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This moment is the only Life you have!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on July 22, 2021Format ImageCategories Acceptance, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS on Leadership, Celebrate Life, Divinity, Equanimity, Happiness, Inner Peace, Life Lessons, Live in the moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Non-worrying, the happynesswala, Worry, ZenTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Celebrate Life, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Future, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Lessons, Living in the Moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Past, Spirituality, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas1 Comment on This moment is the only Life you have!

Train the mind, be happy!

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on January 7, 2020Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anger, Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Future, Grief, Guilty, Happiness, Inner Peace, Insecurity, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Living in the Moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Meditation, Mouna, Past, Present, Spirituality, Stress, Uncategorized, WorryLeave a comment on Train the mind, be happy!

Why fear what has not happened?

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on November 6, 2019Format ImageCategories AVIS on Happyness, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Future, Happiness, Happiness is a Decision, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Live in the moment, Live In The Now, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Past, Power of Now, Spirituality, Stress, Suffering, the happynesswala, the happynesswalas, Uncategorized, WorryLeave a comment on Why fear what has not happened?

Train your mind to be happy

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on August 6, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Mouna, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Future, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Living in the Moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Mouna, Pain, Past, Silence, Silence Periods, Spirituality, Suffering, the happynesswala, Uncategorized, Untrained MindLeave a comment on Train your mind to be happy

Never feed the complaining mind by giving it attention

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Abundance, Abundance Thinking, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Complaining, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Future, Happiness, Human Mind, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Live in the moment, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Meditation, Mindfulness, Non-complaining, Past, Power of Now, Scarcity Thinking, Spirituality, the happynesswala, The Power of Now, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Never feed the complaining mind by giving it attention

Simply live from moment to moment

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 20, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Future, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Live in the moment, Live In The Now, Mind, Mindfulness, Past, Power of Now, Spirituality, the happynesswala, UncategorizedLeave a comment on Simply live from moment to moment

What has to happen alone will happen

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on April 1, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS on Happyness, AVIS Viswanathan, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Future, Inner Peace, Insecurity, Intelligent Living, Let Go, Letting Go, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Master Plan, Prayer, Resilience, Spirituality, Stress, Thank You Is The Best Prayer, the happynesswala, Total Acceptance, Total Surrender, UncategorizedLeave a comment on What has to happen alone will happen

Employ equanimity and happiness

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Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on March 26, 2019Format ImageCategories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anger, Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Equanimity, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fear, Future, Grief, Guilt, Happiness, Inner Peace, Inspiring Happiness, Inspiring Happyness, Intelligent Living, Life, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Life Lessons, Life Quotes, Living in the Now, Living in the Present, Non-frustrated, Non-Suffering, Non-worrying, Past, Power of Now, Present, Spirituality, Stress, the happynesswala, Uncategorized, Worry1 Comment on Employ equanimity and happiness

Bus Yehi Ek Life Hai!

In today’s Podcast, I appeal that we must not get confused by theories that lead to wasteful analysis of a past Life or of a future one. We must just live this one Life fully! Listen time: 5:00 minutes

AVIS aB Ep 11 This is the only Life you have. So live it fully

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on June 8, 2017June 8, 2017Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Art of Living, Asha Bhosle, AVIS Viswanathan, Destiny, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fate, Future, Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Karma, Life, Life offers no fairplay, Live Free, Live Fully, Live in the moment, Live In The Now, Past Life, Spirituality, The AVIS Viswanathan Podcast, Uncategorized, Vaani, Waqt, Yash ChopraLeave a comment on Bus Yehi Ek Life Hai!

Why carry excess baggage when you can travel light – and free?

Life is like an airline company – you pay a price for excess baggage!

A conversation with a visitor at home on how airlines “mercilessly” charge passengers for excess baggage got me thinking. I believe that all of us carry excess baggage, not just when we fly, but in Life as well. We do end up paying a huge price for our excess baggage, but we don’t quite learn from our experience.

There are three forms of excess baggage we saddle our lives with:

  1. Emotional Baggage: Memories pertaining to past hurts, insults, events, experiences. Some of these are heart-wrenching and debilitate us, causing deep anguish, pain and untold suffering.
  2. Physical Baggage: More than 50 % of the stuff that fills our homes__furniture to clothes to documents to kitchenware to shoes to display-ware__are the ones we have not used in months and, most often, in years. So, our homes are overloaded with ‘waste and clutter’ which can be useful for others when given away.
  3. Imaginary Baggage that never was and that never may well be: This is the baggage of worry and anxiety. Of things and events that you fear will happen to you and because of which you are unable to live free and in the moment!

All three forms of excess baggage must be set down to journey through Life in peace. The second form, the physical baggage, may still be reconcilable. As in, if you have a large living space, you can afford to accumulate, save or hoard the stuff that you don’t always use. Even so, Vaani and I follow a simple principle: we don’t hold on to anything – anything – that we have not used for over 6 months, except our passports! But the baggage falling in categories 1 and 3 are just not worth carrying. In a way, Life is pretty much like an airline company. You sure do end up paying a huge price for traveling with heavy, excess baggage! In a Life context, that price is the inability to live in and experience the magic of the present moment, of the now!

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All that you need to live is what you have in the now. Ask yourself what past memories are causing an inexplicable heaviness in you? Ask yourself what worries take your mind away from attending to the now? Burn your heaviness away by giving the present all your attention. Make a call, give a hug, simply forgive__do whatever that will bring you into the present. Stop worrying about what will or may happen in the future. Life is here and never in the future, just as it is not in the past! Most important, learn, and keep relearning, to offload all your excess baggage and travel light.

Author AVIS ViswanathanPosted on May 1, 2017Categories Happiness, Inner Peace, Intelligent Living, Life, Spirituality, UncategorizedTags Anger, Anxiety, Art of Living, AVIS Viswanathan, Emotional Baggage, Excess Baggage, Fall Like A Rose Petal, Fly Free, Forgiveness, Future, Grief, Guilt, Happiness, Imaginary Baggage, Inner Peace, Insecurity, Intelligent Living, Life, Live Free, Live in the moment, Live In The Now, Past, Physical Baggage, Spirituality, Travel Light, Uncategorized, Vaani, WorryLeave a comment on Why carry excess baggage when you can travel light – and free?

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