art of self-love!

          Be the persona who gets into situations that causes sparks. I mean be that kind who likes the storms and enjoys walking in the cold with bare feet. This world is a giant ball of love, success-in-failure, experiments and treasure. Go out there and explore yourself. Indulge yourself in some kind of adventure that tosses you like a roller-coaster! This for sure will relieve your mental stress and make you dauntless in the wax and wane of life!
         The notion of kindness to the self needs to be spread. Unless there's a conscious effort to love oneself, we'd all get caught up in the frenzy of our hectic daily schedules and be unhappy. Learn to love yourself unconditionally without fail. Happiness will follow..