Thursday, June 18, 2009

Change- the SPICE of life


Change in life's inevitable. No matter how hard you try to stay at one point in life and be adamant about it, it only becmes more and more difficult for you to adjust to your life. The harder you hold on to somehting that has passed away in tie, it becomes more painful for you to live. Whether it is good times or bad times, it will sucks up al the joy and happiness in your life.



Yes, if you think the changes may not seem fair. Changes that are positive, we are always excited to move on with, but changes that are negative and dull; to move on with that's really difficult. Probably that;s because we are not ready for the change. We're not ready to move out of our comfort zone, unlearn things or even learn somethign new. Many things might have becoem a habit in our lives and those habits if you have enjoyed then it becomes even more difficult for you to break away from those habits.



The first step towards handling change is to understand CHANGE itself. Understanding the change is needfula nd unavoidable whether we like it or not. From the beginning try going deeper into understanding change. it is only a matter of perception when it comes to adopting change. either you can look at adopting to change as something difficult and as something that forces you to let go off preferably something beautiful and comfotable things in your life. Or you can choose to think of adopting to change as a trade for something even better than what you were already having. In simple terms its a necessary evil. We never know, may be its price that we arepraying for a better tomorrow.



Understand that many of the chnages are things that you never decided to have in your life. byt somebody else did like our parents for example forced o us many changes to be brought into our lives or our siblings or even friends. sometimes the change that has been brought into our lives because of a chnge that has happned in the behaviour of a loved one or a friend and its even worse when we think that we cannot chnage others the way we want them to behave, so once again change is forced upon us against our will and wish. The wise thing to understand here is, that there's no point in fighting that change. instead adopt.



So how do one adopt to changes. First you have faith, have faith that the things you think you're losing so as to adopt to this new change in life willc ome back to you; if its really belongs to you. Nomatter what it is...let it be people or experinces or things you love. Changes are temperory unlike what we assume about changes to be permenant. That's one universal truth I believe about change. When a good or positive change happen we hope and pray that things never change and when bad things happen also we tend to think that your bad times will never change. the reality's that whether good times or bad times, change's never permenant, but temperory. things always change. Live your life knowing this, that will make adopting to change a bit easy or in understanding why things change. But that doesn't mena that you stop enjoying life when ti goes up and down..enjoy the ride..the ups and downs. How? Just remmebr what i said... have faith...!!! This understanding about change that change is not permenant will help you to adopt, by preparing you for the negative chnages in life and gives you hope for the future. It is all about " Hoping for the best and preparing for the worst" Like i said its all about habits. so when a new changs is infront of you...try to make it a habit to adopt...anything practiced for about 21 days becomes a habit or in other words it takes 21 days to make anything a habit.




Life’s full of ups and downs. It is a vicious cycle of good times & bad times. So is change. Sometimes something positive comes to your life and you need to change, then something negative comes to your life and again you have to change. Remember nothing remains the same, every relationship, every situation, every human being, every country and every thing in nature here on earth changes temporarily for better or worse. Even you change every now and then, even without you known about it.



‘Change is the Spice of Life.’ Start looking at change as something that’s going to help you gain something or something that will add color to your life rather than looking at it as an obstacle or a hurdle in our life that will slow you down. It’s again a matter of perspective. A positive perspective can only bring out positive outcome and negative perspective will bring out only negative outcome. Adapting to change’s something you’ll have to do sooner or later. If you don’t, then you’ll find life rough and you’ll turn bitter and unhappy. To keep the joy alive in your life is to approach the changes as the Spice in your life. And you know how Spices are; a bit hot, sour, bitter, sweet, salty; but makes food very tasty without which you won’t enjoy your palette as much as you would with the spices in it.



Yes, at times we really don’t have a choice for the majority of the changes that happens and yes it may seem unfair too. But the important thing is to keep yourself happy and keep that joy and peace ignited inside of you the entire time regardless of the unfair changes. For that you have to adapt to the changes.



Yes it gets us angry and frustrated sometime and it becomes painful to let go at certain times. But still we have to slowly and steadily with discipline & consistency has to do what we have to. And believe, have faith that the outcome’s going to be worth and rewarding. Anyway will be definitely be more rewarding than holding on to the passed time.



Yes it will make you feel a fool or a puppet in the hands of God. Indeed we are puppets in God’s hands many a time. Understand that there are many a thing which is not under our control; but in God’s control. He does what eh wishes for a greater good, so listen to what eh has to say. Make God your best friend. He might do you some favors.





MUSIC

What I love about music is that it has the magic to take you away into a different world away from all your worries and daily life. To a world where everything seem to have a positive flow and everything just seem to just light up and work out. A morning began with some good music that sooths your soul is a day began with full of cheers and energy. You will even feel like taking up the daily complications of life with a fresh look. You don’t feel so tired anymore doing the things you were so upset about last night. Instead of giving up on that project that drove you made the day before, you quickly dive into it and creativity and possibilities started flowing in with ideas.



Music can give you the same feeling of being in love, everything seem to float and make u feel happy inside out and make you feel charged up. Have you ever listened to the sound of flowing stream water or just a simple fountain water, how soothing is it to listen to it early morning waking up to the music of nature. The leaves gently flowing in the strings of wind, the smell of grass and flowers, the birds chirping away in the distance and you just utter to yourself Good morning sunshine. That’s the magic of nature’s music.


Music is full of emotions… you can get all patriotic listening to our National Anthem. A Vande Maathram makes the hair on my hands stand up…that’s what music can do to me. Romantic Songs makes me feel just like I am in love, at least few of them can, it’s not always just the music, but the lyrics play a big part. Heart warming lyrics with mind blowing music is a recipe to touch somebody’s heart.



Music can make you laugh, cry, leave you inspired and looking for more of music and enlightened with its magic wand. Music with out words can still speak to all of us, it can be sensuous, it can be packed in with emotions, laughter, joy and lot of fun, peppy and high voltage of energy. I believe that the kind of music and song that you listen to can definitely tell a bit about your personality or at least what mood one’s in. When I am sad I usually listen to my favorite sad songs or some times when I want to feel cheered up, I listen to romantic or peppy song and that tells me that music can heal too. Music may not be a complete medicine to any depression, yet I feel that it has anti-depression properties because of all the things I talked previously as it can bring the best out of people.


Guess it can relive stress, may be that’s why some of these artists speak out there child hood problems or tragedy they have been through and singing about them can help them leave there past behind and move on with their lives.


Life has many things to offer us and I know that one of them is music. One thing I found really exciting was that one thing common for Heaven and Earth is of course Music and may be that’s why music brings paradise on earth. It helps you relax, and take a time out from exhaustion and brings your temper down and makes you feel like floating on clouds in the endless sky.


Music is considered divine and is respected and worshipped in countries like ours. Music is considered equal to God and the devotees of music see music as a gift from God. That precious is music. It is played on every occasion of our lives, let it be at the time of parties, marriage, prayer, at temples, churches and mosques all around the world every country has their own style of music which they play during different events. Death, birth, achievements, failures, people celebrate it with music, making music an integral part of our lives consciously or not.


Music is a festival of time and people so love music there so many who takes up music as there career and it is because of the millions of people out there who loves and worship music that these artists who make big in the world arena of music. Even the Queen of England held her Concert with many artists from around the world who comes and sings in the open air of England for her and her people. There’s a World Music concert too celebrated each year and in honor music there’s nothing like the legendary awards of Grammy to honor the musicians from the corners of the universe.

Anywhere in the world you, you will find music flowing even from the streets of a poor man to the mansions of a millionaire. Music gets us all going. Jai ho!!!


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