So there are many situations where life can become complicated but
if you ponder over it how to work around the situations, and help whatever help you can render,
you can meditate over various scenarios of any activity.
Once you play it out in your mind, then it becomes easier to see the easiness
or simplicity of doing any chores or any work.
So there are many situations where life can become complicated but
and to start off with the session. I would like to ask you a simple but yet the most sort after question:
what is mind? When I was researching this,
I came to know that it is definitely not brain
or it is not also a combination with brain or heart but like what exactly is it?
Well, Namaste, and thank you for coming here. Mind is something like software.
What is software to hardware? The mind is the software to the brain, the brain is the hardware.
The mind plays out this role of its being software and how we manifest based on the program that we create.
In the computer industry, somebody creates a program, and the program runs the computer.
In the real-life situation, we are the creator of our own program,
we create our mind - efficient mind or deficient mind, foolish mind, or wise mind - this is our creation.
So, to answer briefly what is mind it is the software behind our hardware called the brain.
How is the mind related to health
and what is your view on mind and health and the overall wellbeing of an individual?
Inner environment is constant. The external environment will be different.
When you are at home you have a certain vibratory level in your family,emotional level in your family,
when you go to work it has a different environment; when you go to the hospital to visit someone,
it creates a different environment within you because of the external environment,
you become sad inside; when you go to a party, the atmosphere makes you feel happy inside;
when you go to a temple it makes you feel reverential from inside.
Now the external thing may change, the inner also reflects accordingly but
compared to the external environment one has greater control over the inner.
I cannot change the external environment, but I can definitely change my inner environment.
For example, if I am angry and suddenly my little daughter comes in front of me,
and also she wants to hug me, will you still wear the mask of anger?
You will have to drop it and hug the little darling and life moves on.
This is what we call the ability to shift your consciousness instantly.
If you are not, say you are angry and your daughter comes in front of you
and you still continue to be bubbling with anger
and later on the health consequences on the little one as well as on yourselves will speak loudly about you.
So, our inner behaviour, our inner attitudes of being happy, being jealous, being greedy, being angry,
irritable all these have different impacts. Why does the fist tighten up when you are angry, right?
Our eyelids or pupils will widen, the blood circulation in the limbs will increase suddenly,
his is a symptomatic response to a simple outside fight-or-flight situation.
But the inner environment goes on changing,
depending upon whether you are facing your boss and then you have one mask of personality
when you are meeting your mother you have one;
when you meet your ex-boyfriend in the presence of your present husband
you have a different environment I don’t know what will happen to the hormones that go on at that time or stresses.
So we create our health based on the lifestyle we lead.
Now sometimes we just can’t really control our emotions
and that is what either affects the other person who is with us at that moment or also our own inner self.
So, any some simple ways to handle those?
Focus your mind on one thing only, the main pursuit, the main goal.
When you are studying for your exams, and you have so much interest to excel in exams
would you be worried about other things? Nothing will touch you. You will be focused only on one thing.
When you will have a baby and you will be looking after the baby, babies perhaps,
and when you, will you be distracted by your own discomfort? So to some people, they would say,
“Oh, I am not going to have babies it is such an inconvenience”. Many people think like that, so to them, it is not going to be simple.
To some people, it is an inviting thing, “Oh, I like to have whole cricket team in my family as babies”
So it depends on with whom you are talking to.
So based on our interest we go on responding from with the heart. Your heart decides,
your heart reacts rather, your heart responds to external situations based on interest.
Just as you are happy to raise your own babies, would you be happy to raise somebody else’s baby?
Now there is a question mark.
You will think many times because it is a responsibility and it will require greater care because it is someone’s baby,
you are more responsible, you will feel, “Oh, I have to look after my sister’s daughter or my brother’s son or someone.”
So you will pay more attention also because you don’t want to be blamed.
So there are many situations where life can become complicated but if you ponder over it,
how to work around the situations, and help whatever help you can render,
you can meditate over various scenarios of any activity, once you play it out in your mind,
then it becomes easier to see the easiness or the simplicity of doing any chores or any work.
A person who is struggling to fight with mixed emotions, or uncontrolled emotions, meditation would help that person?
Meditation will help if a person is not meditating on stress.
If you have a problem and you go on meditating on the problem it will only become worse.
So instead of focusing on the negative focus on the positive.
And slowly we can learn to play with positive emotions
and hold on to these positive emotions for a long period of time.