Becoming Conscious Through Conscious Breathing

Two functions in the human body are constant and (mostly) involuntary: the beating of the heart and breathing. Of the two, only one can, with effort, become a conscious act: breathing. From a biological perspective, unconscious breathing functions in tandem with primitive parts of the brain responsible for bodily survival and conscious breathing instead stimulates […]

Philosophy, Spirituality, Mysticism and Religion

Such words can have loosely interchangeable meanings depending on whom you are speaking with. But are they really interchangeable, what do they actually mean, and is it important at all that one differentiate them? They are not, in fact, interchangeable, and it is critical to any thinker to differentiate between them because the essence of […]

(a2+b2=c2) = (E=mc2)? Pythagoras, Scientific Philosophy and Beyond!

You might remember, and definitely would have studied at some point in trigonometry, the theory for finding the length of the hypotenuse of a triangle (a2+b2=c2). You might even know that Greek mathematician Pythagoras discovered the theory, but did you know that he was also responsible for science becoming a major component of human study […]

Make Coronavirus Feel Pathetic! Boost Your Immune System Immediately

The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest since the Swine Flu of 2009-2010 and Ebola of 2014-2016. While the death toll doesn’t even compare (estimated 12,000 deaths till date) to the Swine Flu pandemic (200,000 deaths), the disease is deadly, highly contagious, and has global presence unlike the others. Since most deaths from coronavirus are in […]

‘Just Rolling With It’ vs ‘Going Against the Flow’

We have all heard both these phrases and have an idea about what they mean. Which one is a better life-philosophy to follow? The truth is that both are natural and valid ways of dealing with situations – despite the apparent contradiction. Accepting things as they are as well as fighting for what you believe […]