Picture this: a man walks into a bakery, determined not to eat sweets. He’s strong-willed, disciplined, and has every intention of sticking to his health goals. Yet, minutes later, he’s savoring a slice of cake. What just happened? This isn’t a failure of character—it’s a lesson in how our senses and subconscious minds silently guide […]
Story from Malapascua island in Philippines. Scuba diving experience
Vipassana is a meditative practice designed to change the habit patterns of the mind at the subconscious level. (read official explanation here) You may ask, ‘Why?’ It’s because we are in a constant process of liking or disliking everything on a conscious and subconscious level. Every time we like something, we crave it, and every […]
This journal is all about sharing part of my spiritual journey. It is my filter-free world, and this is dedicated to my family and friends who supported and guided me into a lot of my quests to discover more about the life. I’m a student who is practicing/learning the technique of Vipassana and this article […]
Here we are, the last month of 2022, and it is a great time to reflect and plan the time ahead. This is exactly what I do every year, and such planning becomes my north star for the years to come. This blog post is more for me than you. It is a reflection and […]
Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell. The pandemic has changed the world, and for a Globe-trotter like me, it was heartache. Since the pandemic hit our globe, my travel has been as low as it could be. The Philippines trip was very unplanned, and when I […]
This is a story of my experience during the past 2 weeks when I have mostly stayed away from the Internet, allowing me to realize the things I was missing when connected. When I was a child, my mother always used to tell me: “Don’t overdo it”! While in retrospect this was excellent advice, I was […]
We are all social creatures always looking for fantasy in real life to trigger our thought process and seek inspiration from them. On a daily basis, we come across a lot of strangers but we seek inspiration from only a few of them, and what sets them apart is the stories that they have to tell. Even […]
