Power within – 12 Strategies – Part 11 Emotional Strategy: EXTERNAL REALITY

CHANGE YOUR CONDITIONED MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE”

Our life experience is limited to the extent of how well our internal world is programmed. If one starts to experience this truth, it is not only inspirational but very liberating too. Personally, this is my experience of life. Such an experiential knowledge changes the way how one perceives the life. There was a shift that happened within me during the process of my personal transformation. Today, after eight years, if I look at the kind of people whom I deal on day today basis in my current life with the set of people whom I moved with eight years before, they are totally two different set of tribes. This alone is a proof of how our internal programming determining the external reality.

Intellectual base:

 Let me try to convince your rational brain to buy this idea. Consider a scenario of two friends taking a walk to the park in the neighbourhood. The experience of walk in the park is not the same for both of them even though the place & time of the visit are preciously the same. The experience of one person is completely different than the experience of another person.

The above example demonstrates the different lenses that every one of us carries. Yes, we use filters while perceiving the events. This filter makes our experience different than the experiences of others.

Filter:

 If your filter is good then you experience a wonderful life. If you experience hardship of the life then it is time to change this filter. What is this filter? Our past experiences of life are a set of collective database stored as our faith & belief structure. Our conditioned mind operates from this database which preciously acts as a filter. We say the mind is conditioned because it can’t act beyond the limits of this database.

In other words, my life experience is simply a construct of my conditioned mind. In fact, this is our internal programming.

Mind-Body Practice:

 So, changing your life experience is as simple as changing the way your conditioned mind works. This requires bit of regular mind-body practice. This practice makes you to become aware of the conditioned mind and hence get an opportunity to manage the conditioned mind.

Experiential knowledge: 

Above, I have given an intellectual base to convince your thinking brain. So, you now know the value of such a belief. But, “knowing” is different than “owning”. If you want to own this then you need to integrate this belief experientially through mind-body practice or some other practical means.

Once when you experience this faith then you know that you are the architect of your reality. This faith is an immense power. The way how you perceive your life is no longer the same. You live like you never lived like this before!!

Summary: External Reality is the mirror image of our internal state. Our life experience is limited to the extent of how well our internal world is programmed. (Or) My life experience is simply a construct of my conditioned mind.

Live Large -Success Characteristic

Success:

Opportunity is presented to all of us equally. In fact, the opportunity is infinite. But, success comes only to the handful of people. These people have mastered to abode their awareness in the gradient zone and explore the things regularly in their area of interest irrespective of the results. These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands. Can you see the characteristics for the success here?

These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands.

Live Large -SUCCESS CHRACTERISTIC

Success: 

Opportunity is presented to all of us equally. In fact, the opportunities are infinite. But, success comes only to the handful of people. These people have mastered to abode their awareness in the gradient zone and explore the things regularly in their area of interest irrespective of the results. These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands. Do you see the characteristics for the success here?

These people, when the opportunity presents they have the upper hand over the ordinary because they get the ability to cross the tough boundary that the opportunity demands.

Live Large - RIGHT ALIGNMENT

What is the force within us that generates the powerful result in the physical world? This is the force of alignment.

Let us dissect the result pattern. A person has an idea in his mind (mental energy) .He is emotionally connected with the idea & he feels good whenever he thinks or executes the idea (emotional energy). He is thoroughly & deeply connected with the idea (spiritual energy). When all these energies are real & aligned together, he becomes unstoppable & fires resembling the sun rays converged through the lens to generate fire at a single focussed point.

A simultaneous, perfect alignment and convergence of these three internal energies generate the external result.

The result becomes futile when all of those energies are not in equal proportions. 

Success of the Yoga Practices: DECODE

Each practitioner should get the maximum benefits of the practices such Asanas (static Postures) and Suryanamaskar (flow exercises) that involve the physical movement of the body. In this blog, let me decode with an example of the above practices .You will get good benefits if you know how to decode clearly a posture or flow. So, let us start the decoding now!!

Basics: I am sure most of you are aware of the breathing sequences, how to synchronise the body movement with respect to breathing, where to keep your awareness or your focus as you progress through the practices. It was covered separately in my earlier blog ( ref). In case, if you are not aware of the basics then I suggest to get familiarised with it before attempting to decode the postures.

Example 1: Let us take an example of prayer posture. One of the reasons for doing this posture is to elongate the spine. As known to you, spine is the main communication channel for the entire CNS (Central Nervous System). In yoga, the sushumna nadi , the main energy channel moves along the spine. So, this posture plays a crucial role in clearing the main energy channel and thereby increasing the energy level.

With the above points defined, we now know how to decode the posture. So, the intention is to stretch the spine. The condition is satisfied if one pays attention to points 2,3 & 4, that is to keep the butt closer to the heal, not dragging the palms towards the head & finally to keep the forehead closer to the floor.

A beginner may not able to satisfy all the above conditions at the initial stage. But, all he needs to do at the initial stage is to just become aware of the intention and the decoding points. Over period of time, you see the wonder of how your body gets transformed to a whole new level.

Progression Period: With the awareness on the decoding points, everyday one sees how the progression that is happening Say for example, the forehead may be few inches off the floor. One may mindfully get the head towards the floor without causing any major comfort. It is good to attempt for the progression ONLY during the exhale duration when the body stays at the relaxed phase.

Common mistakes: Many of the beginners try to keep a different intention of bringing the forehead to the floor. In that process, they drag their palms towards the head & raise the butt up the heels. By doing so, the spine no longer stays parallel to ground but inclines at an angle to ground. In this case, the main purpose of stretching of the spine is defeated.

I captured & decoded for many such practices including Asanas & flow exercises based on my experiences. I released the video to most of my clients too.

My Story - On the International Yoga day

In this blog , I would like to share my personal story and the powerful influence of yoga in my life.

My Short Story - My driving force - Where I come from….

I belong to a very humble family from a remote town of Tamil Nadu. As per my parent wishes, in the mid 80’s; I joined a reputed engineering college from which many popular personalities such as the former president Abdul Kalam had graduated. I built up my wonderful engineering career in Tatas in the late 80’s and moved on to Singapore, Belgium & Britain to expand my exposure in the engineering field. I roamed around the world covering half the countries in the world map for about 2 decades. Finally, I returned back to India in search of my lost identity in the year 03 & helped MNCs to set up businesses in the famous IT hubs of Bangalore. As a person in the industry, I was very aggressive, a ‘go-getter’ & a very rational minded fellow, ready to jump in and risk myself to generate revenue for the business. 

As a byproduct of the above development, I had a handsome pay cheque which was multifold by industry standards in comparison to that of similar people in the same profession. I had a hefty bank balance, complete financial freedom, cars, great villas in Bangalore and other places & other perks like club memberships etc, offered in the society because of my corporate title. Another byproduct was on my Health condition which initially appeared to me as a nasty setback but after few years, I realized that it was nothing but a blessing in disguise. My bad health darkened my world by 87%. Yes, you guessed it correctly. I started developing a bad hazy poor eye sight because of the malfunctioning of my human internal engineering system. This happened to me to setup a beautiful platform to experience the ‘liveliness’ of life.

My regular routine of meeting the same kind of people, thinking the same kind of thoughts, and doing the same kind of stuff had conditioned my mind in a way that created the environment which was always a WIN in the business. But, it was a terrible LOSS to my health. Family, friends, society & parents have created a ‘default’ path because of their conditioning and we all believe that the secret to become successful is to follow the path that has already been set: Going to a good college, getting a great GPAs, becoming an employee of some great company, building your own mansion, raising your kids with all kinds of facilities & living happily ever after. So, due to this conditioning, I started following the same path and landed in a conflicting ‘nowhere zone’ .In spite of this development, I set the same path for my kids, raised my daughters, put them in great schools, expected great grades from them, let them get employed & married to someone who is most probably again a product of this ‘default’ path as well. This model of living has been passed on from generation to generation and thus, has been imposed on us, Now, the question is – “Has this given us the kind of happiness which we are really looking for?”

In my opinion, the answer is a definite NO, at least based on my experience. This is because; this is an externally forced goal which has been set on me and which honestly led me nowhere. Now, I have realized that this is a conditioned state that has been imposed on us by the society. Otherwise, almost all of us who follow this conventional model would have by default lived happily every day.

As the platform established firmly for me, I started changing my priorities in my life and had set a STRONG DESIRE to become Healthy. I started looking around and used every resource available at that time to get the right solution. I spent a lot of time researching on the human body, its physiology & psychology aspects and I continued to dig deeper into these areas; only one thing had become very clear to me. “ This human system is DAMN complicated . “So, my inner energy guided me to follow the holistic approach and that was the reason, I picked up this 5000 years old ancient wisdom called Yoga. Initially, when someone explained about chakras, it was like an alien language & didn’t make any sense to me. As I explored further, I realized that these chakras are located exactly where the endocrine glands are present. As known to you, these glands control the entire hormonal system. Medical science evolved just a few hundred years ago but yogic science had identified this concept thousands of years ago. This had really BLOWN AWAY my mind and set the rhythm to go deeper into this science. As I explored & practiced further, the interaction of the body & the mind, the play of emotions & feelings became crystal clear to me. As I continued further the practices, tremendous changes happened within me. 

“DESIRE should be really STRONG for a change to happen. Again, I repeat the word STRONG”

“Pick the goodness of whatever offered from outside but go by the internal force which originates from you. Things WORK GREAT.” 

Within a period of few months, my excessive weight (close to 30Kg) radiated out into the space & I had become lighter. My inner world changed dramatically leading to the magnificent changes in my perception of the external world. It was like a BIG LEAP JUMP & all of a sudden, I was in a state of expansiveness and thrown to live in a completely different world. People around me, my neighbours & friends started to see difference in my external appearance. Some general questions from them were,” How have you changed?”  What is the secret?  How have you become younger?  How did you change your grey hair to black? , Some said, “You are a damn lucky person”. But, what they failed to notice were my invisible INTERNAL CHANGES. Day by day, I started experiencing tremendous happiness, my immunity system boosted up multifold and words like ‘doctor’ & ‘disease’ lost its meaning in me. I started experiencing multifold increase in my wealth and health & many different people from different walks of life (from taxi driver to CFO, MDs of the companies) started coming to me. As I started to see a very different world around me because of the goodness which people brought to me & hence, I started to experience MERE BLISS.  

Again back to the topic of ‘conditioned Model ‘ , as I live now, I can say that at least from my experience, it is not an ideal model ,as happiness is not at the end of the journey as depicted but is in the experience of the journey itself. The actual goal of human being is experiencing each and every moment of life, understanding the value of each brand new day as it unfolds & living to his highest potential by understanding and experiencing the true meaning & purpose of life. My goals have been sharply redefined after my transformation & all of a sudden life’s mission has become crystal clear in HIGH DEFINITION to me. For the first time in life, I felt a razor sharp focus that has generated every day, avalanche of goodness not only in my life but in the life’s of people around me. I have now realized that happiness is an innate state of my being itself and is etched clearly in my DNA.   

“Changes in my internal world and my mindset have changed my body, health & so my external reality.” 

“Whatever changes we try to do to the body, on the long run body always WIN& get back to equilibrium. So, just align to this higher intelligence which governs the body.”

My journey still continues. I don’t know how the destination is going to be at the end and I don’t really care about that but all I know now for sure is that the journey is beautiful. Please visit http://www.gigayoga.com/aboutus.html to read my transformations at Physical, mental & emotional Levels.  

My core values & belief systems have changed dramatically because of the above transformation. Let me summarise here my learning, values & my faith in few lines.

1. STRONG desire is important for a CHANGE. 2. Use the goodness of whatever offered from outside but go by the internal force which originates from me. Things WORK GREAT. Let the external flow or the force of the society not influence me. 3. Changes in my internal world and my mindset have changed my body, health & so my external reality. 4. Human system, especially the internal stuff is damn complicated. It is a life long journey to explore this human machine & is very fascinating. 5. Whatever we do, on the long run the winner is higher intelligence. So, just align to this higher intelligence. 6. Happiness is our true nature of our ‘self’ but we were taught to look for the favorable result on every outcome of our actions to become happy. When the expected outcome is not conducive, we become sad. The locus of happiness is internal. 7. Life is so short. We live only 29,000 days of our life out of billion years of human evolution. So, I live everyday to my best so that I move one step closer to my clear well focused goal, making my existence meaningful & purposeful. 8. If I do the same stuff, same work, deal with same people, think the same type of thoughts then I get the SAME RESULT. My thought process has evolved for good, I am now engaged in work which I always have loved to do & I am meeting wide varieties of people from different backgrounds. This is really a GOOD STUFF. 

“My thought process has evolved for good. I am now engaged in work which I have always loved to do & I am meeting wide varieties of people. This is really a GOOD STUFF.” 

As I complete this write-up with thanks to both my daughters for correcting my erratic English, I wish to express a BIG thanks to the saints who had taken Yoga to the western world in the early 19th century. Yoga has reached the length & breath of the world just because of the extraordinary marketing capability of the western world especially America. Because of them, Yoga had reached my ignorant mind at that time when I was badly in need of a solution otherwise yoga would have lived in India as a hidden treasure known only to a handful of people. I am pretty sure that in India the land of wisdom, has many more such hidden treasures which are beyond the reach of the common man. Big question: Where are the marketing teams for the other hidden treasures to get exposed? But, all I can say for sure now is that I am damn lucky that my soul has taken a root in this present birth in the land of great ancient wisdoms. 

So, join in and take the incredible path to this great journey &I can say that this is really GREAT STUFF. JUST GO FOR IT to create a more meaningful, Healthier& happier life. I AM WITH YOU ON THIS JOURNEY.  

The secrets of Yoga – My experience

I strongly believe that Mind-Body exercise such as yoga has profound effect in alerting our own programming at the deepest cellular level. This core programming changes the way we experience our life. It changes our own reality. It changes the way how we assign meaning to our experiences.

A year before, someone asked me a question, “What is that one major benefit that you got from the practice of Yoga?” My answer was that Yoga practices programmed me to become Self Aware which gave a clear understanding of my strengths and weaknesses”. Let me try to explain my above answer further in detail.

The Zones:

Comfort Zone: Most of us we live in a comfort zone where things are known and familiar to us. The brain is designed for us to live in this zone. It is a very well protected zone and the sole function of the brain is also to protect us. Our activities are routine by nature in this zone and hence we don’t experience varieties. Most of us knowingly/unknowingly live in this zone where daily life is a routine. So, this is a state of settlement or even I can call it a state of inertness, a no-growth zone.

Discomfort Zones: Areas in life which are not familiar to us. These areas give diversities. Change is the basic fabric of life and hence our growth zone or even I can call it a state of alertness. Since, things are unknown to us; we tend to develop fears, worries and self-doubts when we explore ourselves here.

Threshold region: This region is a gap between the comfort zone and discomfort zone. This is the area in which one sees where the level of comfort diminishes and level of discomfort ramps up. This is the meeting area of our strengths and weaknesses. My experience is that with the practice of yoga, this area gets zoomed up to a new higher dimension. I can call this area as awareness zone. The secret of yoga practice is that it gives a vivid experience and high awareness level of my own strengths & weaknesses in this region.

The correction: The way I approach my life, I noticed a definite correction that transpired.  Earlier, When I was given a new task (D) , I approached that unknown task straightaway from (A) without knowing preciously my resource capabilities and resource requirements to get the task D. Most of the times, the end results were counterproductive. Either, I suffocated myself with the new task or failed to achieve the task.

With Practice of yoga, something happened at the deeper level which gave the vividness of B & D. With these in place, the corrected approach to the new task has become A->B->C->D.  The new approach has provided me the ability to see distinctively my end of comfort level as well as the start of the discomfort level. Remember, this is not an approach at my conscious level but at my subconscious level. Yes, it is on autopilot mode and it has become part of my habit. I feel that it is a great way to lead a life because growth by definition has become our habit. Life is all about change & we seek for change and the change is in the direction our growth. That is the power of yoga in aiding us to move towards our growth path.

Over a period of time, with clear focus on the awareness zone, the dimension of the comfort zone will increase. In other words, what was uncomfortable at one point of time has become now comfortable.

In my personal experience, yoga has the ability to program at the deeper subconscious level simply enhancing the threshold region which sets the life in a strong growth path.

The 3D’s for a Healthy Life: An Effective formula

If you look for your long lasting perfect healthy life then it is important to keep some fundamental strategy clean. In general, due to the intensity of our health issue, we may tend to deal health issue with speed and vigour by using the available known solutions. If our mind is preoccupied constantly in resolving the problem then there is a possibility for us to become unknowingly part of the problem itself. This is a typical scenario where instead of solving the problem from outside, we get into the problem and eventually we become part of the problem itself. So, it is important to stay on top of the problem so that one can get a clear picture and see the problem in its totality.

To stay on top of the problem and see the problem in its completeness, we need to have some top level strategies. “3D’s for a Healthy life” is one such top level strategy .This strategy works not only in having my ideal health & fitness but also helps achieving in other areas of my life too. The 3D stands for Discrimination, Determination & Discipline.

Discrimination: The power of discrimination is also called as Viveka, the discrimination between the right and wrong or good and bad. It is your choices based on your own faith & belief. Say for example, you want to achieve your perfect fitness level. You will be given tens/hundreds of options such as Gym, Yoga, Zumba, Aerobics, running etc. Out of all these options, you tend to make certain choices and those choices usually come from your own belief structure. Things are fine when the choices yield the desired results. When you don’t get the desired result then it is high time to probe into your own belief structure. Remember that our beliefs are nothing but preconceived ideas engraved deep in our subconscious mind.  Ideally speaking, our beliefs should be in alignment with certain principles governed by the universe or specifically, the laws of nature.

Determination ( Vyragaya) : Once you made the choices then you need the right determination to stay with the choices. Remember that your determination is your commitment level and not your interest level. Are you interested in executing your choices or determined in executing your choices? Interest will not take you anywhere in life. It weakens the execution of your choices whereas determination gives you the clear direction for your result.  Interest level is always polluted with your stories and excuses which take you away from the path of success. For a determined person, there are no rooms for stories and excuses. Remember stories and excuses are our old habits which try to keep us in a comfort zone.

Discipline: Discipline is the frequency and the regularity in executing your right choices. Because of the dominance of our old habitual pattern, we tend to give some stories and excuses and shy away from our commitment level. This is a psychological internal game that happens literally to all of us. We have to come away from this operating mode deliberately. Your new choices build new habits within you. These are all winning habits embedded with the success patterns. New habits are hard to make at the earlier developmental level. Discipline plays a key role in developing the new habit. Any actions when repeated many times on regular cyclic basis become our new habits. So, discipline aids in the development of new desired habits.

One can use this strategy not only for achieving the ideal health but equally one can apply to all other dimensions of the life such wealth , relationship , career etc.

“Sure Win “New Year Resolution -Part2

This blog is in continuation of my earlier blog on “sure win “New Year resolution .If you are contemplating on a “sure win” health & fitness goals, here are few more points that you should be aware of to achieve the goals.

Important bridge: Many of us SET the goals but only few of us ACHIEVE the goals. A goal stays as a dream for ever when it is set but when it is not achieved. The distance between setting goal and achieving goal is miles apart. Your ACTIONS based on the set goal act as a bridge between setting a goal and achieving a goal. When the actions are not taken, the set goal started as a dream, continues as a dream and ends as a dream. The desired results of the goal come in reality only when the appropriate actions are taken in time.

Important Mechanisms: Your action or inaction is based on your thoughts from your mind. Mind has two important characteristics that need to be used for achieving the goals.

1.       Mind operates like an auto servo goal machine. Mind revolves around your ideas and your interests. If don’t have a real vested interest on the set goals then most likely the mind will be focussed on something else and hence your actions that follows will have a different focal point. So, it important for you to have a GENUINE interest on the set goals. The best way to develop interest is to have a kind of vision board in your visibility. Vision board portrays the pictures in advance the desired end results of your goals.

2.       Mind what it focuses on that gets expanded. This is the power of focus. Say for example, if you focus on losing the weight and as the mind starts to think in that direction, the world related to losing weight expands. This could be in the form of meeting the relevant people who help in solving your problem, seeing the fitness equipment’s, spotting fitness related articles in the newspaper etc. So, focus on the goal for it to open up a new world to you.

Secret formula: Here is the secret formula for you to stay on track in achieving the goal. I have learned and experienced this technique personally myself. The biggest drive for us to take ACTION is the motivation. Motivation comes by the REWARD of your action. It is important to activate the reward center of your brain to stay on track in achieving the goals. The best strategy is to split a goal into micro goals that are CERTAINLY achievable based on your current available resources. The small rewards of these micro goals compound together in hardwiring your brain to achieve the bigger goal. So, make it a point to keep a journal in writing at least five small progresses that happened in a day by your actions for the micro goals to generate a compounding effect in achieving a bigger goal.

So develop the habit of not only setting the goals but also achieving the goals.

SECRETS to RETAIN & MUTIPLY your Perfect WELLNESS state

Setting a Health & Fitness goal and achieving our desired goal is one part of the story. But, to retain the health in the same good state is another part of the story. On many real life cases, those who achieved the good health and fitness level fall back again to that imperfect health state from where they originally started from. Weight management is one such case where many of us use certain methods to achieve the perfect fitness level but in a matter of a year fairly a substantial set of those achievers fall back to the undesired fitness level again. This not only demotivates us but has a nasty effect on our emotional wellbeing. But, on a positive note, there are some who not only set& achieve health goal but also have the ability to maintain the desired state. This is really GOOD. To add to this, there are some who not only maintain but they move on to reach the ultimate of their health & fitness level. This is really AWESOME. Want to know the SECRET of these AWESOME club members?

Constant flow:  Perfect health fitness level is a high energy state. The energy in this state is awe-inspiring. It has great influence in all other dimensions of our life such as wealth, money, relationship & spiritual growth. The first set of rule is to allow the energy to flow from you to others.  Let this good energy gets in through you and flows out of you seamlessly. All we need to do is to act as a MEDIUM for this energy to flow immaculately without any blockade.

It multiplies: As we stay in the constant flow mode, we act as a water spring. As one takes more of the water from the spring, the spring generates more of the fresh water. All we need to do is to give the wisdom to as many people as possible for our goodness to multiply.

Go Giver: We work on ME-MINE-OTHERS dimensions. Initially, we act as a GO GETTER to acquire the desired wisdom in the ME & MINE dimensions. “ME” is the dimension where we upgrade our skills & “MINE” is the dimension, we upgrade our environment where we spent our energy. Once when we cross this stage, it is important to act as a GO GIVER in passing on the acquired wisdoms to OTHERS. This completes the cycle. So, we have to be a GO GETTER as well as a GO GIVER.

Higher Penetration Level: We have to make it as our duty to talk about this wisdom the people to whom we meet and feel about the goodness & be gratified. The magical world opens up beautifully for us to stay there for ever. The penetration level is really deep with the simple act of the above said duty.

Energy Booster: We have our own great moments and sometimes even dull moments. In our dull moments, surprisingly with no logical explanation, the right source of positive energy from the external world hits us to take us back in the right track. This external energy is nothing but the positive energy that we threw out to the external world in our past. It is now coming back to us to put us back in the desired state.

Become a Transceiver: A transceiver is a transmitter and a receiver. Let us simply stay as a transmitter in passing on the wisdom to others and that is our duty. And, stay as a receiver when we need the energy from the external world to uplift us in our dull moments of our life. A beautiful human wellness network is formed when each one of us follow this simple pattern. So, here is my request for all my old clients who have achieved their perfect Health & Fitness level. Become a transmitter of the goodness that you acquired to at least TEN people to create a RIPPLE effect and form this powerful Human wellness NETWORK. This simple act of you not only retains your wisdom but it MULTIPLIES your wellness.

Distance between the intention and the success

We all need success in the field in which we spent our energy as we venture in life. But, the success appears to be far away and does not come to us as easily as we wish to have. There appears to be a planetary distance between our intention and success. This blog covers my perception and personal experience of how to convert intention to a sure success and generate the results that we desire.

The bridge: The gap between our intention and success is filled with our own actions. Any wishful intention without proper actions does not take us to the end result and hence we don’t experience success. One can equate to his own life experiences to validate the above statement. When proper actions are taken then the gap between intention and success narrows down. In most of the cases, the unsuccessful result is related mainly due to the lack of actions. The lack of actions is caused by the various distractions that defocus our final goal. So, it is important that our mind and energy should be completely focused on the actions.

Strong desire: Our intention should take its birth from our desire that has to be really strong. Strong burning desire is the key to generate right actions. The result and action will not be strong when such great intensity is not there to our intention. One should have a good fondness to have such intention for the intention to yield the desired result. When the strength of our desire is not that strong then there is a good chance we slip & the intention fails to take a shape to give the desired result.

Success: The goal that we have in mind should not only benefit us but it should also have global impact on others. When the goal and the associated success are self-centred, the energy built in achieving the desired result is also limited to a small circle of energy field. To widen this energy field, it is important that the goal should influence and benefit others. In this case, one gets a sense of importance for his work from others. This is an important criterion in setting up the goal.

Momentum: Most of us do not get the right momentum to carry out the actions required in achieving the end result. This is mainly due to the lack of strength in desire and action to penetrate into the world of opportunity. The world opens up and explodes with opportunities only when we have strength in our intention and action.

Alignment: There should be a single line of alignment our intention, action and success. All these three components should be aligned to real “purpose and meaning of our life”.  In order to gain importance, all the above components should have global influence for others and society.

Secret of Success : Successful People Interview 1

I have an ambition to meet a minimum of thirty prominent world class successful people and to understand the underlying success formula that made them successful in life. These are successful business CEOs, positive psychologists and spiritual gurus. I believe that there is a basic winning formula underlying their successes that can be easily followed and replicated by anyone.

In this series of Blogs, I am going to share success stories and success formulas of all those people to whom I have met and have learned from.

Success Story: This is the success story of Mr.Ravi Sundaram. He belongs to a middle class family with no formal educational qualification. A decade before, he found hard to take care of his family and to meet the basic needs of his living. Ravi is presently an Executive President Team member and India’s topmost distributor of Herbalife. He is fondly referred as ‘Slum Dog Millionaire’ by his Herbalife global partners. He conducts regular personal development programs where the participant’s strength usually crosses few thousand people. 

Recently , I got an opportunity to meet up with him on the occasion of his house warming ceremony. I have summarized below an abstract level of his winning strategies based on my conversation with him.

Success Formulas:

1.       Whatever work we are into, just keep our execution simple & ‘easy to follow’. It has to be so simple that when we train someone then that trained person should able to pass his skill to another person at ease. In this way, our wisdom branches through people as the flow of river water that branch into multiple streams.

2.       Strong desire and intention are the driving forces to achieve the results. Without which, one cannot progresses well in life.

3.       At first, everything happens as an idea. Ideas flourish when a person does not bind himself with his present resources and limitations. They say, “It happens only twice in life”. Once as an idea in the mind in our internal world and another as an action/execution in the outside world.

4.       When the idea comes to us, it does not matter ‘how & when’ to execute the idea. What matters the most are ‘Why & what’ to do with the idea. ‘Why & what’ is an approach of visionaries and ‘How & when’ is an approach of theorists. This is the difference between visionaries and theorists. Mark Hughes of Herbalife was one such visionary.

5.       When we have a vision, we live with that vision as if it is happening right now. We live in this imaginative reality. This is the power of the imaginative faculty and by doing so eventually, things fall in place and manifest in physical reality. This is the fundamental of law of attraction.

6.       Express gratitude to others for whatever position we are in today. This is a great virtue to become successful. Also, to be more successful don’t expect gratitude from others.

7.       It is natural that people start building trust with us as we progress in life. The greatest success formula is not to compromise that trust in any given situation at any cost.

8.       We are human beings and we all have our own dull moments some times in life. During these moments, one can bounce back to normal life. This is mainly because of the return energy. Return energy is the energy that comes from the people to whom we have given our energy at an earlier part of our life.

9.       Every failure in life is a good experience. This experience helps us in come out the present crises of big challenges and bad moments in life in quick time.

10.   Be open to any new idea from anyone at anytime. Keep ego level low irrespective of our current status and achievements. This attitude makes us grow further.

11.   Successful people know clearly that they have grown well. They are aware that their growth depends upon the growth of the other people who have trusted them. They help others to grow and in that process they grow .This is a win-win situation.

12.   Successful people are very focused. They work on people who have shown genuine interest in growing. They don’t spend time with people who do not have strong desire for their development. Hence they discard them as they don’t see value in dealing with them.