Who is controlling your mind?-By Suryanarayana Rao C
1. The easy method at a glance.
By Suryanarayana Rao C
Your mind frequently runs away getting busy with old bothering thoughts, instead of concentrating on what you are seeing, hearing, or doing at any moment. Focusing on past thoughts reduces your efficiency and creates stress in your mind and body. Chronic stress leads to high blood pressure and heart diseases.
An easy but powerful " beginner's method " is explained in this article, to drastically reduce wandering of your mind. It does not require any allotment of time or belief in any outside powers. It is not related to any religion.
All you need to do, is to mentally feel the faint coolness inside your nose every time breath goes in. Do not try to change it in any manner. As a beginner's strategy, you can do this while just waiting for sleep in bed and also when you wake up from sleep but still lying lazily in bed. Even a few minutes of this practice, quickly brings down your mental tension and relaxes your body as well- proven beyond doubt by many people. After you taste this experience, you can inject the "coolness of breath feeling " into many daily activities. (Do not confuse this with "pranayama" taught in Yoga-both are different practices. See in section 6).
When you develop the habit of passively feeling the coolness of ingoing breath during most of your daily activities without trying to change it in any manner, recycling of useless thoughts in your mind is drastically reduced. Result is - comfort and strength to your mind and body. Then the dormant positive intentions in your mind come to life and gain strength. Sustained positive thoughts lead to productive actions and create superior achievements. You exert less and achieve more.
As reported by many readers of this article this incredibly easy method enables
normal people
get sound sleep very easily and feel more freshness on waking up reduce mental tension drastically
improve mental concentration gain full control over anger leading to better relationships
develop patience in dealing with difficult people and stuations reduce tiredness at the end of a busy day
enhance self confidence reduce postponing tendency
make face bright and glowing, reflecting inner health
people with problems
reduce high blood pressure cure headache - even migraine headache
gradually reduce the urge for chain smoking reduce stammering and more benefits as the practice continues
What do you need to do, to practice it?
No time to be allotted
No belief needed in any religion, higher power or persons
No specific time of day or night
No specific posture
No training or guidance
Just read this booklet in a few minutes and start practicing the method.
The dream of any beginner!
You can practice this method even while doing your work at office or home.
You will feel a taste of the effects in 7-10 days.
You will love the method.
It will become your life long companion.
2. Problem of your wandering mind
By Suryanarayana Rao C
Wandering of mind is well known universal problem accepted as inevitable.
Let us explore this mental handicap in depth.
You take your scooter or car from your house to your place of work, park it, do your job, pick up the vehicle from the parking and return home. The vehicles obey you fully. So you can call them your own.
Now take the case of your mind. Carry out the following experiment without reading further. Close your eyes and think of your favorite object - say a rose.
Tell your mind to continuously think how a rose looks and smells not diverting even for a second.
What happened ?
Your mind did not bother to obey your specific instruction of thinking only about the rose and ran away in a few seconds. It happily got busy with thoughts not even remotely related to a rose.
May be it wanted to enjoy the memory of some past pleasant experience or feel bad about some miserable experience. May be to enjoy or worry about some good or bad thing that may or may not happen in future. When you notice that it has run away, you seriously instruct it this time, to concentrate on the rose and not to go anywhere else. Again it runs away in a few seconds as though it never heard you.
You can go on trying but you do not succeed. Finally you get frustrated and give up. You feel that your mind can not be controlled. This has been the feeling of people everywhere for thousands of years.
It is obvious that your mind does not care for you most of the time,even when you give clear and serious instructions. It goes wherever it likes, whenever it likes. You have got so much used to this bad habit of your mind that you no longer feel odd about it.
This being the case can you call your mind "yours " in the sense of your car or scooter? If you are not in control of your mind, then who is controlling it ? Some unknown spirit ?
3. What are you losing due to wandering of your mind ?
By Suryanarayana Rao C
Let us see the losses you are incurring and the opportunities you are missing.
Loss of efficiency, quality and time
The abnormal effect of wandering of your mind away from your present activity as seen in the rose example, can be better appreciated when you apply the concept to a real life activity.
Imagine you are driving towards your office and at some point, you find your vehicle suddenly placed on the road towards air port -like in a magic show. When you realize this mischief you redirect it towards office. After some time, the vehicle is again on the road towards airport or may be some other road.
In this erratic fashion when will you reach your office? After a long time or may be never. Instead, if your vehicle strictly follows your intention you would reach your office on time.
Similarly if your mind stops wandering, you can read a book faster, understand better and remember better.You can do any task more efficiently with better quality and in less time. Your life will become more productive.
Mind over Body
The effect of mind on body is accepted by the medical profession. It is felt that many problems of body have their origin in mind. The mental stress, beliefs, habits of feeling and reacting of a person, have direct impact on healthy functioning of the organs and systems of body.
A person lying on two supports - one below the shoulders and another below the legs, can support another person standing on his stomach, as his body becomes stiff like a beam, due to the suggestion made by the hypnotist ( Only one gender is used in this article instead of both genders for easy reading). This has been publicly demonstrated and recorded by scientists. Hypnotism is used as anesthesia in some surgical procedures.
Scientific studies have shown the remarkable effects of meditation on body. Extensive research has been done in this field named "Mind Body medicine". A recent book mentions that presently 19% of US population (50 million) engage in meditation.
Many studies have established beyond doubt, the great power of mind over functions of body and health of organs. If we can control our minds even partially we can get partial to total relief from some diseases or physical discomforts as explained after the title page.
Converting dreams into reality
The visionaries and dreamers throughout history, utilized the power of their minds to convert their dreams into reality. The Wright brothers dreamt of a machine which could fly in the sky like a bird. The power of their obsessed minds was guiding their thoughts and actions towards ultimate success. One day they saw their dream fulfilled.
When you reach a high degree of concentration of mind without being pulled down by counter thoughts, you develop higher capabilities in thought and action that are not normally available to you. You also get unsolicited external help.These can help you get rid of your false mindset and convert your dreams into reality.
Irrational feelings and habits
If your mind comes under control, you can overcome fears like fear of public speaking and fear of heights; baseless dislike of some people, allergies, addictions, odd mannerisms, compulsive behavior, dogmatism and similar handicaps.
4. Can I gain control of my erratic mind ?
By Suryanarayana Rao C
Yes - there are proven processes for this. Thinkers world over realised this problem thousands of years back and devised different processes to train the "wild monkey natured mind" into an obedient one.
These physical and mental processes are well documented and can help in training your mind to obey your instructions