Creativity🔗

4. Creativity in corporate world? a. When does creativity flower? i. When you are not afraid of change. ii. When you are courageous to be different and unique. iii. When you are not afraid of others criticism. iv. When you are not greedy for others praises. v. When you drop seriousness and instead be sincere and playful. vi. When you have courage to follow and stand by your creation with conviction. vii. Willing to take risks.

b. Thinking outside the box. c. Creating new solutions. d. Normally creative solutions come as a flash while in shower or bathroom or driving alone in a car or relaxed in a park. e. More intuitive when alone rather than in a group or in meetings. You are not influenced by other's ideas or thoughts. f. Don't be a rat in the rat race. Bring clarity into comparison. Be clear as to why you are running. Don't run because someone else is running. g. Don't chisel your true self. Open up your true self. h. Only when you are creative yourself, you can understand, tolerate and inspire others to be creative.

7. Knowledge gained should be to understand what is blocking the true self from expressing itself. a. I and Mine are nothing but pseudo ideas about the true self that has been forced on you or that you have yourself acquired due to conditioning. b. Ahankaar & Mamakaar i. With this conditioning you maintain two personalities a set of ideas with a mixture of material possessions and conceptual possessions. ii. One to project to everyone as you. One which you truly believe as you. Both of these are wrong, because both of these are acquired due to conditionings. c. Logic which constantly tries to chisel and maintain these two identities in the form of fear and greed. Fear of losing these ideas and possessions. Greed to acquire more to build and polish these identities. d. Understanding how to undo the development of borrowed personality.

1. The potential causes of stress are numerous and highly individual.

● What you consider stressful depends on many factors, including your personality, general outlook on life, problem-solving abilities, and social support system. Something that's stressful to you may not faze someone else, or they may even enjoy it. For example, your morning commute may make you anxious and tense because you worry that traffic will make you late. Others, however, may find the trip relaxing because they allow more than enough time and enjoy listening to music while they drive.

2. Excess Worry results in stress.

3. Worry is negative inner chatter.

4. What is this negative inner chatter about – meeting deadlines, planning, re-planning, impressing, need for attention, discontentment, fear, etc.

5. Negativity about anything is the root of worry.

● Example if you suffer from a business failure due to some reasons, how will you react? You will feel sad that you met with failure, that is ok. But you will not stop at that. You will feel frustrated and angry and you will allow all sorts of things to enter into your head. "Oh, this is my bad period!", "Everything I touch is sure to be a failure!" "I am good for nothing!", "Why am I always so unlucky?", "What am I going to do? .. And so on..

5. How to stop it: i. Never analyze past with updated intelligence. ii. Be with a sense of gratitude always. iii. When negative thoughts rise, say "I am not going to get affected by you." iv. Have you seen a buffalo or a cow worried. v. Hell and heaven are not geographic. When you worry hell is inside you. You carry it around. vi. Like how cholesterol creates blockages in arteries, worry creates energy blockages in your Being. vii. Infuse awareness into your breath. Power of Now is straight way to bliss. viii. Don't spend time correcting thoughts. Awareness will do it for you. ix. We think we have to go through worry and anxiety to be showered. x. Be relaxed means consciousness is alert all the time. Being completely aware. xi. Addiction cannot be dropped by trying to drop it. Anything you resist will persist. It can only be transformed by deep awareness.

6. Psychological revolution. i. Not worrying about worry. ii. Chronological planning instead of psychological planning. iii. Understanding about doing or acting only what is in control. iv. Way to worry is through the mind and the way out can also be only through the mind. v. Look into yourself with awareness how your worries take root. We keep collecting words, creating opinions and going over them in a repeated fashion. vi. Mind is an excellent recording system. It stores your negative thought patterns, your complexes, your worries and repeats faithfully. vii. When mind fails to find consistency in everything, it finds it difficult to digest. viii. When spontaneity happens, you flow without thinking.

7. Understanding that thoughts are unrelated to the happenings in the world. ( from the media section..) i. Imagine the tape you are listening to is silent and has no content for just 2 minutes. What happens? Your mind races. Thoughts flood you. What has happened you wonder, what has gone wrong? Why are there no words? ii. Nothing has gone wrong. Nothing at all. Your mind cannot tolerate silence, that is all. Thoughts and words are a call of your consciousness telling you that your center is unfilled. iii. There are 2 kinds of people. One kind is the people who follow words and seek meaning behind the words. Another kind is those who ignore the meaning and seek the source of thoughts. The first kind is the Commissar and the second kind is the Yogi. iv. Seeking words and thoughts cannot fulfill you. When you seek words you move into the outer world. You move into the space of sense objects which results in pain or pleasure. However many times you may experience the physical or sensual pleasure led, by your thoughts you still keep seeking the same pleasure. What one calls karma, is really the effect of these unfulfilled desires. v. The meaning of thoughts and words is not to provoke movement towards these external experiences that can never be fulfilled, but to move towards the center, the core of your being. Only there will you find the comfort in silence. vi. Words soothe your superficial mind the same way as scratching an itch seems to provide some comfort. In actual fact it makes the problem worse. It is the same with words. The more words you use the more confused you are. Be careful of all those scholars and philosophers who use highly complex language and words to propound their theories. They themselves do not understand what they are saying, so they are forced to confuse others by using complexity as a tool. vii. Whenever you ask questions, more questions arise. This is seen as the measure of intelligence in our system of education. When one really understands, one realizes that questions and answers do not lead to any understanding at all. Secondly one realizes that understanding happens when thoughts cease. viii. Truth resides in silence. Truth resides in contemplation. As you move inwards towards the source of words and thoughts, mind becomes still in simplicity. This stillness this silence leads to fulfillment.

n. This connecting and seeing is the root cause of our pain, suffering, temporary happiness, our mood swings, etc.

o. We are assuming expecting a constant continuity in every thing.

p. We tend to store a photographic image of all these incidents based on the emotional attachment or detachment and we continue to add to these shafts and store them in the form of engraved memories.

q. These engraved memories constantly rise up as thoughts, as dust in the rays of sun shine in a room. They appear as deposits in the energy channels. The more thicker the deposits the more disturbance and more blockage in the energy flow.

r. The cosmic energy trying to flow through our energy centers are blocked due to these deposits of shafts that we are constantly storing, chiseling, elongating or breaking. We are engrossed and busy with them thinking they are reality.

s. First step is understanding the independent and un-clutched nature of existence and everything around us including us. Understanding that everything is transient, independent play of energy rising and falling inconsistently even though to our mind and senses they appear as consistent.

t. Second is understanding how we connect everything in the form of thoughts.

u. Just dropping the act of connecting these slides and seeing or assuming them as a continuous drama is the second step. A strong conviction and refusing to compare the present moment with any previous moment is required.

v. Emptying all the collected file cabinets of shafts is the third step.

w. Constant awareness to see each moment itself as a independent event in totality makes you a blissful watcher.

x. In the un-clutched state there is no scope for fear and greed. We will simply Be, that's all

y. In this state we will take up a lot more responsibility without getting stressed. There will be no mood swings between happiness and pain.

Meditation: Manipuraka Shuddhi Kriya ( + / ) Nithya Dhyaan)