Aparna Rana

Leave your mind blank for some time, after a while you will find lots of ideas floating there. Then hold your pen and start curating your ideas into beautiful phrases, prose & poetry or a simple paragraph maybe. The best way to do this is to let your mind travel wherever it wants to go. Don't fight, don't create a rift, once it's done with all the roaming it will naturally come back to you... and trust me 'this' will be the mind that you always wished to have. The travel of mind collects enormous no. of information. Once you get the intel, simply start working on that, start filtering useful and not so useful things. What happenes usually, we don't allow our mind to go out of our control, and who wants to be caged, this exactly happenes to our mind. Set it free, it is travelling virtually only, it is not traveling out side your brain. So, once it's able to experience the world automatically will start behaving the way you want it to behave. Try to...

One more celebrity committed suicide. Now for a couple of days this news as well as the value of mental health will float in full swing. In this lockdown only I watched Chhichore, and genuinely loved the movie for its message to the society. But now the question that is popping up in my mind why do we watch such movies if the actors who are getting paid for such roles are not taking the lessons in their life. Well, suicide definitely can not be & is not a solution but if the person doesn't found anyone trustworthy to him this remains the only way. Why don't we teach ourselves to be patient & attentive enough to listen what a person wants to say. It has become our usual practice to make fun. Listening and sharing are the tools that open up the pathway to a more comfortable life. I won't blame this year, not only bad things are happening in the year. We, as individuals, are now able to understand that we don't need so much to survive. We learnt to spend time ...

I am kind of person who enjoys all the small things happening in life (बड़ी घटनाएँ ज़रा कम घटती हैं न!). Jokes apart, love what you do, live what you love doing. That so happened to me today. As I was taking the class of Psychology students of class 12th, I was like down in the memory lane when I was a student and was struggling to understand what psychology is. Though, we have a syllabus to cover (आप इसको सर पे तलवार भी कह सकते हैं), but psychology is not mere a subject. It is a part of life, an open discussion, respecting perspectives.. as we all have different opinions even for the same situation (that's what the topic today). To learn this subject you have to think beyond subject. Each and every object is your subject, your eyes, ears, brain etc are the tools. Being observant and receptive is a high demand. Lots of things to write and invite a debate. Years after I spoke my heart out what psychology is for me, because you simply can not bind it in definition. And guess what...