Saturday, June 18, 2005

Brain Power

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Imagine any moment in your life that you cherish.

Now, close your eyes and go down deeper into it and enjoy every moment of it. Can you see the different scenes, colors, smells etc? As you drill down deeper into that moment, you'll drive yourself into various occurrences inside that cherished moment in your life.

That is the power of brain. It’s amazing how our brain can compartmentalize the various dimensions of such events. Some not-so important events might not get recorded so clearly.

Isn't it important that we take care of our brain just like how we take care of our body? Meditation and other activities that increase brain power have been proven to help the brain.

I got initiated in Transcendental meditation (TM) a long time back while I was in India. Pretty inexpensive out there. It can do wonders to relax the mind. Other forms of meditation will help as well.

So, please do yourself a big favor and start to nourish your brain so that it will help you cherish your important moments in life.

15 comments:

Kaps said...

Are you planning to offer any weekend course to us?

ioiio said...

enna ennamo pesareenga..

Anjali said...

Vekitu Sir.Have you read the book "The Power of the Subconscious Mind?PAdinga.amazing 1.TM also a great technique.

Chez said...

Hmm What happened?? u r into meditation.. norishing.. cherishing.. ?? :-)

Krish said...

"Dhyanam seyyunga"nnu Krishna Paramatma sonnaar, ketpaar illai.

"Dhyanam seyyunga"nnu Vivekanandar sonnaar, ketpaar illai.

"Dhyanam seyyunga"nnu Superstar sonnaar, ippo niraiyaa makkal kettu nadakkaraanga.

Idhu thaan indraiya mogham!

:-)

ada-paavi!!!! said...

saar, neenga inga vandu katandu, anga poi oru hourikku $100 sollikudakalam, potta kasu vandivudum saar, (edu ellam kathakondu nan oru edu vomai seri varalaina oru saamiar aga polamn irrukken adovum anga sir, inga pona romba competetion)
the irony is the east is becoming westernised and the west is looking towards the east!!

KRTY said...

Mind is a best platform, where you can simulate anything, absolutely anything..

I am fortunate enough that every person in my family follows a technique of mental-manipulation.

So, i decided to take nothing, and be a guru myself.
Mind requires no control and no co-ordination.
I have only one philosophy, "react naturally".

You cant make yourself Direct and drive the mind.
You are the mind !

REFLEX said...

I use to do TM before but now I am doing a diff one. even the paths are different, it is going to take us to the same place.

The Doodler said...

There is a small book called Mental Fitness by Tom Wujec that has some interesting mental exercises. I really enjoyed working with those!

Ganesh said...

Naraynanji
I do Sahaj marg type of meditation and its free to price involved only abhaysis sincerity is all it takes.
check it out http://srcm.org/
the HQ is in Chennai(adambakkam)
run Sri Rajagopalachari (Chariji)

Ganesh said...

small typo there, I meant its totally free.
TM cost around $1000-2000, I have a chinese friend who have paid that much for a retreat programme

Siddharth said...

i tried going 4 tm at maharishi veda vision a coupla years ago...aftr 2 sessions i dropped out...found it boring...but then i am only 22...maybe when i am older it may appeal 2 me!

Narayanan Venkitu said...

Kaps - Why not..? Maybe I should.!

ioiio - Dhyanam! Dynamam ! manadhukku sugam. Pizza, Pizza, vayathukku sugam.!

Arun - I'll try to write some more in the coming weeks. Thanks for your thoughts arun.

Anjali - Thank you, I'll check it out. Do you do TM?

Magnus Astrum - Trying to.! My BP / Cholesterol levels are way high!

thennavan - Ennadhidhu...Thalaivar sonna andha kadavule sonna madhiri dhaane.!

Srivatsan - 2nd time, saamiyara porennu solgireergal..Umm..Good Luck


keerthi - Happy to note about your family. That should give you a lot of motivation.
But looking at it from a different perspective - Brain is also a muscle. We exercise
the other muscles to optimize perfomance. So why not? the brain too?

REFLEX - Doesn't matter, bottom line is the Brain.

Subha - Thanks for the book I'll check it out.


Ganesh - Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. When I got initiated in TM it was almost free in Chetpet
Madras. Now, I don't know.


Siddharth - It is boring initially, but I got good results. I can tell you that for sure.

bgood said...

I don't do meditation :(. But whenever i was upset or feel bored.. i would just go to gym and workout.. that helps me a lot!! i won't think of anything else at that moment.. sure excercise/meditation/walk gives u sometime for urself and helps u to refresh!

Krish said...

True! These meditation techniques really helps :)

Even, I went through th "Art of Living" course.It was wonderful. But, didn't continue it :(. It helps only if we do it continuously!