How to keep your mind active

Monday 20 January 2014

How to keep your mind active

After a time a man tends to settle down. He has achieved a secure position , his children are grown up and experience has made tasks easy. Thus he becomes a comfortable person and rarely realises how much he has sunk into a rut until some one younger gets ahead of him.

When this happens he may fall into pessimism and develop a grudge against the world in general. Or he may wisely, decide to find out why it that a man of his ability and experience was passed over in his way. He may then realise that he has gone into a rut, and that his mind needs waking up.

One symptom of his condition Is forgetfulness. Most people would have good memories, if they would keep them exercised. As the body will get weak if it is not exercised. As the body will get weak if it is not exercised, so too the mind will become inefficient if it is not given enough work.

Memory should not be doubted . our mental capacity is enormous . modern scientist tell of great number of brain cells each capable of use. Most persons do not use half of them .

Realising that we have such a mental capacity , we should learn to use it. Trust your memory , for this is the best way to keep it young. Secondly , get your mind active by developing new interests. One prime reason for forgetting is inattention. You cannot have the kind of impression which is essential for prompt and clear recollection, unless you are attentive, you generally take interest in what you like.

It is good idea to develop new interest by attending to new things. It is observed hat visitors to a town often see and know far more about the town than the natives do. Cultivate interest in your town and surroundings.

Few places are without their beauty spots, their architectural features. Treasures of art etc. if you do not understand art and architecture. There  are excellent book which aim at helping newcomers. There is no better mental tonic than the cultivation of the sense of beauty.

A way good mind stretching exercise is to learn beautiful verse by heart.

To supplement these methods, one might learn to speak in public without notes . it is impossible to do this effectively without good preparation which again will stretch the mind. It will also give great pleasures, for to deliver a speech in which you give a real message without  consulting notes can be a most thrilling experience.

An almost endless variety of exercises of this kind can be practised. They serve to promote the spirit of adventure.

New knowledge of every kind should be coordinated. New experiences should be sought and then associated with old knowledge.

When you go on a holiday  insist on going to a new place where you will have to see different things. You are taken into a new world which freshens a tired mind and stimulate interest.

If you know a little of anew language and you can go somewhere where you will be forced to speak it, so much the better it is a new experience which stimulates your mind.  

You can sit down quietly and review mentally what you have done throughout the day, asking yourself such questions as “What new things have I seen or heard to day? What is its meaning to me? “where does this new knowledge fit in with what I already know; what are the similarities and the differences?” what new ideas do I see coming out of the comparison?”

Questions like these keep us alert. A man who deals with his mind in similar ways will never he subjected to disappointment.

Quote from the true charm and power of Vedanta

Give-up everything to Him, resign your self to Him and there will be no more trouble  fro you. Then you will come to know that everything I sonde by His will, To live in the world or to leave it depends upon will of God. Therefore, work leaving everything to Him. What else can you do?

To work alone thou last right. But never to the fruits thereof. Be thou neither actuated by the fruits of action , nor be thou attached to inaction

IF HE EXIST

I drive joy There was a doctor in Benaras who spent 7 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 4m.

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