Nayana's Stories

  All of us wanted to flow and discover new meanings and activities in life. We are all geared to attain some new possibilities that give us new fulfillment and new meanings in life. However, we get stuck by difficulties that stop us from making the flow. So in spite of our need to flow and find new meanings, we get stuck with old possibilities and old meanings. So this is the location where we want to flow but feel stuck and strangled in spite of the conviction and belief to flow. In the name of the unfulfillment, we refrain from doing the right things. So, how do I really deal with this dilemma of the mind and the body? At one level I feel one is more important than the other yet at another level I feel the other is more important. So, how do I make the choice that is relevant fulfilling, and meaningful? We are all wanderers on this journey trying to find the right location.  Author:-Dr. Nayana Shah (Ph.D.)            ...

  All of us have different habits and orientations to do things in a certain way. Each one can be the right or the wrong method. If I were to think about myself I would hold on to both these extremes. At times I get pulled by being fully aware and fully there in whatever situation I am in. At times I neglect or reject the phenomenon in such a huge manner that it almost seems like abandonment. I do not mean to reject anything because there is a negative value attached to rejection and a positive value attached to acceptance. Whatever is accepted is considered a positive trait and whatever is rejected is considered a negative trait. So I juggle between these two polarities not knowing where I belong. We don’t realize that we are filled with so much happiness and often crib with what is not around and that is abandonment. We live only two percent of our lives and ninety-eight percent is abundant.  People may praise you for these or criticize you but ultimately it ...

  Why is it that women crave for looking good and attractive? When we go to parlours they are mostly filled with female gender and men are there only for haircuts. Even if I were to examine into my family I notice that my husband and son rarely bother about this very quality. Its more that me, my daughter, my daughter in law and female friends worry about looking good wearing good clothes and the like. So it is gender specific quality that evokes in each one of us. Why it is that men almost feel it ungraceful and shameful if they have to refer themselves in context of beauty? Why is it we associate some symbol as feminine and some as masculine? Even people who are stronger fall into the male category and people who are less strong fall into the female category? So what it is that make society different between these two genders? This coding are passed from generations to generations and it’s high time we examine this stereotype that exists in society. Society will have ...