A Capsule of Smile

For decades, we have been enjoying the convenience of technology and have undeniably embedded it on our lifestyle allowing us to get affected at all aspects of our lives. With the Pandemic brought by this corona virus, COVID-19, our normal lives are shifted to cope with the changes, whether we like it or not. This "new normal" is reshaping not just our lifestyle but our jobs, way of life, perception to things, and on what is essential and what isn't. Given this, sanity will undoubtedly be redefined abruptly and dramatically. The coping mechanisms that we have developed the past few years, now might no longer hold water with the new scenario unfolding. The changes can become overwhelming. It can drown your thoughts and paralyze you from doing anything. This can question you relevance and necessities and it's okay. Today is the best time to play again. Play around the possibilities on what else can work for you. Learn on new things that you have not tried be...

The current pandemic has sent most of us to stay at home. Other than the frontliners and essential workers, some of us are left with nothing to do while the others are swamped to finish tasks as they work from home. Prior to this situation, the Productivity Mania has always been the trend and hyped especially in Social Media –grabbing your cup of coffee, showing off how much emails you finished, flaunting your meeting places, traffic, and a few rants to highlight how busy you are.  Yet today, the "new normal" has been testing out the character in each one of us. Industries, economies, people, trends, culture, habits, and many more are being reshaped by the current circumstance brought to us by COVID 19.  So it's okay if you change some of the habits that used to work for you before. Productivity should not solely define the things you finish but also the impact in your life as well, especially mental health.  In this new age that is marked by this pandemic, we all need to...

Now that the world is facing a pandemic COVID-19, the uncertainty is shaking everyone's stability. Most of us would even have to go through an isolation and the intensity varies. Some would still be able to talk to their families and loved ones, while the others need to stay at facilities, and a few more trapped in the circumstance of either being an essential worker or as a "frontliner." Isolation is not a bad thing. It has been practiced in long periods for those who wish to meditate or recuperate away from the bustling cities. However, the isolation that we go through right now has been quite abrupt to some of us, leaving them the feeling of unpreparedness in the process. Given this, Isolation has challenged a lot of our inner peace and sanity. Considering this, the isolation we all experience now, whether cabin fever or whatnot, is validating our value of self. During the isolation, it gets bad when we realize that our value of self is reliant on other's fee...

The distractions that you can find in the current dynamics between tech and people has gone more chaotic than it used to. No wonder why mood swings and mental health has gone into more detrimental state than before. This is also why mindfulness has been one of the most explored approaches to coping  in the current haywire of modern living. Happiness may be a choice but you can never force it moreover guarantee having it the moment you made the decision. However, mindfully choosing happiness  can help you bar any toxic or impending harm to your self-preserved feelings. Being Mindful can let you learn more about yourself and which doors to open, which rooms of your past to clean-up, and which to keep. It will also help you guard your vulnerabilities to those who don't deserve such access. Happiness may not end with you but it starts with you and Mindfulness can help you kickstart. So let's begin, shall we?