It is the process of finding the required balance between the challenges of your day-to-day life and inner longing for well-being and peace, writes A K Mishra
There are several badges or identification given to this process of connecting to your deeper soul; some may call it yoga, while others may call it holistic science, self improvement or inner engineering. Inner engineering is a process of finding the required balance between the challenges of your day-to-day life and inner longing for well-being and peace through yoga or meditation practices.
Yoga holistically has a broad meaning of connecting the self with God. The word comes from the Sanskrit term ‘yog’ meaning addition; the addition between the self and Gold. The process is synonymous with the process of connecting to the deeper soul. The deep soul, on the other hand, is where the supreme entity rests.
The Supreme Soul is purely a conscious entity, which is beyond the reach of our intellect and mind. Our mind and intellect are powerless and lifeless without the consciousness of our soul and activates by the soul consciousness. An inert object only can reach a conscious entity when it merges in it or unites with it. The process of inner engineering helps the practitioners merge their mind and intellect in their supreme soul, which in turn enables them to experience the divine power of their mind.
Moreover, one of the most important steps we should take in order to achieve our greatest potential is to learn to monitor our mind and thoughts and take charge of our emotions through the combination of technologies and methods derived from the ancient science of Yoga.
Yoga, fundamentally, is the process of mind control where the mind is trained to divert from mundane material thoughts, being steady on a single direction. Thoughts are the triggering element for emotions, which in return triggers our physical actions. It is impossible for the mind to be idle. It is a medically proven fact that the mind remains active even when the body is not. In fact, our brain is more active when we sleep. Thoughts emanated in the brain are the prime motivations of our actions. Therefore, by controlling thoughts, one can control actions.
like any other computer, human brain can also be programmed. It is upto you, how you are programming it. The communication which happens inside you is the software which programmes your attitude and determines how you present yourself to the world around you.
Thus, it is very important to keep yourself positive towards life, which reflects on your personality and directly has a positive impact on your life. This positive state of mind and self awareness is achieved through the process called inner engineering, which is also known as the distilled essence of yoga or meditation.
While highlighting the value of being self aware, I would also like to talk about the consequences of not being self aware. The choice is in our hands, depending upon the outcomes we seek and how zealously we devote our time to calm our mind and connect to our inner self. The difference between being aware and not aware about the self is the realisation of our inner knowledge, the idea of our personality, values, morals and the unique aspects that define us. Being aware of the self-help to mold our thoughts in the most amicable way; helping us to programme the software according to our needs and priority. This forms our psyche, the framework of our inner self, determining our outer self. Our outer self comprises our behaviour, choice of words and attitude that interacts with the tangible world. Self awareness assists to give the best shape to the outer self.
Through self awareness or through the deeper connection to our inner self, we can alter the negative emotions because we become in-charge of our brain work. Self awareness assists our thoughts to grow in the positive direction for the betterment of our self. Positive thoughts produce positive emotions, which help reduce the negativities in us.
This creates a positive environment, making everything that we come in contact with better. The inner self, in this case, is on tandem with the outer self, making us behave in a positive way and react emphatically even in adverse situations. This creates a determination in us to do well, and give out our best in whatever we do.
Self observation or awareness immensely shifts our brain functioning. It helps us activate our self regulating neocortical regions, which grant us immense control over our feelings and emotions. Through the regular practice of inner engineering, we strengthen our emotional resilience and our rationality. Inner engineering helps us replenish our inner self and grow stronger from within. It is the process through which we build up self confidence.
While, on the other hand, due to lack of self awareness, our thoughts and actions become too impulsive, and our frequent reactions on actions without making the conscious choices become instinctively frustrating. later on, our prefrontal cortex brain resolves this by forming explanations for our frustration or irrational behaviour and by re-writing in our memories through memory reconsolidation, making us believe that we are in control of our actions.
This process leaves most of our negative emotions unresolved and ready to burst anytime. This process becomes constant fuel to our excessive frustration and confusion as our prefrontal cortex brain keeps trying to justify the reason of our irrational behaviour.
Hence, instead of pushing negative thoughts or reasons of your irrational behaviour inside your heart and soul, they should be pushed out through regular and rigorous practice of yoga or meditation, a form of inner engineering — a process to unite your supreme soul with your intellect and mind, in order to reach your greatest potential and create a balanced mind to enrich yourself with divine knowledge and to keep yourself away from negative emotions and thoughts.
The writer is director of Art of Success
