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Parth Sawhney

giving others the benefit of the doubt

When we experience other people’s screwed-up and skewed-up behaviors and actions and their awfulness and rudeness, we easily get hurt, offended and defensive. We are quick towards judging others and take things personally. We stew, we shower them with expletives, we gossip about them. Instead of taking things to

making friends with our mind

As we embark on the journey of mindfulness and awareness, we are also making friends with our mind and the collective consciousness. We are getting in better touch with our Inner Being which positions us to make better friends with the people around us. Whenever we sit down to meditate,

acting rationally

If we take a closer look at our past behaviors and actions, we will come across a sad realization — that we have not been acting consciously and rationally. Instead of taking charge and being deliberate with our choices, decisions, behaviors, and actions, we were ruled by our emotions, impulses, unconscious

letting go of the need to impress other people

Most of us take great measures and go to vast lengths in order to impress someone. We end up wearing uncomfortable clothes that we don’t even like, we pick up accents, we change our hair color, we start eating differently, we drive cool cars and we buy shiny gadgets

hamster on a running wheel

Most of us live our lives like a hamster on a running wheel. We think we are running hard, we think we are progressing ahead but in the end, we are in the same place where we initially started. Unfortunately, the empty pursuits that we engage in don’t take

gratitude and a cup of joe

Not too long ago, I inculcated a quiet gratitude practice in my daily routine for my morning cup of coffee once I had it in my hand before I took the first sip. I have been going through some tough times, and one day I was just grateful that I’

mother's hands

In the book A Second Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul, Louisa Godissart McQuillen shares a story about her warm relationship with her mother. When she was young, every night, her mother came to tuck her in even past her childhood years. It became a daily custom for her

taking long walks in nature

An activity that is greatly rewarding both for the body and the soul is taking long nature walks, especially at the end of the workday. Not only you’ll be able to beat the tiredness and exhaustion that you feel after work, but they’ll also help you relax, rejuvenate

the power of oscillation

The greatest performers and creative producers amongst us don’t work in a linear way i.e. they don’t hit it hard and put in long hours continuously to get work done and get their desired results. Instead, they work in a cyclical way and tap into the power

we all have expiration dates

We all live in denial as we cruise through our lives with regard to the fact that we are going to die eventually some day. We refrain from looking at this truth in the eye, and pretend that our death is not real. But the truth is that we all