Religion in You

We may be the follower of various religions but there is a religion inside us. Our religion is may be due to circumstances, personal or social reasons. The religion is source of faith, trust, and security and provides us the solace to face the challenges thrown on us by the happenings in our life. It may be the sole factor for giving us the identity and we look forward to religion for directions in case of any dilemmas.

Religion also influences us to unilateral and dogmatic thinking, the reasoning, and logic sometimes become susceptible. We tend to start accepting all the events in the religious flavor. When the influence is very strong we are myopic in evaluating the facts and may be with all the good intentions.

Belief inside us is the real religion and we need to follow it first then any other established one. Our soul always guides correctly on evil and good, heaven and hell. We as individual come first and religion come later. Avoid marginalizing your intellect on orthodox thinking influenced by particular religion or sect. If we are religious in our thoughts it will help us to follow our religion in more meaningful manner. We as an individual first must build the profound faith in our own values and belief for being eligible to be a good religious human being.

Be critical and not cynical

Criticality is associated with analysis and evaluation and being critical is a healthy process. When we are critical it relate to our judiciousness for assessment of situation. It also depicts our inclination to explore the matter in depth, which help us in totality to gain more knowledge and awareness. In this process we are keen not to take things on their face value and like to build our own prospective to matters around us. Our thinking process get more seasoned with continuous and persistent questioning. In our network of people we are not taken for granted as we can stand on put forward our opinion with all the confidence. We put into practice the openness with appraising the circumstances.

Cynical is the state of extreme pessimism and negativity in evaluating the matters and facts we may deal in our life style. We are closed in our thinking and follow only the tunnel view in related or non-related matters. The stage is of complete darkness with extreme rigidity in our mind. We are obsessive to a point of view and refrain from accepting any flexibility. The perception of absolute hopelessness prevails over us and options seem to be dried up.

The interesting aspect is our understanding regarding criticality and cynicism is very ordinary. Most of the time we are not aware when we have crossed the dividing line of criticality to cynicism. We become slave to our over possessive negative thoughts and with time we are only propagating the cynicism in our views and opinion. Try to introspect the personal opinions to limit the compulsive behavior. Don’t carried away by egos and self-centered approach. Start accepting dissimilar views for showing better receptivity.

The Heart Overpowers the Mind

There is a constant on going fight between heart and mind inside us. The numerous theories are developed and discussed in this reference in past, present. Point of acrimony is who has the edge, heart or mind in controlling our conduct. Person can live with dead brain for quite substantial time and without heartbeat the story is finished immediately, it shows that our life is ultimately on the mercy of our heart.

We hear our heart first and then message is passed on to mind for evaluating the thoughts, data or facts, so all initiations is from heart only. All the senses carry their meaning from feelings and feelings are nothing but the voice of our heart. Heart is our soft ware and mind is hard ware in our body. So without soft ware the body doesn’t stand for any worthwhile existence.

Listen to your heart, even with best of your efforts mind may not able to control the heart. Its illusion that we can have command on our thoughts and are able to manage them being more rational and mature but in reality it never happens. Heart always speaks truth and only mind put layers of manipulations and maneuvering on our thinking. When we are not true at that moment mind tries to control our heart and predominately it always face the defeat. The guarded behavior on our part also reflects the phenomenon where heart is not pushing us to go all ends up in managing the particular situations.

Remove the façade of superficial persona where we live with double standards and go by what your heart say. It will help us in managing our self in more genuine environment based on truth and straightforwardness. Realize the overpowering presence of your thoughts coming directly from the core of your heart. Use your mind to mange and not to dictate, life can be wonderful.

Divergent Accepted wisdom

Following the established norms requires the convergent thinking process. We do as told to us or perceived by us in our prevailing environment. Telling in simple terms, adopting the straight line without any deviations in our thinking or execution. We are captive to conventional paths for more predictable out comes. No questions are raised and emphasis is to maintain status quo to the possible best. In discussions some of us may sound radical in our approach but unfortunately this fervour remains confined to discussions tables only. “Out of box thinking” sails only in conversations to impress others. Wisdom is related to typecast knowledge; learning’s for most of us and deviating thought process is low on acceptance. Conservative mind sets are reflection of rigidity in our outlook.

Divergent accepted wisdom parlance to openness in our personality. It shows our strength to raise questions and invite fresh thoughts in our execution and thinking. when we like to be different we need to explore at depth for being more effective resulting in consistent flow of ideas and facts.” why” is more prominent then “ yes “ in our normal communications. Conflicts are created to improve us further by gaining more knowledge through shaking the established norms.

We can master this trait in our normal routine if we start mending our ways to handle the issues with non conventional approach. Start putting query to all our acts in personal and working life. It will at least force us to think differently and with time execution can also be the part of this process. Your are not there to change the world around you but you can make your mark as pioneer in challenging the taboos affecting your wisdom to grow. Common man can live life distinctively different with open mind. Wisdom is never been privilege only for rich,intelligent and famous, we all can demonstrate it with divergent thinking.