Mind Power - Power of Inner mind II (Practice 1) By--Dr Sujit Chandratreya (MD, DM, DNB, Endocrinologist, Diabetologist) the author is a well known Endocrinologist, MD, DM from India and in addition to treating hormonal and lifestyle disorders is active in learning, promotion of the real ancient yoga in the world. His main focus is on the mind and yoga. He is also researching on discovering untapped potentials of mind and awakening the hidden and forgotten powers of the human mind.		Print This Page
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Mind Power - Power of Inner mind II

Welcome friends to the next issue of mindpower.
As we have seen, the mind is the tool and the universe is the object, we should discuss more about sharpening our tool.
Ancient Vedas say that mind is like a wild monkey, which keeps on wandering here and there, and on the top of it, the monkey is drunk and has been possessed by a ghost!! The description is only to reveal the true nature of the mind.

Our mind is the passenger and the vehicle is the body, we have hands and feet just to carry out the commands of our minds.
What is the difference between the happiest person and the most pitiable person in the world? It’s the mind again. There are no good things or the bad things in the world. We just have things!! We make them good or bad in our own mind.

We have the famous story in the Second World War. A German soldier had a Russian prisoner of war. They were alone in the village with no third soul around. The master German used to torture the Russian almost till death daily, as he had nothing else to do! The Russian thought of committing suicide at least ten times a day. Then the news floated that the Germans were losing and Russians were coming, and the red army would spare no German. In frustration, the torture went up and one moment, the Russian left all the hopes of life, bit his both wrists and started bleeding profusely. He just lay in a corner waiting for the death to come. Some distance away, a landmine in next village exploded suddenly after a hungry dog tried to eat that, and was destroyed to pieces, the Russian got up from the deathbed thinking the red army was there and the German put his gun on his own head and pulled the trigger. And the Russian started running and could easily escape to safety!!

It was an event, but the mental reaction could make the difference of life and the death.

Lets start learning about training of this stupid monkey, get him organized and teach him some good things to synchronize his energy.

Practice Session 1:
Sit in a comfortable position, ideally cross-legged or padmasana would be better still.
Keep both of your palms open facing upwards on your thighs. Concentrate all your attention to this process. Concentrate on left little finger, gradually fold it , partially, then completely. This should take around 10 seconds. Observe the various colour changes in the finger due to movement and changes in the capillary blood supply, experience the different sensations at different small joints, see the shadow of the finger moving slowly, feel the touch of the tip of the finger on the palm, and don’t even entertain a single thought unrelated to this in your mind. Gradually, slowly,fold all the ten fingers and unfold them one by one in the reverse order. Repeat the process twice a day.

Scientific basis: The fingers of our hands do have a very large area of representation in the cerebral cortex, i.e. in the brain. The joints of the fingers are provided with a very rich network of nerves and vessels and there are numerous muscles and joints for the highly skillful movements. Man has acquired this during the evolution. Research says that this process can make our mind one pointed easily and effortlessly .In the preliminary stages of mind concentration, training mind with eyes closed can lead to wandering of mind onto other thoughts. Here we can actually see the finger moving so it becomes quite easy to concentrate. We recommend this as the first lesson or the stepping-stone to start to awaken the mind.

--Dr. Sujit Chandratreya

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