It is such a blatant truth that most of us don’t even know our own
strengths and our weaknesses. In some cases even if we know our
weakness we don’t wish to eliminate it from our system due to our
reactionary attitude against any change. Our perception about
ourselves is so myopic that we don’t ever bother to dig deep enough
in to our sub-conscience which is the core of our true creation. Our
mind actually works on some set ideologies and we fail miserably to
improvise and evolve ourselves out of them. Human mind possesses
enormous potentials and it continues to be an enigmatic concept to
those who don’t attempt adequately to understand it from various
such factors that influence it. Some such significantly influencing
factors like,
·
The Genetic
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Family environment
·
Good and the bad experiences of life
·
Educational background
·
Friends circle
·
Socio-economic status
·
Efficient and inefficient Mentors
·
I.Q AND THE E.Q balance
·
Conscience
·
Self-control or the endurance power
·
Determining and discerning abilities
·
Capacity to construct a golden future for oneself
·
Willingness to indulge in self-development.
It is believed that
the kind of food we eat impacts our behavior. One can not expect an
alcoholic’s mouth to smell good or a chain smoker’s breath to smell
of freshness. Our daily routine ablutions and the food and the sleep
habits should have a rhythmic balance.
To ensure this
rhythm in our life-style we need to recall the significance of the
three sutras of life.
·
THE ENERGY OR THE STRENGTH: We should be aware
of our Physical, mental and spiritual powers. We should know how to
put these strengths to good use.
·
AWARENESS (take cognizance of): Our senses
should always be alert. Our concentration should be 100% so that we
are alert and aware of our immediate surroundings and the events
happening around us.
·
BALANCE-: We should be fully conscious of the
activities we take up. What ever we are doing we should be fully
aware and conscious of the action as to in what proportion we are
doing, where and how we are doing it. One can not be in a distracted
state of mind. We should not under play or over play what ever role
or action we are performing. Nothing should be done in excess. It
should not fall below the limits either. Every act should be
performed in right proportion, just like the right amount of salt
adding taste to our food, if it is excess it is not edible and if
too less then the food turns insipid.
Nature, besides
endowing us with physical, mental and emotional strengths she has
also bestowed us with immense spiritual strengths. Some have more of
the some of these strengths and some others have less of the some of
these strengths. The question arises as to when, how and how much of
these embedded powers we allow to surface and whether these are put
to adequate use. Let us attempt to explore the mental, emotional and
the psychic powers within us to realize its potentials.
We are endowed with
infinite psychic energy. We don’t seem to know how to put our own
mental energy to good use. We actually use only 1/10th of our entire
psychic power. We often tend to blame it on our existing
circumstances or we transfer the blame on to others for our
failures. The important truth is that like the huge universe, we
contain within us a huge world of infinite powers. We need to
understand its importance if we need to taste complete success.
Merely desiring success won’t be sufficient; we need to put in right
efforts in right proportion. To achieve something we need at first
to set a goal for ourselves, and then make ceaseless efforts with a
sincere attitude. Whatever vocation is close to one’s heart, one
should take up so that one enjoys doing what ever one does. Only
then can anyone accomplish a task with complete sense of
satisfaction.
Now let us try and
concentrate on our mind factor and the psychic energy. Mind at times
does not take cognizance of the truth. It possesses the immense
power of the sun. This mind again has two phases.
1.
1 The conscience
2. The
sub conscience.
A conscious mind works only at the awakened state. Whereas the
subconscious mind works even when one is asleep. It is this
subconscious mind that helps us to experience material fulfillment,
prosperity and goal achievements.
The Conscious
mind
The conscious mind
is guided by our intellect and our sense organs. This functions from
the left side of the brain. This gets expressed in the following
forms of the qualities of the mind’s act.
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Our thoughts
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Our sensations
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Our choices or preferences
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Our desires
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Our decision making prowess
·
Our I.Q ( intelligent quotient)
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Our logical abilities
The Sub-conscious mind
Sub-conscious mind organizes our creative abilities. It possesses
infinite potentials. Its vistas are unlimited! This exists on the
right side of the brain. This form of the conscience does not
recognize logical concepts and it does not entertain humor. The
sub-conscious mind in fact directly impacts the following areas of
our life.
·
Voice of the inner conscience
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Telepathy
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To know the place, date and time through contemplative
powers
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To possess a reservoir of memory and treasure house of
knowledge
·
A disciplined poised self
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Forbearance
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To have a desired form of death
·
Spiritual and creative powers
·
Self control, tolerance and Wisdom
·
To possess control over the circumstances
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Ability to find solution to the conflicting issues
·
To organize and make successful plans for a future
Our emotional quotient (E.Q) consists of two aspects.
POSITIVE ASPECT NEGATIVE
ASPECT
Unconditional love
Hatred or Despise
Pleasant
attitude
Fear and Doubt
Wholesome happiness
Jealous
Faith or
Trust
Selfishness
Charitable or large heartedness
Stinginess or thriftines
Meeting co-incidences
Sadistic pleasure
Compassion, Forgiving
Avenging attitude
Gratitude
Greed
Have a detached demeanor
Always obsessed with one’s own rewards
It is absolutely
necessary to understand as to how we can expand the potentials of
our sub conscience. For this we need to abstain from the stifling
negative aspects of our energy and embrace only the positive aspects
mentioned above. Read books on wisdom and writings of enlightened
people, Keep Company with people with positive qualities, learn to
practice positive criticism by observing and praising generously
people’s positive potentials, we should try and imbibe the best of
their qualities. We can actually condition and program our
sub-conscience to inculcate this positive power, if we pay attention
to the following concepts.
1)
Primarily one should have set a goal for one- self, for this,
one should have the determination power and a strong desire to
attain one’s goal.
2)
Have firm intentions and develop a faith in oneself.
3)
Load your mind with brimming positive thoughts. Never be
gullible to other’s misguidance and succumb to such sapping negative
influences.
4)
To develop the capacity to be discerning and if need arises
one can re-consider the objectives set for oneself while retaining
the power to take the final stand for oneself.
5)
Devote some time daily to do yoga and in deep contemplation,
see a mental picture of the achievements one wants to attain, thus
visualizing the kind of success one wants.
6)
While keeping your eyes shut you command the sub conscience
to carry out the functions you assign it can actually carry out the
command for you.
7)
Never to accept failure or defeat but keep making efforts
undauntedly without giving up.
8)
Have enormous patience to wait for the ultimate success.
9)
Concentration, prayers, silence, contemplation, dedicated
efforts, yoga and self-control, a tranquil mind, presence and
practice of all these factors contribute in enabling the ‘success
factor’ to catch on people very quickly.
One has to have
objectives and goals set for living a life of purpose, or else life
turns out to be like a sailing ship without an anchoring destination
on a shore less uncertain voyage. Only then we can stand out from
the mundane and the ordinary man’s life. We can establish our own
identity make it possible “to set our footprints on the sands of
time” You get to live this life only once, so we really need to make
efforts to overcome all the impediments and transcend the
limitations posed by the material world without wasting any time.
Success once obtained, it is important to be able to sustain it.
Self respect like the money is earned. What ever is earned is to be
spent in a worthwhile manner. Fame and money along with respect are
the adorning factors of this life. While in pursuit of the
realization of one’s objectives it has to be borne in mind that all
our intentions are creative forces directed from the sub-conscience
towards a motive that embraces the benefits to humanity as a whole.
Every individual’s contemplated dreams towards a set goal are the
ultimate aim meted out to expand the vistas and dimensions of the
exploration of the universal truth. So let each one of us enjoy
exploring the realms of our deeper powers which are latently hidden
in the core of our subconscious mind. In the words of a less known
poet,
Always Remember
:
If you can’t be a
pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub
in the valley—but be
The best little
scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush,
if you can’t be a tree.
If you can’t be a
bush, be a bit of the grass,
And some
highway happier make;
If you can’t be a
Muskie, then just be a bass—
But the
liveliest bass in the lake!
We can’t all be
captains; we’ve got to be crew,
There’s
something for all of us here.
There’s big work to
do and there’s lesser to do
And the task
we must do is the near.
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