BlissTarang

Very often we aren't comfortable with our own presence, because we want to be some other place or shape or form...jumping inside, feeling leashed. Sangeeta was "ease" on that Thursday afternoon. Being in-charge of corporate communications of a large communications company, she has been situated with meeting a lot of people...thousands of them. While still at her ever expanding role, and exploding for the last two years ... paving the human minds and realizing its fragility has been her course of warm inquiry. She has been on a self-referential journey to discover human purpose and meaning. She would consistently spend time reviewing the performance of her day/week, and humbly taking up many daily tiny chores for physical fitness. We sat down and began rearranging each other's minds. While we toured the topography of many a topics, one is what I would love to share...its around "belief". She lighted the word "belief" with t...

"The success of an intervention depends on the interior condition of the intervenor"- quote by Bill O'Brien, CEO of Hanover Insurance, One of Top 10 Underwriting Companies. Otto Scharmer, Chair of Presencing Institute - Massachusetts Institute of Technology / MIT, would quote Bill O'Brien several times across his presence over many multi-stakeholder initiatives. He has had vast experience working with businesses, government and social organizations. In one of Otto Scharmer's recent dialogue with the Dalai Lama where he quoted the above and explained further the insight that, because people's consciousness or attention is at different scale, it automatically blocks collaboration in meetings and/or initiatives. In fact it leads to humungous confusions, private agendas and loss of opportunity. It isn't difficult to see this on an everyday basis whether its the USA Government lock-down just some months back or the quality of debate on n...

Deliberately delaying one's candidature for any event/gratification in the day helps build character because it tests one's abilities against the factor of crunching time. Example: Letting someone else take that coffee ahead of you, holding the door and letting the person behind you pass first, let other person speak first and put forth the point, let the person behind you go through security check first, delay consuming a tempting food by 5 minutes, watching that facebook post/whatsapp a tad later than the tempted time. Dr Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin: Self-control has been called the "master virtue" by clinical and social psychologists, suggesting that the ability to delay gratification plays a critical role in a person's overall psychological adjustment. People with better ability to delay gratification report higher wellbeing, self-esteem and openness to experience, as well as more productive ways of responding to anger and ot...

Daily Tiny Act: "Start meeting or conversation with a small note of optimism. The world is working hard ...sorry, extra hard... to deliver all sorts of bad news. But a note of optimism or togetherness is what has kept humanity rock-solid for 20 million years".  Factoid: Daniel Loeb , ranked # 11 on Forbes Global Hedge Fund Manager Ratings...Founder of Hedge Fund Third Point, has been follower of Ashtanga Yoga since 1995. He acknowledges the "stillness" he derives from it and that its a path that will help world discover new form of society with conscious capitalism.

"Ancient roots in modern fruits" is an aphorism lived by Dr. G Ramachandra Bhat (Vice Chancellor of World's Leading Yoga Research Institution-S-VYASA) who supports Breathe India. Each day he would spend time in reflecting and sharing his thoughts on Bhagavad Gita, Upanishads & other scriptural texts with students & discussion groups. He is equally passionate about constantly pushing boundaries for scientific evidences of scriptural wisdom. On a brief call some moments back, his simple advice for corporate was, "Slow and steady is also a race... its more testing, more winning and surely fulfilling. One that promotes conscious capitalism". He likened it to pursue ambitions but with mindfulness. S-VYASA (Swami Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana) is now present in more than 30 countries. The Institution has MoU s with about 20 leading Universities and Research Centers all over the world for conducting collaborations research in Yoga,...

Annemie Ress , (Founder-Curator of Purple Beach-UK, Former Global Head-People Innovation of eBay), has been supporting Breathe India with her wonderful insights and global network. Here we would love to share some of her initial thoughts. Annemie started doing yoga in 2010, and she mentions that hatha yoga has been fundamental in terms of transforming and just bringing a sense of calmness into her life. She also keeps herself attempting at fun and sports and has done New York Marathon too. Below is a brief conversation with her Hemant: Corporate Life is about decision making. Essentially about chosing one decision over another...the right versus more right dilemma. How does mind-body-soul balance help one get through this? Annemie: It provides me with balance and unlocks the power of focus in me...by nurturing and paying attention to the mind-body-soul connection, I am able to not only choose the more right solution, but also be open to the fact that inspirati...