Live Large : Power within

Evolutionary energy: With time, we have evolved and transformed. Billion years of human evolution has generated two significant powers within. There have been multiple challenges faced by the human race in the process of evolution. Somehow, they have overcome those challenges. They have mastered those situations which presented those challenges. These challenges & the solutions are very well etched as neural pathways in each and every one of us now.

This is like a memory imprint that is stored within us. This we call us the evolutionary energy.

Let me cite one example just to understand this evolutionary energy. Our brain weighs one and a half kilograms now. The same brain, it just weighed five hundred grams few million years before. So, the brain now has increased his volume by threefold. The majority of the weight comes from the thinking brain i.e. the prefrontal cortex that has evolved in the recent years.

So, evolutionary energy is an upward trend. As the human, we need to evolve & that is a norm. We are supposed to progress & there should be a constant upward growth. It is a universal law.

Inbuilt intelligence: The second source of power comes from the in-built intelligence. This is a completely involuntary automated system working deep underneath. This system is beyond our voluntary control & most of the time, we are not even aware of this intelligence operating within us.

A good example is our heart beat. We do not have control of the heartbeat. It beats by itself on an automated basis. Also, automatically, it fluctuates the heart beats based on the various load conditions such as running, cycling etc.

One can do wonders in life if he experiences these two powers. At a mastery level, one can even gain access to these two powers. Certain mind-body exercises when performed on consistent basis allow one to experience the evolutionary energy & the inbuilt intelligence.

Remember, these energies have evolved over a period of billion years. On an average, human life expectancy is just eighty years. This is really a short period comparing to the billion years. So, every minute of our time becomes precious when we are given just eighty years of quota. This is the reason why a person who realized these powers will not waste even a single minute of his life in doing mundane activities.

One can do wonders in life if he simply experiences these two powers. At a mastery level, one can even gain access to these two powers.

Live Large :LIFE PATTERN

Now, we know the start point of the transformation, it is time to perform a small test. Compare the present state of the life with that of your life three months before. You must able to see the changes, achievements, failures in these three months duration. Let us call the differences as delta. If you are satisfied with this delta then it is alright. If the life is the same as it was three months before then it is time to understand this monotonous pattern.

Reasons for the monotonous pattern of life

1.            One living in his own comfort zone

2.            Not clear on what exactly one wants to do in life.

Both are not in favour of the universal law. Anything against the universal law is nothing but inviting trouble. Largely, in this case, a person is not happy with himself, with his life. There is an inner voice telling him to do something but in reality, he is doing something different. This internal conflict is the cause of the lifestyle diseases.

Two reasons for the monotonous pattern of life. a. Living in the comfort zone b. Not clear on what exactly one wants to do in life.

Here is a simple practice to come out of this monotonous boring life. Self-comparison of yourself now and say, 3 months before & if you are happy with the delta differences then you are doing good. If delta difference is NIL then you need to take some serious steps!

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 resulting 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 like the sun rays that converged through the optical lens to generate a fire at a single focusing point.

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

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

Live Large - Start Point

For self-transformation journey, one needs to identify clearly the right start point.

But, let us first understand a very basic but an important point. Today, we use mobile, computer and other items. These items are real and exist now in the physical world. But, few decades before, these items did exist simply as the ideas in someone heads. The items that we see now are simply the results in the physical world. So, a result that is conceivable and seen in the physical world is simply a reflection and an amalgamation of the mental, emotional & spiritual energies of the internal world.

In other words, a combination of our mindset, emotional state & spiritual energy of this present moment manifest themselves into result in the near future.

The question now is: Should we need to work on the result? Or should we need to work on the causes that generate the result? Follow this simple Cause-Effect formula.

The external world is difficult to control. Internal world is within our control. It is then wise to work on the internal variables than working on the external variable factors.

So, we now know clearly our good start point for the transformation.

Unique Identity

We have set of strong and weak points. A strong point helps in compensating a weak point. This is the law of compensation. We are in our lows in the stressful situations. We need high for the compensation. These highs sometimes we falsely augment with drinking, smoking, eating etc. These are created with the external resources. These highs are weak that loses their strength very fast with respect to time. So, these are the temporary highs which give relief only for the shorter duration.

A true high can be built by enhancing the inner strength using the internal resources. One way of doing this to build a unique self-identity.  Self-identity is that how one sees himself. Each one of us has some sort of talents or skills. All one needs to do is to enhance and sharpen the faculties to a point that he becomes unique by those talents. It is then good to associate him to those heightened talents.

.This attribute adds value to a person because he has proved to himself his worthiness. This self-identity helps in his low stressful life. Our identity changes with time and is not fixed. We can consciously build one that adds value to us. For example, let us consider that one is good in cycling. Now, he has to put conscious effort in enhancing and sharpening this talent. Over a period of time, his skill level has moved to a place where it fetches some unique position. He is different and becomes the new version of himself. This “high” effectively compensates the low period of stress.

Become unique by your talents. This “high” effectively compensates the low period of stress.

Releasing Habit

During the wakeful hours of the day, mostly we engage in activities in our works, family, travel etc. We repeat these set of engagements day after day and slowly these engagements become part of our life. We wear different masks with the engagements. We wear the mask of a father while engaging with the son, a mask of an employee with the employer, mask of a consumer with the seller and so on. Anything, when repeated, becomes our habit. When one or more of these engagements not going as per our desire then that would become the primary cause of the stress in life. So, stress has also become a pattern of our life.

To break this stressful pattern, one needs to create few of the releasing moments during the wakeful hours of the day. These moments can be anything that truly connects a person to the deeper side of him. These moments can be anything from listening to the music, doing physical exercises, riding a bike, cooking, singing, uttering even some meaningless words, chatting with a person very close and so on.

The boundary condition in creating such a moment is that the person should get connected to his deeper self or simply, live in that moment without wearing a mask. Voluntarily, create such moments and embed those with the daily activities of the wakeful hours.

Now, we have created a perfect balance of the releasing moments to the active moments which helps in creating a tension-free life.

Releasing moments truly connect a person to the deeper side of him.

Technique 4: THINKING BRAIN INTERVENTION

Stress is an automated process and it is emotion-centric. When the emotion is highly dominant, the thinking brain is completely bypassed. That is the reason, a person cannot think straight in a stressed out situation. Can we change the stress response by the intervention of thinking brain?  The answer is NO if we leave the automation freely. But, with sensitivity training, it is possible to dynamically alter the stress response as it unfolds in real time. There is a thin line of a gap between the trigger and response. One can exploit this region.

In between response and experience is space. Experience has no inherent meaning to it. Meaning is outside the experience & it comes from our mind. How we assign the meaning to the experience has an effect on our feeling. If the experience generates a bad feeling then it is important to work on the alternate possibilities of the “meaning” that we assign to the experience. This is the way the thinking brain helps in changing the stress response.

The entire process of experience, assigning meaning & responding to the experience have become so integral that all of those activities incoherence as one entity. It is so automatically programmed that we don’t even realise that there are individual components to the experience i.e the experience in itself as well as the meaning of the experience. The meaning is assigned straight from our own faith & belief structure.

Practice method:

In order to have the less stressful effect of the experiences of life, it is good to follow this practice method.

1.            Pick the experience that causes the stress

2.            Bring it to your mind, the event/people responsible for this experience

3.            Find out the meaning that you have automatically assigned to this experience

4.            Now, look for 3 more alternative meanings to this experience

5.            If all the alternatives generate negative feeling then specifically generate a more positive meaning to the event.

6.            Now, substitute this meaning for the experience to have a positive feeling.