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Nobody accepts one sided coin.

2008-08-06T22:11:00.000-07:00

Connectedness and self awareness will take you close to others – an habit of the mind.
Do not get surprised – you will do this when you think about all your planned actions which involves any other person or persons. First you have a stake in the planned action and you start with doing a sort of SWOT analysis. You integrate your all accessible knowledge, experience, ways to make a success out of planned efforts. The process of knowing yourself will not allow you not to think about those living around you. So, you do similar exercise about the people who are going to play role in the situation or situations that will emerge during the course of that event. This is a proactive way, a knowledge and no knowledge goes in vain.
Once a pathway is created, knowledge and thoughts are synthesized to deal with such matters, mind keeps on using the same method, more so, if you have experienced some positive and encouraging experience (feedback) a specific event.
Gradually, whenever possible, with a trace of connectedness you simply keep on thinking about others – their strengths, weaknesses, motives, ways, rightness or the wrongs, genuineness or lack of it – whatever parameters you come across. This way you feel that you are developing an understanding about others around you and that is gradually influencing your planned actions. So drive becomes a driver and utility of force becomes different than earlier.
The only risk in this way is that the database you generate should not become irrelevant.
This is but natural, living and aspired life you just cannot ignore the presence of people at the other end. After all life is nothing but a coexistence and shared things and experiences for co creations in the process. Like you, others also have their likes, dislikes, preferences and if your life comes across these feelings in the eventual interactions – you would certainly not like to be in for shocks from unexpected behaviour of those others. You get imaginative and start using your guesswork database of what others may have in their mind, create numerous scenarios. Basically you prefer not to be aggressive person so your thinking starts revolving around win win situation, then you will find that empathy is being developed – you are able to anticipate views, feelings and emotions of others. You get into their shoes and start looking at the scenario – modify it to make out a workable solution, you will create a time space for building options. When you come across each other you will position yourself open for multiple possibilities, then either
(a.) Decide way of handling the issues with others for mutual satisfaction, or
(b). If, for reasons, you are unable to accommodate others’ views; you will certainly try to find ways of least resistance for a win win situation.
Gradually you will sense that unknowingly balance and comfort level in your life is increasing. Whatever may be the problems in your life, you are willing to face them, feel happy for your honest efforts and feel motivated for shared happiness.
Where are the struggles in the life?

Create Moments

2008-08-06T21:59:00.000-07:00

Moments - not hours, days or years -make a life.
So let's create Moments.
This is all about our life – this knowledge will add wings to our powers to go beyond what we know….
Moments, like drops of water, come together to form our life stream.
Usually we can not select or reject Moments in our life by our likes or dislikes.
Incoming moments can not be filtered for desired values. They are just given to us by the life, that is why such moments are called a ‘Present’.
Like a raindrops up from the sky, the moments are generated by a complex natural phenomenon.
Let’s create a matrix.
Let M0 be the preceding past moment
Let M1 be the present and
Let M2 be a following moment – the future.
M0 - the Past moment capsules seeds and direction of the following moment in which the force was generated while living that moment.
M1 - Unless the substance and the direction the present moment carries, is in agreement with M0, we end up with confusion – like arrows flying in difference directions.
M2 - The cross currents from M0 + M1 , if not neutralized, gets transferred to the following moment having its own complex directions.
The Rain drops are part of the Universal flow but the moments we receive are seamlessly connected to our mind and life.
Evolved and meant alone for us.
Part of M0 comes filled with the obligations -Sanchit karma – accumulated consequences generating obligation in M1 for actions, our unfulfilled wishes, desires and dreams.
Some obligations inherited from M0 are to be performed along with real time M1 obligations , others are further carried forward.
M1 will also have obligations for M2.
Balance of M1 will hold smouldering consequences out of M0 and M1.
Just like this diverse life substance is impregnated into moments that consume us.
A water stream is made up of numerous drops of water coming from various sources, with different purity, impurity, colors and shades, minerals, sediments, taste, smells, cold and warmth.
The moments contain nano particles of numerous different substances, different directions, force and a lengthy agenda representing many unfilled or half filled desires and needs.
If each moment joins with dissimilar, useful, useless, harmful, harmless, substances and forces moving in from different sources, how will our life form be?

Surely, for every moment we consume, we will live just a fraction of it. Such stream needs purification if we want life somewhere near to the fullness.
How this stream can be purified?

We should be sensitive enough to understand past and present substances minutely with their positives and negatives and our short term and long term agendas.
It’s a race between whatever best knowledge we have and the time which flies away with its own speed.
It always enticing to look at colorful lives around, but it is not simple to ingrain our own.
We cannot change our past, we cannot change the way people live and interact, we cannot change the circumstances which emerge around us, the only thing we can do is to change our ways we know ourselves.
We cannot change the direction of the wind, we cannot change its force, only thing we can do is to adjust our Sails focused on direction and destination.
Knowing the self within will be the most cost effective discovery of the 21st Century.
In the rush of life and multiplicity of needs - their satisfaction or lack of it – we are rarely aware what drives our actions – intelligence, emotions or obsessions? Why things go right many a times?

We are unable to anticipate the nature of consequences – positive or negative - our thoughts and actions may generate.

Uncertainties in the life appear as a constant factor and we stray away from the realities that make our life as we live it.
We are not trying to be experts in all these fields – but as the wise have said we are trying to develop an 'educated acquaintance' with branches of knowledge which concern each of us.
Today more such knowledge is evolving – be with it.
Know the Self within and know the true potentials – to create moment, to create happiness.
Dreams do come true – by being clever than the dreams.
Know it.
The Learning Mind -Know the self within

“ it is a search for better ways to interact with the self for enlightenment to achieve seemingly difficult things in life. I am sharing the studies to re form whatever knowledge rests within our minds, to empower the struggle for our dreams with infinite within the finite.

It is always better to be enlightened to be clever than the dreams.”
Come on, start thinking,
let’s create moments we desire and make our lives beautiful and happy.
Will You?

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This is text of slideshow 'Create Moments'. This show is translated into Spanish and Marathi.

see it on http://www.slideshare.net/tanksons

The Free Will

2008-01-21T15:59:00.000-08:00

The thoughts about the supreme human spirit seem to be associated with the following noble ways through which each one can always meet the humanly aspirations for the the fulfilled life.

a. discrimination – which presupposes knowledge and differentiation, search of truth and vlues.

b. awareness - honesty to the self, relationship with the universal truth and values ,abstinence wherever and whenever needed,judicious selection or exclusion, individual values and full preparedness to respect one's values.

c. creativity - self motivated responsibility and commitment to attain the respected values, deployment of best of individual resources like co ordinated memory,thoughts, invocation of the subconscious, mercurial intuition,imagination - for problem solving, new ideas and action – Karmyoga, submission to the laws beyond the known ones.

d. satisfaction - relationship with the results from the well directed efforts without obsession, social acceptance, justice through equitable distribution and contribution going beyond own survival along with self esteem.

All the noble and self sustaining values manifest the true human spirit through these integrated and four ways of human approach. All human availabilities and capabilities - spiritual, mental and physical - seem able to reach to near the human potential. No more is left undesired, whatever is realized is just and equitable with absolute absence of negativity and sorrow. Each one around the person accepts it whole heartedly and a supreme humility persists for co existence for individual and collective march ahead.

Its a perfect dream of thoughts and values, woven and passed on to us by the experience and wisdom for generations and generations for each of us to live and prosper as a human being. All that is good around us is a result of this human spirit. All that is around us which counteracts the human spirit is surely caused either by ignorance or by lack of will or by purely selfish and individualistic approach for whatever reason – known or unknown.

Unfulfilled needs and life is not given to us by somebody outside of us. It is an inadequacy and inferiority of one's own efforts cause the non realization of aspirations.

When one really aspires fulfilled life himself or herself, this seems to be the way. This does not belong to anybody, it should be one's own way and one can give whatever name to it. Like a true philosophy there can be no direction or dictum about these ways; it can just be a loud thinking like a verse in Geetanjali or a soothing but heart penetrating song of the human soul or a colorful expression of sublime thoughts.

The Nature around us testifies that these ways do exist since primordial time, the universe in which we live demonstrates these ageless realities. These realities are so precise that we can anticipate speed and positions of solar entities and beyond very precisely.

When humanity is an integral part of it - what delivers us the distorted ways? We need to rediscover why. We are part of the universal entity and our free will is not a permission to disassociate from the equilibrium.

How do we Learn?

2008-01-20T19:36:00.001-08:00

The search of knowledge powers, we dealt with just now, depend on how we use the brain powers. We have seen these powers are equitably provided to each normal human being. The difference between individuals in attaining and using the knowledge power depends upon how the facilities are used by the individuals.

Universally three activities are involved in the process.

How we store the sensory inputs – quickly, thoroughly and efficiently. Same rule applies when we need to retrieve the information from the memory – again quickly, thoroughly and efficiently. How we interpret the stimulus while listening, seeing, tasting, smelling and touching and pass them onwards / outwards to / from the memory locations decides the integrity and fullness of the basics in the knowledge process. (here we are not considering the role of emotions to colour the process with biases)

Clarity and sincerity of purpose, attention, concentration are some of the factors which also influence the effectiveness. Just for example we take commonly known listening process – in reality it includes hearing with full absorption, listening with differentiation and understanding to give integrity while storing what is heard. That is why, we usually observe, students in a class or listeners of a music concert, employees in an organization eventually end up with different levels of satisfaction.

While we are listening, it is not the ear which does that job as it just absorbs the signals and passes on to the nerves for onward transmission. Then it goes to short term memory where the concerned associations for the new stimuli are identified and once the ways and locations are identified for storage the input is stored. Any deviation in hearing, evaluating and deciding the associations can take away effectiveness and efficiency of the process. Our full fledged study on brain has gone into more details of this aspect.

As we have seen while dealing with subconscious, conscious human mind usually focuses attention to stimuli’s relevance to the perceived utility by the conscious mind. When the relevance not so strong conscious mind has tendency to ignore the so called irrelevant. So this input is not available for thought process in conscious manner.

The subconscious has an ability to absorb such “ignored and irrelevant” inputs and create a space for them in the system – permanent memory storage. Naturally, these sources are available only when accessed by subconscious. Majority of human population has used subconscious power very sparingly – may be under emergencies and impossible conditions. Our conscious ego just does not feel it necessary to appeal the subconscious for a contribution.

The vary purpose of memory management is to help brain to think for solving problems. Here we have define “problem” more liberally. Any action that invokes brain’s capabilities should be treated as a “problem”; then story telling is a problem and reminiscing in memories is a problem and how to discipline a errant kid is also a problem. Problem solving as such a equally deeper subject like that of brain, however, it will be sufficient to say that the challenges in this world has kept human spirits alive and prospering only due to this ability of human brain and memory system. All the successes and failures have the roots in the commissions or omissions of this discipline. Infinite number of ongoing challenges has been motivating human beings to seek better ways in handling the demanding situations.

Objectively looking at the world tells us that each and every problems that was identified is solved somewhere by someone and there is nothing new as such; but here finding the problem solver is also a problem.

Creating new ideas is again a similar process of thinking and problem solving; however, here the problem is perceived one to seek a different solution or adding new values to an existing process. Finding new utilities of the existing product or cost reduction, quality improvements are all examples of this demand on brain’s abilities. Even this initiative of “individual capability development” is a new idea. Everybody is capable of this ability and such abilities can be acquired with conscious efforts for better results, prosperity and satisfaction.

Links to the basics

2008-01-20T19:25:00.000-08:00

With the total capabilities human brain differentiates human from other animals and this is manifested only through the thinking and allied capabilities, which ultimately enable him to acquire knowledge which further leads to the wisdom and the progress humanity has demonstrated with it. Self awareness is also a knowledge and wisdom. How this can be achieved? Learning – learning to acquisition of memories, understand and differentiate, learning to choose, learning to imagine and dream, learning to act as super species.

Very recently, in 2005-06, a book called “The Secret” made sensations in the world. It sums up various thoughts on this,” What we do is we attract into our lives the things we want, and that is based on what we're thinking and feeling. This explains that we create our own circumstances by the choices we make in life. And the choices we make are fueled by our thoughts—which means our thoughts are the most powerful things we have here on earth.”

Let us recall when we were discussing the subconscious, that “consciousness always revolves around the survival, a relatively superfluous matter; but subconscious always deals with the non superfluous, intrinsic and deeper matters”. This requires going beyond survival and absorb something beyond consciously thought as necessary to take us towards our potential. Simply conscious thoughts and choices are insufficient, they will not always deliver.

Any fruit or crop is just natural phenomenon and we know unless human living, like the grapes, links itself to the basics of the sources in effective and meaningful manner, the growth can not be achieved, purpose will not be served, true knowledge and self awareness will not be attained. We know how all these things are facilitated by our biological assets. Grapes have a simple purpose but not the human being; that is why grapes are grapes and human being is a human being.

The greater purpose of human being just cannot be attained by remaining superfluous. We need to go deep with full force and seek the best that can deliver the human dreams.

Fuel fot thought

2008-01-20T04:49:00.000-08:00

How brain stores information.

As a patterning device, the brain almost certainly has no equal. It is capable of storing virtually every major piece of data it (prefers) to take in. The knowledge which is generated through the internal thinking process is also handled in the same manner.

Learn to identify and recognize a dog, for instance, and your brain sets up a storage file for dogs. Every other type of dog you learn to recognize is stored in a similar patterning system. Same rule governs all objects. Many scientists now believe we store many of those interconnected subjects like branches on a tree.

But it's much more complex than that. If we asked you to name the batsmen you know, you'd start to rattle them off: Tendulakr, Dravid, Laxman, Ganguli, Lara, Kalis, Jafar from “Cricket – batsmen” memory-tree. If we asked you to name round objects, you'd include oranges from your "round objects" memory-tree. So your brain classifies information in many different storage-files - like a library, or a book-index, cross-references books.

As we have seen, memory’s march within the system – from short term to immediate archive and then to warehouse and permanent archive is a function of conscious mind and what the conscious mind ignores as irrelevant is the function of subconscious mind. The conscious / subconscious discrimination is a further challenge apart from quality of stimulus absorption and onward storage.

Mind mapping is an interesting exercise to expand the network of associations while encoding the memory. This is most useful tool to take any individual near to his potential. It is like always using wider net fishing net with smaller openings to catch more and even the slightest of stimulus and make us rich with the knowledge power for years to come.

Memory Lanes - beyond time dimesnsion

2008-01-20T04:43:00.000-08:00

We have seen the phenomenal bioware capabilities of human brain earlier.

Just consider what happens if you took only ten everyday items - like the first ten things you did this morning - and combined them in every possible sequence. The result would be 3,628,800 different combinations. Take 11 items, connect them, and the number of possible combinations is 39,916,800! So now try combining 100 billion cells in every possible way - when each one can make up to 20,000 different connections - and you get some idea of the creative capacity of your own brain.

Brain stores the information by making great use of associations. Every person's brain has an association cortex. It stores the information in treelike dendrites. A branch is used for each association group, like our computer directory. It can link up like with like, from different memory banks. Following process is involved Encoding or registration - processing and combining of received information, storage - creation of a permanent record of the encoded information.

Each of us has a tremendous ability to store information - and to remember it when we trigger the right association. It is just like the tracts of land where we do not know real potential of it to absorb and deliver. Of course the dendrites do not multiply the seeds like land tracts do with crops. Unfortunately, the creator has not given us a software tool to measure how much memory capacity one has and how much is used by the individual and so on.

Memory is a link to the long time span in any person’s past, with this one can link himself to the present and the future future. Brain and memory take us beyond the time dimension. It is also a fuel for thoughts, perception, imagination, dreams and action – success or failure. So it is not enough to have a good brain or memory, he main thing is to use it well.

Part of the Whole - but still apart.

2008-01-20T04:09:00.001-08:00

The universe is made up of energy, and the language of energy is waves and frequencies. Scientists have detected that at every dimension of life, including the human body, subtle energy layers are vibrating beneath the visible world of matter. The ultimate center of infinity is known as Parabrahman – the universal mind / soul, the absolute reality. The human mind is the use of supreme universal mind.

The perceived infinity of human brain and mind, since thousands of years, is now scientifically confirmed. The basic building block Atom is the link, however, clouded in the humanly and material frequencies these Atoms cannot always be in touch with the universal force.
In our Upanishads the learned Rishis have written – Aham Brahmasmi : I am One with the Essence of the universe. Further they have said, “The Para Brahman is infinite, so is the Brahman. The infinite proceeds from infinite, to the infinite, realizing the infinitude of the infinite.” Another attribute is described as “He is all pervasive, pure, bodiless, without wound, without sinews, taint less, untouched by sin, omniscient; he has duly allotted various duties to the time eternal”

A greatest mind we know, Albert Einstein has summed up, in first half of last century, like this : “The fact about the Universe is that it is comprehensibly incomprehensible”. The recent knowledge about human brain, mind and subconscious deserves nothing different than this description. Now let us see why our Rishis said about ten thousand years ago,”That which man does not comprehend with the mind, that by which, they say, the mind is encompassed, that is Brahman.”

Scientist, Michael Gacquilin, has been carrying out research on the forces in the universe. He tells us that we are not able to understand even one percent of the things that are caused by the universal forces coming within our experience. Its dimensions are different, it seem to be understood in totally different ways which we do not know. However, it is very much certain that human life and that of the universe is connected is in a rhythmic harmony. The whole world is participating in it, co existing – and nobody is alone.

Pythagoras believed that every star, every planet and every satellite gives out a unique vibration through its movement as it travels in space. Every movement of the stars gives out a vibration, and every star has its own individual movement. All the vibrations of the stars together make a musical harmony, which he called the harmony of the universe.
Cosmic chemistry says that the entire cosmos is a single body. Nothing in it stands alone, all things are joined together. So no matter how distant a star may be from us, when it changes, our heartbeats also change. And no matter how far away the sun may be, when it becomes very disturbed our blood circulation is also disturbed. But in space all kinds of strange currents are flowing, the effects of which man may not be able to withstand.

According to Chin, Western, Ancient Chinese, and Indian tradition all say the same thing but in different words – “Energy with its limitless manifestation, comes from one universal source. “ Movement of energy is the basis of life. In order for energy to move it must have an inherent polarity relationship; that is, it must have something or somewhere to move to. Human body and mind is an expression of energy and vice versa. All things are manifestations of energy, including us; that is, all things are essentially 'living' things in that energy flows through them despite our inability to observe this phenomenon directly.

"The tissues which compose our physical form are fed not only by oxygen, glucose and chemical nutrients but also by high vibrational energies which endow the physical form with the properties of life and creative expression." The human being possess the physic energy,instinct and thought as a prime mover which guides this human matter in motion; yet like all matters on the earth each one is l influenced by law of gravity, which sustains the universe as it has been for infinity. Same holds true between relationship between the Universal force and atoms within us. But the relationship is so subtle that we rarely feel it then forget about develop the bonds between each other. When all our energies are brought into harmony, the body flourishes, and when the body flourishes, soul has a soil in which it can blossom in the world.

Thinking minds in the past had dwelt upon this and now we know some Yogas create current loop which polarizes the brain part through which it flows in a homogeneous way. The body then becomes an effective antenna for the resonant frequencies of the ionosphere. In layman's terms, you then pick up information from the air.

Recent experiments in higher consciousness show that people begin to have holy experiences and visions while vibrating at above 200,000 cycles per second. The non-mediator vibrates at about 350 cycles per second. To raise one's vibrational frequency and it is necessary to tune into the Universal Force.

This is how human relationship with the universe can be understood. I just cannot imagine what human being can do with these powers whenever it gets somewhere in the vicinity. It is very much certain that before even thinking about use of such powers human beings may have to unlearn substantial part of generations old convictions and approach the universal power as just conceived human soul and body depends on mother womb - awaiting to become real one in mankind within the universe.

Intuition - you do not know what you know

2008-01-20T01:11:00.000-08:00

Knowledge is what you know that you know. Intuition is what you do not know you know. It cannot be taught; you learn it on your own. It is something which is dissloved in your mind and gets crstalized. At the core of intuition is a set of understandings that the owner just does not know about. It is immediate apprehension by the mind and senses without reasoning without any prior knowledge. All stands revealed the hearts, the motives, the causes of all events. All is open to the person. Pure Intuition, as above, so below.

Intuition can be said to be a comprehensive grip of the principles of universality. A person who develops intuition can know anything, without the barriers of time, space and any other obstructions.

When knowledge is integrated with intuition, it becomes wisdom. The intuition is a display of a peak performance of the human being spiritually and intellectually. This happens when individual is in most honest earnest, aware and immersed state of mind. Immersion means such a deep experience that it enters the implicit memory and stays firmly lodged without your being aware it is there. It equates with what sports psychologists call "flow" or being "in the zone."
The intuition can not be commanded or demanded, as it has its own prerogative for the revelation. Only the resources belong to the individual and there is absolutely no control over the phenomenon. Creative people, people with hunches whose chief concern is with future possibilities. They are able to sense the invisible and the impalatable. They perceive wholes and compress much into a flash. Poets and prophets are often intuitive.

Feelings often forecast the consequences. Keep in mind; you never want to force it. Just let things happen…no preconceived thoughts in mind. When one relaxed, one finds oneself able to better decipher all the inner dialogue that goes on in one's head...one knows, the stuff one just can't shut off.

It is interesting to ask oneself – how many times one has encountered these intuitional experiences. An diverse aspirations, ambitions and dreams reflecting the individuals wish list, rich memory base compiled with full involvement and will power to achieve the aspirations and dreams, by taking actions, throwing and committing all that the individual possesses – is essential for such manifestation of the inner power.

Intuition can be developed through practice and immersion. Practice is doing the same thing so many times that you no more know that you know. The search of such treasures from within start with getting oneself quiet, calm and composed as one can. Silence is a state of mind which can generate great ideas. Subconscious always guides in subtle manner speaks in slow voice. It’s better to get relaxed to possess the faith and confidence in oneself, where clear thinking is possible. It takes one to a meditative state. The mind brings scattered ends of situation together. Theta waves are also known as the gateway to learning and memory. Theta meditation increases-creativity, enhances learning, reduces stress and awakens intuition and-other extrasensory perception skills.

Sense of proportion and direction will get opened up before you to think. Solution dissolved in the sea of thoughts then starts crystallizing – when it is sufficiently visible it will pop up in one’s mind. It needs no external support nor a expansive environment like motivational music etc; all that is needed is the inner calm.

One often wonders why such ways were not thought of earlier.

Experiences :

"How do I know that I am in touch with my true intuitive feelings and not confusing them with all the other feelings that I am having?" Perhaps, this is a question that you all struggle with...I know that I did for years. Who said that understanding what your body might be trying to tell you is easy work anyway?Here's what I have found that helps me validate my true intuitive feelings; When I am in touch with my intuition, I get this calm, happy energy that feels as if this energy is expanding beyond my physical body. If it?s not coming from my intuition, I get an anxious, tight energy that feels as if my body is constricting leaving me breathless (exaggerating somewhat). Sometimes these feelings aren’t as noticeable as others. They may be very subtle at times. Over time I have made it a habit to pay more attention to these subtleties. This small effort has helped me tremendously.

So what would I put out any effort to explore my intuitive feelings? Here is why ..
Allows one to make better decisions or choices for furthering personal growth and development.
Gives guidance that helps to successfully reach the goals and higher purpose.
Helps to avoid any harmful or destructive situations that create setbacks in life.
Gives greater clarity with the questions that hunt
Helps to experience life in a new fulfilling way.

One can take advantage of these benefits by discovering the power of your intuition.

Remember that intuition is like a muscle. The more you practice it, the stronger it becomes.
Learn to make it your ally. It may save a life.

DNA co-discoverer James Watson wrote, “Intuition isn’t mystical. It’s a sort of background sense of how things should work: it’s facts hidden in the brain.”

The Waves you can ride on

2008-01-20T00:51:00.000-08:00

Though physically we have four brain systems ( though interlinked ), the difference between conscious, unconscious, subconscious brain / mind functions is mainly in method of usage and control. It is not yet convincingly known how the neural usage is decided and how the capacities are allocated for different applications.

The manner of control over process differentiates the output quality of practically same hardware usage. Conscious one is a natural and normal reactive function (different from instincts ); and subconscious one is a proactive function. Let us see how our biological hardware facilitates this.

Brain works on at least four different electrical wavelengths - like four different television channels. Each is associated with distinctive state of consciousness.

The Conscious Mind - it represents a mere 12% of the total mind's capacity, and can hold one single thought at a time – and that to not more than 7 character at a time and it depends on memory buffer when situation demands longer though put. Apart from reflex actions or instincts, it has control over our nervous system, and is responsible for the voluntary actions of our muscles.

It is said that the average human being handles about 12,000 different thoughts each day; it usually happens in a conscious state of mind(brain) when the frequency is 14+cycles a second when the attention diverted to the outside world and sensory stimuli's are strongly felt. The mind is fully capable of reactive thoughts and actions.

The conscious mind is mainly active when we are awake and is responsible for our decision making processes, or rationalization and analysis. It decides what action we will take, often based upon past subconscious experiences, and constantly re-assesses a situation to ensure that the correct action has been taken. Due to shorter memory capacity it only deals with the 'here and now' situation.

A transitory phase in between conscious and subconscious - During the ALPHA waves (8-13 cycles-per second) the eyes-are heavy or closed, the mind gets effortlessly associated with dreaming and light meditation state. In this cycle sensory stimulus is not sharp but they are felt subtly, the person is in receptive mood but interplay within the mind is relatively strong.

The Subconscious Mind

In Theta phase ( wave 4 to 7 cycles per second ) we get into a trance, whether induced as part of hypnosis, or as a natural process, our conscious mind becomes completely dormant, all senses are withdrawn from external world. The mind gets into all motor movements and reactive abilities are absent. In this frequency subconscious mind takes a person in deep meditative state and operates in a similar way to an auto-pilot on an aircraft – keeps on flying, should anything happen that requires the conscious mind to reawaken, it will do so immediately.
The subconscious mind takes up the remaining 88% of our brain's capacity, and could be compared to a massive computer system that stores all of the information regarding our location, situation, feelings etc. Unlike the three-dimensional intellectual brain, the subconscious brain operates in infinite dimensions creating new harmonies.

DELTA waves (.5 to 3 cycles per second) endow a total vacation from existence and provide the most profound feelings-of peace leading to deep-sleep.

These three are mind’s elevating states, where the progressive access to the permanent memory bank is possible, there are no interruptions and vetoes from the conscious mind – no survival compulsions, free thinking, imaginations, dreaming and other creative processes have full freedom – a boundless universe for the individual.

Can you imagine consciously the beauty and utility potentials of these ways? Do you now understand why we always think of sleeping over the matter?

It is essential to stimulate the senses with an agenda when these interplay are about to begin in he course of natural deep sleep process. This is one way the subconscious performs – we must ensure that we take maximum advantage of this universal process to generate more awareness and focused thinking.

However, this is not the only way one can invoke the powers of the subconscious. Yoga is meditative discipline that uses the mind and senses to create a communication between mind and body. It takes us to potential form of life force, lying dormant in our bodies. It causes awakening and spiritual maturation that can induce an altered state of consciousness. It adds to the original reservoir of subtle bio-energy and helps controlling and managing the energy flow and subsequent manifestation. Experts have contributed interpretations to the concept of Yoga; such as Physiological, Psychological, Clinical, Religious, Mythological and Spiritual.

What to do with all this.

2008-01-20T00:45:00.000-08:00

Whenever the situation demands,neurons in a dendrite can become vegetative, they extend themselves to accommodate the extra inputs. Say an original dendrite housing memories about your friends and associated stimulus outgrow the original capacity, some thing like this happens. The Directories an computer drives are designed just like this. However, it is not just for storage but for all other functions these extensions perform their roles.

Take 11 items, connect them, and the number of possible combinations is 39,916,800! So now try combining 100 billion cells in every possible way - when each one can make up to 20,000 different connections - and you get some idea of the processing capacity of the brain.
Consider this further: By the time an infant is two or three years old, the number of synapses is approximately 15,000 synapses per neuron. This amount is about twice that of the average adult brain.

The present studied guess says that an average person's brain handles as many as 12000 thoughts per day, the studies further express a guess that an alert person's brain can handle as many as 60000 ( sixty thousand ) thoughts per day; I.e. 5000 thoughts per hour and 800+ thoughts per minute. Now let us look at ourselves – ask yourself. Many of us do not reach to this level – most important reason being we do not try to use these capacities - just like an ordinary person can't run one mile in four minutes. What is important, that person has an intrinsic capacity to reach to these levels, but one has to stretch the abilities by continuous usage and conscious efforts. Looking around we can find accomplished performers doing their best. Another thing to remember is that these skills can be acquired, developed and perfected.
Better sensory co ordination will help you to concentrate and absorb best out of inputs.
More memory gives you wider and in depth insight and diverse emotional templates.
Better thinking ways will enable you to think dynamically ( logical, critical, creative, lateral and so on).

Dynamic thinking will enable you to have multiple meaningful options to solve the problems,
It will give you confidence.
Better solutions in consistent manner will give you the intelligent edge.
No power can stop you from doing what you aspire to do.

Practicing for running one mile in four minutes may be tough proposition for everybody;however, disciplining thinking process, is for the higher levels as above - is Zero cost and Zero exertion proposition.

May be you will need to feed your brain with lots of glucose and fresh air- that's all.

You have Universe of your own to manage

2008-01-19T04:36:00.000-08:00

Human being slowly ascended from lower life forms to what we are today, by a process of natural selection from randomly occurring changes. Each change did prove its worth by surviving the endless battle for existence and this process has gone on for many millions of years.

The Brain is about the size of two clenched fists and weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kg.) and contains 1000 trillion (that is a very big number!) Protein molecules.

The brain functions by complex nerve cell, circuits. Neurons communicate between themselves through,both electrical and chemical mediums and always travels from the dendrites of a neuron, through its soma, and out its axon to the dendrites of another neuron. One neuron may communicate with thousands of other neurons, and many thousands of neurons are involved with even the simplest behavior.

From the very earliest days of life those cells form new learning connections, or synapses, at the incredible rate of 3 billion a second. It is believed that these connections and their efficiency can be modified, or altered, by experience. Those connections are the key to brain power. No one is using more than a fraction of that amazing ability.

We have four brains in one but on three different levels; called - a triune brain. Top layer (neocortex)- is the thinking part. It is split in to two hemispheres, the right & the left. Middle layer (limbic) – is emotions part - sense of identity, values, & long term memory. The lower layer (reptilian) - is the survival part, controlling all body functions and instincts. The fourth is just shrouded in skull.

Human brain evolved in three main stages.
Its ancient part is the innermost core reptilian brain.
Next evolved the mammalian brain by adding new functions and new ways of controlling the body.
Then evolved the neocortex,the third part of the brain, the Grey matter, the bulk of the brain is divided in two symmetrical hemispheres, separate but communicating. To a considerable extent it is our neocortex which enables us to behave like human beings.

The top layer of the brain consists of two halves, the left and right hemispheres. Each controls different functions and processes information in different ways. These sides are linked by an amazing electronic and chemical relay-system that itself has 300 million operating nerve-cells. This shuttles information around instantly like a multinational automatic telephone exchange.
Amygdala are almond-shaped groups of neurons located deep within the medial temporal lobes of the brain in complex vertebrates.

This is just a brief description of the human brain hardware. As we do experience something of it ourselves and know the other experiences ; we can imagine what immense power is provided to us. Except the incapacitated people each of us possess this hardware and it is capable of the speed mentioned above.

Each of these parts have predesignated functions and enable human being to live as human being,beyond being an animal. As we know these developments took place, over a period of last 4 million years, while seeking a survival by responding to the changing demands – a natural selection process. This is a natural process and expected to continue hereafter also. We know, the present generation is more smart than us, it is the same thing, the brain is learning to respond.

“The neuro science is exploding”, this is how the recent studies are described. Awareness, substantiated by conformity tests, about these capabilities has become available in last decade.
The Owner's Manual of the Brain, by Dr. Pierce Howard, Ph. D, is one of the authentic and exhaustive compilation on the subject for the common man, having no fluency in medical terminology. Based on recent research in psychology, neurobiology, information science, philosophy, anthropology, and linguistics, this updated edition covers how our brain functioning relates to:

The developing brain - birth and childhood
The aging brain
Wellness - sleep, exercise, stress, burnout, diet; music, and humor
Illness - Alzheimer's, ADHD, epilepsy schizophrenia cerebral palsy, addictions; immune system, headaches, and strokes
Mood disorders - depression, anxiety, seasonal affective disorder
Personality and intelligence
Learning and teaching
Creativity and problem solving
Workplace and performance
Sex and Love

There are other resources which,eventually justify the description “Exploding” ; and each of these researches reveal that in our daily lives we hardly use just around 1% of the available capacity, we do not use the supreme powers like subconscious,intuition, imagination and dreams to help us in our struggles against the worldly realities.

As there is hardly a subject matter that is connected with human brain, thinking and powers, it is difficult to say anything about the changes this knowledge can bring in. Suffice it so say, today we hardly educate, teach, learn – how to use our most powerful asset. Without stretching our own brain we can definitely calculate – if with around 1% of usage we are what we are today, what will be the situation if we reach somewhere near 1.5% or 2%.

Just guess, don't imagine, what one can do by using these superior powers and speed while thinking, dreaming and problem solving. I know, my high school teachers telling us ,'we are just taking your near the water, but we can not make you drink it”, it sums up what people with this knowledge must be thinking.

Brain - Replica of infinite Universe

2008-01-16T20:21:00.000-08:00

Anything said about this wonder will always be inadequate - the human brain - though we have 6.5 billions in working conditions today.

Scientific knowledge about brain, its power and estimates about utilization of the brain power by the human beings is as equally amazing. No doubt what we are learning today was not available to us when we were in schools or colleges. These are the conclusions drawn by renowned brain scientists and neurologists, with the help of sophisticated instruments like EEG / MIR and host of others. Practically all major universities, working with renowned institutions , hospitals, are trying learn more about brain to help society as a whole and students in specific.

Years Ago Estimate of brain potential utilization
40 Yeras ago - estimate 50%
30 Years ago - estimate 40%
20 Years ago - estimate 20-30%
10 Years ago - estimate 20%
In 90s - estimate Around 1%

The research is not restricted to the biological part of the constructions, but it also covers how communications take place, human memory storage, retrieval, thinking, brain nutrition and foods etc. Some management institutes are looking at other sides like intelligence, emotions, human behavioral patterns, social relations etc. Genetic engineering is again a subject which is expected to revolutionize the human life and qualities of our next generations, by adding man made designs and rearrangements to this system.

Despite all things, one thing is really surprising – what prohibits or prevents human beings from using the rest of underutilized power? Are the challenges are not enough to commit the powers, are our dreams waiting for some other power to take over? The answer is simply NO. The reason obviously is that we are not aware about the totality – we feel ourselves luck whenever we do something beyond our know powers, we do not try to find out and repeat the performance in any other field. We convince that either it is our luck or an accident and we keep on doing wishful thinking for luck to revisit us again.

The solution is to learn about these things, they are now available to all those who really intend to make the great improvement in their assets and power for fulfilled life.

This knowledge has already started making sweeping changes in handling each and every aspect of human life. We shall see later sheer number of neurons and glue cells and their communication speed simply reduces our present awareness about our own capabilities next to nothing. It is not surprising to note that the computers we use today are practically based on the human brain design and along with the brain knowledge the computers have changed and changed for better. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is next thing to follow. Today we just cannot imagine what will be nature and result of human partnership with the computers and AI to come.

The only comparable phenomenon we know is that of universe. Let us not forget that the power which created universe has also created human being. Knowing more about this and keeping with the developments is just inevitable if we really care for our quality of life and that of the following generations.

What really makes a Human being ?

2008-01-16T19:15:00.001-08:00

The Brain is about the size of two clenched fists and weighs about 3 pounds (1.4 kg.) and contains 1000 trillion (that is a very big number!) Protein molecules. It is only in the last 500 years or so, mankind has realized that the brain was located in the skull.

As we have seen it started with a reptile brain – which is common for all animals. Then the limbic brain and neocortex and brain stems. It is a result of evolution which lasted for over lakhs of years, through mutations and natural selection while adapting with the changing environment. The process is still ongoing. Genetic engineering and other medical research are not only contributing to further development. In 25-40 years we know more about the brain and this is changing the whole human awareness.

Brain works through active brain cells.
Mouse has 5 million.
A monkey has 10 billion.
Humans in their present form have been here for about two million years, and as "modern humans" for 35,000 to 50,000 years.
Most recently-evolved part of the brain right behind the forehead: the frontal lobe. It's essential for the personality, for planning ahead, for sequencing ideas. It's this part primarily which makes modern man differ from his earlier ancestors.
It comprises 80% of the whole brain. It is involved in:
Thinking and problem solving
Speaking and language development
Reasoning and creative thought
Behaviour.
Cray Computer -the largest computers in the world- and measure its wiring, it has about 60,000 miles in total.
The brain – it is estimated - has over 200,000 miles of wiring!
This tiny part of our brain has made all the difference in the world.

But all this is something like the hardware configuration.

The Powerless Human

2008-01-16T19:09:00.000-08:00

These two contradictory statements are true.
Let us start with what a human child can do when it is 4 years to 5 years old.
Motor ability: mature motor control, skips, broad jumps, dresses himself, copies a square and a triangle.Language: talks clearly, uses adult speech sounds, has mastered basic grammar, relates a story, knows over 2,000 words in 5 the year.
Responsibility and guild. Feels pride in accomplishment. Feeds himself.
Prefers to play with other children, becomes competitive prefers sex-appropriate activities.
Even a matured and undomesticated dog can kill a grown up person.
Imaginary fears of dark, injury, etc. (3 to 5 years)

What is amazing in this? Only thing that a human lacks is the physical powers that some other smaller frame animals can have.

Now look at this - A Chicken just out of shell will peck; the duck, the crocodile and the turtle, under similar circumstance, will run for water; while the calf will butt with its hornless head, the serpent writhe and bite. Birds exhibit the same habits, sing the same song, and build the nests of the same material, from immemorial time. Quadrupeds display similar peculiarities, with varying sagacity. New born insects will perform the elaborate task with same cunningness known from generations with same efficiency and intellect, experience like by its predecessors. All as means to an end and varying degree of adaption t circumstances; which is absent in the case of human baby.

These are our powers vis a vis other animals.

It is amazing what happens, in years to follow, with all the stark power absurdities we have seen just now.

Survival, survival

2008-01-16T19:01:00.000-08:00

Some needs are essentials to survive, but they are animal category needs. In respect of human ( as per Maslow), needs are hierarchical in nature. They are different in class and range than the animal needs. Each need has a specific ranking or order of obtainment. Maslow's needs pyramid starts with the basic items of food, water, and shelter. These are followed by the need for safety and security, then belonging or love, self-esteem, and finally, personal fulfillment.

0. Safety/Security -- the need for structure, predictability, stability, and freedom from fear and anxiety.
1 Belongingness/Love -- the need to be accepted by others and to have strong personal ties with one's family, friends, and identity groups.
2 Self-esteem -- the need to be recognized by oneself and others as strong, competent, and capable. It also includes the need to know that one has some effect on her/his environment.
3 Personal fulfillment -- the need to reach one's potential in all areas of life.
4 Identity -- goes beyond a psychological "sense of self." Burton and other human needs theorists define identity as a sense of self in relation to the outside world. Identity becomes a problem when one's identity is not recognized as legitimate, or when it is considered inferior or is threatened by others with different identifications.
5 Cultural security -- is related to identity, the need for recognition of one's language, traditions, religion, cultural values, ideas, and concepts.
6 Freedom -- is the condition of having no physical, political, or civil restraints; having the capacity to exercise choice in all aspects of one's life.
7 Distributive justice -- is the need for the fair allocation of resources among all members of a community.
8 Participation -- is the need to be able to actively partake in and influence civil society.
Human Needs theorists understand that although needs cannot be compromised, they can be addressed in a generally win-win or positive-sum way. A need higher in the hierarchy will motivate behavior as long as the needs below it have been satisfied. Unsatisfied lower needs will dominate unsatisfied higher needs and must be satisfied before the person can climb up the hierarchy. No one stays in one particular hierarchy for an extended period. People constantly strive to move up, while at the same time various forces outside our control try to push us down.

Human needs theorists further argue that one of the primary causes of protracted or intractable conflict is people's unyielding drive to meet their unmet needs on the individual, group, and societal level. Needs theorists understand that needs, unlike interests, cannot be traded, suppressed, or bargained for.

Marx says that human nature is no more than what is made by the 'social relations'. Its analysis holds that, While the social relations are held to 'determine' the nature of people, they are not the only such determinant. In fact, human nature is more than what is conditioned by the circumstances of one's life.

Another view - Existence Relationship Growth theory states that more than one need may be influential at the same time.

Human propensity for endless desires motivates and drives them for attainment struggle for unsatisfied wants. When first need is fulfilled, naturally we will start working for next one. However, all needs do not have same intensity or relevance. Not necessarily all the needs are justifiable or acceptable by others concerned.

Depending on acceptability or attainability, a person may differ pursuit of some needs or altogether forget about it or deal with from totally different dimension – like win win approach. Person's thinking about needs is always in a state of flux. Demand side pull is basically due to result of free will. Geeta has dealt with this aspect of human life and it's impact on the human happiness extensively. Not that it advocated abstinence or renunciation, but it advises differentiation in selection, moderation in expectations, focus on well defined efforts rather than on results. The “Karmyoga” emphasizes purity of means and ways, thrust on well legitimate intentions rather than on the outcome.

Free play of imaginations are not needs. Needs backed by action involve others directly or indirectly concerned with that need or a person. Needs suppressed are cause of frustration.
Whenever, thinkers or respected religious writings speak about needs and happiness of a person, they always speak of discrimination, differentiation and natural or rational selection. Bhagwat Geeta is very much vocal on this topic and emphasizes that human interaction with the circumstances create needs, where well nurtured basic emotional attributes need to play their role in moderation if one has to avoid the internal or external conflicts.

Therefore, it is essential to consider the totality of the situation – as one understands it,
whether the individual deserves it – with this calculated conviction next step of committing for action is justifiable.

If the appraisal of situation shows that the given situation is conducive to the action and attainment, the individual needs to assess further whether he can act on the situation to make it conducive, if the conclusion is positive the commitment for action is justified.

But if the appraisal indicates that the turning around the situation is not possible, any commitment for action is not justifiable; and the only way should be that the individual accepts the situation and trims his needs or aspirations and still live happily.

This does not mean that a person needs to succumb to the situation, it only means that one has to face the realities with open mind and re look at the needs and actions for satisfaction.
Imagine if cricket batsman follow this way, they will play only weak balls and leave the rest.

A Prayer - Chemistry of inner power

2008-01-15T20:43:00.000-08:00

A prayer is humble way to seek something – from within or without. It is an act of ego less acknowledgment of own limitations and dependence on external factors. However, when it comes to something from within we do not pray – we demand, as we always feel that all the best from our own mind is ready made and completely at our disposal – on command. Our value system does not respect the intangibles as they do not cost anything commercially. The term prayer is a specific choice of word to denote supremacy of something we possess but do not acknowledge.

We as a rule are not habituated in making use of most of intangible human assets. If we feel that we are using them fully, then there is something wrong and we must check back.

Personally I am fortunate to be a witness to this way. In 2006 I went through a near fatal health problem, though the medicines arrested further deteriroration, the mind was all blank with only few memories. A search for awareness helped me to regain the normalcy in few months and now I work on these and similar comlexities. There are so many and more surprising examples where people having lost hopes getting back to normal and more successful this way. There are innumerable examples of people doing the seemingly impossible things requiring intelligence of highest order.

We need not venture to imagine results of normal and healthy people paying for strength of their intangible powers. It can be more than a revolutions, more than a miracle, more than dream for a fulfilled life. One can experience and enjoy more reincarnations in one cycle of of life and death.

If we go deep into these matters we will realize that why we need to pray our subconscious. It is part of the universal soul –Pramatm. It always prefers to give all liberty to our conscious mind to live it's own way. Subconscious powers need to be invoked with a prayer out of earnest desire to do something better than a conscious mind can deliver. “The Alchemist” has very meaningful statement in this context - “I always appear in one form or another. Sometimes I appear in form of solution, or a good idea. Some times at a crucial moment, I make it easier for things to happen... When people are following their destiny and dreams, all the universe conspires in helping them to achieve it.”

We experience this many a times and we deeply feel like revisiting the experience - unimagined but real life story in our lives. We do not care about the source, we attribute all to a “Luck” factor and keep on doing the wishful thinking.

Somehow, in past 8-10 decades we learned so many good things, science, technology, biology, missile technology, atoms, hydrogen, management and so on- all capable to be through conformity tests. We feel that we have mastered the powers that can us happiest ever in the history of mankind. However, in the process we replaced faith within, with these sciences and scientific ways. Yet there are voids, vacuum which faith and emotional approach lost in the process is not made good in real sense. Simply because, the knowledge humanity has acquired is not enough to touch each and every aspect life of masses – where each individual perception and need is actionable subject. The present circumstances in the world, natural disasters, poverty, cruelty, inequity and war are not punishments from God or anyone else. They were created by us individually and collectively.

Influenced by innumerable stresses and stretches, individual and society, do need peace of mind, strengths, courage and positive ways to respond to the demanding realities. Human developed knowledge and tools are inadequate and yet all the challenges need to be managed and resolved.

Best approach is to optimize a system in such a manner that individual is capable to manage his own problems. They are opportunities for spiritual enlightenment and growth. When we rise from our own insanity and see what is obvious, we will be able to change what has been done by us. We need to collect recollect and recompose intensity of all resources which are not available out side of us. We do not possess answers for such a scenario and we are trying to rediscover them. We need to recapture and redefine the vibrations…

This is an attempt to conceptualize a prayer - an approach, in the light of newer scientific knowledge about the brain and it’s enormous capacity, memory, thinking, creativity, imaginations and emotional intelligence. We now know that each of human biological capability is fully explained by “natural process of selection and exclusion”; which is replicated and reproduced. We are successfully discovering the co relations between biological arrangements and human behavioral patterns. Selective behavioral patterns and satisfaction. 90% of satisfaction depends up on proactive human initiatives and 10% on it's reactive approaches. With these realities in the mind, a payer, then becomes an auto suggestion, internal reminder, a beginning of good motivation, appeal for an intuition, role of active subconscious.

This is not a research but a simpleton's honest absorption of the scattered knowledge with a intention to help people to keep on doing better individually and collectively.

Can you ask questions - to you?

2008-01-15T19:35:00.000-08:00

Mind, in the form as we know, is asset of each of the human being – with neocortex – and exclusive possession of a human being developed recently, limbic brain – a primitive human brain – which we share with advance stage of monkey’s and mammals, reptilian brain – common for all animals.

Objectives behind these questions is to help each of us to test the level of our self awareness, in our life which we value so much. Here we are talking about powers of the brain and mind and not the physical power. Progressively answer for each question can take us away from the reality i.e. if we assume that if we know 10% of our powers answer for the next question can only be lesser than that –if it is an honest exercise. We keep account of money which is our creation, our weight, blood pressure, sugar levels, even IQ. We do it because we know some of our worldly happiness depends upon these answers. We are cautious and careful to optimize these factors – but we are never careful about our real powers, which govern all others in our life.

This is where our obsession on survival reflects. Our intense awareness about the above mentioned factors make us in to the advance stage mammals – not with the total human – capable of going beyond these factors. We are thinking about awareness about the exclusive human powers.

What are these powers? Conventionally speaking human being is the weakest animal the nature has created. A full grown man just cannot fight with a well grown undomesticated dog with his normal physical powers. Animals biologically inherit the instincts ,and they are enough for them. However, in case human being, it inherits major part of sensory knowledge, instincts, part of charged up neocortex and Amygdala as part of unconscious mind capabilities.

These things start maturing with age and observations and over and above the memory system, thinking abilities, emotional abilities, problem solving add to the human assets. With all this human can become more creative than other animals – sound, music, writing, painting, thinking, language, communications, ability to make tools for him are all part of humanly powers.
Ability to take intelligent reactive and proactive initiatives – both through conscious and subconscious minds is another power.

The subconscious mind’s ability to absorb all sensory knowledge – even when it is ignored by the conscious mind and make use of it for intuitions and peak experiences is another power.
Human being can set goals through his conscious and subconscious minds, imagination, dreams, self motivation are other noteworthy powers.

Most important thing about all these power areas is that once the conscious mind is capable – all other powers can be acquired, improved and can be taken to the supreme levels – not only momentarily but as an habit through sincere efforts.

Human being is a social animal – prefers living with his own kind and develop a sense of belonging, understanding, sympathy and empathy. Nature has also responded to this by endowing environment specific DNA patterns. The speed of development of human body, mind and culture has improved considerably since the human social relations became prominent. The new studies suggest that in the last 40,000 years humans have changed as much as they did in the previous two million years. We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago. The main reason for this, they say, is due to the rise in population: a larger population means there are more mutations for natural selection to work on, while its spread helps those mutations to genetically adapt to the new environment people encounter.

With globalization in progress the different races are coming more close with a tendency of merging into a single mixed humanity. Natural selection as a process to change the human specie is about to be bypassed by genetic manipulation technology. In about another 50 years or so — artificial selection using genetic engineering techniques will make evolution forever irrelevant, at least as far as our species is concerned.

This transformation in intrinsic human fundamentals is certainly going to add to the existing powers. These powers can play a dominant role in making human more an human than a thinking animal. The initiatives, self motivation, memory and problem solving enable people to imagine and dream the out of ordinary things – going beyond the necessity of survival and relate them to life, time, context.

This scenario has often encouraged me repeat the statements – “Nothing comes by accident” and “ Sky is the limit” .We will understand these fully, once we broadly understand the astonishing knowledge related capabilities of human hardware – which is mostly common practically in all normal human beings.

We will realize that, in general we just can not imagine these kinds of intrinsic powers. Majority of us are hardly taught about it – may be our predecessors had limited knowledge in these areas, or they might have felt it to be irrelevant or we all were expected to be craftsmen handling machines and materials or clerks writing letters, pounding typewriters, robot like computers operators, keeping accounts books and pile of files. Just understand with the prevalent poverty, illiteracy and denial of basic survival needs for major portion of 6.50 billion human population ( in 2006) how many of us can have meaningful self awareness?
When this a story of majority of the human race, we need not speculate about use of these powers and being happy or not happy in our lives.

Only thing which one can do is to start from himself, then with his family and then the society. We are the building blocks of this civilization and we owe it to us and our future generations.

Let us remember had it not been a approach by our forefathers where we would have been today – learning these things?

Do you know you?

2008-01-15T06:35:00.000-08:00

Our life is just what mind it tells our life is and becomes just what our mind makes it for us. Few people go deep enough in their soul to realize in its entire fullness - an amazing gift that enables them to pursue a lifetime of accomplishment. A marvelous gift of power. Nature has endowed us with the power to think, to believe, to create, to imagine, to choose, to feel, to aspire and to achieve!

Our knowledge based approaches revolve around the facts and analysis of facts as one ( or a team) is capable of doing. We know that, we always do not deal with the life with facts based decisions. We may call it intuition or gut feeling, but we know the other factors influence our decisions. The awareness and being one with the target is a fine blend of mental and spiritual capabilities of human being. Invariably, and much without our knowledge, in the process of awareness our subconscious also takes due part. It is a total inventory of facts specifically related to the target in our mind. We also call it as SWOT.

As we have seen earlier, normally people’s brain shut out information or stimuli that experience has shown as irrelevant to its needs, but subconscious is more open to such stimuli from surrounding environment. This helps it to go beyond the normal knowledge invenory to think and decide about any thing – something like self awareness. It can have a broader or total picture than conscious mind can paint. When the stakes are high and they are detrimental, somebody wants himself to throw in fully – this is THE way to decide – way out of self awareness. Such exercises prepare a person fully, leaving no trace of weakness ( within the available knowledge base with the individual’s subconscious mind and memory). [One of my friend reminded me a character of Sanjay Dutta in “Lage Raho Munnabhai”, where Sanjay impersonates Gandhiji only to the extent the knowledge he has and not beyond that. ] However, it is essential to remember that for that person it is THE total picture.

Examples about such self awareness are ample around us.

This is not a out of this world way or that only some people are gifted with such abilities. Each of us need to start using our brain circuitry to train it, use it , believe in it and live with it. Why Gandhiji was able to use and win with a concept like “Satygraha and Ahinsa”, why Sachin Tendulkar has remarkable performance when usually people of his class retire? Why Sunita Williams sustained herself in spacecraft for about six months?

Again it is necessary to remember that these people are know to be better after we realized their super powers, before that they were known to be very normal and ordinary people. What is important is that these people made them great with efforts, they acquired the skills to be great and anybody us can acquire such skills to be more successful

A Peak Experience

2008-01-15T06:21:00.000-08:00

We go through this experience often. Something which seems tough and difficult happens just the way desire. Our reservations are dispelled. Within the mind we get surprised ( as we feel ourselves lucky ), but rarely try to understand – why. The doubts of the mind, always emerge out of lack of clarity in the mind. The smaller sensory inputs, which we do not recognize, gets added into memory bank available just to our subconscious. Our subconscious, which it’s omnipresence, has access to the other set of memories and therefore, has different interpretation and vision about the same situation. It is in such situations, we feel presence of the external power that helps us like this – “I always appear in one form or another…a solution or a good idea.. Making things happen..” A conspiracy of the universe.. No doubt when we do not know the minds different ways of working, this is just the explanation we come out with - luck.
We fail to imagine and accept our own capabilities and intelligence and bring in hand of some mystic power in the process; though in reality is it is our subconscious which plays this role. George Washington Carver is one such person, who acknowledge such individual powers, but not the luck factor. Many writer, musicians, painters, scientists have demonstrated the presence and strength of subconscious mind.

A lot can be discussed in this context, as there is immense amount of research findings available now. Scientifically it is called as a “Peak Experience”

This experience is play of creativity of that part of human mind, which is rarely invoked in the normal life by human being. This creativity is manifested through an event or experience about which normal senses hardly have a clue – how and why it happens that way.

The creativeness of the subconscious mind is generally recognized. The act of creation and genius involves an element that rises above the mere superior technical achievement. Artists in the various arts testify to their creation as a work of invisible hand, as if the spirit takes over and endows it with a sublime quality, transforming it to a masterpiece, inspiring the hearts of man. Authors find figures created in their books assume a personality of their own and guide the author to unexpected plot developments. Tesla saw his inventions (alternating current generator) completely at work before his mind's eye.

So many great composers have testified that melodies presented themselves spontaneously in their mind. They felt being partaken in an inspiration that seemed to be outside of their own reach.

Musicians experience that during performances, the spirits seem to merge with the music they play, transforming and adding to it an extraordinary spiritual quality. It is as if their play develops by itself taken over by 'something else' beyond them.

The experience of subconscious interplay in human life has been extensively studied by experts. Advent of modern investigative technologies like EEG, MIR has made these researches more meaningful where the knowledge can now be shared by common people in support to their efforts to seek the fulfillment in the life.

Consciousness and 'presence' remain unfathomable qualities of life. One may wonder, going further on the path of speculative thought, whether the phenomena discussed are all part of a broader fundamental issue: 'What is the nature of consciousness'?

As we have seen earlier, the 'spirit' apparently enriches them with a mysterious quality. Behind the facade of apparently mechanical / physical forms lies a manifestation of unseen interplay of conscious mind with force like a spiritual Internet.

Brain's of people in general, might shut out consciously irrelevant information through a process called "latent inhibition" - defined as an unconscious capacity to ignore stimuli that experience has shown are irrelevant to its needs. Through psychological testing, the researchers showed that creative individuals are much more likely to have low levels of latent inhibition. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology says the brains of creative people appear to be more open to incoming stimuli from the surrounding environment.

This means that creative individuals remain in contact with the extra information constantly streaming in from the environment, the normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it, even though that object is much more complex and interesting than he or she thinks. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities. A smarter mind can handle the effects of taking note of a larger number of stimuli and even find interesting and useful patterns by continually processing a larger quantity of familiar information.

Creativity of highest order - Psychologist Abraham Maslow labeled the phenomena 'peak experiences' (PEs). Peak experiences are those moments, lasting from seconds to minutes, during which we feel the highest levels of happiness, harmony and possibility. They range in degree from intensifications of everyday pleasure, to apparently 'supernatural' episodes of enhanced consciousness which feel qualitatively distinct from, and superior to, normal experience.

Some people regard PEs as a norm in a truly healthy, ideal human life. Everyday life is semi-human, and only during peak experiences total human being is fully awake, alert, aware, conscious, alive. PEs are need to be viewed as a privileged insight into 'reality'. Because they represent a higher state of consciousness, knowledge obtained in this state has greater validity than the insights of the normal level of consciousness associated with unexciting and normal life. Therefore, peak experiences constitute some of the most memorable and subjectively significant events in life.

Peak experiences do not strike at random; they are associated with particular circumstances aimed at transformation in personal behavior or goals.

A recent memorable example of a peak experience was reported in an interview on BBC televisions Horizon program in which the mathematician Andrew Wiles described the moment when he solved 'Fermat's Last Theorem'- a problem that has exercised the minds of the greatest mathematicians for three centuries. After working on the problem for seven years in solitude and secrecy, Wiles announced success - only to find a flaw in the reasoning. Another year of tense and desperate work ensued. Then: 'Suddenly, totally unexpectedly, I had this incredible revelation… It was so indescribably beautiful; it was so simple an so elegant. I just stared in disbelief for twenty minutes'. As Wiles recounted his peak experience, he became overwhelmed with emotion at the recollection.

Leo Szilard, the discoverer of the principle of the nuclear 'chain reaction' wrote: 'I remember that I stopped for a red light… As the light changed to green it suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an element… which would emit two neutrons when it absorbed one neutron this could sustain a nuclear chain reaction'. Thus was discovered the concept which led directly to the atom bomb.

Scientific theories, music creations and work of art are even more mysterious than experimental discoveries, in that a breakthrough surfaces without any insight into the steps by which it was reached. Only afterwards attempts are made to assemble a rational pathway by which this insight was attained.

Einstein had key insights into relativity as a very young man (eg. when he imagined what it would be like to ride a beam of light) but several years of work were necessary to turn that insight into published science. And Richard Feynman was using his diagrams to solve problems of quantum electrodynamics theory for several years without being able to explain what he was doing, or why it worked.

The typical insight associated with a PE is integrative in nature, with the sense of meaningfulness that comes from assembling the right things in the right order to make some kind of sense from them. So as well as integration of previous knowledge, the PE is typified by a sense of possibility. The PE can be conceptualized as a point of stillness, where an understanding of the past and the potential of the future intersect. So the PE is a way of reaching of conclusions which have implications. The PE is therefore a kind of symbolic narrative - with roots and branches. It is not simply a pleasant event in a life; it is an experience with the potential to lead onto other things. PE is some kind of personal guarantee of the subjective truth of an insight.
The PE is therefore a signal that states: 'This is good stuff, by your standards - maybe the best you are capable of, under current circumstances. Don't ignore it, don't forget it, and try to understand it'. The PE seems to function as a means of focusing attention - the characteristic emotion asserts that the marked insight is something we should dwell upon. The PE is not - or should not be - simply a passive feeling of happiness and insight.

The crucial variables relate to knowledge base and brain state. A peak experience cannot generate valid new theories unless the person has sufficient knowledge of the field. There has to be something dissolved in the solution before crystallization can occur. The peak experience had the effect of releasing this perceptual valve and allowing more of reality to get through to awareness; giving access to otherwise arcane knowledge concerning events and entities in the universe of which we have no direct experience.

Knowledge is certainly not out there waiting to burst in on our minds when desired. The capacity to attain knowledge, to perceive, and to be aware of our perceptions, is all adaptations that have been painstakingly constructed over an evolutionary timescale. Neither is scientific creativity spontaneous, natural or pre-formed; it is attained by constructive human efforts - something made, not a spontaneous fact of nature.

The neural mechanism associates perceptions with emotions in working memory, so that thought is accompanied by a flow of emotions. These emotions in turn generate a flow of expectations or predictions, which the story may either confirm, or else contradict in interesting ways. What makes a story is essentially this flow of linked emotions, a bodily enactment of physical states that have been associated with those propositions that we use in internal modeling.

Consciousness is not content with recording detached representations, but works by synthesizing events into a linked linear stream which is then projected into the future as a predictive model to guide behavior. As bodily emotions fluctuate, feedback to the brain will monitor and interpret this flux in terms of the meaning of perceptions - the emotions interpret the perceptions. Since the somatic marker mechanism is a device for using emotions to infer intentions and other states of mind, then sequences of emotions will automatically create inferred stories.

Theoretical science works largely by analogy, by modeling as nobody can reason in utter abstraction. Scientists build simplified working models of reality, and map these models onto reality to make predictions - seeking a one to one correspondence between the model and the world.

So it is a fusion of constrained reality, trained aesthetic appreciation and emotional preference that makes possible the scientific peak experience. The peak experience is that moment when analogy strikes us - we see underlying unity, similarity in difference, meaning emerging from chaos - a bunch of disconnected facts coalescing into a story.

The significance of a peak experience is essentially subjective. The apparently self-validating emotion of deep and profound significance which sweeps like a wave across clear consciousness is probably a somatic marker informing us that we have performed cognitions of special importance and significance to our own goals - and to reward us with ecstatic feelings for having done so. It is similar to the satisfaction of a good story, well-told - a story with the ring of truth to it.

The objective validity of the peak experience is determined by a fact whether it stands up to testing by peers. The predictive value identified with a hypothesis attained during a peak experience is not wholly arbitrary, however; it is a product of total awareness. In the first place a person must be competent to assert the hypothesis; he should have a mind that is informed and unclouded. The probable objective validity of a peak experience is affected by the quality of thinking and preparation, and how well he has internalized the processes and constraints of the requisite discipline.

Peak experiences are the result of a 'significance alarm' going off in the brain. When things are working properly, this alarm will only be triggered when something 'important' has happened, that is worthy of continuous attention. So it is often right to take peak experiences seriously - yet their 'significance' is seldom transparent, and one cannot take the insights of peak experiences at face value. Perhaps the best approach is to regard them as a fascinating enigma, a code which may contain a message of profound importance.
Above note is based on an article by Dr. Bruce G Charlton, MD

bruce.charlton@ncl.ac.uk

The Greatest Lie

2008-01-14T22:35:00.000-08:00

When one is fully aware of world’s realities vis a vis own, he has a clarity to believe in possibilities in the life in logical ways.`Matured or experienced person looks at it, with his knowledge database. The children, adolescents and youths possess these attributes as they feel not bound by the different experiences of others. They are willings to resolve the impediments with newer approaches and continue to desire and dream. Our life experience must be having some experiences like this and we can also pick up vast number of examples to substantiate this. Our Hindi pictures are full of such stories.

The flow of imagination and energy through such dreams represent a pure human spirit, which can only be interrupted by interplay within the human mind, where stories told by others overwhelm and a person may feel himself unable to pursue the aspirations or dreams. Negativities in the world around may overshadow the young zeal leading to lack of enthusiasm or confidence. Whenever, such imbalances play within a mind and person's mind is unable to trace reasoning in the process, it starts accepting existence of unknown force – fate or luck.
For a mind,usually believing in conformity tests for accepting a reality, then obviously the power called fate or luck is simply fictitious. Mind charged with negativities alone acknowledge a power like luck.

In “The Alchemist” the old king calls it “as world's greatest lie”- untruth. If 2 plus 2 is not for 4 , then there must be something terribly wrong in intrinsic value of both the components being added together. It is as mathematical as this. Nothing comes by accident; whatever is sown is grown subject to quality of seed and nurturing. Thomas Carlyle, well known Christian thinker once told that - “I have listened to thousand of human prayers and only thing common in all of them was – why 2 plus 2 are four?” Everyone expects some external power to do a miracle for each of us – by making 2 plus 2 greater than four.

Summing it all up, we have to recognize that fate and miracle are realities only in the weaker and ignorant mind. It will be totally unwise to accept the fate’s role in working against our aspirations and dreams. We need to understand ourselves in true sense to take us beyond such doubts. This is where our self realization plays a major role. One who runs away from it, weakens one's mind and accepts fate accompli.

Everyone knows

2008-01-14T19:39:00.000-08:00

Awareness about our individual and collective potential is important, but it is not once in a lifetime activity. The problems we solve, the situations we face and learnings from the experiences of others on adding to our wealth as memories and emotional experiences. It is a continuous and endless activity. We go on facing the new realities and need new ways to deal with them. One needs to understand uniqueness of the demand, challenge and opportunity instantaneously at any given moment of time and then by using one's natural powers, one needs to decide an approach – a solution – a way to deal with that.

Many a times a person can be lonely in such situations, he cannot consult anybody, can not ask anybody – simply he has to face it- deal with it all alone. The only way, under such circumstances, is to search and seek a solution from the power within. One prays – appeals – demands the solution from within the self. Even if our memory bank has a suitable solution, if one wishes, the prayer may deliver a better and equally effective solution. Let all of us try to recall such circumstances in our own lives. Rather we are going to ask everybody to narrate few such incidences for benefit of all.

The prayer is wholly a personalized way – a software to handle the problem solving. This is also an soft human asset like the other biological assets.

Nobody knows real image of the God or creator capable of supreme powers. Human being does not like to worship himself – that’s why we created Godlike powers. However, no one can deny replication of universal powers embodied in human body and mind( it is different thing we do not know adequately about them). So when we seek a solution, the thinking process itself begins with subtle prayer to our conscious or subconscious.

The sincerity, earnestness, subtleness in the prayer helps unobstructed access to the source of solutions, more so a solution so found is easily acceptable as indispensable and the person encounters the challenge full commitment and resolve. All this is not an assurance for success, as this way has nothing to do with quality of decision, but one thing is for sure that, even if such resolve eventually delivers a failure, the person accepts the consequences without regrets; hr analyses the results and readies himself for the coming challenge with better preparedness.

The Only Leverage - Knowledge Leverage

2008-01-14T19:05:00.001-08:00

Have you seen skillful batsman playing flick, late cut or reverse sweep shots in cricket? That’s knowledge leverage. We can find infinite number of such examples in our small memory banks.
On the reverse side of it try to remember tasks you yourself abandoned or where you accepted the desired results as difficult or impossible. Try to remember things that went wrong in the organization you know or the losses of teams you adore.

We need not talk about human endeavors like NASA Projects or Intel chip designs as they are the somewhere near ultimate examples of knowledge leverage ( and they extensively follow knowledge and capability methods). What is important here is to note that, even for an ordinary individual or small teams or organizations this knowledge leverage is essential and following the ways we will be discussing, it is possible to master the habits and attitudes of acquiring knowledge leverage to enable us to achieve what we initially find difficult but earnestly want to achieve.

We, as an individuals, groups, teams, organizations have much to achieve for respective goals. Quality of end results, reasonable costs, additional utilities and values, environmental impacts of our living ways and inclusive growth, maximum good for maximum numbers as motto for human endeavors are still relevant and so is the knowledge leverage. Today most individuals and teams are slaves of their needs and obligations, they live less for themselves and their families and more for their other needs, forgetting the satisfaction balance in their lives. Knowledge leverage,and not manipulation, is the only way to liberalize us from our habitual approaches.

These ways come in different forms like extensive use of brain power, memory management, critical and creative thinking, imagination, innovation, team work and even our dreams are manifestations of our inner knowledge.

This makes difference.

Polarity

2008-01-12T00:17:00.000-08:00

This show speaks about impact of negative polarity and shows what is the other and positive one. This one seems to be more popular so far, though all are equally meaningful, if i have to goby the number of downloads amongst m shows.

visit http://www.slideshare.net/tanksons/polarity/

My slide shows

2008-01-12T00:02:00.000-08:00

Visit following URL to see my slide shows on varied subjects. you will find some things in common. But shows are relatively dynamic. feel free to down load. Just try this one and let me know your views.

http://www.slideshare.net/tanksons

TOTAL VIEW of a person

2008-01-11T16:28:00.001-08:00

It always helps to take a total view of a person - as a member of the team and organization. No more he can be assumed to a "command" way of working. One comes in as a total person and works as a total person - as one can see from above layout. Any variable weak or holding anybody back - the performance will not be there.

Think about yourself - whenever you embark upon something new and important for you - you follow the age old advises, but do you ever think in these perspectives. There one meaningful thought about this - circulated none less than NASA

In times of life crisis, whether
wild fires or smoldering stress,
the first thing I do is go back to
basics ... am I eating right, am I
getting enough sleep, am I getting
some physical and mental exercise
everyday.
—Edward Albert

Today your life complexities are more and wider than that of elders who care for you. Not everybody is tuned up to the "life today" ; so you are the one who should be taking initiatives.

look at yourself and others in totality for better insight of the situation, problem and challenge.

Every Heartbeat of us all

2008-01-11T14:43:00.000-08:00

The literature from all languages has been highlighting these facts about the endless phenomenon. Practically nobody has ever escaped or will escape for this so far one is alive. We all know it and accept it, the only difference is how we make it meaningful for all of us. Are we caught in the volcano or vortex and do not have any resource to deal with these realities? The answer, where awareness prevails, is surely no; otherwise yes.

There is one story about Shri Ramkrishna Pramhans and his woodcutter disciple. The woodcutter was coming from forest with his days load. He saw an elephant running to his direction – totally uncontrolled , the mahut was shouting at him to run out of way. The woodcutter was obdient disciple of Pramahans found it difficult to run away with the load on his head. He told himself that the elephant and himself both share the same soul and being part of one he questioned himself how this elephant can do him any harm? He was badly injured by the elephant , missed the death by a fraction. Later on he went to see Pramhans and expressed his anguish about the rules of the soul and oneness. Smilingly Pramhans reminded him – yes you were right so far as elephant and himself sharing the same soul then Pramhans asked him – but why did you forget that the mahut also shared the same soul and was shouting to run away?

The message seems to be all us see the same reality but how and what our mind makes of it. As we can see later in this course that we do possess the same hardware – the biological gifts about memory, thinking and imagining; difference between people using these gifts differently is not an accident for somebody not using it to the potential, it is not luck for one who is using it extensively. In reality a factor which we do not understand the reasoning and convince to ourselves is labeled as the Luck.

Stones do'nt dream

2008-01-11T14:38:00.000-08:00

Stones don’t dream, they do not aspire destiny as they do not have mind, they are not social by design. But we know that they can communicate with somebody like Michael Angelo –telling him about the beauty they possess within.

This statement relates to minds which seek security in stagnation and repetition, it is also a security of living a life with lesser struggle for fear of failures in the newer ways. Complacency with absence of action , again for fear of failure and indifference to the demands of the changing world keeps us stagnated. Minds free from fear of failure alone can keep on searching newer destinies, creating newer and bigger dreams. We need to learn liberating ourselves to wish good things, better things, big things and then work for them and work hard with heart, head and hands.

We must wish and wish sincerely – that’s the first sign of life. Sincere wish then starts giving a person a mental roadmap to go ahead and live through the travails and find the realized wish. Then again the same process of wishing and seeking mental roadmaps and travails. Life should be lived like this. Remember few wise people, few leaders gave us what we have today, imagine what will we and following generations get if we add few more wise people thinking, wishing and realizing the wishes. Living in present may be good in a narrow context, but let nobody forget we have obligations to our future generations – individually and collectively – to give then a better life than what we lived.

The new study, however, suggests we are more different genetically from people living some 1000 years ago. The pool of human DNA is no more restricted to regions in the world due to transgressions happening in the world. Apart from natural selection held to be responsible for development of human species, genetic engineering is adding option of specific selection mode in the development. Unless we wish better for ourselves we will never leave anything better than what we inherited.

Human Assets

2008-01-11T06:52:00.000-08:00

Human body and mind are one. They cannot be separately considered if we have to deal with the individual’s potentials. For us two people appear different but in reality they are not different potentially and that is more important when we think of individual as a member of society and a team. The broader idea behind this exercise is to assess, with knowledge about the newly researched facts, true potential of the individual and enable him or her to start using it to the maximum possible extent. Lot of unlearning is involved, but everybody will find it worthwhile. This knowledge will eventually enable, as we are going to see in later course, the individual to cross his presently known boundaries given to him by himself, his ignorance and the circumstance, and to make his or her search for more fulfilled and successful life a certain possibility.

This exercise expects no physical activity from the individual like Yoga; it is an exercise for knowledge to which we had no access in proper form and better self awareness. Please remember, we keep on thinking whenever we are awake, not all the thinking is related to making life better thus we are not doing any extra effort for this, yet it is going to change life for better. Yes, it is the power of thought. As we go towards the next topics wherein the case studies will show us, beyond doubt of any sort, that people we call successful really have this awareness and they are using the thought process to enrich their lives. Please remember inequality is a greatest motivator and we must help ourselves instead of grudging about it.
Numerous success stories establish that this possible and that is why we say all are potentially equal , the results appear to be different because we may not be using the our human assets with full potential and determination. In some of the follow up courses we will see why anybody lacks full determination, what role the human mind, human nature and other factors play in giving anybody an inferiority complex. It is our own, individuals own or groups own creation to make us believe that things happen by luck – no nothing comes by luck and nothing comes by accident. Human mind can control his own and the group’s future if one is really determined.

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2007-10-08T08:15:00.001-07:00

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This is what I do

2007-07-18T20:14:00.000-07:00

The industrial growth and changing global business situations has increased the responsibility of the entrepreneurs and executives – they have to deal with wider and diverse market, source scares financial and human resources and choose from multiple technology options to acquire competitive advantages to make the venture/ investment financially viable one.

Large businesses and few gifted SMEs possess the internal resources for all these. However, majority small and medium enterprises business owners / executives are not ideally placed in deciding on these diverse matters and need counseling for better strategic solutions.

Risk analysis, operating and financial simulations, constraint, sensitivity and differential analysis is hardly done. In absence of such knowledge enabled approach the personalized opinions lend the decision support. Many decision makers accept the critical path as part of the game but very few learn from mistakes made by others and succeed.

It is not that these people do not have the knowledge / information input, but a process of visualization about the currents and cross currents of the forces and ultimately transforming these into financial terms needs objectivity.

Clarity in any investment decisions supported through above mentioned process not only helps investment to be productive but it becomes easy to source the funds and one can expect a better pricing and terms. Good ideas and opportunities become more rewarding this way.

Organizations need to deploy efficient means to separate creative analysis from routine number crunching. The best decisions depend on the behavior of the market and decision makers’ knowledge of it. Strategic thinking is similar, only there you must anticipate market behavior that does not always follow natural law.

The way I read the things - my professions

2007-07-18T20:09:00.000-07:00

These are some of the observations drawn from my last two decades of consulancy years

Size of any business doesn't matter –but profitability and financial stability does. These are something one should be monitoring on a regular basis. Some businessmen say their business is too small to carry out analylitical financial studies that are just a way of not holding oneself responsible for managing the business wisely.

It'll always be someone else's fault when a business fails...that's what one will say. One can choose to succeed or fail. It's always a choice, nothing else - so a choice to be a financially informed business executive is essential. Any business will thank the executive through its increased profitability and longevity!

It's necessary for the long-term success of any business that one understands the financial fundamentals of being a business owner. One does not have to be an accountant or a financial analyst. It's important that one has some key skills in the business toolbox to measure and deal properly with the financial aspects of the business.

Barring few exceptions business executives / owners rarely like to handle the routine financial aspects of running a company. They may provide manpower, facilities but its real function is rarely handled with the seriousness that the function deserves.

It's easy to understand why: Financial management has long ceased to be a money management function. In today’s competitive world it has become a composite function and includes book keeping, financial accounting, resources accounting, performance measurement, MIS, Costing, budgetary control etc. It now concerns with each and every activity in the organization that absorbs a resource and generates a value.

When somebody is deeply involved and have taken financial risks – you are most concerned about the products or services you provide and want to focus your time and energy there. Your financial responsibilities usually fall to the bottom of your ‘desirable duties’ list.

These are some of our observations – surely they do not apply to all and everybody. There are varying degrees of successes and omissions.

Man with a gun

2007-07-17T20:49:00.000-07:00

In a hilly holiday resort
i saw a tall old slim man
with a receding sliver grey head bent forward
attired in a blazer with hunter shoes.

Slowly walking
with trailing family towards a dining hall..

He had a holster with old black revolver peeping from it.
frequently caressing it with his right hand fingers
his tired eyes ready to fire and explode

Why the hell this old fellow needs a revolver to deal with any of his problems
and still more why while going for a dinner ?

Does it mean that all these years he never sought or found
ways to deal with life without a revolver ?

Certainly a social animal !

By design ?

2007-07-17T05:16:00.000-07:00

Some friends of mine sent this recently

Is this by an accident .. ?

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere
in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the
spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the
spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

And

Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings
of entire English Counting

Is there any design or conscious efforts of an intelligent person ?

Do people bloom ?

2007-07-12T20:10:00.000-07:00

Some years back

I planted a rose plant

one morning I found a small bud on the plant

peeping out of the stem

I wondered from where it came there

following mornings I found it grown a bit

the pettles were forcing themselves out of the bud skin

I wonderd what makes them do it

it went on for few days

one fine morning I found it bloomed

what makes it happen

who gives it the pleasing aroma

which fills our lungs with every breath

who gives it the colour competing with the evening sky

I asked a question to myself

I was also a kid like this bud

whether I am blooming like it

do I give similar pleasure to others

I looked in to eyes around me to seek the answer

I found similar question in their eyes

Are we really independent ?

2007-07-11T01:57:00.000-07:00

Crayon by Varad Vernekar, friend of my son Salil

Can we say these numerous grass blades are independent?

Time has its own motion.but it seems have a dimensions for each person living in this universe and it moves through his mind and creates reflections.

Every human soul surrounded by his circumstances - acts and reacts creating a flow of events which in turn modifies circumstances relating to him and others known and unknown to him. In turn his environment also encompasses so many things created by others through their actions or inactions. So many things and so many variables – one wonders from where they all come.

We do not know how many nano filaments of the human mind keep on working parallel. Nobody knows what memories, impressions, images; convictions keep on influencing this process. Same is a case when we surrender ourselves to sleep and the subconscious takes over.

It is difficult to identify what is pulling or pushing, what is stretching or compressing.
How many of us really know what really causes them to act or react in a particular manner. Are we really aware about the results to follow from our actions or inactions?

Are we really independent and of our own?
No point in looking for answer – it is no and never.

Can any one really isolate himself from such phenomenon day in and day out accompanying him with every breath? It seems that it is as difficult as counting the sheep when you really mean to do it.

All this is not at all important and can easily be called as hoax.
But don’t you feel when you are angry frustrated and wonder, when according to you every thing is right, why two plus two is not four?

From deep within the mind

2007-07-07T21:18:00.000-07:00

Following blogs are the thoughts which accompanied me when I was just out of hospital from a serious heart related problem. My son and kins encouraged me to write something about my experiences in the hospital. I named the exercise as 'Not an half hearted effort ..',but thiughts about the time less values occupied my mind and i recalled all that I have read and found new interpretations for them in a changed circumstances.
Apperantly one can find them unrelated or stray texts in the blog form. I made a power point presentation, which with animation and music was more effective. I am working on a movie and hope to upload soon. Hope all will enjoy it more.
Today the yoga is known more than what it was before 10-15 years - when I was in my forties.In my family my elder son Salil and Kavita , his wife, are ardent followers of Yogic way - Art of Living. Their achievements also reflect on my way of looking at the life and drudgery of daily life. I am more focused and energatic in my early sixtees with some irepairable health problems.
Today I work more hard and for longer time and with beter strike rate than before. I have to acknowledge the contribution that has been made by these thoughts.
There must be more people experiencing such successes and happiness. I appeal them to come forward and share those with others.
It's a best way to allow radiation and percolation of values around.
prakash tanksale

Sky is the limit

2007-07-06T21:08:00.000-07:00

drishti~cone
Some views about timeless values

Explore it - Absorb it.
Sky is the limit for us to grow.

Life is beautiful - let us make the world beautiful.

2007-07-06T21:06:00.000-07:00

We focus on positive side of the humanity to recall collective capabilities and intellect of highest order.

Our culture has given us proven approaches to relate us to the creator to enrich ourselves. Starting with the individual and reaching to all - let us look at acquiring the timeless values and approaches for human capabilities of the highest order.

The entire world and life will be more beatuful.

We existed before our birth

2007-07-06T21:00:00.000-07:00

We are part of the infinite

We existed before our birth,
We will continue to exist even after our death.

Our ancestors

2007-07-06T20:45:00.001-07:00

Evolution took millions of years.
Our ancestors lived in natural shelters, grown with the nature. Our present is blessed by their struggles.

We have innocent childhood.We learn to be happy and grow. In children we seek the elements of our creator - innocent and with full of dreams and hopes.

The society around us is no different than these children.

We need to relate ourselves to the hopes and dreams of the people around us - to the best possible extent.

Can it b done ? Yes, the timeless values have shown it.

Some of the human capabilities

2007-07-06T20:30:00.000-07:00

We think

We dare the unknown, explore and discover

Vasco d Gama
he caused irreversible chnage in the fate of Indian subcontinent

We create
At every stroke You strike fire with your chisel.

View of Shri Mahalaxmi Mandir, Kolhapur
Maharashtra, India

We are philosophers

Shri Ravindranath Tagore,
who gave national anthem to the two nations in this world
India
Bangala Desh
and
writer of Geetanjali

Simple things we do

2007-07-06T07:00:00.000-07:00

We miniaturise the towering trees.

Human achievements

deserve the big monuments

We immortalize the love

We study why roses bloom

Such simple things demonstrate what a human being is capable of -in the natural course

Human instincts

2007-07-06T06:56:00.002-07:00

We live and let others live

We are against cruelty to the animals

We track evolution of the nature

We are sensitive as lens

Best of human legacies

2007-07-06T06:56:00.001-07:00

Leading by examples

Mother Teresa

Mahatma Gandhi

Buddha

Arresting mighty rivers

2007-07-06T06:55:00.001-07:00

build

big dams

to arrest mighty rivers

- the Hoover Dam

Reaching homes and people

2007-07-06T06:54:00.001-07:00

We built bridges to reach homes and people ..

Habitats - then and now

2007-07-06T06:53:00.001-07:00

Starting from caves for the shelter

We have dreamt and built comfortable habitats …

Never be an extinct specie ….

2007-07-06T06:52:00.001-07:00

We studied enough about dinosaurs - we will never be an extinct specie ….

Learn from history

2007-07-06T06:51:00.000-07:00

We learn about history and learn from history…

Human endurance

2007-07-06T06:50:00.000-07:00

Mountains have always tested man’s courage and endurance

Dared the oceans

2007-07-06T06:49:00.002-07:00

We have dared the oceans
Oceans were breeders of first of species and have been provider of life to us.
We learn and enjoy living with the oceans – despite the Tsunamis.

So far away but so near

2007-07-06T06:49:00.001-07:00

We designed telescopes to photograph cosmic objects -million miles away from the earth.

Secrets of the creator

2007-07-06T06:48:00.001-07:00

Human sight goes so deep to find the secrets of the creator

We built cameras to reach the minutest cells in human body

Mastering building blocks of life

2007-07-06T06:43:00.000-07:00

Human abilities , intelligence and persistency have no known equals.
Knowledge percolating from thousands of years and determination to go beyond the known, has brought us here so far. What makes it possible?

Humanity is adding to the wealth of knowledge inherited from hundreds of generations.
Human creativity has surprised itself in making possible the unimaginable.
Is sky the limit ?

Mastering building blocks of life

going near to the creator.

We owe our being here

2007-07-06T06:39:00.000-07:00

We study sun’s impact on us.

We owe our being here to the Sun.
There is a belief in Egypt that a continuous dialogue exists between the sun and River Nile.

It is supported by a record for 4000 years.

Co exist with atomic weapons ?

2007-07-06T06:38:00.000-07:00

We have mastered atomic power and are capable to create explosions, just like Solar explosions. We realize ,the human race cannot coexist with atomic weapons, so we are determined to use it for human prosperity.

The inherent equilibrium

2007-07-06T06:37:00.000-07:00

We are blessed by our mother earth with the teachings of Work and Worship.
Evolutionary unfolding of realities and knowledge by mother earth, makes her greatest teacher, in our life.Tolerant mother Earth, only expects us to maintain the inherent equilibrium she possesses.

Our nearest and dearest one

2007-07-06T06:35:00.000-07:00

Beyond the horizon , Moon , the nearest and dearest one, has inspired mankind for millenniums. We still have curiosity and affinity about this kin.
We have studied and mapped it since years unknown.

We dreamt, worked and reached the moon. The first human step on the moon was as big as the dream of the mankind.

Our family up in the sky

2007-07-06T06:34:00.000-07:00

The Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and the rest of the planets, and our Earth, are all organic parts of the Sun.

Life on Earth came into being - plants to man and all are organic parts of the Earth; the Earth is an organic part of the sun …There is a continuous communication between the Man, the Earth and the Sun and so on….

Inspirations from inequalities.

2007-07-06T06:32:00.000-07:00

Man has always found

strong inspirations from inequalities.

We have always been curious about the neighborhood up in the sky.

We may not reach that far but our inquisitions do.

We spend lots of intellect

to learn about new entities – speculating that someday, we will meet somebody.

Our outward journeys

2007-07-06T06:31:00.000-07:00

Our outward journeys beyond the unknown are rewarding –
they testify what the human being can achieve…
The question often comes to the mind –
Do we really know ourselves ? How far and frequently we take up the inner travails to understand who we really are ?

That which man dos not comprehend

2007-07-06T06:30:00.000-07:00

That which man dos not comprehend with the mind and by which mind is encompassed is Brahman.
Cosmic communication is very mysterious; it is inner and subtle. There are infinite number of energy objects around the cosmic entities, which go on influencing each other continuously.Man is not an island; he is part of this whole and he learns from it.

We are concerned

2007-07-06T06:29:00.000-07:00

We are concerned with the cosmic expanse. The cosmic energy can be converted from one form to another, but it cannot be created or destroyed

Empathy with the Sun

2007-07-06T06:28:00.000-07:00

Whatsoever happens on the sun creates a vibration in every cell of our bodies because our cells are all born out of the sun.

In every element of our blood and bones live the traces of the sun. We are part of the sun and no wonder that our lives are influenced by the sun. There is empathy between the sun and ourselves. If we understand this empathy rightly, we can enter into one dimension of our search inward.

Stress begins with a perception of threat

2007-07-06T06:26:00.000-07:00

Stress begins with a perception of threat. Then emotions join in – anger, fear or both. A chain reaction of neuro chemical responses is triggered and released through our thoughts and body – for flight or fight.

The bad stress -pushes you over the edge of comfort.

Anger and fear are survival emotions and meant to last only long enough to get out of harm’s way. This is valid for all animals. Unlike other animals human allow anger and fear to linger for days, months and even years.

Stress distorts decision making, emotional thought processing and compromises the human spirit.

Nothing comes by accident

2007-07-06T06:21:00.000-07:00

The circumstances of the world, natural disasters, poverty, cruelty, inequity and war are not punishments from God or anyone else. They were created by us individually and collectively.

But they do not deter best of our brains from forward looking efforts. Best of intelligence is committed for creations and solutions. Nothing comes by accident.

Influenced by innumerable stresses and stretches , individual and society needs peace of mind, strengths, courage and positive ways to respond to the demanding realities.

They are opportunities for spiritual enlightenment and growth. When we rise from our own insanity and see what is obvious, we will be able to change what we have done
We need to collect recollect and recompose intensity of all resources which are not available out side of us. We need to recapture and redefine the vibrations…

One may not know...

2007-07-06T06:20:00.000-07:00

One may not know - nothing happens in human life unless one directly or indirectly gives a consent – active or passive - one’s mind always controls the even smallest things.
The core of the mind is subconscious or brahma, Core mind’s interpretation is nearest to the truth.

Same mind is conditioned by the circumstances - prakriti, conditioned mind’s interpretation is manipulated truth. Strengths, weaknesses, intelligence, ignorance, creations, destructions are all reactions of the conditioned mind – leading to individual or collective actions or inactions.

Conditioned mind’s manipulated truth is a seed that eventually delivers its results to the initiator.

We, then, wonder why two plus two is four and compound the stress.
One needs to rediscover the subtle and core truth.

Meditation has always helped the human beings in the process.

Your mind,body and spirits

2007-07-06T06:17:00.000-07:00

All stresses are not bad. Good stress is something which motivates you to accomplish a goal.

Remember your mind, body and spirits are your tools. Human being is the only specie which develops array of tools for itself and become timeless heritage for the generations to use and prosper. Remember the childhood tale of relentless spider?

Meditation allows you to identify common causes of stress in your life and develop skills to manage them. Most useful approach is to aim at integration, balance and harmony of mind, body, spirit and emotions. One must look at the mind, body, and spirit as equal parts of the whole person to deal with stress effectively.

All battles of life are either lost or won in the mind.
If you think you will loose, you are lost.
If think you can win , you have won.

Discover the links

2007-07-06T06:12:00.001-07:00

Our learned ancestors gave us the insight of the world, universe and the cosmos, gave us the methods
to seek ourselves from us,
to redeem ourselves from us,
and
to find ourselves from us.

The Cosmic power is known as Para Brahma or Parmatma, and that associated with an individual is Atma. Parmatma is omnipresent with us as a subconscious.

Timeless values have established that one’s life-span is measured by how many times one shall breathe in a given life. Naturally, one must reduce the number of breaths so as to live longer— this idea is the origin of pranayama.
It relates us to the cosmic power.

There is a strange music in the winds….

Return to the timeless values

2007-07-06T06:08:00.000-07:00

Return to the timeless values

Aham Brahmasmi - I am One with the Essence of the universe
Human being is gifted with the supreme intelligence and creativity - look inwards and discover the resources.

Continue to remain part of infinite…

2007-07-06T05:58:00.000-07:00

We will continue to remain part of infinite…

Human body and mind are like unfathomed ocean, which possesses immeasurable strength and intellect. Best of human minds radiate just around 30% of these.
Imagine leverage of improvements through well directed creativity on quality of human life.

Time and space are infinite. Grains of sand are countless. Atoms in the universe are innumerable. So also are the stars, the galaxies. The same is with life on this planet. There is neither beginning nor an end, because all is spherical. A sphere has no beginning and no end, no goal or direction. Truth has no direction, no goal. Truth itself is the goal and Truth is infinite.Feeling and experiencing the infinity within this finite body, living timelessness within the time span of life, uncovering bliss within the misery - this is what you are here for.

2007-07-06T05:42:00.000-07:00

Yoga is meditative discipline that uses the mind and senses to create a ommunication between mind and body. It takes us to potential form of life force,lying dormant in our bodies. It causes awakening and spiritual maturation that can induce an altered state of consciousness. It adds to the original reservoir of subtle bio-energy and helps controlling and managing the energy flow and subsequent manifestation.

Experts have contributed interpretations to the concept of Yoga; such as

Physiological
Psychological
Clinical
Religious
Mythological &
Spiritual

the yoga way - leading us everywhere

2007-07-06T05:33:00.000-07:00

Some Yogas create
current loop which
polarizes the brain part through
which it flows in a homogenous way.
The body then becomes an effective
antenna for the resonant frequencies of the
ionosphere.
In layman's terms,
you then pick up information
from the air.

Infinity within us

2007-07-06T05:28:00.001-07:00

The Para Brahman is infinite, so is the Brahman.
The infinite proceeds from infinite to the infinite realizing the infinitude of the infinite.

All lights in the universe are only a reflection of the infinite Light.

acknowledgment

2007-07-06T05:21:00.000-07:00

Theme Compiled by drishti~cone, kolhapur.
Thanks to known and unknown sources which contributed to this composition.
I am indebted to the inspiring personalities and thoughts, which caused me to turn inward and take deep journeys within.
Yes, I sincerly wish this.

There are so many people made all these possible. If I thank them it will be demeaning all the goodwill, so leave it for the future..

Prakash Tanksale

NextGen

2007-03-24T00:35:00.000-07:00

Any body will love to find his nextgen to have such a pastime.

A thinker !

2007-03-24T00:33:00.000-07:00

Sketch by Salil

Face with no name

2007-03-24T00:29:00.000-07:00

The artist is my nephew Varad and we call him Manu – aged 14- has drawn this while sitting in our hardware shop on a memo pad. He has range of drawings – both with pencils and water colour. Fights with a father when he is reprimanded for lack of focus on studies.

This picture is out of pure imagination. The quality of observation and memory storage faculty is strong, style fluent and only few lines are spent. Look at the eyes, lips - the strokes deserve appreciation and encouragement.

He will certainly do good in years to come.

Bal Gandhrva

2007-03-24T00:26:00.000-07:00

Bal Gandharva

The subject is well renowned marathi stage personality – a male who used to play female roles when women folk could not dare to perform before the audience. Lokmanya Tilak honured Narayanrao Ranhuns when he was young and started performing in classic marathi musical plays.

The pencil drawings by Salil have already been wrote about. It captures mood – especially the smile – exceptionally well. The delicate nose, beautiful eyes, typical Maharashtrian hair style with floral make up and a feminine neck all truly represents artist’s capabilities.

Fort

2007-03-24T00:24:00.000-07:00

Mind travels and travels faster than any known and imaginable speed devised either by nature or by human intelligence. It also has power to capture or recapture the images. This time the drawing has some thing reduced some thing like a fort and surrounding village in Rajasthan (India).

Again texture paper would have created better impact, still it communicates.

Salil , such efforts should have continued – better if can find some time as you are now exposed to much larger, diverse and beautiful world.

Photographs, now a days, have become mechanical they show but rarely communicate. The creator can hardly contribute the emphasis which the viewer normally expects other the discipline would have faded away.
Thinker

A pencil drawing by Salil some time around ’96. May be it is drawn with reference to some picture.

A mature man with thinning hair and wrinkles on the forehead, eyes focused on the unfathomed issue, vivid fingers supporting the face – the mood is honestly captured. The shade on the left side of the face is unduly dark.

Still it is an honest work as it communicates loudly what the artist had in mind. This drawing is yet stronger reason why I wish my son to regain the motivation.

Mind Tree

2007-03-24T00:16:00.000-07:00

It is a sketch in MS Paint.
I was recovering from illness and was transforming all my son’s paintings into digital form. As a signature for the work I wanted to send something of my own.

I had no worries, no specific subject to dwell upon. It was a free state of mind. I just wanted to look outward – upwards to be precise.

I feel mind has endless thin layers of processors which can think of number of issues simultaneously – when you do not have grip over the process it is called as confusion otherwise it very enjoyable experience. May be my subconscious wanted to seek communication with the unknown on various issues. It was not out of desperation or anxiety –see I was dancing and there was a rhythm also. My son had returned after my hospital discharge and now I feel it was message that I am returning to my normal self.

Why a blog ?

2006-10-15T21:35:00.000-07:00

drishticone means a point of view.

I have been using this title to somany of my creations in my business consultancy. Many a times, I have realized, that unorthodox approach leads you to solutions and strengths. It is not a rule.Following a beaten path you always reach where the crowed has already reached.

The 360 degree approach must be one of the tools in our life. In India the education system was designed to create clerks and babus for the governments and businesses. We were conditioned to a kind of system taught to us. We forgot our traditional values and reached no where and accepted lots of ills from world over.

Family system has been much stronger than a communisiom or communes. The teachings by mothers have created world personalities when personaility development and HRD labels were not available.

We have to get ourselves out from the test books and develope d360 approach.
I am happy that i was compelled to recreate my blog under different name as the original seems to be lost.

Now I can do it differently as I have learned to make blog platform more useful for others as well.