New Delhi, Dec. 31 -- The human experience is profoundly driven by the core desires to find meaningful self-expression, zest for life, and inner peace. However, some of our fixed habits and attitudes act as serious impediments in attaining the goal. Unless we stop or drop them, they can mar our authenticity, sap our energy, and snatch peace of mind. These self-debilitating attitudes are: Attachment, Blame-game, and Comparisons, ABC, so to say.

Be it relationship, money, or material things, our selfish attachment with them belittles us. By limiting the circle of 'us', we shrink our hearts. The self-centeredness emanating from obsession with private possessions prohibits us to think with open-heartedness and positivity, thus incapacitating...