Mind Management Helps Direct Your Life

[Shaha Noor]

What is mind management?
Mind management is a way to control one's mind. To do this, we need to be cautious about our thinking process and also need a high level of understanding and meditation as well. Understanding is wisdom — 80 per cent of people are knowledgeable while 20 per cent are wise.

Knowledgeable men take sides without reason. They feel sad seeing deprived people but jealous when they see happy people. They work in the guidance of others' inspiration, take unnecessary responsibility to keep themselves disturbed.

A wise person does not stand for or against any idea without concrete reason. He works according to the situation and capacity. He looks at everything intellectually. To him, failure is a stepping stone for future success.

So depression and conflict are not seen. Like the phrase 'Stop, Look, Go', first one should see, and this needs patience. Meditation is necessary to control and manage mind which then becomes an easy task.

Why do we need mind management?
Unless we control or manage our mind, it is difficult to achieve success and peace. Psychologists say every interest is first born in the mind as a seed. Then it continues to grow.

Later it takes its real form which everybody can see. The interest that first appears in the mind remains weak for the first three minutes and it becomes strong within the next five minutes.

All the negative aspects should be deleted within the first three minutes. If not taken out, they would become stronger later and you can never throw them out. After taking control over the mind, we can control passion, interest and unrest.

Mind management is essential for a peaceful and healthy life. The age of computers has thrown us on the escalator of aspirations but has robbed us of simple charms like falling asleep.

The compulsions of hectic schedules burden the mind and cause stress. However, the joys that elude us can be regained by practising power meditation. It creates tranquillity, simplifies life and cleanses the mind.

It helps control indolence, ego and anger, and builds confidence. With power meditation, negative thoughts get dissipated and a sense of happiness is achieved. With happiness and spiritual knowledge, one can relearn the meaning of life.

The picture of life's journey also becomes clearer. Osho said, "As science is not based on orthodox and blind beliefs and functions only on the principle of cause and effect, similarly power meditation doesn't function on age-old theories or communal thoughts but originates from rational and divine experience.

It strives to make an individual free from the confining pressures of daily life". The beauty of meditation is that it is independent of religion.

According to modern medical science, combinations of factors like pollutants, imbalanced diet and high aspirations have rendered the human mind restless, thereby making the body perpetually ill.

Meditation Method:
Here is a meditation method, which will enable you to control stress. Sit in the padmasan or sukhasan, cross-legged and erect. Keep your back, spine and neck straight. Keep your eyes closed. Sit in this position for 10 minutes.
The method has two stages: for the first five minutes, breathe in slowly, hold it and then release it very slowly. Again, for the next five minutes, breathe and release your breath slowly.

Source : https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/edit-page/Mind-Management-Helps-Direct-Your-Life/articleshow/1797576.cms