How far can positive thinking take you??

Its been a long time ... and I've also grown up a little bit in this month :) . Whatever comes out my "philo bag" (Teena's coined word), is now more justified. I've been planning to write loads of things while I am at home during the weekend, but since I still believe that internet can stay away from me for at least 2 days of the week (Its better to be called as a citizen than a netizen). When I am at office, I just cant spare time to write and the miraculous thoughts just wane away. But I just pulled myself, shunned the laziness after working out in the gym, and started writing this over...after a long time indeed.

Now coming back to what I wanted to write. There has been a lot of research going around on human brain , not just in medical science but in computer science as well. The first field is more concerned with improving the brain , and the second more to imitate it!!. Nevertheless, I wont write how neurons and synapse work together here. The idea is more spiritual and abstract. Think of brain as a state machine, just like a Turing machine or your computer.
Now anything you see, listen, taste, hear and touch acts as an input to this state machine. There are other inputs to your brain , one from your subconscious (essentially gathered and mangled from the external senses listed earlier) and another from your unconscious (wanted to call it sub-sub-conscious), which is pretty much dependent on your previous incarnation (here comes the karma). Now, any input to brain from all these sources is packaged into one thing - The Thought. This thought goes over iterations in the brain to change brain's state and its own state several times over. While this process is going on, the ALU of brain i.e. cereberal, evaluates this thought and directly effects usual the body functions like digestion, blood circulation, cell creation and destruction. While the thought is being churned in celebral, you are very much conscious, because only conscious mind has the power to change the thought which is fed externally/internally to it. This is also the reason , why you get nightmares or sweet dreams, as you just cant control them. At this conscious stage, it is now very important that you take things in the most positive way and modify and shun the thoughts which could possibly take a toll on your physical health. So, remember every thought is directly connected to your physical health. The mediatation makes your brain strong enough to control your body through modifying your thoughts the way you want it. Thats also the gist of yoga and ayurveda in some sense, which believes in well being of the mind as well as body.

Indian Idol is back.......

Indian Idol is back on TV with its 3rd season. The fact that I am a music lover doesnt pull me so much to this show as my interest in the display of human emotions and idiosyncrasies which makes me a follower.
People can argue that most "reality" shows are "made up". But I guess at least the audition rounds can always be interesting to quench your reality desires. As far as talent hunt is concerned, it looks like they have done a good job this time. Rather than people approaching them, they have tried pro-active search for singers across big cities by going around and asking people - "do you know anybody who sings well?". Besides this season, the judge panel has changed. There are now 2 singers , one musician and one lyricist as compared to one singer, one choreographer and one musician last time around.
On the show, I look for the dream-come-true stories which are really inspiring although the people who are kicked out are always in majority but I believe there is always a next season and another talent hunt on another channel, so if you are good, there is no need to be disheartened. In fact, most good singers dont aspire to be any channel's idol. They all sing for themselves!!!.

Unfortunately, I couldnt watch the whole of 1st episode as I reached my home little late after a hectic friday.

Get serious!!!

One of my friends who works with times of india has told me that its time I start writing something which is more serious and impactful. I dont disagree with her, but all along the day , I do my job which is quite a serious one and break after lunch to write down something which is soothing to my inner self. Increasing the blog popularity by writing down investment tips, flaming remarks against mandira bedi for her latest saree , or narayan murthy's indignation towards national anthem (and yet wanne president!!!) or how India could have done better in world cup might be a good idea for some. For me , as of now, this is a non-goal.
These days, I am reading Anita Desai's Booker prize winning creation, "Inheritance of Loss". I guess much of the inspiration to write totally mundane things come from there. Most story tellers are not the best leaders or best patriots but its a different matter altogether when best of leader and patriots write their own books to share their experiences.
One my colleague was contesting that why should somebody worry about if a national leader or business tycoon or a film star for that matter said something about a national symbol or icon. "There are 20 other things to worry about" - came from him.
I guess the simple reasoning one can come up here is that these "big" people have certain following and people "below" look at them for direction and idolize them. When these big folks do things which are not acceptable in the usual social and political norms, there is bound to be an up roar , you like it or not.