Fool’s attitude
sokasthaana saharaani bayasthaana sathaani cha !
dhivasae dhivasae mootamaavisanthi na panditham!
Meaning :
Thousand reasons to feel worried,
hundred reasons to feel the fear – happens only in a fool.
The wise remains untouched.
sokasthaana saharaani bayasthaana sathaani cha !
dhivasae dhivasae mootamaavisanthi na panditham!
Meaning :
Thousand reasons to feel worried,
hundred reasons to feel the fear – happens only in a fool.
The wise remains untouched.
That is why NLP emphasizes the need of ‘doing’ for understanding.
Decades before NLP said this, Swamiji says on EXPERIENCE.
There is a saying “Experience is the greatest teacher”
What you experience stays with you as memory and comes as a ready reckoner for reference.
That is why NLP emphasizes the need of ‘doing’ for understanding.
Decades before NLP said this, Swamiji says on EXPERIENCE.
NLP , the science of Personal Achievement , stresses upon what is called as state of mind;
your response to life situation is based on your state of mind at that time.
If you are in happy & joyous state of mind, then a disappointment or a minor loss may not affect you so much as you would be at a time of discomfiture and disturbance.
If you are already disturbed, then a happy news from routine may not enthuse you so much.
It is your disposition that determines your response to life situation.
To say in NLP term, “How resourceful are you?”
Resourceful state of mind means a state of mind with spontaneous ‘can do’ attitude & enthusiasm
To well maneuver life situation a resourceful state of mind is recommended.
It is possible to create a needed state of mind .
This concept from NLP is well reflected in Swami Vivekananda’s words,
“If you are powerful enough you can divide your consciousness into twenty parts all at the same time. I am changing my psychology. Mind grows. That is what the yogis say. There is one passion and it rouses another, and the first one dies.
If you are angry and then happy , the next moment anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state.
These states are always interchangeable.
Eternal happiness and misery are child’s dream.
The Upanishads point out that the goal of man is neither misery nor happiness, but we have to be master of that out of which these are manufactured.
We must be masters of the situation at its very root, as it were.”
( Ref Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda Mayawati Memorial Edition, Advaita ASharama, Vol 1 page 432)
Like Swami emphasizes here, the secret of success lies in regulating your state of mind.
You can lean the art of Mind Management with the tools of NLP
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Reticular Activating System – R A S – of Brain
Reticular Activating System is a function of the brain that filters the information that enters,
be it pictures, sounds, feelings.
Reticular Activating system sorts out what is important information
that needs to be paid attention to and ignores all others;
If this is not done brain would be overloaded with information to be processed
and efficiency may go down.
For example, you go to railway station to receive a person whom you know well,
and you wait at the entrance; you get to see hundreds of people walking out,
yet you are keen to spot only the face you have decided to acknowledge.
That means your brain automatically fails to register any other detail
except the one what you have commanded to notice.
You buy a car of a particular model & color;
suddenly on road you start noticing who else has the same model & color.
It now comes to your awareness;
How? Because now you are more associated to that model & color and
so your brain (RAS) notices and registers.
Energy flows in the direction of focus.
The concept is well explained in the words of Swami Vivekananda,
We see that the impression of any action, to which we attach ourselves, remains. I may meet hundreds of persons during the day, and among them meet also one whom I love; and when I retire at night, I may try to think of all the faces I saw, but only that face comes before my mind- the face which I met perhaps only for one minute, and which I loved; all others have vanished. My attachment to this particular person caused a deep impression on my mind than all other faces…. Most of the faces, perhaps, were entirely new about which I had never thought before, but that one face of which I got only a glimpse found association inside. (ref The Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda, Mayawati Memorial Edition, Advaita Ashrama
VOL1 Page 56;)
Do you notice Swamiji’s explanation of Conscious awareness based on Vedanta is well reflected by NLP’s recognition of R A S?
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It is this point that Swami clearly emphhasizes based on Vedanta.
“My bretheren, we can no more think about anything
without a mental image than we can live without breathing.
By the law of association mental image calls upon the mental idea and vice versa.
That is why the Hindu uses external symbol when he worships.
He will tell you it helps to keep his mind fixed on the BEING he prays.”
(Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda Mayavati Memorial Edition, Advaitha Ashrama,Vol 1 page 16)
YOU here refers to your unique set of chromosomes, your abilities, traits, perception & experience.
NLP says go by your experience and feedback from within;
With regard to growth and development there is no universally applicable standard fitting all.
Each person’s experience may differ and each experience is true from the experiencer’s view.
This space is very much needed for authentic growth and development.
Substantiating this view I quote here Swami Vivekananda’s words
“Every man should take up his own ideal and endeavor to accomplish it. That is a surer way of progress than taking up other men’s ideals, which he can never hope to accomplish…. all the men and women, in any society are not of the same mind, capacity, or of the same power to do things; they must have different ideals, and we have no right to sneer at any ideal. Let every one do the best he can for realizing his own ideal. Nor is it right that I should be judged by your standard or you by mine. The apple tree should not be judged by the standard of the oak, nor the oak by that of the apple. To judge the apple tree you must take apple standard, and for the oak, its own standard.”
(Ref Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda, Vol 1 page 41)
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V. RANGANATHAN is a NLP Specialist & Executive Coach. He is a Professionally Certified Coach as per the standards of International Coach Federation
In his practice he trains both individuals and facilitates group sessions in NLP.