Fear of Failure or Sometimes Success

by Gyalwang Drukpa When you think about beginning a new relationship or accepting a new job, moving to a new city or country, it’s natural to have fears and uncertainties. You may worry you are making the ‘wrong’ decision, or that you will somehow fail in this new path. At times in your life, this fear may become so strong that it paralyses you and prevents you from even having a go, giving it a whirl to see what may happen. If you are mindful about your decisions and choices in…

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World Suicide Prevention Day 2019: Here’s How You Can Avoid Self Harm

To raise awareness about suicide prevention, September 10 is observed as World Suicide Prevention Day. A number of people lose their life to suicide every year. Surprisingly, this number is higher than the deaths caused by war and homicide combined. While there are a number of reasons due to which one commits suicide, no reason is ever good enough to lose your life for it. One of the greatest reasons for committing suicide is the turmoil in the life and the situation around it. However, suicide is not the wisest…

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Home Remedies For Hiccups

What are Hiccups? Hiccups are a reflex action, which means that we do not have any control over them. Hiccups are a sudden, involuntary squeezing of the diaphragm, the main breathing muscle under the lungs, which results in sucking the air quickly into the lungs thereby snapping and shutting glottis above the voice-box (larynx). This snapping makes the sound of a hiccup. Hiccups will usually stop on their own. Continuous hiccups lasting for more than a day or two may indicate a cause of an underlying disease, which needs medical intervention.…

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