Essays and reflections on the psyche, philosophy and happiness.https://exploring.restlessreason.com/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/corona-for-though-bigger-than-me/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/corona-for-though-bigger-than-me/Events that happen at a large scale, offer a very renewed perspective on life. Life can often feel like an auto-pilot and moments of reflection are for most rare. A pandemic on a global scale like this is almost forcing…Sat, 11 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/lifes-linearity/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/lifes-linearity/Some aspects of life are so linear. There are things which cannot be relived, there are experiences which can only be had once. The special euphoria associated with the first time doesn't return on repeated occurrence.…Fri, 11 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/inevitability-of-ignorance/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/inevitability-of-ignorance/The urge for knowledge can be irresistible. But knowledge is a rather unfathomable ocean, in its breadth and its depth. I can find myself , at times, diving too deep and ignoring the bigger picture, and at times flying…Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/discreet-worries/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/discreet-worries/Straddling through the norms of life , the moment of pause is filled with immense discreet Worries. Moments of silent inactivity, moments of reflection are so intense , they are so immense in their gravity that tears…Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/in-the-midst-of-turbulence/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/in-the-midst-of-turbulence/We've all spent our tiny but scary moments of turbulence 30,000 feet above sea level. This was slightly more than a normal turbulence. People started tumbling and falling and this scarier than normal passage lasted for 5…Mon, 26 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/sharing-of-peace/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/sharing-of-peace/I have been to churches numerous times in my life. But, this one was different, where I attended a church to pray for world peace together.‘Week of Prayer for World Peace’ is an annual initiative which began in 1974 to…Sat, 24 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/from-the-comfort-of-my-home/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/from-the-comfort-of-my-home/As per a survey conducted by UN in 2005, there were about 100 million people homeless worldwide. And according to another estimate, a total of 1.6 billion people worldwide reside in inadequate shelter; that’s more than…Tue, 26 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/ocd-webinar/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/ocd-webinar/The first webinar was held on 31st January. I received excellent feedback. It was attended by people from Saudi Arabia, India, United Kingdom, Australia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, Malaysia, Finland, Netherlands and USA.…Sun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/shared-meals/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/shared-meals/West Berkshire Peace and Integration Forum has been organizing Shared Meal evenings for many years now. These evenings present a valuable opportunity to socialize with people from diverse ethnic backgrounds, religions,…Fri, 11 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/religion-democracy/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/religion-democracy/History of philosophy often starts with the Greeks. Luc ferry (2011:17) states that ‘most historians agree that philosophy first saw the light of day in Greece, sometime around the sixth century BC’. The pre Hellenistic…Mon, 07 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/britain-in-palestine/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/britain-in-palestine/About four years ago, in Newbury England, local Muslim, evangelical and progressive (PCN) Christian, Quaker, and other friends came together to found the Forum. Beliefs differ considerably, but participants have a common…Fri, 13 Nov 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/happiness-is-not-more-money/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/happiness-is-not-more-money/Money cannot buy happiness. Some say it’s a “wisdom” carefully invented by the poor as in the Fox and the grapes fable. Some believe the idea is supported by research. For most, it does not matter. Most have…Tue, 09 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/recipe-of-happiness/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/recipe-of-happiness/A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe. <em>Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi</em>Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/what-happiness-is-not/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/what-happiness-is-not/Defining happiness is as arduous as accomplishing it. Hundreds of different understandings of happiness exist in philosophy, psychology, religion, biology etc. Most people seem to have an understanding of happiness…Sun, 03 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/apa-war-crimes/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/apa-war-crimes/A watchdog analysis released on Thursday (30th April 2015) examines the complicity of American Psychological Association in “Enhanced” Interrogation Programs in Guantanamo, Abu Ghuraib and elsewhere. According to the…Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/philosophical-movies/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/philosophical-movies/List of Philosophical Movies and TV Shows that I have thoroughly enjoyed, in no particular order. Philosophy is a term with an array of meanings; I have enlisted compositions that question existence and force to ask…Sat, 02 May 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/psych-evaluation/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/psych-evaluation/Suicide does not seem like an apt word to describe the incident of Germanwings flight 9525. The co-pilot deliberately locked the captain out of the cockpit, and activated the descent that drove the plane into French…Sun, 29 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/the-psychology-of-migraine/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/the-psychology-of-migraine/Spring 2002, that’s when it all started. I was in boarding school. Nothing dramatic happened prior to it; no physiological change, no mental trauma, no depressive spell. It was like every other day, when it seemed like a…Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/one-grand-retraction/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/one-grand-retraction/Writing it out, that has been my way of organizing my thoughts. I have been doing that for over a decade now. I have been writing for magazines, newspapers, websites and blogs, until recently, when I abruptly stopped. My…Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/philosophy-hijacked-by-age-of-competition/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/philosophy-hijacked-by-age-of-competition/"...the increase of human power over nature has become completely automatic, uncontrollable and blind, because it everywhere exceeds the conscious will of individual. And , this is, quite simply, the inevitable result of…Wed, 21 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/muting-the-question-of-salvation/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/muting-the-question-of-salvation/Salvation, the core question in the ancient religious and non-religious philosophies, was insentiently muted by modern philosophies. Central entities in moral philosophies of the past; cosmos, divine and God, were…Thu, 08 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/greatest-weapon-stress/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/greatest-weapon-stress/The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/templegrandin/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/templegrandin/Temple Grandin, a girl born in 1947, barely uttered a word until she was four. She was born Autistic. She used her autism, the ability to <em>think in pictures</em>, to her advantage and expounded issues that are…Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/madness-khalil-jibran/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/madness-khalil-jibran/And I have found both freedom and safety in my madness: the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us. Khalil Jibran in <em>The Madman</em>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/normality-jon-ronson/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/normality-jon-ronson/There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of…Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/the-psychopath-test/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/the-psychopath-test/So, I had lots of hours to burn in London before my flight. And I needed a place with free Wi-Fi. Luckily, there was <em>Waterstones</em> nearby. Tell you what; free Wi-Fi is an excellent marketing strategy. I ended up…Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/video-the-psychopath-test/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/video-the-psychopath-test/Watch the video Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two by explaining the story of 'the…Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/i-counsel/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/i-counsel/There are hundred shades of OCD, probably more. Obsessions and compulsion have been there, for thousands of years, probably more. And tens of terminologies have been used to describe the phenomenon, probably more. Now,…Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/journey-ocd/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/journey-ocd/What this write-up is about? Do you or your loved one have excessive fear or disgust with regards to contamination? Do you or your loved one have an uncontrollable urge to hoard useless items? Do you or your loved one…Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/printed-expiry-dates/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/printed-expiry-dates/This showed up on New Year’s Eve on my Facebook news feed ‘I wish humans were born with printed expiry dates’. I gave it a thought, and I realized that the one who was wishing so, and those who had ‘liked’ the thought,…Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/psyche-after-death/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/psyche-after-death/Finally , of course we come to the ultimate picture, what happens in death? Then all cerebral activity ceases permanently. The self-conscious mind that has had an autonomous existence in a sense...now finds that the…Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/welcome/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/welcome/<strong>ExploringPsyche.com</strong> extends warm welcome and a very good morning to you. Hang on, if you are in a time-zone farther away from us please accept what's appropriate for you : good morning, good noon, good…Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/who-are-you/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/who-are-you/You never identify yourself with the shadow cast by your body, or with it's reflection, or with the body you see in a dream or in your imagination. Therefore you should not identify yourself with this living body,…Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://exploring.restlessreason.com/spirit-quran/https://exploring.restlessreason.com/spirit-quran/They question you concerning the Spirit. Say: 'The Spirit is of the bidding of my Lord. You have been given of knowledge nothing except a little. Noble Qur'an , The Night Journey 17:85Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT