Peak Living

08/09/2025

Anger: Overcoming the Lifestyle of Aggression

Crookedness and unjust situations may, at times, trigger the emotion of anger within us. It takes over our body and mind, making life difficult both for ourselves and for those around us. Ultimately, it hurts us by robbing us of peace of mind and alienating us from our near and dear ones.

But unjust situations and crooked behaviours are part of the darker side of the world that cannot be separated from life’s experience. We may try to counter them and raise our voice against them, but dwelling on them and allowing anger to boil within is both futile and harmful.

Ultimately, we must realize that keeping the mind simple and clear is more important for our long-term well-being, and we should take conscious measures to let go of anger.

These measures include distancing ourselves from confrontational situations, removing malice for others from our mind and becoming neutral towards them. We can also engage in activities that bring calmness, such as listening to peaceful music, doing creative work, or spending time with gentle, positive people.

08/09/2025

Career Choice and how it affects our Lifestyle:-

Most of us give 8-9 hours of each day to our professional career. This is mostly essential for financial stability, comfortable living and maintaining a healthy identity.
But, our choice of career is often led by such parameters which lead to long-term frustration, stress and feeling trapped.
Changing the parameters based on which we decide our choice of career thus becomes relevant. This choice should be based on the type of lifestyle a career offers. We need to choose the lifestyle most suited for our mind-body-personality type.
For example, choosing a post-graduation in a heavy surgical branch, because we think it is glamorous or like the prestige or money that can come with it, while ourselves being stress-prone and having a mind-body type which needs regular long hours of sleep, is a recipe for disaster. While, for somebody who is highly professionally-driven, focused and is able to compromise on sleep without it affecting their efficiency too much, it might the best choice.
Another example is, someone with a highly ambitious personality might get frustrated working as a teacher, while someone who is creative, sensitive and gentle might thrive in the profession.
Thus, to choose the career most suited for our long-term well-being, we should non-judgementally analyse our mind-body-personality type and then based on the type of lifestyle which each choice offers, choose the one most suited to us.

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08/09/2025

Our daily habits affect more than what we can immediately see. They also affect our thoughts by controlling and modulating the secretion of various neurochemicals.
These daily habits include the food we eat, the way we sleep, how we exercise and many others.
But, most importantly, there is no one "good lifestyle". For people with different mind-body types lifestyle needs to be different. Otherwise it can be a cause of more stress.
You can find out more about different mind-body types and their suited lifestyles by going through some reels and posts on this channel.

04/07/2025

Chat GPT and Gender Bias. The data that Artificial Intelligence uses is generated in our society. Thus AI is a reflection of the ideas and culture of our society. I had this conversation with ChatGPT spontaneously, wanting to ask something interesting. But, the results were very different from what I expected. Notably how it assumed I must be a male since I talked to it a lot about different kinds of scientific concepts, my professional work and my novel. I never tolerated major errors and clearly told "the good helper" to make sure it fixed the reason for the wrong answer to have been generated.
With all this, like most known modern history around the world, AI too assumed that the default setting would be male. I thought it would be interesting and quite telling of society and how data reflects that society.

17/06/2025

The Open Lifestyle:-
Living inside four walls, with just 2-3 people to talk to, working in front of a laptop all day, may make us feel we are isolated, separate, or lonely. But, if we see from the perspective of nature, we are interconnected with everyone and everything around us. Nothing on our planet happens in isolation.

Thus, when we move towards expansion in our life we become more aligned with nature’s plan and become happier individuals. Moving towards expansion means breaking rigid ideas, having an open, inclusive thinking and connecting with other people through meaningful action.

16/06/2025

Drowning in Waste: India’s Silent Crisis-

Garbage lying around all the time, on our roads, streets, markets, around monuments and temples, is an ugly blot on our surroundings. Even the most breathtaking landscapes of mountains, rivers, valleys, and beaches have been turned into garbage pits.
This public apathy towards garbage stems from a deep-rooted conditioning that nothing will ever change. It also reflects a narrow, selfish mindset- we keep our homes clean but think it's acceptable to dump waste outside, wrongly believing it doesn't affect us.
But this complacency and normalized bad behaviour have dangerous consequences. Toxins from garbage seep into the ground, polluting the water we drink and grow crops with. Rotting garbage on streets becomes a breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria, viruses, and parasites, which spread through our markets and contaminate the food we eat. It also takes a toll on mental well-being, especially for those who must live, work, and travel through cities filled with filth.
This is not just a civic issue, it is a public health crisis. Economic development means nothing if people are forced to live their lives next to garbage dumps.
There is hope. Our belief of “nothing will change” is false. Each of us need to take responsibility if we want to live in a clean and beautiful environment. By paying proper respect to sanitation workers, not throwing garbage any and everywhere, demanding continuous and proper waste management, reporting illegal dumping, participating in clean-up drives and most importantly teaching the next generation that cleanliness is everyone’s duty. Change cannot happen just through policies; it needs a population which understands the vital need for that change.
As people of Indian society, we must develop zero tolerance toward garbage in public spaces. It must be seen for what it truly is- not a harmless background feature of daily life, but poison.

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Mentally, physically and emotionally.
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Food we eat often contains preservatives like sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, sodium nitrite, sulfites, etc. These strong preservatives are why homemade butter goes bad within 2 weeks, while store-bought butter can be consumed up to a year!
Store-bought jams, pickles, butter, bread, ketchup, sauces, drinks, juices, biscuits, cakes, namkeens, chips, instant noodles, frozen food, ice creams, all have artificial preservatives to increase their shelf life.
There are studies which link this chemicalization of food to allergies, which may present as sneezing, migraine, joint pains, etc. It has also been linked to immunity disruption, disruption of healthy microbiota in our intestines, and many others.
Thus, it is better to eat store-bought food in moderation and focus on finding homemade, preservative-free alternatives like homemade butter, jams, pickles, ice creams, etc.