𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦.

𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐈𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐦.

Everyone is selling frameworks right now.

Eating, Fitness, Leadership, Mental health, Stress management.

But something feels off.

Despite all these frameworks, many of us feel more confused than calm.

More informed, yet less certain.

More structured, yet less connected.

Swipe after swipe, it’s always:

• a new model

• a smarter structure

• a cleaner diagram

• a promise of control

If frameworks are meant to simplify life, why does life feel more complicated than ever?

If you look closely, most frameworks are just fundamentals wearing new clothes:

Eat with awareness.

Move your body.

Rest.

Pay attention.

Simple, Human, Timeless.

And then comes the quiet line buried at the end:

“Don’t follow this rigidly.”

“Adapt it to your context.”

“Listen to your body.”

Which is interesting.

Because the moment a framework tells you to break it,

it is no longer the framework doing the work; you are.

Frameworks are useful.

But only as training wheels.

Awareness begins when:

• you stop outsourcing wisdom

• you stop forcing life into boxes

• you respond to what is happening now

Sometimes growth doesn’t come from adding another framework.

It comes from gently stepping outside the frame.

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Two sides of the Self-awareness coin.

 Two sides of the Self-Awareness coin

Most people think self-awareness means stillness.

Sit quietly.
Close your eyes.
Slow down.

That’s one side of the coin.
And yes, it’s powerful.

Stillness helps you notice.
Your breath.
Your thoughts.
Your inner chatter before it turns into reaction.

But there’s another side we often forget.

Movement.

Self-awareness doesn’t end when you open your eyes.
It continues when you walk, speak, work, disagree, decide.

Movement shows you:

• How quickly you react
• Where tension lives in your body
• Which patterns repeat without asking your permission

Stillness reveals.
Movement tests.

Real self-awareness is not choosing one over the other.
It’s allowing both.

Pause when needed.
Move with attention when life demands it.

That’s when awareness stops being a concept
and becomes a lived experience.

If this resonates, sit with it for a moment…
and then notice yourself as you move through the next hour.

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Lottery ticket and awareness!

I just bought a lottery ticket that has a bumper prize of ₹20 crore (200 million)!

One of my friends called me, and during the conversation mentioned that he was travelling through Palakkad.
That’s when I remembered about Kerala lotteries and casually asked him to buy one for me.
He was just about to cross the border when this conversation happened, so he managed to buy one.

Mulling over this incident later, a few interesting aspects stood out.

Here we go.

First, the event itself was ordinary.
A phone call.
A passing thought.
A ticket was bought.

But the mind doesn’t stop there.
It quietly starts adding meaning.

What if this is lucky?
What if this changes everything?

That’s where awareness becomes useful.

1. Event vs Meaning

What happens
vs
What you add to it

• Event: A ticket is bought. A number is drawn.
• Meaning added: “This will change my life.”

Awareness move:
Notice the story I attach to neutral events.

Freedom begins when I recognize the difference between reality and the narrative surrounding it.

 

2. Hope vs Dependence
Hope is light and playful.
Dependence quietly steals sleep.

• Hope says, “Nice if it happens.”
• Dependence says, “I need this to feel okay.”

Awareness move:
Ask quietly:

If this doesn’t happen, what inside me tightens?

That tightening is where awareness needs to sit, not on the outcome.

3. Control vs Influence
I don’t control random numbers.
But I do influence how much mental space I give them.

Lotteries, other people’s behavior, sudden events → outside control.

Awareness move:
Withdraw energy from what I can’t control
and redeploy it into daily regulation:

• breath
• posture
• response
• timing

This alone reduces mental clutter.

 

4. Attachment vs Presence
Attachment pulls attention into the future.
Presence brings it back, right now.

Awareness move:
The ticket is still just a ticket.
But the observation changed something.

Awareness is not about predicting outcomes.
It is about not outsourcing my peace to probability.

 

And then I remembered a few lines from The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle:

“If you are dissatisfied with what you have got, or even frustrated or angry about your present lack, that may motivate you to become rich, but even if you do make millions, you will continue to experience the inner condition of lack, and deep down you will continue to feel unfulfilled.”

A micro-practice I use:
When a hopeful or anxious thought arises, pause and say -
“This is a thought, not a fact.”

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This is NOT for people planning New Year's resolutions.

 This is NOT for people planning New Year's resolutions.

This is for you,
who wants to build the habit of being in meditation.

Not a dramatic promise.
Not a midnight declaration.
Just a quiet, repeatable return to yourself.

Let January 2026 be about clearing mental clutter,
not adding another goal to an already crowded mind.

Because resolutions made in the dead of night
often fade by morning like a dream you had and then forgot.

Micro-practices work differently.
They slip into ordinary moments.
They increase awareness.
They help you de-stress and rejuvenate on the go.

No pressure.
No performance.
Just presence, practiced gently.

·  Make awareness your first habit of 2026.

·  Practice presence in the middle of your day-to-day life.

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Cake and Wine VS Poori and Dosa!

 The other day, I went to my regular restaurant for breakfast.

I ordered Poori.

This restaurant’s Dosas are delicious too.

On some days, I order dosas, either masala dosa or set dosa.

Nothing unusual, you may say.

But here’s my standing instruction whenever I order dosa:

“𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐢𝐥.”

Now that’s a paradox.

Eating poori, deep-fried in oil, and yet asking for less oil when it comes to dosa!

Our lives are full of such paradoxes, unique to each one of us.

The invitation is not to resolve them,

but to notice them…

and be okay with them,

as long as the body accepts them without adverse effects.

Opinions of dieticians, science, or religion don’t get the final say.

𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫.

Self-awareness helps us discover these paradoxes and live comfortably with them, no matter what people around us say.

Pause today and notice one small paradox in your own life.

No fixing. Just noticing.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 “𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫𝐢 𝐯𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐬𝐚” 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭?

Share it in the comments.

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Many high-functioning professionals live with similar contradictions.

If you’d like to explore yours through simple micro-practices, DM me.

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