It
is difficult to define Mind Management using a single sentence
as Mind Management can mean numerous things and can have several
dimensions.
It can mean building self-confidence, self-motivation and drive,
improving self-image and avoiding defeatist habits of the mind
like laziness, procrastination and so on. It could also mean
emotions management, which would then involve managing negative
emotions like anger, jealousy, hostility and fears and developing
positive emotions like love, ardor, and passion and so on. Some
would say mind management is development of self-mastery and
assertiveness.
Tibetan mind management traditions would say that it consists
of stilling the ‘sem’ or ‘sempa’, the
lower or ordinary mind, which is “the mind that thinks,
plots, desires, manipulates, that flares up in anger, that creates
and indulges in waves of negative emotions and thoughts, after
stilling it and transcending it, rising to the higher mind which
they call rig or rigpa, “the primordial, pure, pristine
awareness that is at once intelligent, cognizant, radiant, and
always awake.”
The world we live in, is created by us, created by our mind.
Good people or bad people populate our world.
The bird of paradise cleans its living place for itself and
its mate, removing every fallen leaf and every small twig lying
there. The pig turns any place it lives into a sty.
Not only is the world we live in created by us, but what we
are, too is decided by us. We are made of our thoughts. Our
self-image, our personality, our inner world, is all products
of our thoughts. As we think, so we become.
If we constantly entertain angry thoughts in our mind, over
time we turn into angry people. Entertain jealous thoughts in
our mind, and over time we turn into jealous people. Our thoughts
turn us into an intolerant person, a vengeful one, rigid and
unyielding and so on. Negativities make it impossible for us
to know what joy is, what happiness is. We may occasionally
know excitements, but apart from that, we know no joy.
A man whose heart is filled with anger, with hatred, with jealousy,
vengeance, greed or lust knows no peace of mind. These feelings
are like the forest fire born from the friction of two dry branches
– the fire first consumes the branches and then burns
down the entire forest.
Meditation is the food for mind. The mind doesn't ask for food
when it is hungry, unlike your stomach, which almost roars when
kept empty for a long period of time. The mind is like a silent
obedient servant, always at the disposal of the master. By riding
the car of meditation, the mind can be made to turn away from
those unwanted human emotions of anger, jealously, thoughtless
pondering, fear.
The meditation process just acts as a speed breaker for the
thought process in our mind and gives us time to get in touch
with the infinite, which is the ultimate source of energy. The
infinite lies within self. It cannot be seen and touched. It
can be only experienced. When one reaches the ultimate core,
he becomes unshakable.
Meditation is not what you always had in mind that of a jungle
full of trees, anthills and snakes. Just go to a place, where
you won't be disturbed for at least 15 minutes and can feel
relaxed.
Meditation is the master key to piece of mind. Harness your
mind through meditation because it will increase the mileage
of happiness in your mind.