Contemplative Paradox

There are literally tons of instances when we wish we could make ourselves calm at will, but almost every technique fails miserably. Deep breathing is something people try out most often because it is suggested most often. However, the problem with calming oneself by breathing deeply has one flaw. The more we try to focus on our breathing to calm ourselves down, the more anxious we get when we don't see the results immediately. This little paradox keeps us nervous when we should be calmly processing the data that we need to deliver, during a public speaking session or an interview. There is however one technique that although talked about a lot online, isn't suggested as much. That is to slow down the movements of your mannerisms. This simple little trick can be more useful than one could expect, to calm the nerves. It does require a person to pay a little attention to their body language, but doesn't hog a lot of attention span, so the important processing can also conti...

Like a lot of people, I started off using Windows (3.1 to be exact), and continued using it until 2013. That's when I heard of the rise of Ubuntu and decided to give it a go. Like most people, I tried it, but then gave up on it because the environment was just too alien, too "not Windows".  However, unlike most people, I never dual-booted Linux. I would back up all of my data, delete my Windows partition and install Ubuntu in an overwrite partition. However, that wasn't enough to convince me to stay with Linux. Five or six times back and forth between Windows and Ubuntu, I finally gained the maturity to completely dump Windows along with all the software that ran on it. Surprisingly though, even at that time, I found a Linux alternative to everything I was using with Windows. Libre Office seemed to work completely fine with .docx files, I had Gimp as a replacement to Photoshop, and for programming, I had much better tools than Windows. After a few years ...