You are What Your Habits Are

Monday, August 03, 2015

You are What Your Habits Are

In all walks of human life , the habits relating to the formation of thoughts , emotions and actins play an important role. It is habits which mould personality or harm it.

If we continually do something , good or bad, for a sufficiently long time, it influences our mind and our nervous system so strongly that the habit becomes a part of our nture and is carried out like our involuntary actins. We can cite the example of a solider with whom professional training has become part of his nature and how his mind became so conditioned.

Once a retired solder was walking on the road, carrying a load of grocery on his head. A mischievous boy had seen him walking several times on the road . when the soldier was walking absent-mindedly along the road by the side of a ditch, the boy spouted aloud; “Attention” ! The moment the retired soldier heard it. He dropped his arms, which were until then supporting a bundle , stood erect and was about to  salute. The bundle on his head fell into the ditch. Before he became aware of the mischief, the incident had taken place. As he had long been subjected to military exercises, his mind acted mechanically and spontaneously at a mere suggestion!

Many are not aware of the tremendous controlling power of habits. It is habit that act as obstructions to us to overcome complicated situations. Every day , without our knowledge, we try to adapt to our place and environment. Observe those who have the habit of smoking drinking  etc. of course, we need not mean only bad habits when we refer to habits.

All kinds of habits control the individual and mould his personality with their powerful influence. Our achievements, ideas,, contradictions, tastes and acquisitions, love and hate anger and anxiety, secrets and deceits, pride and self-esteemed, inclinations and tendencies, sarcasm and mockeries-all these are the habits that we have gathered from our surroundings, consciously or unconsciously,. There is an adage in English about the difficulty of freeing oneself from an ingrained habit. Even if you remove the first letter ‘h’ from it, a bit remains , if the letter “a” is removed, bit remains, if “b” is removed “it” remains. Do you now realize how strong the effect of habit is?!

“Habit is either the best of servants, or worst of masters” said Nathaniel Emmons, So habit can be a wonderful servant it can save your much time and effort, and make things in general much easier for you. If you can train yourself to acquire good habits of health, recreation, prompt decision making , learning and work, you will almost surely from the habit of success and happiness. Courtesy wisdom

Quote from the True charm and power of Vedanta

The ego is our greatest enemy in accomplishing this. It constantly produces delusion in our mind. Yet if it is helpful to us, we do not wish to destroy it. What we want is ot reshape it. We want a better from of ego. This is the idea of all discipline. The only way we can conquer this subtle force is to hold ourselves as the witness. As we would stand on the bank of a river and see the water flow by, so we should watch all impressions pass without being disturbed by them. The ordinary tendency is , when some one strikes, to  strike back; but this is not the case with a man of masterful mind. It is not that he lacks in sensibility, but these things do not move him; he ahs, as it were, put on and armour of fortitude an calmness.

The practice of detachment includes two distance processes, -withdrawing an indrawing. We must withdraw ourselves from whatever retards our unfoldment; then create a strong new spiritual impression by turning our thought within. At present we are all slaves to certain habits; in order to overcome these we must cultivate other habits, which in time will become so dominant that they will efface the old ones. All our out-going tendencies, which now hold us back, must be detached from the non-essential and then drawn inward. But this is only possible though superior knowledge.  

If we try to do violence to our mind by a sudden uprooting of the old impressions, it suffers; but if we first acquire a correct knowledge of the relative value of things, the mind itself lets go without any pang. First we analyze, discriminate and try to see everything in its true light; then as the mind gradually detaches itself from the old impression. We turn it inward and fix it on some spiritual object. As we do this our heart become more and more liberated from the non-essential and fins its sole delight in God.

Courtesy Secret of right Activity

But, if He exists? 

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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