‘’ One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’’
-OLD PROVERB
Perspective
determines our attitude and altitude in life.
Of
course your talent,commitment,and circumstance too play a huge role,but we hear
of so many cases of non achiever’s talent,and non success even though
favourably circumstanced that one begins to think that these are necessary but
not sufficient conditions.RESILIENCE,especially in face of adversity is the
only attribute that stands as a sufficient condtion.But that may be linked to
perspective as well.Let us see how perspective links with perception which in
turn determines by and large how we lead our lives.
MIND ๐ PERCEPTION {Experiences,Socialization,Culture,Education
etc.
interacting with environment} ๐OUR WORLD VIEW
Mental
conditioning (Pavlov) compels learned reaction patterns.Self deception is
possible thus.So is the truth of experiments like placebo effect-we literally
create the world we believe in, at times.Over time,this becomes so ingrained in
us that it becomes part of the ,what Freud called,subconscious and appears to
us as self evident truth.No wonder people don’t change.Disturbance
,ironically,is more of mind than emotion.That leads to predetermined ,rote
reactions,or convulted ones,divorced from reality.Dangers of half knowledge are
more legion than those of ignorance.
That
is where techniques such as MINDFULNESS become important.To me the concept of
STITHPRAGYA ,however is the ultimate.[Look my earlier blog:WHY MINDFULNESS
FAILS? for a detailed discussion].
So,harness
the power of your mind.Command it and not be led by it.Salvation begins thus.