The Mindful Quintessence

The practice of mindfulness calls for open receptivity and awareness of all stimulation. It helps you not only to make up for lost time by performing more efficiently, but you will also see problems as they are—not what you have, till now, imagined them to be. Not that mindfulness will take you on a great journey where difficult situations just disappear at the proverbial drop of a ‘thought.'

- Rajgopal Nidamboor

Far from it. Rather, it is a state of being that provides you with the basic essentials to dealing with difficulties in a more positive, constructive manner. First things first. We all need a constant, enduring sense of awareness to reach the most profound level of our unconscious self—this is, of course, not easy to achieve as it may sound. The reason being—what we wilfully experience, or understand, as the divine is discernibly limited to our unconscious self, including the inner and outer limits of our thoughts and feelings from deep within and from the inside out.

What is also noteworthy is far beyond a specific point—we ought to submit to the ‘divine in us’ to take the next step. Once this happens, we surpass the routine and attain a lasting state of conscious awareness—one that is incomplete in sync with the cosmos, or the universe. Our subsequent step is predictable. As the divine takes the initiative, it helps us to overcome most challenges, or difficulties, of everyday life through our own sense of conscious awareness.