CONTROLING MIND THE EASY WAY

CONTROLING YOUR MIND THE EASY WAY
Once we understand the importance of controling your own thoughts and your line
of thinking the next question arise is how to achieve it .
1.CONCENTRATE
2.IDENTIFY IRRITANTS
3.SWITCHING THOUGHTS
4.RELAXING MIND
5.MAKE GOALS
6.KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE
7.DEFLECT THE INSULT
8.COMPARTMENTALISE YOUR MIND
9.PHYSICAL HEALTH
10.COMPANY



STEP ONE-CONCENTRATE-Learn to concentrate at work at hand.It is not difficult and can be achieved with practice. For example you are studying and your mind wanders you should try to bring it back.The span of concentration differs from person to person and usually is about 30-40 min.There are people who can concentrate for hours but is difficult to achieve. You should know your span of concentration and should have a break near around that time.
If your concentration breaks before your span of concentration, for example after only 5 minutes of study than you have to learn to bring your concentration back.If you cant concentrate at work at hand because your mind is disturbed by some thing you need diversion techniques. More of these later on .
STEP TWO-IDENTIFY THE IRRITANTS
There may be things that irritate your mind .One must learn to avoid the irritants to remain in ideal state of psyche.When you are on streets or on highway you dont pick a fight with person of better physique than yourself because you are afraid he will beat you up.But in everyday life we forget not to pick fight with bigger pahalwans(goons) ,Pahalwans in psyche .One should avoid picking a brawl with a person of stronger psyche otherwise a few minute argument might leave you psyche hurt for days and make you useless for work for hours.One is not able to concentrate for hours after getting hurt. So identify these psyche pahalwans around you ,avoid them and keep your psyche healthy.

STEP THREE-SWITCHING THOUGHTS
You must learn to switch your thoughts to subject of your choice easily.
It is as easy as switching channels of TV by your remote once you learn the trick.
One must practice switching thoughts regularly every day.One can start by making
a timetable for the same.For example
7.00am-7.15am-meditation
7.15am-7.30am-working with any subject of your choice
7.30am-7.45am-thinking about a pleasant experience you have had
7.45am-8.00am-writing about work or writing diary
and so on
It is just like making a time table with a difference that here you are switching your
thoughts faster in many areas.Later on one can decrease the time for each switch to
10 min and then to 5 minutes.
STEP FOUR-RELAXING YOU MIND
When you keep on working then your mind get tired and one is not able to
get optimal output from your mind.One must learn to have his mind working in perfect condition all the time .For this one has to learn relaxation techniques.
STEP FIVE-KEEP YOUR DREAMS ALIVE
To have healthy psyche it is important to dream.You must dare to dream
and should try to do something to realise the dreams. It is healthy to have dreams
for future. This helps a person to tide over the difficult times and keep your hopes alive for better future.
STEP SIX-MAKE GOALS
One should have goals for future. Goals can be divided in short term,mid
term and long term goals. A person having certain goals in mind doesn’t bother
about small problems of life because he set his sight higher.Suppose you are going
long distance on a highway in your car and somebody abuses you or there is minor
accident causing scratch on car you would not like to stop because you to have to travel far and you are away from your target.If you are roaming aimlessly than you are annoyed by small things on road.It is known world over that a person who has set his sight higher does,t bother about pot holes on road.
Step seven-DEFLECT THE INSULT
Many a times insult flung toward you may not be targeted toward you and
your psyche may be hurt unnecessarily in crossfire.So you have to learn to deflect
the insult.When somebody says a unpleasant thing think of following
-he may not mean it
-he may mean it for somebody else
-he is just in bad mood and is saying bad things generally
-there is some misunderstanding in his mind about the incidence
-he has not understood you perfectly
and if these things dont work try not to listen or forget things fast.In short become
chikna ghara and dont let mud stick to your mind.




STEP EIGHT-PHYSICAL HEALTH
Healthy mind live in healthy body,so keep yourself fit and healthy.

STEP NINE -COMPARTMENTALISE YOUR MIND
Create virtual compartment in your mind like on your disc drive.One should
be able to close one compartment with ease and open other.For example you are
leaving office then close this compartment and open home compartment so that
tensions and worries of office are left behind.This is specifically useful when you are
faced with tense situations and abuses.One should be able to compartmentalise the abuse .It is like stoping the fire to spread in other areas of psyche.So keep the hurt in that area only and then close the compartment to open it at time of your choice.

STEP TEN-COMPANY
Cultivate people who brightens your mood and keep there company.Atleast there must be somebody who times of stress canlift your mood and put your thoughts on right tract.

DR M