Do you practice daily? How long has it been?

Product Manager

It has been almost 2 years. I used to practice daily initially, it decreased gradually.. Now it has come down to once or twice a week

Marketing manager

Have been using this app called Idanim for meditations. 
 Planning to advance to Vipassana as well.

Product Head

May i know the changes youve seen in yourself?

Product Marketing Manager

Would love to connect and discuss a few important things. Please mention how long you have been into this.

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Any Vipassana Meditators here?

Any Vipassana Meditators here?- Grapevine

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Hey All, I am writing this to express how I am feeling since last 1 year now. This post will be a bit lengthy but I would be grateful if anyone could help me even a bit. 
I moved into a new company 1year back and due to bad work environment I left. I took a months break and joined a new company now. I have a total 5 years of work experience, my salary is extremely good. ( I don’t worry about this at all for now)

My problem is I don’t know what to do in my life. I guess I have quarter life crisis. 

Earlier I wanted to do music and act , I took professional classes and left because I felt bored idk why. I felt like I need someone to guide me and handhold me since I know no one in this industry. 
Talking about my job I have always moved into roles I loved every bit of work and I m very sincere and hardworking. 
I stopped working out , I stopped cycling, I stopped painting.
I stopped liking everything literally. Idk how to get back at things. I feel I am gonna die anyway why I need to do this , or that or etc etc. I even took counselling but it did not seem yo help me. 

Idk what to do. Please share your experiences too and what I need to do.

Mentally not well!

Market research

I am 24F, went to Vipassana to get clarity on various aspects of life. Physically and mentally I am absolutely healthy. Assuming that the ones who are reading this are aware of what Vipassana is. 

My learning- 
1. It’s never Path A vs Path B and either if it is correct. It’s always Path A with High risk High Reward and Path B with Less risk and Less reward. 
2. The technique strengthens you to choose the Higher risk path
3. You are not required to speak always. I am more self aware and avoid speaking where it’s waste of energy. This creates less chaos in mind. 


What Changed -
1. You do get a lot clarity in your thoughts 
2. Increased focus. I do advanced asana of Yoga which requires concentration to balance. I am able to hold them longer now. 
3. My food and sleep schedule has changed entirely- I sleep between 10pm - 6am. My last meal is completed before 7pm
4. I am doing things mindfully - speaking, eating, scrolling, sleeping. I tell my myself/my mind when to stop and start. Earlier i would scroll mindlessly or sleep when my body gave up etc. 

I did feel lonely, cried sometimes felt like running out. I even talked to the Guruji about letting me go. I had seen a lot of videos before going which mentioned that you will have all these feeling, but just don’t quit. 

 Didn’t talk about technique or 10 day schedule since that is v much available over internet. If anyone in the Grapevine community is interested to know more, I am happy writing more about it. Overall please do visit the camp whenever you get a chance, actually as early as possible. 

“Bhavtu Sabba Mangalam”

My 10 day Vipassana Meditation Camp

Hey folks, just wanted to know how are you all taking care of your mental health on a daily basis and stuff that can be incorporated in your daily routine.

How to take care of mental health?

Co-founder

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Two months ago I posted this rant on Grapevine (https://share.gvine.app/CLkpBuEqcCvrzKvx6) which I think is one of the most viral posts on the platform.

Since then I took a break, learned Vipassana, went to the mountains, read, and reflected. Here are some truth bombs that have been exploding in my head

1) There is a leadership crisis

Is it me or do today's self-proclaimed leaders just suck? Look around Grapevine: insecure toxic managers forcing people back to the office, overhiring CEOs who don't know WTF to do, and founders just abandoning ship. 

"Leaders" and founders today are about as disconnected from reality as the political class, because like politicians most of them are privileged, sheltered, and already wealthy.

2) Technological innovation doesn't mean progress. 

I couldn't laugh harder when I saw the Indus Valley report basically saying that maybe all of us VCs overestimated how much money we could make funding lending and consumer apps. 

Maybe funding lending apps that "open up credit for the poor" isn't sustainable when the rate of interest is >18%?

Technological innovation doesn't always mean real-world progress. A lot of times, it just ends up perpetuating and amplifying pre-existing inequality. 

3) Endless growth toward nothing 

Most of India's startup money comes from the West. Most of that money was just printed to repeatedly get out of an economic crisis. That's it. There was no great vision to fund the future of humanity behind all this new capital. Just Central Bankers and Presidents pressing the "Create Money" button to delay the inevitable.

Most of us here owe our wealth to Easy Money. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpMLAQbSYAw

PS: A book, that completely flipped my worldview during this time is this: https://www.amazon.in/Debt-First-Years-David-Graeber/dp/0143422715. I urge all fellow foot soldiers of capitalism to read this.

Until the next rant, stay sane, safe, and debt-free!

Follow-up to the most liked Grapevine post ever

Planning to do a long yoga and meditation retreat. I see most of them are tooo expensive. Any one here who has been to one and can recommend.

Yoga and meditation retreats

Hey Grapeviners
Is there anyone on this platform who has worked as a full stack dev/architect/ backend engineer for a mobile app which caters to users ranging in few hundred thousands to millions..

I want to connect with someone to understand few things for an idea I want to purse..

Would love to have an open discussion with an enthusiast!!
Please comment here or reach out to me at codenerdai@gmail.com

Any backend engineer here who has worked on an app used by millions at scale?

Software Engineer

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Has anyone's mental health been affected due to wfh or social isolation? How do you cope up? Don't tell me exercise, I do that or surround myself with nature .
How do you cope up with overthinking subconsciously

Social isolation !

Overall spending close to 16 hours daily on mobile/laptop/TV

I have been trying to cut back my screen time. 

Thinking of not using phone/laptop for an entire day except for making and receiving calls.

If you also been working towards detoxing yourself digitally, do share what you have been doing and is that working for you? 

Definition of digital detox - A digital detox refers to a period of time when a person refrains from using tech devices such as smartphones, televisions, computers, tablets, and social media sites.

Digital detox : Do you do it? If yes how you do it?

I noticed that my distraction levels increased drastically. Thanks to so many apps, every 5 mins, I end up scrolling for 10-30mins. I feel very depressed by end of the day for not being productive and the guilt is killing me. I observed working from office is more productive for me but that’s not possible all the time. Deleting apps is not helping and on top of it, I feel I’m missing out a lot of important content that actually helps to keep me updated. I heard meditation actually helps but I’m I find it very very challenging to meditate as I easily loose focus and become impatient.

Meditation helps with focus?

Hi, I'm looking for a genuine and a very good therapist in Bangalore - Hennur, Kalyan Nagar, Hebbal and adjourning areas. 

Been feeling depressed with all the things happening around me, work, personal, social, everything (more towards the personal side). Feel like I'm just hanging by a thread right now. 

I should have gone to a therapist sooner, maybe last year, by delayed it coz of several reasons, one of them being I don't know any genuine therapists. I tried one in another city around 5 years back, but had a bad experience, that therapist was just waiting for our sessions to be over. It was all money minded business. 

So I guess I avoided finding one and going to therapy. But right now I really need to do it or else I'll just burst up in I don't know what ways!

So please, if anyone knows of a good therapist in the above mentioned areas, please please do let me know.

Good therapist in Bangalore?

Database administrator

Personally, I think the underlying factor for me has been being strict with myself. I try to work out 6x a week on a regular basis. Using my finances wisely with healthy meals. I mean, a burger from Louis Burger or a Pizza from Pizza Bakery is baller but in the long run that's a real killer. Finally, I have been trying to prioritize sleep which means don't scroll reels/social media for 30 minutes before bed if it is 1am already. 

What about you?

How do you manage your lifestyle for a healthy way of living?

https://m.economictimes.com/magazines/panache/gagan-biyani-was-fired-as-udemy-chairman-heres-how-he-converted-the-pink-slip-into-a-success-story/articleshow/98697150.cms

Amazing Lessons to learn from once fired Chairman from Billion Dollar Company Udemy

Analyst

I have been in this industry for 4 years now and there is not a single day that i hated this place any less. Today 9th August 2023 i am all alone in my room thinking to myself about what’s the point of this? 

I have no life i am all alone and tbh i have no real friends. A few of them that i do have are so far away from me busy in their life. No love life no social life. At 27 i feel wasted, done, finished let me clarify not in a suicidal way. I just feel exhausted my body is breaking down by the day i feel. I am just broken at this point and feel like quitting this profession altogether. I just don’t feel happy. The more i work the more irritated and frustrated i get.
To top all that i have no one to share my emotions with here. Call it whatever you may wanna call a cry for help, a rant or nonsense. I am at that point where every morning feels like punishment. Every night that i go to bed i try to stay positive but i am not able to. I just hate everything. 
I am not a lazy man i work for 10-12 hours everyday and i think now that has finally got to me as i feel finished.
I don’t know if anyone will read it or not i just wanted to reach out to people or anyone who feels like me. Broken tired and just done with everything.

Can anyone explain me what’s the point

Backend engineer

Can someone suggest a good therapist in Bangalore… not the online ones 
A reliable one where we can sit comfortably and talk

Therapist in Bangalore

Business analyst

I'm trying to find more awareness in the present, trying to make sure I listen well, and that I am well aware of what I'm doing, the food I eat, how well I respond to people etc.

It's obviously an ever evolving journey. 
Grapeviners who have successfully moved to better focus and mindfulness, what made you get there? What can I follow? How did it help you?

Finding Mindfulness - Does anyone have suggestions on being present? People who succeeded, how has it helped you?

So I might get some hate for this. I know this is weakness and the feedback I've gotten is toughen up. But I've never known how.
 Is there anyone else whose body and mind had accepted that they're not going to amount to anything but fought their way through it? Can you tell me your story? Or give me any book suggestions?

I shut down under pressure

Software Developer

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Anything cooking in this industry

Recruitment is a 200 yr+ old industry
- Why are only a few B2B startups in this space? (Zoho, GreytHR.. 
- Can this industry get rid of Agencies?
- What USP can help in this space?

Anyone who can help get insights?

Any Vipassana Meditators here?

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