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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