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VEDA FOR LIFE™ WHY CAN’T I SWITCH MY MIND OFF? When Thinking Becomes a Trap: What Patanjali and the Katha Upanishad Can Teach Us About Overthinking By: Dr. Anita Kumari Guest Faculty, Raksha Shakti University, Ranchi Ancient Wisdom for Problems We Still Live With At 11:47 p.m., you remember something you said that afternoon. It was an ordinary conversation. Perhaps you spoke too quickly, your joke did not land, or the other person responded with an expression you could not quite interpret. At the time, nothing seemed particularly serious. Now, hours later, the conversation has acquired a significance it did not have when it happened. You replay your words, imagine how they might have sounded and construct a different response, then another. You wonder whether the other person noticed your mistake, whether they are thinking about it now, and whether the incident might affect your relationship. You know that you cannot change the conversation. You know that the other person may not even ...

  VEDA FOR LIFE™ Why Do I Hurt the People I Love? What the Vedas Can Teach Us About Anger, Ego and Relationships Ancient Wisdom for Problems We Still Live With By: Dr. Anita Kumari , Guest Faculty, Raksha Shakti University, Ranchi There is a particular kind of regret that arrives after an argument with someone we love. The argument is over, the room is quiet, and the other person has stopped responding. It is often only then that we hear our own words differently. We remember the sentence that was unnecessary, the remark that went too far, or the particular weakness we knew about the other person and chose to use against them in the heat of the moment. Sometimes we even remember thinking, while we were saying it, that we should stop. Yet we continued. This is one of the strangest contradictions of close relationships. We can exercise remarkable patience with strangers and alm...

  EXPLAIN IT CLEARLY VEDA FOR LIFE™ Ancient Wisdom for Problems We Still Live With ॐ Questions from the life we live. Insights from a tradition thousands of years old. Answers we can actually use. By: Dr. Anita Kumari , Guest Faculty, Raksha Shakti University, Ranchi There are questions that do not disappear simply because we learn to live with them. Why can't I stop worrying about a future that has not happened? Why does having more so often create the desire for still more? Why do I compare my life with people I barely know? Why do I know what I should do and still find myself doing something else? Why is letting go harder than holding on? Why can achieving something I wanted for years leave me wondering what comes next? And why, despite knowing more about the world than any generation before us, do we still find it so difficult to know how to live? Modern life has changed almost everything about the circumstances in which these questio...