(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.
Here’s the cover of my next book, which is going to be launched soon:
From Command To Contribution: Management Insights from 47 years of Leadership – By Capt Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
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Leadership is not about rank.
It is not about power.
It is about the institutions we build, the people we inspire, and the legacy we leave behind.
Over the last almost half a century, I have had the privilege of serving the nation, leading teams in uniform, working with government, industry, technology, and academia, and witnessing leadership in its finest—and sometimes its most challenging—forms.
This book is a distillation of those experiences.
It is not a book of theories. It is a book of lived lessons.
Within these pages are stories of leadership, decision-making, resilience, ethics, institution building, and the countless small choices that quietly shape extraordinary outcomes.
Whether you are a corporate executive, entrepreneur, civil servant, defence officer, educator, student, or someone who aspires to lead with purpose, I hope these insights will help you create value that endures long after titles and positions have faded.
Because the true measure of leadership is not the authority we exercise today, but the institutions and people that continue to flourish tomorrow.
Authored six books on happiness: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!
☆ Book Review ☆ SHOE DOG 🥾 ☆ Shri Jagat Singh Bisht ☆
When Business Becomes a Run Towards Meaning 🥾
There are autobiographies one reads with admiration. There are others one reads with curiosity. And then, once in a rare while, there comes a memoir that one lives through — breath by breath, doubt by doubt, heartbeat by heartbeat.
This was my experience with Shoe Dog.
I have always loved autobiographies. They allow us to sit quietly beside another human being and listen — not to their achievements alone, but to their fears, their confusions, their missteps. Yet this memoir felt different. It did not read like a polished success story told from a glittering summit. It read like a man sitting across the table, sleeves rolled up, speaking plainly, even vulnerably, about a life that unfolded in chaos, anxiety and relentless uncertainty.
And that is what makes it unforgettable.
A Story Without Armour 🥾
Many founders narrate their journeys with an air of inevitability — as though success was merely waiting for them to arrive. But in Shoe Dog, Phil Knight does something rare: he dismantles the myth of certainty.
The story is messy. It is perilous. It is riddled with mistakes, near-bankruptcies, strained relationships, sleepless nights and heart-in-the-mouth moments. Banks threaten to shut him down. Shipments are delayed. Competitors loom. Cash flow evaporates like morning dew.
And yet, there is no bravado in the telling. No chest-thumping. No self-congratulation.
Instead, there is candour. There is anxiety. There is fear admitted openly.
In a world obsessed with projecting invincibility, here is a man who confesses frailty. He speaks of doubt as though it were an old companion. He acknowledges the terror of payroll deadlines. He reveals how often he felt on the brink of collapse.
That honesty is disarming.
Not Just Shoes, But People 🥾
Though the book chronicles the birth of Nike, it is not merely a corporate saga. It is the story of a “shoe dog” — a man obsessed not with profit margins but with running tracks, athletes’ feet, and the poetry of movement.
There is a deep respect for sportsmen. A reverence for the discipline of runners. A quiet admiration for grit.
But even more touching is the affection for family and colleagues. The early team — eccentric, loyal, imperfect — feels like a band of brothers bound by something far greater than commerce.
These were not employees; they were co-dreamers.
And through it all, one senses a son’s regard for his father, a husband’s gratitude, a friend’s loyalty. There is not even an iota of ego in the narrative. If anything, there is an almost startling humility — an insistence on sharing credit, on exposing weakness, on acknowledging dependence on others.
A Dream That Was Never About Money 🥾
What struck me most deeply was this: money was never the dream.
We are so conditioned to believe that entrepreneurship is fuelled by the hunger for wealth. But Knight’s hunger moved along a different tangent. He writes:
“I wanted to leave a mark on the world. I wanted to win. No, that’s not right. I simply didn’t want to lose… I saw it all before me, exactly what I wanted my life to be. Play.”
That word — play — lingers.
Running, for him, was not just sport; it was revelation. As his “young heart began to thump” and the trees blurred into green streaks, he glimpsed not a balance sheet, but a way of living. A life in motion. A life engaged.
What he sought was not accumulation but aliveness.
The Only Advice That Matters 🥾
In 1962, he told himself:
“Let everyone else call your idea crazy… just keep going. Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where ‘there’ is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.”
This, to me, is perhaps the best advice — maybe the only advice — any of us should ever give.
We spend so much time defining “there”. We obsess over milestones, titles, recognition. Yet the real work is in continuing — especially when the path is foggy, when the numbers don’t add up, when others shake their heads in polite disbelief.
Keep going.
Not blindly, not arrogantly, but steadily.
Keep going when your lungs burn.
Keep going when your accounts tremble.
Keep going when doubt whispers its favourite word — “quit”.
The memoir reminds us that greatness is rarely glamorous in real time. It is repetitive. It is exhausting. It is frightening. But if one keeps moving, one day the blur becomes a landscape.
The Real Victory 🥾
By the time I finished the last page, I did not feel I had read about a global brand. I felt I had walked beside a young man who refused to stop running — even when he had no clear map, no guarantees, no safety net.
Perhaps that is the deeper lesson.
We do not need perfect clarity.
We do not need universal approval.
We do not even need certainty about the destination.
We need only enough courage to take the next stride.
And then the next.
And then the next.
That is how a shoe dog built something lasting.
And that is how any of us might leave our own quiet mark on the world.🥾
The novel centers on Janki Das Mishra, a fifty-nine-year-old retired bank officer living in Borivali East, Mumbai. His life is defined by a quiet, predictable routine, punctuated only by his interactions with his domestic helper, Lata. Having a son settled in America, Janki Das grapples with the typical silence of a “nest” that has long been empty.
The narrative gains momentum when he meets Kalyani, a retired teacher from Durgapur who has moved to the city to stay with her daughter, Ruma. The two find a common purpose in tutoring Lata’s daughters—Janki Das teaching them mathematics and Kalyani focusing on English. What begins as chance encounters at the local vegetable market evolves into a profound, respectful companionship.
Character Dynamics
The Seniors (Janki Das & Kalyani): They represent a generation that values patience and human connection. Their bond is not one of romantic urgency but of mutual understanding and shared service.
The Corporate Contrast (Ruma): Ruma serves as a foil to the elders. Her life is a high-speed chase for corporate success, marked by stress, alcohol as a coping mechanism, and an emotional distance from her mother.
The Bridge (Lata): As the domestic helper, Lata is the thread that weaves these lives together, highlighting the interdependence between Mumbai’s middle class and the labor that supports it.
Themes and Writing Style
Neeraj Verma writes with a gentle, observant hand. He transforms mundane activities—baking a cake, buying vegetables, or riding an elevator—into meaningful reflections on the human condition.
Urban Loneliness: The book captures the specific isolation of a big city, where millions live side-by-side yet remain strangers.
Legacy through Education: By teaching Lata’s children, the protagonists find a way to remain relevant and useful, proving that aging does not mean an end to contribution.
The Final Takeaway: What the Story Teaches Us
The core message of The Melody of Freedom is that freedom is the liberty to redefine oneself. It suggests that “retirement” is not a withdrawal from life, but an opportunity to compose a new “melody” based on choice rather than obligation.
The book serves as a poignant reminder that in a world obsessed with speed and digital connection, true fulfillment is found in the “slow” moments—in altruism, in the courage to seek new friendships in one’s sunset years, and in the realization that we are never too old to learn or to teach.
A heartwarming, soul-stirring read that finds extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives. It is a must-read for anyone looking to understand the quiet dignity of the older generation and the healing power of simple human kindness.
Authored six books on happiness: Cultivating Happiness, Nirvana – The Highest Happiness, Meditate Like the Buddha, Mission Happiness, A Flourishing Life, and The Little Book of Happiness. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!
☆ Games People Play, ERIC BERNE M.D. ☆ Compilation: Shri Jagat Singh Bisht ☆
Notes of a Trainer
☆ SOCIAL INTERCOURSE ☆
The theory of social intercourse has been outlined in Transactional Analysis.
Social programming results in traditional ritualistic or semi-ritualistic interchanges. The chief criterion for it is local acceptability, popularly called ‘good manners’. Parents in all parts of the world teach their children manners, which means that they know the proper greeting, eating, emunctory, courting and mourning rituals, and also how to carry on topical conversations with appropriate strictures and reinforcements. The strictures and reinforcements constitute tact or diplomacy, some of which is universal and some local. Usually formal rituals precede semi-ritualistic topical conversations, and the latter may be distinguished by calling them pastimes.
The solitary individual can structure time in two ways: activity and fantasy. An individual can remain solitary even in the presence of others – withdrawal. When one is a member of social aggregation of two or more people, there are several options of structuring time. In order of complexity, these are: (1) Rituals; (2) Pastimes; (3) Games; (4) Intimacy; and (5) Activity. The goal of each member of the aggregation is to obtain as many satisfactions as possible from his transactions with other members. The more accessible he is, the more satisfactions he can obtain. The most gratifying forms of social contact are games and intimacy. Prolonged intimacy is rare; significant social intercourse most commonly takes the form of games.
STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
Observation of spontaneous social activity reveals that from time to time people show noticeable changes in posture, viewpoint, voice, vocabulary, and other aspects of behaviour. These behavioural changes are often accompanied by shifts in feeling. In a given individual, a certain set of behaviour patterns corresponds to one state of mind, while another set is related to a different psychic attitude, often inconsistent with the first. These changes and differences give rise to the idea of ego states.
An ego state may be described as a coherent system of feelings or behaviour patterns. Each individual seems to have a limited repertoire of such ego states, which are not roles but psychological realities. At any given moment each individual in a social aggregation will exhibit a Parental, Adult or Child ego state. Individuals can shift with varying degrees of readiness from one ego state to another.
‘That is your Parent’ means: ‘You are now in the same state of mind as one of your parents used to be, and you are responding as he would, with the same posture, gestures, vocabulary, feelings, etc.’
‘That is your Adult’ means: “you have just made an autonomous, objective appraisal of the situation and are stating these thought-processes, or the problems you perceive, or the conclusions you have come to, in a non-prejudicial manner.’
‘That is your Child’ means: ‘The manner and intent of your reaction is the same as it would have been when you were a little boy or girl.’
TRANSACTIONAL ANALYSIS
The unit of social intercourse is called a transaction. If two or more people encounter each other in a social aggregation, sooner or later one of them will speak, or give some other indication of acknowledging the presence of others. This is called the transactional stimulus. Another person will then say or do something which is in some way related to this stimulus, and that is called the transactional response.
Simple transactional analysis is concerned with diagnosing which ego state implemented the transactional stimulus, and which one executed the transactional response. The simplest transactions are those in which both stimulus and response arise from Adults of the parties concerned. Next in simplicity are Child-Parent transactions. The fevered child asks for a glass of water, and the nurturing mother brings it.
These transactions are complementary; that is, the response is appropriate and expected and follows the natural order of healthy human relationships. The first rule of communication is that communication will flow smoothly as long as transactions are complementary; and its corollary is that as long as transactions are complementary, communication can, in principle, proceed indefinitely. These rules are independent of the nature and content of the transactions; they are based entirely on the direction of the vectors involved. As long as the transactions are complementary, it is irrelevant to rule whether two people are engaging in critical gossip (Parent-Parent), solving a problem (Adult-Adult), or playing together (Child-Child or Parent-Child).
The converse rule is that communication is broken off when a crossed transaction occurs. A common crossed transaction – The stimulus is Adult-Adult: ‘Maybe we should find out why you’ve been drinking more lately.’
The appropriate Adult-Adult response would be: ‘Maybe we should. I certainly like to know!’
If the respondent flares up, the response will be something like “You’re always criticizing me, just like my father did’.
Simple complementary transactions most commonly occur in superficial working and social relationships, and these are easily disturbed by simple crossed transactions. In fact a superficial relationship may be defined as one which is confined to simple complementary transactions. Such relationships occur in activities, rituals and pastimes.
More complex are ulterior transactions – those involving the activity of more than two ego states simultaneously – and this category is the basis for games. Salesmen are particularly adept at angular transactions, those involving three ego states. A crude but dramatic example of a sales game is illustrated in the following exchange:
Salesman: ‘This one is better, but you can’t afford it.’
Housewife: ‘That’s the one I’ll take.’
PROCEDURES AND RITUALS
The simplest forms of social activity are procedures and rituals. Some of these are universal and some local, but all of them have to be learned. They offer a safe, reassuring, and often enjoyable method of structuring time. Greeting ritual:
1A: Hello, good morning.
1B: Hello, good morning.
2A: How are you?
2B: Fine. How are you?
PASTIMES
Pastimes are typically played at parties or social gatherings in the form of chit-chat or they may become more serious, e.g., argumentative. A large cocktail party often functions as a kind of gallery for the exhibition of pastimes. Pastimes may be classified in different ways. “General Motors’ (comparing cars) and ‘Who Won’ (sports) are both ‘Man Talk’. ‘Grocery’, ‘Kitchen’ and ‘Wardrobe’ are all ‘Lady Talk’. Pastimes form the basis for the selection of acquaintances, and may lead to friendship.
GAMES
A game is an ongoing series of complementary ulterior transactions progressing to a well-defined, predictable outcome. Descriptively it is a recurring set of transactions, often repetition, superficially plausible, with a concealed motivation; or, more colloquially, a series of moves with a snare, or ‘gimmick’.
Games are clearly differentiated from procedures, rituals, and pastimes by two chief characteristics: their ulterior quality and the pay-off. Procedures may be successful, rituals effective, and pastimes profitable, but all of them are by definition candid; they may involve contest, but not conflict, and the ending may be sensational, but it is not dramatic. Every game, on the other hand, is basically dishonest, and the outcome has a dramatic, as distinct from merely exciting quality. The use of the word ‘game’ should not be misleading. It does not necessarily imply fun or even enjoyment.
The most common game played between spouses is colloquially called ‘If It Weren’t For You’. Mrs White complained that her husband severely restricted her social activities, so that she had never learned to dance.
Out of her many suitors she had picked a domineering man for a husband. She was then in a position to complain that she could do all sorts of things ‘if it weren’t for you’. Many of her women friends also had domineering husbands, and when they met for their morning coffee,they spent a good deal of time playing ‘If It Weren’t For Him’.
His prohibitions and her complaints frequently led to quarrels, so that their sex life was seriously impaired. She and her husband had little in common besides their household worries and the children, so that their quarrels stood out as important events; it was mainly on these occasions that they had anything but the most casual conversations.
A Thesaurus of Games:
The games are classified into families according to the situations in which they most commonly occur: Life Games, Marital Games, Party Games, Sexual Games, Underworld Games, Consulting Room Games and Good Games.
Life Games include ‘Alcoholic’, ‘Debtor’, ‘Kick Me’, ‘Now I’ve Got You, You Son of a Bitch’, ‘See What You Made Me Do’ and their principal variants.
Marital Games include ‘Corner’, ‘Courtroom’, ‘Frigid Woman’ and ‘Frigid Man’, ‘Harried’, ‘If It Weren’t For You’, ‘Look How hard I Have Tried’ and ‘Sweetheart’.
Parties are for pastimes, and pastimes are for parties, but as acquaintanceship ripens, games begin to emerge. Party Games include ‘Ain’t It Awful’, ‘Blemish’, ‘Schlemiel’ and ‘Why Don’t You – Yes But’.
Sexual Games are played to exploit or fight off sexual impulses. They include ‘Let’s You and Him Fight’, ‘Perversion’, ‘Rapo’, ‘Stocking Game’ and ‘Uproar’.
Underworld Games include ‘Cops and Robbers’, ‘How Do You Get Out of Here’ and ‘Let’s Pull a Fast One on Joey’.
Consulting Room Games include ‘I’m Only Trying to Help You’, ‘Psychiatry’, ‘Greenhouse’, ‘Indigent’, “Peasant’, ‘Stupid’ and ‘Wooden Leg’.
A ‘Good Game’ is one which contributes both to the well-being of the other players and to the unfolding of the one who is ‘it’. Since even under the best forms of social action and organization a large proportion of the time has to be spent in playing games, the search for ‘good’ ones must be assiduously pursued. Good Games include ‘Busman’s Holiday’, ‘Cavalier’, ‘Happy to Help’, ‘Homely Sage’ and ‘They’ll Be Glad They Knew Me’.
BEYOND GAMES
Games are passed on from generation to generation. The favoured game of any individual can be traced back to his parents and grandparents. Raising children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play.
Games are sandwiched between pastimes and intimacy. Pastimes grow boring with repetition and intimacy requires stringent circumspection. Most people compromise for games when they are available, and these fill the major part of the more interesting hours of social intercourse. People pick as friends, associates and intimates other people who play the same games.
AUTONOMY
The attainment of autonomy is manifested by the release or recovery of three capacities: awareness, spontaneity and intimacy.
Awareness:
Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one’s own way, and not the way one was taught. It requires living in the here and now, and not elsewhere, the past or the future. The aware person is alive because he knows how he feels, where he is and when it is.
Spontaneity:
Spontaneity means option, the freedom to choose and express one’s feelings from the assortment available (Parent feelings, Adult feelings and Child feelings). It means liberation, liberation from the compulsion to play games and have the only feelings one was taught to have.
Intimacy:
Intimacy means the spontaneous, game-free candidness of an aware person. Because intimacy is essentially a function of the natural Child, it tends to turn out well if not disturbed by the intervention of games. Usually the adaptation to Parental influences is what spoils it. But before, unless and until they are corrupted, most infants seem to be loving, and that is the essential nature of intimacy.
Parents, deliberately or unaware, teach their children from birth how to behave, think, feel and perceive. Liberation from these influences is no easy matter, since they are deeply ingrained and necessary during the first two or three decades of life for biological and social survival. Indeed, such liberation is only possible at all because the individual starts in an autonomous state, that is, capable of awareness, spontaneity and intimacy, and he has some discretion as to which parts of his parent’s teachings he will accept. At certain specific moments early in life he decides how he is going to adapt to them. It is because his adaptation is in the nature of a series of decisions that it can be undone, since decisions are reversible under favourable conditions.
First, the weight of a family historical tradition has to be lifted, then the influence of the individual parental, social and cultural background has to be thrown off. The same must be done with the demands of contemporary society at large, and finally the advantages derived from one’s immediate social circle have to be partly or wholly sacrificed. The individual must attain personal and social control.
Human life is merely a process of filling in time, with very little choice, is commonplace but not the final answer. For certain fortunate people there is something which transcends all classifications of behaviour, and that is awareness; something which arises above the programming of the past, and that is spontaneity; and something that is more rewarding than games, and that is intimacy.
But all three of these may be frightening and even perilous to the unprepared. Perhaps they are better off as they are, seeking their solutions in popular techniques of social action, such as ‘togetherness’. This may mean that there is no hope for the human race,but there is hope for individual members of it.
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☆ Minor Nuances but Major Impacts – By Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM ☆
With immense joy and gratitude, I’m thrilled to share with the readers that my new book, “Minor Nuances but Major Impacts,” is now published!
It is a story-driven exploration of how small actions create transformational results in strategic leadership and management.
This book distills 45 years of my journey across the uniformed services, corporate world, and strategic management—captured through real experiences, insights, and learnings. Years of observation and reflection, now placed in your hands with lessons and takeaways.
Do read, reflect, and share your thoughts.
Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM
(Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi—an ex Naval Officer, possesses a multifaceted personality. He served as a Senior Advisor in prestigious Supercomputer organisation C-DAC, Pune. He was involved in various Artificial Intelligence and High-Performance Computing projects of national and international repute. He has got a long experience in the field of ‘Natural Language Processing’, especially, in the domain of Machine Translation. He has taken the mantle of translating the timeless beauties of Indian literature upon himself so that it reaches across the globe. He has also undertaken translation work for Shri Narendra Modi, the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, which was highly appreciated by him. He is also a member of ‘Bombay Film Writer Association’.
About the book: Minor Nuances but Major Impacts
Great empires are not built overnight, nor do they crumble abruptly without reason. Hidden beneath the towering facades of thriving organisations lie the tiny, often invisible elements, those minor nuances that shape the trajectory of success or failure. These are not the headline-making disruptions or glamorous strategies found in case studies, but the everyday choices, overlooked behaviours, and unspoken cultural defaults that silently determine whether a company merely survives or genuinely thrives.
This book is a culmination of my 45 years of hands-on experience in the corporate world, stitched together over seventeen years of reflection, observation, and unwavering curiosity. Through countless boardrooms, shop floors, crisis meetings, and mentoring sessions, I came to recognise a painful pattern: while many small organisations dream of becoming giants, very few actually do. Not because they lack vision, product, or passion, but because they fail to notice the little things that matter.
Each chapter in this book delves into one such nuance. Some will feel familiar, others might be uncomfortable to confront. Yet, each carries within it the seeds of transformation, if only leaders and entrepreneurs are willing to pause, reflect, and act.
But this book is not just a commentary or a checklist. It is a mirror. And like all mirrors, it does not lie. It reveals truths that we sometimes wish to ignore but must confront if we seek growth that is not just quantitative, but also qualitative and sustainable.
The first part of this book builds a strong foundation of lessons and insights drawn from both triumphs and pitfalls. But theory, no matter how sound, is only half the journey. Part Two shifts gear. It steps into the world of a real-life entrepreneur Paresh Mittal whose journey you will walk, stumble, and rise with. It is here that the lessons truly come alive.
This is a book for those who believe that big things are hidden in small details. For those who are brave enough to admit that what’s holding them back might not be the market or the competition, but something much closer often within.
Welcome to a journey where small shifts lead to big outcomes.
I am pleased to present the Foreword written by Dr. Navin Singh.
Dr. Navin Singh
It is a privilege to present the foreword to Minor Nuances but Major Impacts, a distinguished contribution by Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi, NM-an individual whose multifaceted career embodies a rare confluence of strategic insight, professional rigour, and intellectual curiosity.
Over the course of my career in public service and policy, I have engaged with exceptional minds across diverse domains. Captain Raghuvanshi stands out among them not merely for the breadth of his accomplishments, but for the clarity and depth of his thought. A decorated officer of the Indian Navy, an experienced management advisor, a high-level contributor to national and international initiatives, and an acclaimed poet, his profile defies easy classification. This book reflects his uniquely interdisciplinary perspective and a lifetime of reflective practice.
In this work, Captain Raghuvanshi addresses a critical but frequently overlooked phenomenon in organisational dynamics the disproportionate impact of seemingly minor practices, decisions, and behavioural tendencies. Drawing on extensive experience in industrial relations, corporate strategy, Defence, and technological innovation, he presents a structured yet accessible framework for understanding how subtle misalignments can hinder institutional growth and conversely, how mindful refinements can catalyse transformation.
What makes this book particularly valuable is its pragmatic orientation. The author does not offer abstract prescriptions; instead, he grounds his observations in lived corporate realities and practical scenarios. His writing bridges the gap between theory and practice, between leadership intent and organisational outcome. The result is a narrative that is simultaneously reflective, actionable, and enduring in relevance.
The language employed is precise and elegant, marked by clarity of thought and literary finesse. Each chapter engages the reader intellectually while inviting – a rare feat in management literature. The work encourages readers to consider not just what organisations do, but how and why they do it questions central to sustainable excellence.
For leaders, managers, policymakers, and students of management alike, Minor Nuances but Major Impacts offers not only insights but also a mindset a way of perceiving the granular elements that determine institutional success. It challenges assumptions, sharpens strategic thinking, and fosters a more nuanced understanding of human and organisational behaviour.
I commend Captain Pravin Raghuvanshi for this valuable contribution. His work is timely, thought-provoking, and destined to find a meaningful place in boardrooms, classrooms, and among discerning professionals who recognise that in management, as in life, it is often the finer details that shape the grand outcomes.
(प्रतिष्ठित साहित्यकार श्री विवेक रंजन श्रीवास्तव ‘विनम्र’ जी के साप्ताहिक स्तम्भ – “विवेक साहित्य ” में हम श्री विवेक जी की चुनिन्दा रचनाएँ आप तक पहुंचाने का प्रयास करते हैं। श्री विवेक रंजन श्रीवास्तव ‘विनम्र जी, मुख्यअभियंता सिविल (म प्र पूर्व क्षेत्र विद्युत् वितरण कंपनी , जबलपुर ) से सेवानिवृत्त हैं। तकनीकी पृष्ठभूमि के साथ ही उन्हें साहित्यिक अभिरुचि विरासत में मिली है। आपको वैचारिक व सामाजिक लेखन हेतु अनेक पुरस्कारो से सम्मानित किया जा चुका है।आज प्रस्तुत है आपका एक विचारणीय आलेख – लंदन से 7 – बिना टिकिट की वैधानिक यात्रा ।
☆ साप्ताहिक स्तम्भ – विवेक सहित्य # 272 ☆
आलेख – बिना टिकिट की वैधानिक यात्रा
लंदन में परिवहन के लिए सबसे उम्दा साधन ट्यूब मेट्रो है ।
यहां आपको टिकिट नहीं लेना होता, साफ्टवेयर इस तरह का है की जब आप किसी भी स्टेशन पर प्रवेश करते समय गेट खोलने के लिए अपना बैंक कार्ड टैप करते हैं और जब बाहर निकले समय कार्ड टैप करते हैं, तो साफ्टवेयर किराया निकलकर सीधे बैंक से TFL के अकाउंट में चला जाता है।
ट्रांसपोर्ट फॉर लंदन (टीएफएल) शहर के व्यापक सार्वजनिक परिवहन नेटवर्क की देखरेख करता है, जिसमें अंडरग्राउंड, ओवरग्राउंड, बसें, ट्राम, डॉकलैंड्स लाइट रेलवे और यहां तक कि एक केबल कार प्रणाली भी शामिल है जो आपको टेम्स और शहर के क्षितिज के ऊपर ग्लाइडिंग करवाती है।
यहां इंजिन को बिजली की सप्लाई ओवरहेड वायर से नहीं, ट्रेन की पटरियों के साथ लगी एक तीसरी पटरी से मिलती है, इसलिए किसी भी हालत में ट्रेन लाइन पैदल क्रास करने की गलती न करें ।
प्लेटफार्म और ट्रेन के बीच अंतर भारत से बहुत अधिक दिखा, माइंड डी गैप ।
ग्रेटर लंदन नौ क्षेत्रों में विभाजित है। इनमें लंदन शहर और उसके आसपास के 32 उप नगर शामिल हैं। ज़ोन एक में अधिकांश पर्यटक आकर्षण और शहर के स्थल हैं ।272 स्टेशनों पर सेवा देने वाली 11 अलग अलग रंगो नामो की लाइनों से सारे लंदन में जाया जा सकता है।
शहर की सार्वजनिक परिवहन प्रणाली – दुनिया की सबसे पुरानी भूमिगत रेलवे है । ट्यूब हर साल लगभग 1.35 अरब यात्रियों को उनके गंतव्य तक पहुंचाती है, थोड़ी सी तैयारी और गूगल के साथ, आप कुछ ही समय में एक स्थानीय व्यक्ति की तरह अपना रास्ता तय कर सकते हैं।
(Neelam ji, through her poems, takes us into the sphere of light through the darkness in which one can find that Lost Mint Taste, as she calls it, and be invigorated again.)
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra)
☆ English Literature – Book-Review ☆ ‘The lost mint taste‘ by Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ☆ Mrs. Poornima Rao ☆
Neelam Saxena’s ‘The lost mint taste’, an anthology of fifty poems, can be a soul freshner in a collector’s cabinet. It is a bouquet of fifty different flowers arranged creatively to enrapture the beholder. Each flower is unique in fragrance and makeup and definitely does not trespass the other.
Neelam ji draws abundantly from the Indian panorama, be it family or social issues. So you connect instantly with each poem . It is the honest portrayal in each that binds you. While poems ‘Madness’, Work from home’, ‘To you my daughter, ‘The Pain’, directly resonate in your drawing room, some like the ‘Wandering Singer’ are almost alive at your doorstep. Her love for nature oozes in ‘Pristine Nature’ and ‘The Ultimate Destination ‘ to mix with traces of anger in ‘Water’.
I particularly liked her series of six poems dedicated to the mystical and boundless love of Radha and Krishna from genesis to its emotional closure. Trees as metaphor for societal imposters though unusual is deftly penned in ‘The Towering Tree’ and ‘Ego’
That she can handle lighter themes and evince laughter in the reader with equal ease is evident in the poems with which she concludes her book. It is definitely ninety nine pages of happy reading with no dull moment.
(What happens when two simple, unassuming people fall in love and embark on a struggle with their own emotions even while unaware of the plans destiny has for them? Can love survive against odds?
Soul Seekers is a love story that revolves around Pia, a pretty young thing with a haunting past. It stalks her as she ventures on a journey to Hyderabad, where love beckons to her. Two men enter her life, Atul and Yatin. Even as things seem to be shaping up, bizarre events force her to leave the city. Will love come calling her? Will the lovers triumph at the end?)
(Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra)
☆ English Literature – Book-Review ☆ ‘Soul Seekers’ by Ms. Neelam Saxena Chandra ☆ Ms. Vasantha Kalbagal ☆
Soul Seekers has all the ingredients of a true love story revolving around a simple, accomplished pretty girl Pia . The author and the reader together witness the emotional turmoil an educated girl like the one Pia undergoes while she is at the crucial point of both her career making and deciding on the right choice for a life partner .
Pia gets judgmental about her male friends owing to a haunting past. She didn’t know where to go and what to do and wanted to run away when it would get difficult to accept situations that come by in the least expecting times. Every time she sets out on a life changing journey, be it a short trip overseas or academics , she has a turn of events opening up altogether new paths as the changing course of a river. Life lessons would teach youth to seek alternative options during the time of crisis.
The novel has its share of romance, misunderstanding , hurdles, anxiety, twists and turns, climax and a desired closure. Pia is intelligent who doesn’t gussy up her words. She talks straight with an openness and honesty that makes her admirable and sought after. The characters created around her be it Mita her best friend , Atul who remains just a good friend, Yatin the much misunderstood one whose handsomeness gets marred with an accident , her teenage dark past Ayushmann , stubborn brother Piyush and good natured Apurva, all come alive with their own strong personalities. They all go through a karmic connection where destiny comes around in one full circle and finds solution on its own . Lucid expression with no pompous words makes it a smooth read in one go, all clean and simple all in just 150 pages.
Soul Seekers being the first novel of Neelam Saxena Chandra , has paved its way for many more.
She herself being an engineer (Chief Electrical Engineer (G)Central Railway, CSMT), holding responsible work positions has been able to throw academic and job options to gullible youth who are caught up in love.
(Author, Blogger, Laughter Yoga Master Trainer, Founder: LifeSkills, Behavioural Science Trainer, and National Science Talent Scholar. He is a Laughter Yoga Master Trainer of international repute and has been propagating happiness and well-being among people for the past twenty years. He served in a bank for thirty-five years and has published eight books on the subject of happiness.)
He is on a mission – Mission Happiness!
Book Excerpt: A FLOURISHING LIFE: Effortless Practices for Happiness and Stress Management ☆ Jagat Singh Bisht
Flourishing is the experience of life going well – a combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. It is the opposite of languishing – living a life that feels hollow and empty.
Everyone seeks a flourishing life, but the modern-day lifestyle generates a lot of stress, which is the cause of psychosomatic disorders, including hypertension, respiratory ailments, gastrointestinal disturbances, migraine, and ulcers.
Happiness is a deep sense of flourishing that arises from an exceptionally healthy mind. This is not a mere pleasurable feeling, a fleeting emotion, or a mood, but an optimal state of being.
RELAX YOUR BODY AND MIND
“Relaxation does not mean sleep. Relaxation means to be blissfully happy.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Exercise is good for the body, but relaxation is equally important. Simple techniques of relaxing your body and mind can prove to be helpful in renewing vigour.
A balanced diet, regular exercise and adequate sleep are the basic pillars of healthy living. Activity and positivity make your life happier. Relaxation techniques help your body and mind to become calm and experience bliss.
Our body feels fatigue due to exertion. The mind becomes restless by fear, worries and anxiety. It is unavoidable. We need to take care of the body and mind daily.
Exercise is good for the body, but relaxation is equally important. A hectic day in the office, followed by strenuous work out at the gym, can sometimes make you feel exhausted. Simple techniques of relaxing your body and mind can prove to be helpful in renewing vigour.
The body and the mind are not separate entities. If you relax your body, the mind calms down and if you quieten your mind, the body feels relaxed. When the body and the mind are both relaxed, you feel full of joy and serenity.
Both the body and mind need exercise to keep them fit and they also need relaxation to recuperate. Walking, cycling, and swimming are exercises for the body while reading a book, learning a new skill, and solving a puzzle are exercises for the mind.
The body may feel fully relaxed after eight hours of sound sleep and the mind may feel blissful after an hour of deep meditation. But a sound sleep is fast becoming a rarity and not everyone is inclined to meditate.
We begin with a basic technique for relaxing the body. It is a simple practice that gives profound benefits. The sages have known this for ages.
You may do this exercise when you return from work in the evening, or before going to sleep in the night. You may do it after work-out, or anytime during the day when you feel tired and need relaxation.
EXERCISE
Relaxing the body.
Spread a yoga mat or carpet on the floor.
Lie down, flat on your back.
Keep the feet slightly apart.
Place the arms by the side of your body, palms facing upwards.
The spine must be straight.
The head must be straight, facing upward, not falling on the side.
Adjust your body initially so that it is not tense.
Let each part of the body feel free.
You must feel relaxed.
Close your eyes gently.
Be calm and still, do not move.
Any physical movement will deprive you of the full benefits of the exercise.
Breathe naturally.
Allow the breath to be rhythmic and relaxed.
Be aware as you breathe in and as you breathe out.
Breathing in and breathing out, is one count.
Count your breaths gently.
You may count 21 breaths or 51 breaths, depending on how tired you feel and how much time you have in hand.
Relax.
Become aware of the environment around you and gently move your hand and legs.
Gently turn to the right side and get up.
Open your eyes.
Your body feels relaxed.
The body is deprived of proper rest when one sleeps with a twisted spine. It relaxes fully when one lies with a straight spine. The relaxation deepens as the breath slows down.
It is advisable to do this exercise on the floor, and not over the bed, to experience full relaxation. The body gets complete rest when the spine is straight, against a flat surface, and the breathing is rhythmic and slow.
At first, you may not feel the full benefits of the exercise but, as you develop the practice, you will start experiencing the deep relaxation it brings.
This is an ancient practice, known as shavasana, or the corpse pose, in yoga. It is an effective relaxation posture practised, for about ten minutes, at the close of a yoga session. During the session, it is used after difficult postures for a short relaxation.
THE ART OF BLISSFUL RELAXATION
If you go to sleep without resolving your tensions, you will not have a sound sleep. You must go to bed after throwing off all the burdens. When you have something in your mind, you will have a restless sleep, and you will not feel refreshed when you wake up.
In life, we are confronted with stressful situations from time to time. The stress may be physical, mental, or emotional.
When the endurance level of the body is over stretched, it feels uncomfortable, and you may feel muscular or endocrinal tension. The mind, at times, turns into a whirlpool of apprehensions and anxiety, making you feel mentally stressed. Relationships gone awry and things going haywire generate emotional stress.
Sometimes you feel helpless and totally stranded. The body suffers and you find yourself miserable. It looks like there is no way out but that is not true. There is a way out in such circumstances.
It is a unique technique for inducing complete relaxation – physical, mental, and emotional. It is a systematic method in which you learn to relax consciously. You may call it – The Blissful Relaxation!
It is a practice that does not require many efforts on your part. You are only required to lie down and listen to the instructions. The instructions are precise and simple. No physical action is expected from you. Just listen to the voice.
Be aware and listen to the voice. Do not sleep. You must lie down comfortably as in the exercise described above. After you settle down, you will be asked to look at your whole body internally, keeping your eyes closed.
Then, you will be asked to rotate your consciousness through your limbs. You must repeat the name of the body part announced and form its image in your mind. Systematically, you will scan your entire body.
You will be taken on a beautiful tour of places and things that you have already seen. One by one, you will visualize a flowing river, boat, ocean, waves, beach, trees, flowers, mountains, rising sun, a small hut, flying birds, etc.
Your attention from the external world is moved inwards. The body relaxes completely, and the mind is fully aware. At the end of the exercise, when you are asked to open your eyes, you feel blissfully relaxed and rejuvenated.
It may be done at any time of the day when you feel the need to relax your body and mind. It must not be done immediately after meals. Half an hour of this exercise gives you the same relaxation as two hours of normal sleep. You feel so good that you would like to do the exercise every day.
On any day, when you feel you have not had a proper sleep, you may do it in the morning after getting up, and you will feel refreshed. Your productivity goes up. This is also a good tool for enhancing your creative capability.
You may do it in the evening after returning from work or before going to sleep. The fatigue goes away, and you will have a sound sleep.
This practice is derived ancient tantric scriptures. Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the founder of Bihar School of Yoga, re-constructed it in the present form. It is known as yoga nidra.
You may use the recordings of yoga nidra by Swami Satyananda Saraswati or his immediate disciple, Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati, available on the net, for your practice. Several other teachers and practitioners have also rendered their versions of the practice.
You feel fully relaxed – physiologically and psychologically – after a session of yoga nidra. The approximate duration of the practice is twenty to forty minutes.
It is suggested that you include the practices of shavasana and yoga nidra in your daily routine for relaxation of the body and the mind. They are healing and soothing. Their regular practice will reduce stress considerably and bring calm and peace to your life.
“In yoga nidra, the consciousness is in a state between waking and sleep. In this state, the mind is exceptionally receptive. The practice of yoga nidra enables one to receive intuitions from the unconscious mind. This state is the fount of artistic and poetic inspiration. It is also the source of the most creative scientific discoveries. The intuitions received in yoga nidra enable one to find within himself the answers to all problems. One’s true nature and integrity manifest, enabling him to live a meaningful and peaceful life in any environment. No longer emotionally identified with the mind and body, one’s entire being is pervaded with divine consciousness.”
Yoga Nidra/ Swami Satyananda Saraswati
“Yoga nidra is a systematic method of inducing complete physical, mental and emotional relaxation.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati
BREATHE, LOOK INWARD
“In our daily life our minds are almost continually externalized. We see and hear only what is going on outside of us, and we have little understanding of the events taking place in our inner environment.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Deep breathing is the simplest way to relax physically, mentally, and emotionally – anytime, anywhere.
We spend most of our waking time looking at the external world. Seldom do we look inward. Most of the time we are not aware of our respiration. Our feelings, emotions and thoughts overpower us as we do not have time to watch them dispassionately.
We have been given guidelines as to how to search for things outside ourselves but hardly any directions have been given on how to look inwards. We must train ourselves to look inside.
How good would it be if we could look at our real selves and understand what is happening in our inner world. There is so much turmoil there. If it could somehow be resolved, we would be in harmony with ourselves and feel peaceful.
Deep breathing is the simplest way to relax physically, mentally, and emotionally – anytime, anywhere. Just sit down, back straight, feet firmly grounded, eyes closed, and take three deep breaths.
Breathe deeply through your nose, into your belly, and exhale in a relaxed manner. The longer and slower the exhalation, the better it will be. You will experience relaxation instantly.
If you are feeling stressed, take three deep breaths again. Depending on the fatigue and time available, you may repeat the three deep breaths any number of times. Once you get accustomed to the practice and feel the benefits for yourself, you will be able to do it quietly while doing any other work.
Deep breathing infuses oxygen – a vital life force – into your bloodstream and expels toxins and stale carbon dioxide. You feel refreshed and more productive.
INNER SILENCE
The outer world is full of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity. That makes it perplexing.
On one hand, there are challenges but, on the other hand, there are opportunities. You must make your own decisions. The pros and cons of every step cause anxiety and hope.
There are many voices coming from the inside that may sometimes confuse you. If you know how to cope with the inner noise, you will have better control of the happenings around you.
EXERCISE
Observing inner noise and inner silence.
Roll a yoga mat or a small carpet on the floor. Place a small cushion over it.
Sit down comfortably on the cushion, legs folded crosswise, back straight, head straight, and eyes gently closed.
Take your own time to settle down. No hurry.
Listen to the sounds around you. Do not feel disturbed. No sound is good, no sound is bad. Do not worry about its origin. Do not concentrate on it. Just listen as a dispassionate observer.
After some time, you will hear less and less of the sounds.
Keeping your eyes closed, look at yourself internally. Pass your attention through each of your body parts. Do it in a relaxed manner.
Observe your breath as it goes in through the nostrils and comes out.
Watch your feelings and thoughts as they come and go. Do not worry if they are good or bad. Just watch them like an observer.
Initially, there will be a lot of noise inside, but it will gradually fade away, as you continue to watch it like a neutral spectator.
Do not be in a hurry. Take your own time to settle down.
Now, generate a thought consciously. Watch the thought like a witness. Let it fade away.
Generate another thought. Watch it dispassionately. Let it also go away.
Do not let any random thought occupy your mind. If any random thought arises, dispose it off. Do not allow it to stay.
This is the stage to generate thoughts at your will – the thoughts that you wish to have – watch them for some time and then let them go away.
In the next phase, dispose all random thoughts and any other thoughts that your mind generates. Let there be no thoughts.
As soon as a thought crops up, watch it and dispose it off. Do not allow any thought to stay in your mind.
Let there be shoonya or total vacuum. The mind must be totally empty. No thoughts must be allowed to stay there. Dispose them immediately.
This state of thoughtlessness is inner silence.
In the beginning, you were witness to inner noise. Now, you are observing inner silence.
This relaxes the mind fully and you experience peace. The stress goes away.
You feel relaxed.
When you do this exercise for the first few times, you may not get the desired results fully. But, after some practice, you will start feeling relaxed and stress free.
It is a practice, when once developed, remains with you throughout the day. Just look inwards and observe what is going on dispassionately. Like a witness.
You may practice it daily – any time – for about twenty to forty minutes.
This is an ancient practice, known as antar mouna, or inner silence.
Online versions of antar mouna by Swami Niranjananada Saraswati are freely available and you may initially listen to them and develop your practice. After some time, you will be able to do it by yourself.
The best time for any practice of a meditative nature is early in the morning when the surroundings are peaceful. You may also do antar mouna in the evening after returning from work, or before going to bed. It takes a while to develop the practice but, after some time, you start experiencing life optimally.
“Antar mouna is one of the few ‘permanent sadhanas’ which can be practised simultaneously all the twenty-four hours of the day by anyone who is really determined to know oneself. By maintaining awareness of one’s internal environment, thoughts, emotional reactions, etc., one can speed up one’s personal evolution to the utmost degree. It will make one understand the workings of one’s own rational and irrational mind, as well as giving one an understanding of what makes other people tick.”
Meditations from the Tantras/ Swami Satyananda Saraswati
“Antar mouna is a complete training system for the awareness process; it teaches one how to know the processes of the mind and ways in which one can bring them under control.”
– Swami Satyananda Saraswati
STRETCH, BEND, TWIST, TURN
“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”
– Thomas Jefferson
Exercise freestyle. Do not stress, let it be fun. Stretch, bend, twist, turn, whirl, move, and jump.
Getting up early and going to a park in the neighbourhood could be a rewarding habit to develop. It gives you a whiff of fresh air and sunshine that makes you feel refreshed the whole day. Once you add it to your routine, you will start looking forward to the morning, and it will become a rewarding hour of the day for you.
Start with a gentle walk and then walk briskly. Twenty to thirty minutes of walking every day can do wonders for you in the long run. It is good for your circulatory system and relaxes you a great deal.
Watching the trees and the flowers while walking gives a healing and soothing touch to your senses. It relaxes your eyes and is good for your eyesight too! Walking is not just an exercise, it reduces stress. You feel relaxed.
Exercises are not only good for your body. They bring happiness and well-being. Whenever you feel low, get up and move out to the neighbourhood park.
Physically active people are happier. Also, they have better life-satisfaction, and higher self-esteem. Exercise reduces depression, anxiety, stress, and panic; it betters mental processing, creates longer life, improves sleep quality, and strengthens the immune system.
It is exercise itself that infuses us with happiness. Among various types of activities, exercise is the most reliable happiness boosting activity.
Find a quiet corner for yourself and just stretch, bend, twist, turn, and whirl your body in a freestyle manner. Do not worry too much. Nothing is right or wrong. Do whatever you feel like doing.
FREESTYLE EXERCISES
Walking, coupled with some freestyle exercises in a relaxed manner, brings multiple benefits. It stretches your skeletal structure, improves your blood circulation, and is good for your muscles. It is good for your heart and the respiratory track. This, in turn, activates your endocrine system.
Stand on both your feet in a balanced manner. Cross your palms, fingers interlocked, and stretch your arms straight above your head. Stretch, stretch, stretch! Keeping your palms interlocked, up above your head, bend to the right and then bend to the left. Now, take your palms in front of you, bend forward, and stretch.
Let your hands dangle freely below your waist. Twist your waist sidewise to the right and then to the left. Let your arms move slowly as if a washing machine is in motion. Twist your lower body and keep moving your arms sidewise for some time.
Close your fists and bring them close to tour chest. Twist your upper body and move your arms. keeping them together at chest height.
Raise your arms above your head and gently bend backwards from your waist. Stay there for a while. Then, raise your hands up and go on to bend forward, as far as you can comfortably. Raise your arms up again. Now, repeat the actions and swing your arms rhythmically, bending backward and forward. Inhale as you go up and exhale as you come down.
Open your arms wide, bring them forward crosswise, and hit the back of your shoulders with palms. Swing the arms back to wide open position. Bring them forward again, but this time keep the other arm on the top and hit the back of shoulders with palms. Alternatively, keep one arm on top and the other arm below. Keep on opening your arms and then swinging to hit the back of shoulders for some time.
Dangle your arms by the sides of your waist and then lift them up in a ‘V’ shape. Bring them back to the sides of your waist and then again take them up in a swinging action. Inhale as you go up and exhale as you come down.
Be on your toes and jump upward gently. Continue jumping for some time.
Place both your hands on your waist, breath in deeply through your nose, and exhale through your mouth making an ‘O’ with the lips. Repeat it thrice.
Stand balanced on both your feet. Stretch your arms fully sidewise. Turn to your right and whirl in a clockwise direction. Move slowly. Find an object at a distance and fix your gaze for a moment on it after each round. Go slow. Complete 10 – 20 rounds. Afterwards, stop and be stationary for some time. Do not move abruptly. If you feel dizzy, bend slightly, put your palms on your thighs, and look at the floor.
These exercises are only illustrative. You may add more of your own. Do not stress, let it be fun. Be freestyle. Stretch, bend, twist, turn, whirl, move, and jump. These exercises will make you feel good throughout the day. No equipment is needed. If you do not go out on any day, you may do these exercises at your home too.
EXERCISE
Play like a child.
Take permission from a group of children and join them in play. Play with them like a child.
Run, jump, and shout. Be fully immersed in the game. Forget the world.
Pour all your energy and heart into the game. Put in all your enthusiasm.
Enjoy the game.
Laugh whole heartedly.
Until you merge completely with the children. You are not an outsider who has joined them. Everyone is equal.
Sing, dance, play and laugh in unison with all of them. Enjoy the fun. Be a kid. Until you begin to perspire.
Have a hot shower and relax.
You feel positive and joyous.
Strenuous exercises may sometimes be harmful but light and freestyle exercises are always good. Go back to your childhood days, remember all the funny exercises you used to do, and try to re-create them. Gentle jogging, half jumps and stretching-bending exercises could be great fun, especially when done with children. The children would also be happy if you join them occasionally.
No equipment is needed, and you are not required to follow strict schedules. No membership fees and no registrations. Just have fun and get all the benefits. Include freestyle exercises in your routine. You will feel free and relaxed throughout the day.
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
“Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.”
“To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limit of our ability.”
– Return to Life/ Joseph Pilates and William Miller
“Research demonstrates that exercise may be the most reliable happiness booster of all activities.”
– Sonja Lyubomirsky
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK:
Do you want to be happier? Would you like to increase your well-being and flourish? This book will help you flourish!
Flourishing is the experience of life going well – a combination of feeling good and functioning effectively. It is the opposite of languishing – living a life that feels hollow and empty.
Everyone seeks a flourishing life, but the modern-day lifestyle generates a lot of stress, which is the cause of psychosomatic disorders, including hypertension, respiratory ailments, gastrointestinal disturbances, migraine, and ulcers.
In this book, you will find simple, effortless, and painless practices for authentic happiness, stress management, and lasting peace. These exercises are easy to do, can be taken up by anyone, and require no previous training or experience.
The contents include how to relax your body and mind, knowing your inner self, freestyle exercise, life-long learning and evolving, autonomy and self-determination, flourishing, and spirituality.
After reading this book, you will have a deep understanding of the elements of authentic happiness and well-being. This book helps you to lead a flourishing life.
(This book is available in paperback and kindle formats on Amazon.)
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