Veena Mishra is a software engineer and is currently working with Ernst & Young. Apart from technology, she is also passionate about  writing and loves to pen down her thoughts and ruminations. 

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Veena Mishra

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    ><span style="color: #88b45f">VEENA MISHRA</span>
    shares her experience of learning to listen to the voice of the heart
    through a meditation practice. She describes meditation as the way she
    learned to allow the heart to speak out – “that magical tool we are all
    unknowingly looking for.”</strong
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<p>
  Everything has a tendency to age and decay with time. The outer glamor of this
  so-called “perfect world” continues to fade slowly but steadily with each
  passing day. What we often do not realize is that, amid all this pomp and
  show, our tiny hearts are trying to speak to us. The noise around us is so
  clamorous, however, that the heart’s voice is drowned even before it can
  surface.
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  Our heart is the most beautiful creation. This inner heart of ours is not
  subject to any kind of disintegration. What it needs is nourishment. If the
  heart is properly nourished and taken care of, then over time, as the body
  shrivels, the heart continues to shine, radiate love and, most importantly,
  guide us through life.
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  How do we nourish our hearts? I think that meditation is a very simple yet
  effective way of achieving this. Meditation is that magical tool we are all
  unknowingly looking for. It enables us to lend our ear to the voice within
  that is trying to speak to us. As we meditate, the outer cacophony begins to
  die out and that voice becomes prominent.
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    >Meditation is that magical tool <br />we are all unknowingly looking for.
    <br />It enables us to lend our ear to the voice within <br />that is trying
    to speak to us. <br />As we meditate, the outer cacophony begins to die out
    <br />and that voice becomes prominent.
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<p>
  We often wonder how to discriminate between the voice of the heart and the
  so-called voice of the mind. When I began meditation, I started to realize
  that there is only one voice, and it is that of the heart. When caught up in
  any kind of situation, this voice is always trying to tell me the right thing
  to do. Whether I am able to listen to it or not depends on how much I have
  been able to detune myself from the other unwanted noises, which are a
  culmination of desires and ego. Meditation helps to refine these and lessen
  their impact on my thinking, enabling me to know my heart’s wish.
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<p>Whether we listen to it or not depends on us.</p>

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