Is Constantly Analyzing Life Necessary, or Should We Just Live in the Moment? Discuss!

I guess my question says it all... How important is it to analyze life? Or the things one does daily, or things that occur? Should one spend life analyzing it at every step? Or simply live it and leave analyzing? Do the analyzing subconsciously and simply be happy making choices based on impulse. Take life as an adventure.

Discuss, please.

Hi Sunayna,
My opinion:
1. One needs to (once in a while) sit back and introspect and analyse life. This will lead to taking corrective actions wherever necessary and avoid committing the same mistakes.
2. Little away from the current subject, this link provides you with an insight into "what is human relation?", how to have a vision for oneself, and how to be 'self aware'. The article says that Human Relations is like a tennis game – an exchange of energies!
Read through the link <link no longer exists - removed> .
I do not know how I came across this, but just stumbled upon it.
Thanks
Bala

Hi Sunayna,

I think I follow a mix of both - some things predecided and not too risky, which I just enjoy and take as an adventure. Other important things that matter most in my life are analyzed so that I don't regret later, and as Bala pointed out, to avoid repeating the same mistake again.

Regards,
Anuradha

Hi Bala,

Just browsed through it. Planning to go through it at leisure, a lot to ruminate out there...

Anuradha

Namaskar Sunayna ji,

Every point you mentioned is very important. In my opinion, one should analyze their thoughts, feelings, actions, and even dreams constantly. The criteria for this analysis are simple:
1. I must think, feel, and act in accordance with what is right.
2. I must avoid thinking, feeling, and doing what is wrong.
The key question for analysis is: Am I appropriate?
The answer should be either Yes or No. This practice will help one stay mindful of their thoughts, feelings, and actions at all times.

Regards

Namaskar Bala ji.
Yester day I was confused as you have changed your screen name. Your link is very much to the point. I am very much pleading for "As we think, so we become" from day 1 here. Are you 100% with it?
So far as sitting and analysing is concerned, one may neglect. So my experience is that "the then and there is the best", that is, simultaneously and spontaneously.
regards

Hi Sunayna,

Neither can I see the future, but it is important for me to know what is most pressing in my life so that later I don't regret not thinking it over.

Also, the philosophy which I follow is: I too can make mistakes being a normal human being, but not fume and fret over that mistake, but take it and move along. Usually, most people regret that when they had a chance, they did not think and make it work differently in their favor.

Life is an adventure for me because a lot of things, even planned, go topsy-turvy, and then we have to figure out a way to come out of it as a winner. People who don't usually complain about life, their surroundings, and everything that is even remotely connected to them or the situation.

Again, this is my outlook towards life. Maybe right or maybe wrong, but what matters to me is that it makes me happy at the end of it. I think this is most important...

Regards,
Anuradha

Hi Sunayna,
As I had already stated, we need to sit back ponder over what is what in our life, analyse whether we are on the path which we would like to be, do corrections if necessary and avoid repeating mistakes we did already. In my opinon, this means that we need to analyse life definitely once in a while. This does not mean that we should not accept life as what it is, accept the realities in life and move forward. Accepting the reality does not mean that I should just sit back and take it as it comes. isn't it?
Now on "dream and you can make it". I am pretty clear that dreaming alone is not enough. If you do not set yourself a target and work towards it, dream remains a dream. Whether there is an exception or not, frankly, i am unable to state. Because even if you dream and work towards these dreams, many of them do not become true - by sheer 'fate'?
Thanks
bala

Dear Sunayna,

there are several aspects/approaches to look at dreams. American Psychological Association publishes a research journal on dreams and as soon as any new issue is published I get the abstracts in my e-mail Id.

My limited concerned to see whether the dreams of a person are healthy or unhealthy. To make an assessment,a number of dreams are necessary. The dream you have narrated has very healthy imagery.

Now you and Bala will have to settle- to be or not to be, that is, to analyse or not to analyse.

But my firm conlusion is that analysis is a must for progress.

regards

Dr. Ji,

I have already confirmed that we need to sit back and analyze life, make corrections wherever feasible, and try not to repeat the same mistakes. There is no dispute on this.

Thanks,
Bala

Hi Sunayana and others,

When 'To Err is Human', it's obvious that one should correct one's errors. As I think analysis is required as there can be mistakes we can't correct once committed, for which we can just regret... that's worse... however, this is analyzing actions... but analyzing life... (?!) 'Ramana Maharshi and J. Krishna Murthy - concomitant factors in their teachings' by 'Alone'... gave a spiritual experience in accepting life as IT IS... and relationship between existence and any other thing. I wonder if I have diverted the point, but I feel this appropriate as any struggle or conditioning in self is handled this way by me.

Regards,
Aruna

You are very much to the point, Aruna ji. Selective deconditioning, conditioning, and reconditioning are essential to progress.

Regards