The Word - Mind over matter!

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We have discussed many times the power of words in this blog. Still people don't realize the power of words. Words, when used with truth, heart and underlying deep honesty can move mountains, change minds and expand mindsets. A word given with compassion, kindness and deep, heartfelt love can awaken the innate spirit of a person to take up some action or deeds. But as humans have no clue about words themselves, we use them with zero intention, thought or contemplation. Look at the way, the internet and the news media have become the war field of rhetoric, fake-news, misinformation and conspiracy theories? Can humanity get any worse?

Maybe we would if we don't change our mindsets. I have written many times about the concept of focus. Whatever we focus in our life, expands. If as humanity we heed to the negative news, falseness, dishonesty and misinformation, that is what is going to increase in our life. The above tenet is not the only one. This tenet works hand in hand with the next concept- Law of Attraction. Soon, the person starts to see what they were fearful of or hoping for manifestation in their own life.

But people take it as fate and try to fend it off. They often never realize it was their own thought process that brought the reality into their life. People can come and argue or debate about it. But mind has a big say over how our reality or life, shows up for us. Any time we are bogged down by negative thought process, it is a given, we are going to attract negativity into our life.

Internet and random browsing: If we heed to the energy and emotions of the current times, we may realize that negativity has slowly gripped our everyday life. We may not have a clue, but the craziness, chaos and confusion has increased. Can we sense it? In the 1950s, the television sets made an appearance in our living room. We as humanity became enchanted with the colors, shades, people and the acts happening on the TV. 

I remember, in my own home, we got a TV when I was nineteen years old, just two to three months before my pre-degree (12th grade) exam. On the day before my biology exam, the movie playing on the TV was Trishul, a 1980s movie. I still remember it and wanted to see it. The biology concepts and images were swimming in front of my eyes as senseless words. My focus fully in the front room on the TV. I myself don't know how I passed that subject. This is to showcase, where humanity as of now has kept our focus. Where is our focus as a whole?

The internet and the social media
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Each one of us have become that nineteen-year-old teenager addicted to our electronic toys, gadgets, tech toys, internet, news and social media. Are we really concentrating on our exam at hand? The exam is the lessons, knowledge and experiences, we came into this Earth to acquire. If we are having the focus on the TV in the front room, who is going to write the exam? As of now, all of us are glued to our TV, which in 2021 terms becomes the internet and the social media. 

You can ask, "Aren't you a blogger and answering on Quora?" Of course, I am. But that is my Dharma, to make people aware, they are actually wasting a human lifetime, that comes around for a Soul, once in a blue moon. Before 2017, I had minimal interaction with the internet or social media, except to search for literature and journal papers towards my biotechnology career. 

So, the point I am trying to make is, internet and social media should be used to build the value for our life, career and creativity. If it gives us deep value, meaning and contentment in our life, use it. But using the internet and social media for random browsing and just forwarding videos takes away our time, mind, effort and energy. If the mind is not fully focused on our own life, how would our life expand? Correct? Yes, it would expand, but we end up with things we don't want for our life.

Manifesting circumstances intentionally: Remember, we said - What we focus on expands in our life. So, if we focus on the wrong things, that is what is going to expand in our lives. Think like this. We are reading up on the internet about crime, criminals or some shows or episodes from some thriller channels. If we read it and then leave it, that is okay. If we later, think and peruse on it, that is where we are aligning our thoughts. That is the vibration we are going to give out.

Whatever vibration we align with, those circumstances are going to get attracted towards us. Remember the law of attraction. The exact people, circumstances or situations would get attracted. It would be only a matter of time; the crime or legal/ law situations starts to showing up in our neighborhood or life. It is a given. But many times, we would never realize, it was our own thoughts, that brought it into our life.

What we focus on, expands in our life
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Now, why don't we try an exercise. Think about a small favorite thing of yours deeply. Say a peacock, a kind of flower or even something as small as your favorite song. Think deeply about it and leave it totally out of your mind. Now, notice for the next ten days or even one week. Did you get back that particular thing as a commercial, movie clip, a random poster on a roadside or even someone mentioning it to you? Most probably you got it back. In case, your thought process was not very strong or solid, it didn't manifest in your reality. Otherwise, be very sure, it is going to appear in your reality.

This is called creating our reality with our thoughts. What we deeply think, we attract as reality into our experiences. Instead of realizing this deep concept, we as humanity are just randomly browsing on the internet, addicted to social media, politics, news, current social-geopolitical happenings and just wasting the one human life, we are bestowed with. Isn't that the truth? Are we really embracing the concept of - Wherever is our focus, there is our expansion!

If we understand this concept, we realize that our human life is actually made up of choices. Choices and choices. What we choose with our thoughts, can be either what we choose with intention or without. A person who realizes this truth would only choose what they deeply desire. Other things they would discard or negate from their life. This is the very basic condition of life. Keep on choosing that which brings value to oneself and one's life. This would eliminate that which a person doesn't want in their life.

This is to make choices intentionally to choose exactly what we want for our life. For that we have to eliminate every distraction that pulls our attention away from what we want for our life. Whether it is news, politics, current affairs, social media or internet. Instead, we should choose only that which brings value to us and our life.

Mind over matter: This is a deep concept that would do good for our life. As we have elaborated many times before, the human mind is compared to a Markada, monkey mind. It is fickle. It can jump around, make ruckus and go from one thought to the next thought unendingly. Such a mind is distracted to the very core. If it is distracted like that, how can it do anything? Access a deep thought, work on a project with persistence or achieve for one's own life? It cannot.

Such a mind would keep the person, coasting through life as a directionless boat. According to the thought that comes to their mind, they live their life. One day they think, this and start the project. Tomorrow, they would think that and stop the previous project and start the next one. Like this the person goes through innumerable thoughts, details, ideas and aspirations. The thoughts just remain in the seed level. never to take roots and become a huge, massive oak tree. Because any big idea/ project/ gig needs time, effort, focus, mind, energy, determination, dedication, discipline and persistence. All these elements are a must and needed.

Virtual, social media as well as society can have different voices and opinions
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But in today's world, the markada- monkey has overtaken the human. The human is being wagged by the mind. The tail wagging the dog. Instead, the being should realize, the agency or the will power is with the being. The mind is a tool like computer or the mobile phone, that should be used by the being to help the person to live and thrive. Instead, the mind is taking the person to task. If the mind is not controlled, how can a person use the mind to bring in the reality they want? They cannot. 

So, what ends up happening is the mind going in one direction, the heart or the Soul wants to go in the other direction and the person in the middle clueless what to do? Literally lost in life. This was my life from 2010 to 2017. The previous 20 years I had followed my mind to science and biotechnology. I was interested in the concept/ technology/ science part of it, not in the practical, laboratory part. The day I started working on the practical details, as a career in a lab, I lost interest. My mind was saying, this is your career, concentrate. But my heart pulled the plug on the emotions. Zero interest. I suddenly lost the interest to pursue biotechnology itself.

I was bewildered, a clueless person caught in the middle of a tussle between heart and mind. By end of 2016, I figured out, the deep inner desire of a human is with the Self in the heart. That is the desire that leads to their duty and purpose. To bring this purpose to fruition, the being has to use the help of the mind. Thus, the mind has to be used with the power of the heart. Such a mind that is led by awakened being is a powerful mind. The true power of the mind starts to manifest in the life of the being.

A mind led by an aware heart can control the body or matter to take intentions and subsequent actions. That mind directs the body, to concentrate on creativity and career, instead of being distracted by social media, internet and news. From my own life, I understand, how clueless I was before 2017 and how aware I feel now. The difference of driving a car without map or GPS. The car can go anywhere, any place and the person can get lost in the roads. Same way a person who doesn't have a mind that is aware is a being lost in one's own life.

Wherever is our focus, there is our expansion!
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But a being having a mind with awareness is a person who has a map or GPS for their life. No, they don't know every step, bump or valley. But they have a general idea about their own life and where they want their life to proceed. This mind can control the body to bring out the best outcomes for their own life. The mind cannot do anything by itself. It still needs the help of the body. Because the body has the karma-angas, the faculties that bring about actions, such as arms, legs and mouth. Without these faculties, the mind cannot do anything. So, the mind needs the help of the body.

But for that the mind first need to figure out itself with the help of the underlying heart and Soul. Such a mind is powerful and can take charge of the body, intentions and actions. A mind, under the guidance of the Soul residing in the heart, can bring the body under control to work towards their Dharma, duty as well as destiny. Such a mind takes charge of the material reality of their life by the help of the body to achieve the success over its own material reality. In other words, it can be called as the concept of Mind over Matter!

I wish you a good and safe weekend, and I'll see you next Friday! 😉

Next week: The Word - The facts!
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