When you say atma, or soul, it means an individual consciousness. What is the nature of consciousness? It is individual and, once having been, it will always exist. We have existed forever, and we will continue to exist forever, after the "now" is over. Reflect on this deeply... The image is from my painting, "Nara and Narayan Rishis meet Cupid".

Like many people, I too get anxious sometimes. For the longest time, whenever I had these anxious moments throughout my day-to-day, I could not for the life of me figure out how to overcome them. As a result of that, I would get angry at myself and then put myself on a negative frequency and everything would just go down from there. That was such the wrong way to go about it but luckily after some digging… Some course watching and looking around in the right places, I found a solution to this and let me tell you what that is. 1. The Physiological Sigh. This is a breathing technique that was popularised by Andrew Huberman a lot. If you search up the video on YouTube, you can find this. The gist of it is you take two deep inhales for your nose and then you take a massive exhale out of your mouth as if it's through a straw or something. This is really an effective strategy to work and I highly recommend you going on YouTube and searching up “physiological sigh Huberman” because it is excellent. You see while I could tell you to do those long-term things like heel trauma, meditation, and gratitude journal and all that. Whie those things are awesome and you should have them as part of your daily schedule, the thing about them is they are not a strategy you can use in the heat of the moment of anxiety so this is why these things I'm teaching you here are more effective for when you are in the moment of anxiety. 2. Gratitude What do I mean by this? Whenever you feel anxious I want to say as well the worst thing you can do is just try to tell your brain, "Oh put it down, put it down, suppress it, suppress it," because that just actually bumps it up worse. Instead of that try to think of what you're grateful for and don't suppress the thought. Just let it go there and let it be there and it is uncomfortable but that's how it is. You just think of gratitude. Maybe say out loud that you're grateful for something to a friend or family member or even just think in your mind about what in the surrounding you're grateful for right now, you can take out your phone and write something you are grateful for.