Upgrade Your Mind: 5 Free Upgrades

Are you always looking for tools and ways to sharpen my mind? To bring out the best of your mind? To make best use of your mind?

I mean, won’t it be wonderful if you could solve that math equation, be calm at places and situations where everyone else would have panic, read and understand nice books, write, share and so much more? Then hell you are so much like me!

Sharpen The Saw

I remember the story two woodcutters went to forest and one of them started chopping right away and the other one spend hours sharpening his axe. At the end of the day, the one who sharpened his saw ended up with more wood than the one who didn’t and was, obviously, less tired and earned more bucks!

So it’s always wise to sharpen your saw –sharpen your mind and we are going to use the method of Meditation.  This is so important that Stephen Covey has devoted a full habit in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Or The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens if you are one.

Calm the Storm – Seeing Beyond Chaos

I gotta do this, I have to finish this up, I am running late! I AM SCERWED UP!!! Sounds familiar?

Well we all go through these storms every day. Everything seems to have a secret pact with the lords of chaos and they all seem to be after us. And things get frustrating and discouraging when nothing seems to move.

Meditation comes to rescue. You will become calm day by day, you will see patterns in chaos – patterns of thoughts and habits which are not serving you well. You will have that wisdom and clarity to see them and say to yourself, “This habit/thought got to go for my own well being.” And as the dust settles, you will see even more.

Never Dying Passion – Getting Things Done With Ease

Knowing the root of the problem is another thing and having the power to change is another. And let me be honest with you – will power does nothing! I mean you decide to wake a early, motivate yourself and even do it for a week and after that… what? Will power is gone and so is everything that came along.

We need that force that comes from within and never dies, that passion which builds up slowly. We need that stuff – does it ever happen to you that there is something, a thought, habit etc. , which you inculcated in your life effortlessly while others try to struggle to move even an inch? What is that soft power that places it in? That’s power of sub-conscious mind.

People try harder and harder to make it happen and it actually never happens. But once it gets in the sun-conscious mind – it’s done. I love what Ryan says about this:

Try hard, and you’ll have to try harder. ~RBs Keys

So do we evoke this power? How do we go placing that thought in sun-conscious mind? – Meditation! And results, I promise, will start slow, will be natural and transformational in the long run. You will look back and say – Whoa man! Was I that person?

Efficiency in Handling Thoughts

I remember friends complaining that they have stuff in mind, they know the answer, they have the ideas but somehow they can’t put them together in a nice way or just can’t express them in a flow. One of the major causes is inefficiency to handle the thoughts, when thoughts think you rather than you thinking the thoughts. And that too my friend can be changed by Meditation.

You will be able to put all your thoughts nicely. They will come in a formation like birds and they will come at speed and shape that you want. And I know, for some people it sounds too good to be true but ask those who are meditating since years even months, it’s wonderful how they have changed over years.

Understanding Opposing Ideas

My twitter friend sent me this message on twitter:

…I believe that if every one mediated 5 minutes a day THE WORLD WOULD CHANGE for the better! – CharlieBrown949

And I cannot agree more. All those tensions, feeling of insecurity, terrorism and intolerance of opposing ideas comes from the place where we can’t understand or respect individuality of other’s consciousness, let alone have peace with it.

But you can be a peacekeeper. Not only will it serve the whole society but it will serve you at much deeper levels. You will begin to understand things, people more clearly. No more –“I can never get this person.” Or “This person is a pain in the neck” because you understand that there are as many point of views as many people there are and it is good because that makes you special.

Bring Out The Talent

“I was very good with guitar but then I stopped learning.” I’ve heard this from many of my friends and when I ask them why they have numerous reasons from ‘unsupportive parents’ to ‘unmanageable life’ and trust me none of these are true! Because you know it in the heart that you knew when you were leaving it that you have the power to not only come back but continue learning and bring out the talent.

And with the hope of returning someday you turned away and when will be the time to go back? Someday. And when will be the someday?

Let me tell you the secret to making that someday as close as a month if not today – Meditate.

Conclusion

I can go on, really! For there is no end to the ways meditation upgrades your mind and then there is personality, relations, emotions and so on. And most of them are not even know – it just happens.

If you have started mediating and have experienced some good things then let me know in comments or via mail or better share it here with readers like Manav did.

So if you think you cold use an upgrade (this is totally free for God’s sake!) go find a technique on this blog that suits you or find a book. And start meditating.

Close your eyes, feel your breath ~ meditate.

Namaste.

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