Now, you are here browsing and reading this
blog post. Let us play a simple game. Let us rewind freely and recollect your
activities that you have been doing for the past 5 minutes. What activities
have been doing & how the mind has influenced you? In other words, were you
fully involved on that given moment of a particular activity or were you under
the influence of mind with certain random thinking? According to neuroscientists
if one involves in an activity which is boring, not that interesting or casual
then the brain switches to a mode called ‘Default Network’. Or simply ‘mind
wandering ‘in simple words.
Most of the time in a day, we are under the
constant influence of our own mind. Yes, you are right! In some way, we become the
prisoner of our own mind. This is quite natural & normal. That is the good part.
But, the bad part of this is that we don’t live in the present moment HERE &
NOW. We either live in past or future (so called the fantasy world) if we are
influenced by our own mind. Unfortunately, both past and future are not real.
Life manifests moment to moment in the
PRESENT here & now. If you stay in the field of awareness and not under the
influence of mind then one can stay in the Present moment, experiencing the
liveliness of life.
So, here is the question: where are you
NOW? Are you under the influence of your mind or the influence of your awareness?
If mind strength is strong, then the mind comes and grabs your awareness. If
awareness strength is strong, then the awareness silences your mind. So keep
your awareness stronger than the strength of your mind to experience the beauty
of life.
How we may do this? Answer to this question
is to practice any kind of mind body exercises as Yoga, Tai chi &
meditation. One may witnesses a beautiful game that is happening in his
internal world as he is engaged in any of the above practices. Throughout the practice,
the winner of the game may be sometime mind, sometime awareness or sometime just
mind/awareness alone.
All the successful people like Richard Gere,
David Lynch, Russell Simmons, Bill Ford, CEO of Ford, Larry Brilliant, Former
Director of Google, Sachin Tendulkar & Priyanka Gandhi do the above
practices as daily rituals to stay on top of their life.
Regular practice yields two significant and
prominent developments. It is the development of Attention faculty of the Brain
and another is the reconditioning of the mind to stay in a positive state.
These developments have influence in every dimension’s of our life, whether it
is our career, productivity, relationship, personal life, etc.
It is alright to be under the influence of mind
if the mind reminds to think, feel, and act in a positive way. This is a mental
training process as visualization techniques, when practiced regularly provides a reconditioned positive
state of mind.
So, Stay POSITIVE & increase the
strength of your AWARENESS to feel the liveliness of life and living every day
to your highest potentials.
2 comments:
Thanks for this blog, it is very informative! It made me wonder though ... awareness does not happen by itself. It is infact our mind that instills awareness. So the battle isn't really between the mind and the awareness; it is rather between the random thoughts and mindfulness.
Great comment Ritu. Yes, as you said that we have decided to become aware and hence we slipped into awareness mode. But, the beauty is that once you are in the awareness field ,it gets the greater power to become aware of the mind itself. In fact , one can become aware of his awareness itself which is called consciousness.Awareness is an infinite field where one can equate awareness to SPACE whereas mind is just a CONTENT happening in that space.
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