Photographic Memory Training Exercises-Develop Eidetic Memory
In this post, I am going to share a few photographic memory training exercises that will enable you to tap into your subconscious mind’s ability to remember everything in form of detailed images.
Photographic memory (eidetic memory) is something which some people have claimed to have including very famous personalities like Nikola Tesla but, still it is not completely validated by science.
I was recently reading a blog on photographic memory where the author emphasized too much that nobody can have photographic memory (like in photo reading where you can scan the pages of books) still he was promoting photographic memory methods in his own labeled “practical” way.
Well let me say one thing, when somebody is talking about a subject like this they must put their logic aside or they should not talk about it at all because logical way of thinking cannot help a person to understand such phenomena.
Few people also believe that eidetic memory is a god gifted ability for some special people and others cannot develop it. Continue reading
Your Creative Power-The Law of Attraction and Imagination
Today, I am going to talk about the law of attraction and imagination as I hope that by knowing this you will get a better picture of how you create your reality using your thoughts.
There is a reason why “the secret” went viral, it is because the message in that movie resonated with what people already knew somewhere in their heart.
The movie was lengthy enough to cover a lot of things and the information was delivered by people who are experts in the area of self growth, still there is a lot more left than that to know about our creative power.
Those who believe that they can alter their reality by doing the inner work required are often termed by the skeptics as the daydreamers or people who have their heads in the clouds.
What’s wrong with the skeptics is not that they don’t believe in it but, it is their assumption that they know better.
So, in this post my intention is to provide you with a deeper insight on the how your imagination affects your reality.
The Reality Bubble
That’s a catchy term I picked up from Christie Marie Sheldon’s love or above program, which represents everything that exists in a person’s world.
See, I mentioned “a person’s world” not “everybody’s world” because we all have different worlds of our own and that is what I mean by the reality bubble.
How do we all have different worlds?
Everything in our external world is a reflection of our inner world hence we perceive, accept, reject, and judge everything according to what we believe deep inside.
A problem that is troublesome for one person might not be a problem at all for another person.
Similarly, what makes one person sad might make another happy-This means that we are not obligated to feel a certain way about any particular situation, instead we are “programmed” to behave in that manner.
Whatever we believe to be true becomes our reality.
You create your reality, if you don’t believe that then by the same law it will also become the truth in your reality bubble that you don’t create your reality.
Your Energy Body
The reality bubble we discussed above is your unique “reality field” and this particular bubble is sustained by your energy.
There is an invisible energy field that is present all around your body and in truth your physical body is present inside this energy body.
This life force (energy) is what shapes your life and if you could alter the frequency at which these energy particles are vibrating then you can simply create a new and completely different reality.
How can one alter these vibrations?
The vibrational frequency of your energy body is decided by your deep rooted subconscious beliefs.
Your thoughts and feelings are responsible for any particular state of your energy body. Based on the state of this energy field your life story unfolds.
Significance of the Law of Attraction in Your Life
To see how the universal laws operates you just have to become more aware of the various happenings around you.
Everyone’s life follows a particular “pattern” which keeps on repeating in the life of a person who is living unconsciously and believes that he has no control over his life.
These patterns are actually caused by the beliefs that an individual has accepted as the truth, if he chooses to discard that belief by doing some inner work then those patterns will vanish from his life.
In simple words, our energy’s vibrational state decides what the law of attraction will bring into our lives and to get into a new vibrational state all you have to do is to alter your beliefs.
How?..Using any mind tool that enables you to replace the old beliefs in your subconscious mind with the new ones.
One such awesome tool is imagination and now we will discuss how imagination helps you to change your inner beliefs that will further get reflected in your outer world.
The Powerful Mind Tool-Imagination
Imagination is a faculty of our mind which is a natural gift to us, we have used it consciously in our childhood and after we grow up we use it unconsciously (mostly in a negative way).
Every time you find yourself worrying or fearing you are imagining an unfavorable (often dreadful) future event.
In most of the cases what we fear or worry the most, happens- That’s the law of attraction at work.
When imagination used unconsciously could attract so many big problems in your life then just think how much you can benefit by using it consciously.
To replace your old set of beliefs with the new ones you will have to repeatedly focus on the new ideas, this process is boosted up when you imagine positive outcomes since, images and feelings are the language of your subconscious mind
You can deliberately change the vibrational frequency of your energy by imagining your dream life (as if it has already come true) with positive emotions.
When you practice creative visualization for a considerably long time, you will be able to change your inner beliefs which are the only barrier between you and your success.
You will find a lot of articles here on how you can use your imagination.
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Simple Mindfulness Exercises for Beginners–Achieve More Inner Peace
In this post, I am going to share a few simple mindfulness exercises for beginners using which anyone can tame the voice inside his head to an extent that it stops killing their peace of mind.
When a person begins any spiritual practice to regain his peace of mind, all the judgments that he has formed about spirituality whether consciously or unconsciously hinders his progress and thus, he fails to benefit from those techniques.
So, first of all I would urge you to drop any assumptions you might have formed in your mind about the “state” you could achieve using mindfulness.
Mindfulness is a form of meditation which allows you to detach yourself from the incessant flow of thoughts by bringing your focus completely to the present moment.
The present moment awareness is the key to liberate your mind from disturbing thoughts of past and future; this is why mindfulness is a powerful technique to treat most of the problems that arises due to unwanted thinking.
People often misjudge the effectiveness of mindfulness practices due to its simplicity, but those who will trust it and implement it in their lives will surely succeed to improve their mental state.
The exercises that I am going to share here are especially helpful for beginners because it is something that can be practiced by anyone in their day to day activities.
I have specially picked up these techniques for people who are too busy to sit and mediate: –
Be an Active Listener
Set an intention that from now every time when somebody will speak to you, you will listen more attentively.
Active listening not only gives you a good opportunity to know others better but it also frees you from your “self talk” so that you could focus on what is happening in the present moment.
Listen without judgments or formulating the response inside your head even before the other person has finished talking.
If you can just “listen” with more alertness the perfect response will automatically come. Everything else is not response, but reaction.
Mindfulness in Trivial Actions
Small actions that you perform involuntarily gives you a good opportunity to become more present and free yourself from the thoughts that captures your attention during those times.
One such example is when you brush your teeth. You can become a conscious observer and watch the way you move the brush, that particular action has been put on automatic pilot by you from years, so you can even try a slightly different style perhaps.
You can also do it while having a cup of coffee by paying more attention to its smell and taste.
There are hundreds of such daily activities where we are not actually present; our body performs those actions while our mind wanders.
Being mindful in these small actions helps us to avoid the unwanted thoughts in which our mind frequently gets engaged.
Enjoy Music
This is probably something which will change your view about mindfulness because many people consider that mindfulness is a boring task.
Yes, you can practice the present moment awareness in something very interesting like listening to your favorite music. However, this time you will do it in a bit different way.
You must not choose a song/music which kindles your past memories or defines “your persona” in any way.
Play a song to which you don’t have any kind of attachment and enjoy it “as it is”, pay close attention to the details of the music and observe the feelings it brings to you.
I choose to listen songs of different languages for this purpose as I am able to focus on the music rather than meaning by doing that.
Traveling
One of the best ways to bring your mind to the present moment is when you travel, most of us do it naturally and that is why we all enjoy traveling a lot.
Yet, people who are highly dominated by worrisome thoughts are not at all aware of the journey; they are only concerned about reaching to the destination.
It could be your commute to workplace or grocery store, it gives you a good chance to enjoy the present moment, all you have to do is to be more present while you get from one place to another rather than being preoccupied by the need to reach to the destination.
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The Secret to the Law of Attraction-One Key Ingredient
Have you ever wondered what the secret to the law of attraction is? Like, what is the one single thing which can absolutely make your desires come true?
In this post, I will be discussing the most fundamental factor which decides what a person will attract in his life.
“Thoughts and feelings” one may say. Well, in a sense that’s right because every program, book and success coach talks about it and you will find ample amount of information on all these LOA tools in this blog which will enable you to alter your subconscious beliefs or we can say the methods that will help you to achieve the vibrational alignment with your desires.
Still these methods are not near to the one most important ingredient I am about to mention.
Detachment, yes that is the real secret of the people who are very good at manifesting their desires..!
Even though I have talked about it in few of my posts but, this is the first time ever I am going to cover this topic in detail.
Drop Your Judgments about the Word “Detachment”
There is a reason I haven’t wrote much about detachment in my law of attraction posts especially, not in a direct way like I am doing right now and that’s because people have a lot of false notions about this particular word which does not allow them to see its true definition.
So, I would like to first illuminate the true meaning of the word ”detachment” so that you can drop your false opinions about it.
Detachment…
..Does not mean “no desires” like people have believed it for years, in truth it is impossible for a person to be free of desires.. If you are alive you will have desires…
…Does not mean “emotionless”..
…Does not mean “no expectations”..
…Does not mean some mental state which is achieved only by enlightened masters..
I hope by now you might have dropped most of your judgments about this word.
What is the correct definition of it then?
Detachment is simply the quality of not being attached to the results of your actions, in other words by practicing it you will learn to desire and expect, still keeping your inner state independent of the results.
How to Practice Detachment?
In most of my posts I emphasis on generating the feelings of “having” what you want before it arrives and that is an indirect way of practicing detachment.
However, that process can emotionally hurt a person and destroy his faith on his creative power if he becomes too much concerned about the manifestation process.
There is a reason why most of the law of attraction teachings points towards meditation and that’s because it is a perfect practice to train your mind to be in a joyful state even when you see no evidence of your wishes getting fulfilled.
After doing enough inner work that is required for making your dreams come true, generating the feelings of having it already or being totally happy with your present moment, both are equally powerful in the manifestation process.
But the latter one is a quality which can transform your whole life.
The life transforming power of practicing detachment lies in your “inner joy” which is totally independent of anything in the outer world and in this way the whole LOA process becomes a playful activity and that’s how it is supposed to be.
The Secret to the Inner Peace
Meditation is indeed an effective way for you to train your mind to be free of the worries about the outcomes but, the most powerful tool for practicing detachment is present moment awareness which you can gain from mindfulness exercises.
Mindfulness exercises help you to bring your focus to the present moment whenever your mind gets carried away by disturbing thoughts of past and future.
Once you learn to concentrate on the “now” moment, you will allow the life force to flow freely through you and this will result into easy manifestation of your desires.
Read my post “The Present Moment Awareness-Key to Effortless Manifestation” to know more.
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Breathing Exercises for Panic Attacks-Easy Relief Methods
In this post, I am going to bring a few breathing exercises for panic attacks which can really prove out to be a good tool for you to calm yourself when you get those troublesome panic attacks.
Our breathing has a lot to do with our emotional states and various mind states produces different types of breathing patterns, it is hard to discern these variations in our breath during normal mood changes since the change is very insignificant but, in cases of serious emotional imbalances it becomes very obvious.
The good news is that we can use our breathing to deal with seemingly insurmountable emotional problems whether let it be fear, anxiety or depression.
In case of panic attacks it is undoubtedly impossible to press an immediate escape button however with practice you can really learn to relieve yourself by regulating your breathing patterns.
Deep Breathing Exercises
Deep breathing is not a good thing to do during hyperventilation, we will discuss about it later but, in all other cases you can definitely benefit from the deep breathing exercises that I am going to discuss here.
These exercises are very appropriate to be used to avoid intense emotional trouble if you can detect the symptoms prior to the attacks (which most patients can do with experience).
Counted Breaths
Again, this is a very easy exercise which you can perform at any place and time according to your convenience.
To do this, sit straight by keeping your spine erect and take a long deep breath in by slowly counting up to four, then hold your breath for another count of four and exhale by again counting from 1-4, repeat until you feel relaxed.
Belly Breathing
Belly breathing is a very simple deep breathing exercise which you can use anywhere, anytime.
Just place both your hands on your belly and slowly inhale feeling your belly expand out, hold your breath for a while and then exhale by feeling your belly contract back…Repeat it several times till you feel relieved.
This exercise might seem too easy to be effective but, do not judge it by its simplicity because it brings your attention to your breath by taking it off from the disturbing feelings and thus stops it from ascending.
During Panic Attacks
#1-Hyperventilation
Panic attacks are mostly accompanied by hyperventilation, the symptoms are deep long rapid breath, dizziness, sweating, numbness and nausea
The cause of hyperventilation is excessive removal of carbon dioxide from the body that occurs due to frequent deep breaths and that’s why deep breathing is not good in such cases.
Don’t worry there is a solution.
Nadi Shodan Pranayam
In nadi shodan pranayam you breathe from alternate nostrils and therefore it helps in balancing the carbon dioxide in your body.
To do this, sit in cross legged position and keep your back straight. Now, press your right nostril with your right thumb and inhale from your left nostril.
Hold your breath for a while and then exhale from your right nostril by pressing the left one with your right ring finger.
Now, reverse the process and repeat for at least 10 minutes.
#2- I Can’t Breathe
This is another common problem faced by patients suffering from panic attacks; all of a sudden they feel it hard to breathe.
In real it is a false feeling because they are actually breathing in such situations but, due the intense stress caused by the panic attack they forget to exhale and they focus only on inhaling.
So when you feel like this, make sure to recognize your true condition and exhale before you try to breathe in.
All these exercises are helpful for your emotional troubles because mindful-breathing brings your mind into the present moment and allows you to gain a better control of it.
This is a personal development blog and these are just a few yogic and mindfulness exercises using which you can treat your emotional problems, try them and find if it works for you.
If you are under treatment then please do continue with it along with these exercises.
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Regain Your Peace of Mind-Mindfulness Exercises for Anxiety
Regain Your Peace of Mind-Mindfulness Exercises for Anxiety
Today I am going to share with you a few mindfulness exercises for anxiety which will help you to calm down your mind chatter and thus will allow you to achieve more serenity.
Inner peace is the most important aspect of a happy life, in today’s busy world people totally forget to take care of their mental as well as physical health until they get sick.
Any mental or physical illness is the body’s way of reminding that you have forgotten fulfilling your basic requirement in life that is to take care of your health.
Especially, if you don’t do anything to refresh your mind like the way you push the reset button in your computer, you will have to pay a heavy price in the future.
Anxiety and depression are the two most common diseases that results from the carelessness of an individual towards his emotional states.
Luckily, we have a very good tool to fix them both which is mindfulness meditation and our focus in this post would be treating anxiety.
Before that, let us look into the root cause of anxiety and depression..(because that is essential before you get to know the solution)
The Prime Reason That Causes Emotional Troubles
Most of the mental problems like frustration, anger, depression, anxiety etc are the consequences of a person not being conscious of his own thoughts, feelings and actions.
By this I mean to say that such troubles are a cumulative result of many negative thoughts which resulted into negative feelings and then became a repeating emotional pattern.
So, to avoid such illness a person has to become more aware of what is going on in his mind and then only he can consciously choose to detach himself from the voices that he hears in his head, which keeps him in lower emotional states.
Although, all the emotional troubles have a common root, I would like to highlight the main cause of depression and anxiety now.
Both of these mental illness are caused by a person’s inability to focus on the present moment which means that he constantly dwells in the past or future. All his actions become unconscious while he is either imagining the future events or replaying past incidences in his mind.
Depression is born from a person’s mind being too obsessed by the thoughts of unfavorable past events whereas anxiety is caused by a person’s worry about the future events.
One Awesome Remedy
Mindfulness can treat both of these emotional troubles since it helps one to become conscious of the present moment.
Yes, if you will follow the simple steps to be mindful in various moments of your life then you can successfully pull yourself out of any such addictive habits of mind.
By having a better control over your thoughts and feelings you can completely transform your life and mindfulness teaches you that in the simplest way possible, and one of its major advantage is that you can perform it anywhere and anytime unlike the conventional meditation methods.
Few Simple Exercises to Bring Your Mind Back into the Present Moment:-
Use Triggers
This is my favorite one and I learned it from Eckhart Tolle’s teachings, I love this one because by doing this you are turning your weakness into strength.
Keep a watch on your thoughts and you will find that your mind has only a few very common issues using which it keeps you engaged..Identify those subjects and make it an alarm to become aware of the “now’ moment.
For example- I used to think a lot about a friend who betrayed me, my mind will come up with hundreds of thoughts around this subject like “I must have not trusted that friend”, “I will never allow anyone to come that close to me”, “How can someone be that shallow” etc etc.. then one day I chose that friend as my alarm!
So, whenever I am thinking about that friend, my mind(which earlier presented me a hundred reasons to feel bad) alerts me to practice the present moment awareness.
Once you have found a trigger and it starts to remind you to be mindful…Just take a few deep breaths and watch your thoughts as an observer, gently allow them to come and go.. become aware of every thought and try to find that state of “emptiness” when you have no thoughts. The longer you can do this the more peaceful you will feel.
Using the 5 Senses
In this method you focus on the information that any of the five senses is bringing to you.
It could be sounds, visuals, smells, touch or taste you actively observe them “as it is” without labeling them.
I have discussed this in more detail in the post-Learn to Expand Your Consciousness with Simple Mindfulness Exercises
Body Awareness
This is an exercise for which you will have to take a few minutes from your daily routine.
To do this, find a silent place and sit in any relaxed position:-
First, Take ten conscious deep breaths and clear your mind from the residual thoughts.
Now, start by feeling your scalp, forehead and gently move your attention to every part of your body from top to bottom..do this gradually and imagine that wherever you are focusing that body part is getting relaxed.
This is a very effective way to press the “reset” button of which I talked earlier.
So, these were few quick ways to escape from the thoughts which cause disturbances in your mind that can further grow and become a very big problem in your life if it is not fixed at the right time.
You can practice these exercises to treat your anxiety issues but do not stop following the advice of your doctor (if you are under medical treatment).
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What Is the Best Lucid Dreaming Technique?
Few years back when I became aware that we can control our dreams I spent months to find the best lucid dreaming technique and from experienced lucid dreamers I came to know that WILD is the most powerful technique however, it failed to give me the desired results.
After experimenting with various other methods I ended up finding the one that worked for me and realized that there is no perfect formula which works for everyone. So, an individual has to find his own best trick to become conscious in his dreams.
Don’t get discouraged by what I have said in the above paragraphs, since you are here to know the right formula for inducing the lucid dreams, you will leave this post with few LD techniques, essential tips to have conscious dreams and the method which works best for me-Who knows maybe it could prove out to be yours best as well.
But, before that I would like to warn you against people who are trying to sell products that contain the secret for inducing lucid dreams, please understand that this is a process which requires patience and efforts. So, keep yourself away from such scams.
Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD)
This is a simple and most used LD inducing process; it is where you do various activities which increase your chance to wake up in your dreams.
Dream recall, visualization, reality checks and affirmations are the tools of MILD and it is the best practice for the beginners.
Wake Induced Lucid Dreams (WILD)
Few people consider this to be more effective than MILD and as I mentioned earlier, this trick has worked well for a large number of lucid dreamers.
WILD focuses on staying awake while allowing the body to sleep, when you are able to maintain your conscious awareness as you go from wakefulness to dream state it becomes easy for you to induce guided dreams and due to this there is a chance that you might have an out of body experience or sleep paralyses .
The Method Which Enabled Me to Lucid Dream Easily
My most favorite method is the one which not only works perfectly for me but, it also enables me to have multiple conscious dreams and it is the cycle adjustment technique which I learned from Rebecca Turner’s lucid dream fast track kit.
This technique is so simple that even kids could do, all you have to do here is to adjust your early morning wake up time so that you can use your “body clock”(natural wake up alarm of your mind) to induce lucid dreams for you.
In order to this-Wake up at least an hour before your usual waking time for about a week and afterwards go back to your normal time(even if you wake up and can’t sleep after that, just lie there with your eyes closed). Now, switch waking up time alternatively from normal time to the new one and you will eventually get lucid dreams in that extra hour sleep.
Few Tips to Have Lucid Dreams
-Keeping a dream journal is a must.
-Perform regular reality checks.
-Read lucid dreaming books or watch lucid dreaming movies before sleeping.
-Meditate.
-Practice Yog Nidra.
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Function of the Reticular Activating System and Its Role in LOA
In this post I am going to talk with you about the function of the reticular activating system(RAS) which is a specific section of our brain that is claimed to be related with the law of attraction process by the new age believers.
If you are someone who is familiar with the law of attraction and applying various methods to achieve your desired goals using those LOA principles then you might have realized that you automatically start to notice all the things related to your goals in the external world.
New age beliefs say that it is the universe showing you the signs that your desire is under the process of manifestation whereas there is also a biological phenomenon behind it which is one of the function of a brain part called as the reticular activating system(RAS).
The goal related stuff flashes in front of your eyes as if some invisible force is trying to remind you what you have asked from the universe.
For example in my case, I have set a goal to buy a particular car and whenever I am walking in the street that car passes by flashing its logo in front of my eyes, what’s so amazing about this is-It happens every time!
I was astonished with this sudden appearance of my desired car everywhere I go then I came to know about the reticular activate system which answered my questions in a practical way, but still I would prefer to believe that this particular mechanism is an indication of LOA at work.
What Is RAS and How It Works?
RAS, is basically a part of the brain that consists a set of connected nuclei which takes care of various bodily operations and it also regulates the sleep/wake cycles.
However, RAS also plays an important role in causing increased alertness from relaxed wakefulness and what is more interesting thing about this brain section is that it acts as a doorway for the information that we receive using our senses.
This means that every bit of information that we receive from our environment is filtered by this brain system.
The Information Filtering Process
You might be wondering what decides this information filtering process?-The reticular activating system only allows the data to enter to our conscious attention that is relevant to us.
The relevancy of the data depends on our interests, beliefs and needs.
This means that we unconsciously reject so many sounds, visions and other forms of information from our environment; this is a much more complicated process than how it appears because we actually receive millions of bytes of data every second but, only the selected ones are brought into our conscious attention.
Let me use some examples to explain this…!!
A simple example would be your hearing of your name in a crowded noisy place, your mind filters up all the unwanted sounds and enables you to hear your name being called.
A visual example of this would be your spotting of your friend in a public place, his face lights up in the crowd and you are able to ignore all other people except this particular individual.
You might have experienced this while learning a new language or improving your vocabulary, you learn a new particular word and then it starts to appear in various ways in your world-In books, newspapers, songs, conversations etc whereas it was non-existing for you before.
By knowing about this function of the brain we get to see the truthfulness of the old saying “perception is reality” but only for “you” because someone else’s reality is different whereas in truth there is no one reality but numerous possibilities and that is what I have discussed in more detail in the post- Existence beyond Reality.
How Is All This Related to the Law of Attraction?
Now, from the above discussion we can infer that our senses depends on our mind and the world appears to us the way our mind has been programmed, we only get access to the information that is relevant to us in some way.
So, when you start to use the law of attraction tools like visualization, affirmation, intention setting etc, you are ordering your brain to work in the direction of the desire on which you have been focusing and this way you are programming your mind radar to catch the information that are essential for your success.
Once you clear the way for your goal related information, then you will receive the ideas that can lead you to the winning post!!
I hope you enjoyed this post. If you are interested in the law of attraction methods then you may want to know how you can transform your life using meditation and creative visualization.
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Meditation Techniques for Concentration – Sharpen Your Focus
In this post, I am going to discuss with you a few meditation techniques for concentration that will help you to sharpen your focus so that you can carry out your day to day activities without letting your external circumstances to disturb your inner peace.
The definition of a busy life could be different to each one of us depending upon our roles in our family and society.
A working mom is busy managing home, job, kids, husband while striving for inner peace. Whereas a dad is busy in managing his work, finances, health, planning for the future requirements of his family. The roles of people however do change according to their situations.
You don’t actually need to be a female to be a mother nor a male to be a father; you may be even unmarried or a divorcee and still manage everything on your own. Yes of course the life is much easier when you have the company of your life partner but what matters the most is the kid inside us.
Before teenage we all are natural but the programming of a person’s subconscious mind starts from the birth itself. During our childhood our conscious mind is not developed, so our mind absorbs all the information from our environment and society which results as our hardwired beliefs that are responsible for the blueprint of our decision making capabilities and self-confidence.
Our beliefs are responsible for what happens in our inner world, if the kid inside us is happy then that happiness is reflected in our external world.
No matter how we see this but once we begin to play our roles, life requires us to multitask. The one who is good at doing many tasks at a time is not always the happiest person, they may be successful in terms of what they have achieved in the outer world but the more they try to prove themselves to the world and society, the more they make themselves suffer. Alas, there is a very common by-product of multitasking which is “stress”.
So, is there any pill that we can gobble up in the morning and multitask with perfection? No! Because “Perfection” is an imaginary word; it is born out of the illusion of control. ( I have written more on the illusion of control in my post named meditation to clear the mind)
We cannot control our external circumstances because the ego “I” is just a small part of ourselves that lives in the delusion that it is the master of our lives. Our subconscious mind/higher-self/universe handles everything apart from the one task that we are doing in the moment.
There two types of meditation; one is what we do at the end of the day or during times when we are disturbed whereas the other type of meditation is doing every task with our total focus on it. The latter one is also referred as the mindfulness mediation.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is a way to bring your attention completely to the present moment. Unlike other meditation methods this can be done anytime and anywhere.
One of the simplest methods to be mindful is when you are amidst of doing something,just pause and take 10 conscious breaths and then continue. Doing this resets your mind and enables you to get aware of the present moment, it also breaks the chain of any kind of unproductive thinking in which your mind was engaged before.Since, mindfulness improves your ability to focus on the present moment by clearing the thoughts of past or future, it helps you to get immersed completely in your current task.
Growth and improvement are possible only when a person trains their mind to be completely active in the task in which he is presently involved; with improved ability to concentrate a person can get better in any of their skills.
Who needs this help??? From a kid to an elderly person, just like medication is a catalyst for the healing of the body, meditation is a catalyst for the healing of the mind and emotions.
We all make mistakes of forgetting things and we blame it on our weak memory. There is no such thing as a weak or strong memory unless you have a clinical brain related problem. When you are fully focused in a task, you hardly make a mistake.
The mind cannot be “controlled” because the mind works in the direction where our actual focus is, the more we try to control our mind the harder it gets.
So what can we do?
We can either apply the mindfulness meditation to all our tasks or we can let our life to be as it is and prefer to meditate on any particular hour of the day when we have spare time to spend for taking care of our own inner peace.
Tratak Meditation Method
Tratak meditation is the most appropriate practice to increase your ability to concentrate. A few types oftratak meditations are inner tratak, tratak on a black dot, candle tratak and mirror tratak etc.All these forms of tratak meditation helps the practitioner to fix his focus on a single point and to keep his mind free of thoughts.
Initially it is very difficult to escape from the heavy traffic of thoughts but, gradually with practice you become very good at avoiding the mind chatter and thus you gain more concentration.
Chanting Mantra Meditation
This is not at all religious, you can chant any mantra (like Hakuna Matata) or even sing a song by focusing on your voice. Always remember that our ultimate aim is to use these techniques for calming our mind.
I am including this meditation here because I find it easy to stop my mind chatter for longer periods when I am meditating on my own voice.
Chanting mantra meditation requires you to choose any mantra or positive affirmation and repeat it while focusing on the sound. This mediation helps you to shift your conscious attention from saying the mantra to hearing it. (The first time I realized what being an inner observer was while doing this meditation, when you do this meditation you can observe that the action of “speaking” is handled by your subconscious mind when you put your conscious attention on hearing your own voice)
Chanting “OM” mantra is most recommended, but you can choose whatever is convenient for you.
At the end of the day, doing a thing with better focus would save us time, reduce our anxiety and provide a sense of accomplishment.
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8 Self Awareness Activities for Students-Unleash Your True Potential
I wish someone would have enlightened me about the importance of self-awareness when I was in school; learning to get aware of one’s own thoughts and feelings in childhood is a real gift.
Many parents nowadays are realizing that teaching their child to become more conscious could tremendously improve their kid’s personal life and academic performances, that’s why I am going to discuss a few self-awareness activities for students here.
This is such a great news that people are now getting to know the importance of spirituality because we need highly conscious people to make this planet a better place and that is why the biggest gift we could ever give to the young generation is to teach them the activities using which they can establish a better connection with their higher self.
Learning to be more aware in an early age will help an individual to peacefully and wisely handle the challenges in his/her life.
We operate at two levels of mind, one is the conscious mind using which we think in our wake conscious state and the other is our subconscious mind which handles all our unconscious habitual actions, this also includes our skills and abilities.
Our subconscious mind is very powerful and by learning to use it properly we can achieve anything that we desire in life, in early age our subconscious mind is wide open for suggestions so, it is easier to give targets to the student’s mind and have it achieved.
In order to make desired use of subconscious mind a student will have to learn to calm down the voice of his conscious mind and for that he will have to become self aware.
Teaching youngsters to be more in control of their thoughts and feelings has numerous benefits and that’s why I am going to discuss with you a few methods here using which you can boost up their spiritual and mental growth.(Or you can do it on your own by following these technique if you are a student who’s looking for ways to improve your life)
I have put these activities here keeping in mind that young minds find spiritual practices uninteresting still you may have to convince them a little to make them to perform these exercises:-
#1- Take 10 Conscious Breaths
Pause whenever the mind gets disturbed by any negative thought and take 10 conscious long breaths.
Doing this will take away the negative thoughts and associated emotions, thus providing an opportunity for the mind to get refreshed.
#2-Mindful Eating
This is a very interesting thing to do because it makes you to enjoy your food on the other hand it also helps you to bring your mind into the present moment.
While having food, slow down a little and meditate on the taste, smell and appearances of the food, being mindful of the food also improves your digestion.
#3-Prefer Outdoor Games
One of the biggest drawbacks of our current generation is that unlike earlier now we find most of the kids and teenagers preferring video games over outdoor games.
Playing outdoor games is very good for both their physical as well as spiritual health, being in touch with the nature is essential for a person’s spiritual growth so, getting involved in outdoor sports is very essential for personal development of kids and youngsters.
#4-Share Your Feelings
Sadly, most of us grow up hearing words like “don’t cry”, “be strong”, “stop being so sensitive”, etc. Our society teaches us to suppress our natural emotions which in future results as the stress in our life.
We are programmed to hide our vulnerabilities and pretend to be emotionally strong. Till my teenage I used to be very sensitive and I am well familiar with that humiliating feeling which follows when your vulnerability becomes obvious to others.
One should learn to be more expressive of his/her true feelings.
By sharing the true feelings a person allows his mind to be in total peace which will naturally improve his mental abilities.
#5-Become a Good Listener
Equally important as it is to express oneself is to pay attention to other people’s opinions and feelings, to be self aware it is important to come out of one’s own mind chatter and to open up to what others have to share.
This is not only a good habit to be developed in order to connect with others but it is also a practice to improve one’s own connection with his/her inner self.
Being a good listener will enable your mind to learn faster!
#6-Meditate Regularly
I know it is a difficult task for youngsters to sit and meditate but, in order to become a highly conscious person one will have to sit in silence for few minutes daily so that he can detach himself from distracting thoughts and allow his mind to function better.
For students who are trying to improve their concentration power, I would like to suggest tratak meditation.
#7-Feel Your Body
Body awareness is an essential part of spiritual development; to perform this one should close his eyes and focus on each part of his body one by one, relaxing them using his imagination.
Imagining a white light which relaxes each part of the body by clearing the negative energies present there is also a very good method to do this.(refer my post on yog nidra)
#8-Increase Your Awareness of the Surroundings
Every now and then getting aware of the surroundings is also a good way to increase self awareness because doing this helps a person to stay rooted in the present moment.
This is much like what Sherlock Holmes does; if you have read those stories then you might be knowing that he registers every minute detail of the places in his mind.
When you notice the details of your current surrounding you immediately pull your focus away from the mind trap and liberate yourself from the thoughts of past or future.
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