Monday, 11th 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..
Win yourself to
be successful in life..