Promition

Monday 15 November 2010
Promotion Gives Boundless Joy
Promotion is a fascinating word. It brings sometimes boundless joy to individuals. A school-going student receives a letter at the fag end of the year from his headmaster stating that he has been promoted to the next higher class. He feels immensely gratified with the result and says to himself that his year-long effort has brome fruit.
Promotion enhances the self-esteem of an individual .man is a social animal and he flourishes with promotions and praises that come his way at different stages in his life.
Student becomes an adult, arms himself with degrees and diplomas and entrees one day into the job market. He strains every nerve to go up the hierarchy in the organization he works for. It is all done to build up his-self esteem.
Promotion extends to his family life too. As educational qualification is important for getting a job, job becomes an indispensable criterion for marriage. The adult enters into matrimony and gets promotions as father, grandfather and so on.
Life devoid of promotions has no charm at all. Yet they (promotions) are not offered on a plate. One has to work for them and must show diligence and endless energy to achieve them. The higher the inputs (hard work, dedication, perseverance etc) the better the promotions possibilities in one’s life. It is genuine to quote Longfellow here. “Learn to labour and wait with God above and heart within.”
How to Give Up Bad Habits
A good habit is a form of learned, automatic behavious that provides pleasure and comfort. A bad habit has long-term negative trait, but still it gives comfort immediately and under stress, the automatic tendency is to revert to it.
To permanently rid yourself of a bad habit, you have to unlearn behavioral patterns and replace them with new ones that provide gratification. That sounds difficult but with practice and persistence it can be done.
It matters little what habit the person is fighting with. The relapse rate remains similar whether the bad habit is drinking, smoking , gambling overeating, compulsive shopping or overworking. Perhaps a strategic plan can help to quite the bad habit.
Plan ahead; Face it; Sometimes after swearing off, you will be tempted to light a cigarette or take a drink. The urge is normal, inevitable, and may come unpredictably. These urges are like ocean waves. Like the waves, the urge normally subsides soon. When such an urge hits you like a wave, you have to keep yourself busy, not letting your mind go back to it. Plant to go for a walk, do exercise, gardening, or talk to someone. You must adopt techniques to relieve yourself from a stressful situation by diverting your mind.
Formation and rehearsing of new habit certainly help you. Set up substitute activities. One way to choose substitute activities is to recognize what attracted you to the old habit. If you drank because it calmed you down. Try meditation. If cigarettes gave you something to do with your hands, learn to knit or play a musical instrument.
Enlist your family and friends when you attempt to keep away from a bad habit and would like to see that it does not relapse. You need the support of your near and dear. Talk to them freely. Tell them that you want to do away with the bad habit, and request them to bear with you incase you burst out at them. They would certainly like to see you through it.
Skip high risk situations –skip tempting social situations, if overeating and drinking are your problems. Try to avoid companions who always force you into doing something harmful to your health.
Set realistic goals.: After a strong resolve to abstain from a bad habit, the amount you spend on that also accumulates. Tell yourself that from the money thus saved, you would buy something useful to you and your family. Moreover , whenever you resist temptation, pat yourself and buy a nice dress for yourself or someone you love most. This is a process of subduing the urge to relapse with some substitute rewards.
Above all, don’t get discouraged. Few people are experienced at changing behaviour, and it is unrealistic to expect success the first time you try out. It is said that Mark Twain, a dedicated cigar smoker, once observed, “I can give it up whenever I want to. I have done it a thousand times”. You can probably improve on Twain’s record, but it may indeed take several trials before quitting. But keep trying till you succeed.
Quote from the essence of Bhagvad Gita
Reading the Gita, we can almost visualize Sri Krishna saying something like this;” O Arjuna, don’t think that Karma Yoga ia a new path. Like the paths of knowledge and devotions, this path too has taken people to the highest goal since very ancient times. Well known philosopher-kings like Janaka and others have attained perfection by following this path. This is true, in particular, about the kings. I first taught Krama yoga to the sun. He then imparted it to his son Manu, and Manu taught it to ikshvaku. In this way and for the happiness of the many, it was practiced by the powerful royal families who faithfully performed their duties.
I drive joy
There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 5 minutes in the morning and evening for mediation on God. Knowing this, his colleagues and friends laughed at him. One day they argued that he was wasting ten precious minutes on something, which he had been misled into believing. The doctor replied, “Well, if God does not exist, I agree that I am wasting ten minutes a day. But, if He exists? I am afraid you are wasting your entire lifetime. I prefer to waste ten minutes rather than a lifetime. Why should you grudge me the 10 minutes joy that I derive from? I am not robbing you of your joy; why should you rob me of mine. He asked. The critics were silenced. –Baba- Chinna Katha
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