Featured Swellcaster of the week: Mehnaz Amjad
Hello and welcome to the spiritual Journeys swellcast. Today I'm delighted to welcome Mehnaz Amjad as featured swellcast of the week. Mehnaz, as a coach, works with vulnerable professionals, helping them learn essential coping mechanisms to fight back against challenges at the workplace, and she's also founder of guideadvice.org. You can visit this website to know more about her work
My first question is, what are your thoughts on spirituality and how did your perspective evolve?
Mehnaz Amjad
@Mehnaz_Amjad · 3:49
In fact when we had our spiritual teacher, our arabic teacher rather I should say our maulvi sahib who would come over and teach us the quranic scriptures I would always look if he also holds that aura that Gautama Buddha had because he was also teaching us something related to spirituality. He taught us the language but the essence of spirituality was missing. I really found the meaning of it when there were two instances in my life where I actually get to learn about it
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Which are some of the tenets that serve as guideposts to you in everyday life?
Mehnaz Amjad
@Mehnaz_Amjad · 4:24
When I learned and started to practice this concept to my day to day life, it has played a key role not only in helping me heal, but also adding a lot of perspective to things that are beyond me and I just can't do anything about it. At the same time, getting out of the stuck mode that I was in, thinking that I was stuck in it forever, which was actually not the case. Everything changes. Every living nonliving thing comes with an expiry date
How do you imbibe your spiritual philosophies in your work life
Mehnaz Amjad
@Mehnaz_Amjad · 4:57
You. How do I imbibe my spiritual philosophy in my work life? Before that, I would like to share a little bit of a background here. So 17 years of my corporate life experience, I found lot of success, lot of money, and international travel and experience. But there was one part in my soul which always felt the void and was never happy. You couldn't have find anyone more disengaged as I was, despite the success
Do you think the world is now moving towards a far more inclusive spiritual outlook? Do
Mehnaz Amjad
@Mehnaz_Amjad · 4:45
You do? I think the world is moving towards a far more inclusive spiritual outlook. Well, I think when you say the world, I think. No, I think the world itself is divided. After the pandemic, we all have changed, everyone. The present war in Ukraine, the Gaza war, the genocide that's going on. I think with these events, which is just after the pandemic, life and our mindsets have changed