10 Common Indicators of Your Progress-Spiritual Awakening Signs

When you get inclined towards spirituality you naturally get curious about your progress in that path and that’s why I am going discuss a few signs and symptoms of spiritual awakening using which you can know where you have reached in your journey.

For me, it used to be a very dominant thought in mind and still it bothers me sometimes that if I am actually going anywhere with all these spiritual knowledge and practices or am I still standing at the juncture from where I began?

Then I started to realize that the simplest way to know about spiritual progress is as Ramana Maharshi puts it “the degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress”, obviously I am not able to free myself from the unwanted thoughts at present but I know that I am making headway from my ability to discern whenever I am thinking unnecessarily far better than before. Continue reading

Photographic Memory or Eidetic Memory

In simple words, photographic memory could be described as an ability to recall things in form of images with all details.

Actually we all think in images, on a conscious level we might not be able to discern that always but with a little awareness you can know that whenever we are thinking or recalling we are doing it in form of images.

If I say “fire” you will immediately see an image of fire in your mind that’s how our thinking mechanism works.

So, when we all try to recall things from past, sometimes we get vivid pictures in mind and sometimes we see distorted images and that is what differentiates a person having a strong memory with the one who has weak memory. The reason behind this actually depends on many factors like a person’s attentiveness, their practice in recalling, confidence etc. which is all related to only one thing and that is their conscious mind’s rapport with their subconscious mind. Continue reading

Simple Tips for Dealing with Multiple False Awakenings

For a very long time, I have been troubled by multiple false awakenings but, eventually I figured out a few ways to deal with them and I am going share it with you here.

I am well familiar with that dreadful feeling when you can’t find a way to escape from the chain of annoying dreams that tells you that you have woke up but then again you find that you are still dreaming.

Mostly when I experienced false awakenings it was when I slept during day time but, people experience it in the usual hours of night sleep as well.

About 4-5 years ago, when I was too interested in lucid dreaming, false awakenings and sleep paralysis became usual for me.

In dreams, I used to get up in the same room where I slept so it was often too difficult to detect that if I was still dreaming or not but, what troubled me the most was helplessness of not being able to wake up despite of knowing that it is a dream.

More than 5 false awakenings(I have had 14+) one after another could be very frustrating that you might start to hate your sleep hours but fortunately there are ways using which you can regain your peaceful sleeps. Continue reading

Train Your Photographic Memory-Retain More Information

This post will provide you a few tips that will help you to train your photographic memory so that you can remember things better than before.

First of all, let me answer a very common question – Is there really something  like photographic memory?

Yes, there is and we can make use of it in various ways to improve ourselves in many areas of our lives.

Photographic memory is actually an ability to store and recall things in visual forms.

In fact, we actually store information in form of images only but, since the process is very fast we are not able to consciously realize it.

For example – If we hear numbers “09675” our mind stores that as an image, it could be the whole picture “09675” or every number individual “0”,”9” etc. etc. in sequence.

So, once we understand the importance of remembering in images we can then practice and develop photographic memory. Continue reading

Understanding Emotional Eating: The Hidden Mental & Physical Effects

Emotional eating is a habit where people eat not because they’re physically hungry, but to satisfy an emotional need. In simple terms, it’s when food becomes a way to feel better rather than a way to nourish the body. Whether it’s reaching for a tub of popcorn at the movies or craving your favorite snack after a long day, many of us use food to create comfort and happiness—even if we don’t realize it.

This connection between food and feelings isn’t new. For centuries, businesses have tapped into our emotional responses to food to sell products and build loyalty. There’s nothing inherently wrong with eating to feel good—unless it turns into a pattern that controls your behavior.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated in July 2025 to keep the information current and relevant.

Unfortunately, many people today are unknowingly caught in this cycle. What starts as occasional comfort eating can quietly develop into binge eating patterns, often without any awareness. Over time, this can lead to both emotional eating mental health effects (like anxiety, guilt, and low self-esteem) and physical symptoms of emotional eating (such as weight gain, fatigue, and digestive issues).

In this post, we’ll dive deep into:

• The most common signs of emotional eating
• How food and emotions are connected
• The mental and physical toll binge emotional eating can take
• And most importantly, how to stop emotional eating and create a healthier relationship with food

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Building a Good Relationship with Food-Mindfulness Eating Script

The short mindfulness script I am going to provide you in this post is a very good practice to overcome your food cravings and improve your eating habits.

This post is a part of my article series “mind conditioning and weight loss” and here I am going to discuss the most important step to maintain a good health which is to have a good relationship with food.

Often the extra weight that people put on when their lifestyle changes and especially when they get too busy is due to their lack of awareness when they eat since the mind is too engaged in thinking about various other important stuff.

Overeating, binge eating, night eating, addiction to chocolate or sugar are all resulted from absent-mindedness while eating.

There is a very good solution available for all these problems and it is Mindfulness eating, using this method you can not only get rid of various unhealthy eating habits but it also helps you to make friendship with food. Continue reading

Attracting Right Customers-Law of Attraction and Business

When it is about law of attraction and business there something very important to understand which actually runs the whole show of profit and loss.

If you are a person who is willing to build a successful business or if you are someone who is trying to improve your business then what I am going to write here would be really of great use to you.

Due to the common belief system present in our society most people focus too much on actions when they are willing to create a source of income by selling things.

Believe it or not, your success as a businessman completely depends on your mindset and the flow of money gets decided by the nature of your relationship with money.

Haven’t you seen hard working people failing to make profits whereas those who are less focused on actions making a lot of profits?

I am not saying that you shouldn’t be taking actions instead law of attraction requires action but, what I am trying to convey here is first you should work on your inner beliefs about your business and then take required actions. Continue reading

6 Common Characteristics of Highly Intuitive People

Many people use their intuition in different ways but, there are few characteristics of highly intuitive people which separates them from the rest. We all use our intuition in various day to day decisions, some of us do it knowingly whereas some believe that their past experiences have trained them to make the right decisions based on something which is higher than logic.

Usually, people believe that the psychic abilities are meant only for some special people and no one else could acquire it, well that’s a lie anyone can develop their intuition with practice. However, there are people who are naturally good in using their sixth sense.

Since such people are little different from normal people they deliberately hide their true nature by pretending to be normal so that they don’t appear weird in front of others, this mostly happens in their childhood and gradually they forget their true nature completely.

The intuitive skill is never lost so, even when they don’t know about their gift they have it and these are few characteristics which can tell if someone belongs to that category. Continue reading

4 Deep Breathing Exercises for Anxiety Treatment

Anxiety has become a common problem in our planet nowadays, that’s why I am bringing a few simple deep breathing exercises for anxiety treatment in this post using which you can successfully get rid of your anxiety issues.

Unfortunately, people rely more on therapists and pills to treat their emotional problem which in some cases is indeed essential but, what most people fail to understand is that the simple practice of conscious breathing can prove out to be an amazing tool for achieving the peace of mind.

It is not the practice but the lack of faith which results into the failure of a person to leverage these techniques. Continue reading

How to Deal with Anger and Depression on Your Own

I am going to share a few methods in this post that will show you how to deal with anger and depression using natural ways.

The hustle and bustle of the modern world has made depression and anger to become an epidemic illness but, fortunately we have some natural methods available using which we can effectively deal with both of these afflictions.

Anger and depression together can kill the peace of mind of an individual causing them to suffer more than what one can imagine.

When a person’s energy is out of their control it results into anger, on the other hand depression makes one to feel a total loss of energy, both are completely different states because one makes a person to act in a chaotic manner whereas the other takes away their power to act.

Despite of the differences, these two menaces are often found mutually working to make many lives difficult.

We will look at a common cause here which results into these two mind states and by fixing that we can successfully overcome both.

Depression is the cause behind anger and anger again results into depression so they keep on perpetuating each other, that’s why if we can get rid of one state the other will naturally cease to exist. Continue reading