Nayana's Stories

  It is important that we reflect on ourselves in the process of living life. A mirror often gives you the realistic image and picture of yourself. So in living life it is important to look at yourself into the mirror and create learnings. Mirror is an object which creates lots of learnings for the self Is there a god which helps you look at real picture on there is no god. When you look into the mirror you discover/recreate. You feel good with yourself or you feel nauseous. Both the realities are true. At times you feel good and on high and at times you may fee horrible. Keep the mirror for a learning of whether you are in the good space or the bad space. At times you may feel very big and at times very small both realities are real. The mirror reflects only what you are it does not pass a judgement on whether you are good or bad that judgement is passed on by the self. If we stumble and fumble we are unable to see ourselves with clarity. Author:-Dr. Nayana Shah (Ph....

  How do we differentiate between these two categories? Most of the time we feel that we are lonely because of being alone. But being alone is a very meaningful process as against being lonely. Being lonely is a process wherein one feels the absence of people and a low feeling. Whereas being alone allows you to be by yourself. Do your own things and feel satisfied with life in general. Aloneness is what everybody is feeling. Don’t feel sad or depressed if you are alone it allows you to explore and discover new meanings and new processes in life. Aloneness gives you a chance to go in the woods ad explore new paths of yourself. India has been the symbol of inner journey and loneliness provided you the time and space to go on that journey. There is a difference between the East and the West and people who are in the East are more inclined towards self-reflection, self-examination, and willing to go on a journey of themselves. Now is the only time you have for yourself so i...

  Life has thrown up different patterns when we were growing up as children and what we are as adults. Life in 90’s century was quiet, mundane and not so easy. Life in 21 th century has become full of life and challenges all the time. Even the waves of enjoyments, celebrations differ from what we were doing earlier and what we are doing now. People keep on committing mistake all the time and we end up committing same mistake over a period of time. But we have to raise same mistake committed leave us in a phase of non-growth and non-challenges. We have to be enlightened to feel a sense of growth In this evolution then mad man grows into good man as if that what he believes. There are lots of doors available it’s up to us which door do we choose for this evolution.  Author:-Dr. Nayana Shah (Ph.D.)            Director, Manthan              Ahmedabad  

  The human mind is filled with the need for education and academic rigour. To us getting degrees makes us feel greater and greater achievements in life. The truth is that education is one path to human beings' growth there are so many other things which uplift you and make you feel satisfied. Most of the time greater degrees and greater qualifications are filled with more knowledge and wisdom. However, they don’t lead us to a wholesome fulfilment of living life. I have got the highest degree possible in the academic world. But many times things I wonder what is the use of the degree if my heart is unable to bleed for myself or the others. A sensitive and fulfilling mind is much more human than any degree that can get. Academic rigour or achievement provides you with the satisfaction of achieving something great in life. However, it does not fill you with the day-to-day rigorous of a soul that can bleed for the self and others. People often make choices without a de...

  It has often felt that childhood years have been the best period of life. There are so many writings and literature on romanticizing the childhood period. But when I reflect on my childhood days they were full of burdens comparisons and compulsions. There was pressure to perform, pressure to be the best, and pressure to compete with my siblings. So in hindsight if think childhood has not been the best period of life. Only after growing up into adulthood, I have been able to discover my dreams, and my fantasies, and move toward who I am as a human being. So far adulthood has been much better than childhood. That childhood does not to your intelligence growth per wellbeing only. Once you grow up you feel that you can respond like an adult and make choices like an adult. Everything right for somebody else may not be right for you . Our minds start functioning like machines when we are children and we do not apply the adult framework to ourselves.  Author:-Dr. Naya...

  We often rely on saints, sages and the arrived people for all our solutions. However, we need to ask ourselves whether they are the actual source of all our problems. Actually, if we look inward we can realize that most of the solutions lie within us and I don’t need to look out for any solutions. It’s only the belief in one self that you realize that all the solutions lie within me. It’s all about the faith and conviction that I have in myself to generate solutions in life. If I look at the problem, with a great deal of tension and negativity I will only look for problems outside me. If I have the courage and the faith in myself then I will not look outside of me. You become a prisoner of your own habits if you are unable to get out of it. Only if you are in tune with nature and the real things happening around will you be able to find real solutions. In the name of being god-fearing, we are unable to drop all the shackers and inhabitations we carry towards god and t...