Tip to Manage the Mind

Monday, 11^th December 2017

Mind Awareness Management (MAM) teaches you how to develop the awareness about the mind and manage it effectively.

Mind needs to be trained to be controlled effectively. Both clear intention and constant practice are inevitable for practicing the usage of mind. The intention should be to manage the mind for its higher usage. Mind is an instrument with which the individual can know the world and function in life. The effective usage of mind is possible only when you train it properly. The practice should happen with the right intention.

There are three levels to manage the mind. 1. Debate level 2. Observation level 3. Realization level.

1. Debate level (verbal in nature)

Mind is interested in various aspects that exist around the individual. In the beginning stage of trying to manage your mind, building up a positive attitude towards everything is inevitable. You can do that only through positive thinking. It is necessary to find out positive reasons for everything around you, for being peaceful. Bad thoughts should be transformed into good and positive thoughts. The wicked and anti-social minds should be transformed into socially committed mentality. Lust, Jealousy and Competition must be replaced with Patience, Open mindedness and Compassion.

Reading is the effective practice at this stage. Focus the mind upon reading and thinking, reflecting and understanding. Language is the most important aspect in this stage. So selection of the books which you are reading is very important. Good books must be selected with a clear purpose. Reading good subjects for more than half an hour continuously leads to self awareness and management capability. Good subject refers to those which cause to develop positive thoughts and emotions.

Reading in the internet cannot be considered as reading here. Reading in social media or websites is just understanding a number of various subjects in short period of time. Your mind is not fixed on a single subject and the train of thoughts is not usually centered upon a single subject. It travels from one subject to another according to the interest of the individuals who surf the internet. Internet surfing is necessary and useful but what I suggest as an exercise is different kind of reading. Usually book reading would be more focused on a single subject. Only such a focused reading will help to manage the mind.

2. Observation level (Silent in nature)

There is an observer inside all human beings. Strengthening that aspect and keep it alive always is the higher method to manage the mind. Keeping the body still, without even a small movement, observing the thoughts and emotions as they are, accepting them and understanding the significance of them, is this method.

There is a chattering in the mind of each individual. Someone from inside, speaks to you without intervals. That inner chattering should be managed. It should be under your control. When the inner mind is silent, you can be said to be in silence. Otherwise, even if you are not uttering a single word, as long as your inner mind is chattering non-stop, you are not in silence. So the experience of the inner silence is the deeper observation of your mind. The silence between the words of the inner chattering should be observed and understood. And gradually it is widened. This is the method to develop inner silence. This can be developed with the help of watching your breath. Important warning for the beginner is that practice of silence should not exceed 30 minutes at a time. There should be at least four hours duration between each session of practice.

3. Realization level (contented in nature)

Once you have started experiencing the first and second levels of the mind management, you will realize that you are not your thoughts or emotions. You start dis-own your thoughts and emotions. They will have no power upon you there after. You will observe that you are the Observer. That is the stage when you start observing the Observer in you. You start knowing the Nature of the Observer. The observation should continue through prolonged periods and such sessions of observation, silence, vision and awareness are needed to gradually understand the depths of the Observing Self.

The transformation of the individual from one level to the other is not in a linier format. It is not like if you graduate the first level, you will be passed to the next. All these three levels are happening simultaneously.

Observe and Manage. (OM) Basically, this is the method..

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