Beyond our Thoughts!
"Our idea of happiness may be the very obstacle standing in the way of our happiness" -Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Living Childhood Conditioning All of us are trying to live our lives with an aim like to become a doctor or an actor or someone etc etc. From the moment a child learns a bit about the world, we start pressing our aims on the child - be a good child, be a good student, be social, be the topper, be the best in your life so on. That's how we think is the proper way to raise a child. As the child tries to make sense of the world around him or her, he/she begins to identify with these ideas because mostly they are coming from the most trusted sources - parents, teachers, family, society in general. These are great ideas and there's nothing wrong with them. As soon as the child internalises these notions 'to be' in life, he/she tries their whole lives living up to these ideas. When the exposure is less, the child thinks of them as truth, a...