Managing the Mind - How?

Managing the Mind : How can one actively defeat one’s own lower nature, and train the mind to be even and balanced? The point is very simple. Always maintain a positive attitude. As long as one maintains a positive attitude, and is happy and clear in one’s mind as far as one’s own aspirations and participation are concerned, one can easily manage the mind. It goes without saying that the nature of mind is to create problems all the time. Problems are created by the mind because of two things only: firstly, one’s expectations and needs, and secondly, mismanagement of the mental behavior. A person’s expectations and needs become their personal areas of involvement, and then managing of the reactive mind in normal situations has to be the focus


On the one hand people say that life is tamasic, restrictive, painful and confusing, yet on the other hand we all expect so much from our own life. There is a contradiction in life. There is no intellectual reasoning, logic or practice that can elevate one from this state, except one’s own understanding and effort to be happy, optimistic, and hopeful at all times, and to never allow any obstacle to become a problem, but only a hurdle to be overcome. 'Pratipaksha Bhavana', the cultivation of the opposite quality, is the answer. - Swami Niranjanananda (Bihar School of Yoga)

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