Monday, January 18, 2016

Spirituality as a Tool for Success: Radheshyam Miryala MD

Heartfulness Meditation: Spirituality as a Tool for Success

Clarity and balance are essential to making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business dealings.  Finding clarity eludes many of us in today’s over-stimulated environment.  Our senses are constantly bombarded by sights and sounds trying to grab our attention.  In fact, our attention has become prime real estate for advertisers trying to make their way into our mind space.  This relentless assault through social media, tv, radio, advertisements is diminishing our attention span.  We are constantly told what to think by the world around us.  Along with the overstimulation, the frenetic pace of our modern life leaves us no time for reflection on our decisions.  With an ever expanding email inbox, looming deadlines, social calendars, family responsibilities, we feel pulled in many directions.  How can we regain a sense of balance and clarity?

Take a few minutes to perform this thought exercise:  

1) Sit in a quiet place with a pen, paper, and timer nearby.  You will need to be unplugged from all distractions (no tv, no social contacts, no cell phone, etc).
2) Set your timer for 5 minutes.
3) Close your eyes and notice the thoughts that are coming up.
4) Open your eyes after the timer goes off.
5) Journal with total honesty all the thoughts that you recall in this 5 minute time frame.  

Now carefully review all the thoughts that you had.  How many of the thoughts you had were original to you?  How many were a byproduct of what you were influenced to think?  How many of your thoughts were productive, and how many were incessant ruminations?  How many of your thoughts were emotionally toxic?  How many of the thoughts did you intentionally think of in the 5 minutes?  How much of the mental chatter did you enjoy?  How many of the thoughts were just random?

What if there was a way to regulate your mind better?  What if you tamed your mind to think thoughts that you willed?  How much more efficient would you be?  How much more clarity would you have in your personal, professional, and business dealings?  How do we take over the reins of our minds and control what we think?

Meditation is a tool that can help clear the mental chatter in our brain.  Meditation can help us get closer to this clarity.  Meditation can help us on our spiritual journey, a journey that can guide us to our higher selves.  People may have a fear about starting meditation and taking a spiritual journey, as they may be afraid of the changes that it brings along.  Spirituality does not have to entail renouncing your material life to wander the earth like a hermit in robes.  You do not have to seek refuge in a monastery to devote yourself to your spiritual endeavours.  You do not have to commit to a life of asceticism.  A meditation practice can be seamlessly integrated into your life, allowing you to live a balanced material and spiritual life.  

In my personal experience, a heartfulness based meditation practice offered through the Sahaj Marg (NaturalPath) system offered by SRCM (Shri Ram Chandra Mission) is a very efficient way of integrating meditation into our busy modern lives.  After experimenting with some other systems, I was overjoyed to find the Sahaj Marg system which I felt was a genuine grass roots movement offering their training for free through a network of dedicated volunteers.  I found this system to be very effective method of training in meditation and spirituality, which enables us to attain the highest spiritual achievements possible in our lifetime.  It allows for a balanced existence of both our spiritual and material lives, without calling for any renunciation or asceticism!

The training in heartfulness meditation takes the focus and attention from our minds to our hearts.  It increases our capacity for empathy, joy, and love.  It opens up the portal to experience the mystical splendour that is latent in the stillness of our hearts.  We start to live life through the serenity of our hearts rather than the mental clutter of our minds.  As we delve deeper into our hearts, we develop an extraordinary intuition that gives us the clarity to make more efficient decisions in life.  A heartfulness based meditation practice can help us find the clarity and balance that we seek in our lives.

Radheshyam Miryala MD


11 comments:

  1. The dearest brother Radheshyam Miryala MD in this text used the word "Meditation", but he did not tell that this is just 5-minute exersise presented before.

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  2. Wonderfully explained. Thanks for sharing. I too experienced lot of changers in my life after practicing Heartfulness meditation.

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  3. This is most important thing. Clarity and balance are essential to making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business dealings. And how wonderfully can be achieved by Heartfulness Meditation

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  4. This is most important thing. Clarity and balance are essential to making successful decisions in our personal, professional, and business dealings. And how wonderfully can be achieved by Heartfulness Meditation

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  5. I love this article.. I love especially the simple formula of clarity + balance = Harmony (H=C+B). I think the purpose of meditation is not reach thoughtlessness. It is to make sense of this process, whereby, when we close our eyes, other faculties are shut, thereby enabling a conscious evaporation of unwanted thoughts. This process of emptying our mind, makes the mind get in touch with our inner intuition and hence we begin to "see" or "hear" or "feel" or "recognize" our own inspired thoughts come to surface. That gives us the impetus for action. These actions based on inspired thoughts result in focused accomplishments. So, meditation is a tool to improving focus and clarity. Along with balance, we reach inner and outer harmony. Better understanding of our ideas, acceptance of our action and hence better cooperation and success!!!!!!

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  6. Quite practical. Tried it today during my flight and responded to 10 important emails requiring decisions on my part. Worked!!

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  7. Very nice approach. Definitely useful.

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  8. A young abhyasi as asked why she is meditating so young. She gave a very beautiful answer: "Why not? Most if the confusion and dilemma is when you are youth. Meditation allows the answer to those emerge from within. It helps calm the nerves and clears cobweb of confusion"

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  9. Nice article!
    Meditation is nothing but a technique which we undertake to train our mind, this all important tool that we use 24 hours of the day. The improvements in personal effectiveness can be far reaching, and is to be experienced to be believed.

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  10. Training in Heartfulness is a drop in the ocean... When effectively practised, it transforms the individuals life from within. Thanks for sharing.

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  11. Training in Heartfulness is a drop in the ocean... When effectively practised, it transforms the individuals life from within. Thanks for sharing.

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