Decision Making (drop the current software)🔗

Are you the decision maker? You will be surprised, actually shocked to know that if your decisions are not intuitive then you are not the decision maker. If you are not spontaneous and intuitive then your decisions are made by a committee of dull dead old fools called samskaras or engraved memories.

When your decisions are driven by the energy of intuition then you are driven by the same energy that runs the stars and planets. If your decisions are not from the energy of intuition then they are driven by the committee of intellectuals who sit and calculate, analyze, presume, assume and make you follow a pattern based on your past experiences.

Let us take a more digital view or more subtle view of this conscious and unconscious mind and how information is received, processed and stored and what is the result of this process. We will understand how the conscious zone and unconscious zone process information that is received through our five senses.

Let us analyze the working of the mind. If you study this diagram below, it shows how the information entering through the eye for example is processed.

The following example shows information entering through the sense of sight or eyes is processed. When you see something, first the physical eye sees it. This information is digitized by the energy called chakshu. Chakshu is a Sanskrit term, for our purposes we may call it as DSP or digital signal processor.

The information or signal received about an object or scene is converted into a digital file by this chakshu. This conversion happens to the information received through all the five senses, not just the eye.

Then the file goes to the memory. In Sanskrit memory is called as chitta. In the memory a little more work is done on the file. For example, if you are seeing me now, the file is converted digitally by chakshu and taken to chitta or the memory. The memory starts analyzing the file or information. The memory does an analysis by the process of elimination of the information in the file received. For example, it will say, 'this is not an animal', 'this is not a rock', 'this is not a plant', etc.

Then the file is passed to the mind or the manas. The mind does the job of identifying the file. Here it says, this is a human being, this is an instructor, etc. The mind concludes the analysis with a definite 'this is.'

If you were to review this whole process, it all happens in fractions of milli-seconds. The whole process happens in the conscious zone of the mind. The entire process of seeing the object; receiving information; converting it to digital signal; elimination process in the memory and identification process in the manas or mind.

Next the whole file takes a quantum leap to the ego and your ego decides based on your past experiences what your next action or decision is. If your past experiences have been favorable or if you have heard favorable things about leadership training programs in general then your decision will be to sit followed by the action to sit and attend.

and finally the information taking a quantum jump to your ego in the unconscious zone where the decision to sit or leave takes place.

In ego you start thinking, in what way am I connected to this experience or this situation. If your past experiences have been nice, you decide to sit and listen. If your past experiences have not been good, you start making excuses saying this is not worth it, I felt bored last time. If you feel negative, you feel let us move, this is not the place for me to sit. Ego decides based on your past experience. This is the way your mind functions. The decision to respond or mostly react all happens unconsciously. When you make the decision, your body executes the decision.

Why are decisions made unconsciously? For example, let us say your previous experiences of leadership training programs have been boring or you were disturbed for some reason or it was a negative experience. Then in the next program even though you know logically that this person you see is a new person, the situation is new, yet based on a previous experience, memory or past you make the decision to leave or you relive the uncomfortable feeling and undergo the same low mood.

The reason is this unconscious zone is filled with negative memories and restlessness. All your past memories which we call samskaras in Sanskrit, all your past thought patterns are stored in this zone as files. In the field of psychology they use the word engrams to denote these stored memories. there are so many files stored in this zone. These memories or incidents are stored here without any logical connection between them.

The unconscious area is very powerful. It can be used in three ways, at the instinct level, at the intellect level or at the intuition level.

Let us call the time for the process between eye and the mind to be TP. This time TP is the time taken for the logical and conscious process between eye and the mind. You will be completely aware of this process. It happens with your awareness consciously.

Similarly, let's call the time taken for the decision to sit or leave which happens in unconscious zone to be TQ. This happens against your logical understanding.

When the TQ is less than TP, it means the decision was instantaneous. For example, logically even if you know that smoking is injurious to health, the moment you remember or see a cigarette you just decide to smoke and immediately after that there will be guilt and regret.

When the unconscious is overloaded with negative memories and restlessness one works at the instinct level as we just saw. You simply decide instinctively, unconsciously. When you are at the instinct level you always end up regretting most of your decisions. You wonder why you behaved in that fashion, 'this is not me, how did I allow this to happen, how did i take that decision'. This happens because the unconscious is working at the instinct level. At this level you just associate things without any logical connection and jump to a conclusion unconsciously. These past memories make the automatic decisions and reactions.

Sometimes you are faced with so many options and you don't know what to do, you will get tired and just blindly make some decision, saying 'leave me alone..'

At this level TQ will be equal to TP. Here you are conscious, you take decisions logically, but you don't have any extra enthusiasm or energy. You are just there with a conscious mind, being neither creative nor innovative. You don't take big steps, you don't take risks and you don't grow. You are like a faithful servant. Einstein says: The intellect is a faithful servant. You will be just collecting data and processing, like a computer.

When you are at the intellect level, you don't take hasty decisions, but you will be more careful and calculative weighing the pros and cons based on your previous experiences but in a logical manner. At this level you are still not using your potential to the maximum extent to which it can be used.

Logic is never accurate, because it is simply old data, old information, old record with old time and old parameters. This gives rise to indecisiveness, dilemma where you are not sure what decision to make. Postponing, procrastination, dilemma means you don't even have the intent. These are also obstacles.

In this level the TQ is greater than TP. At this level, you can actualize your entire potential. If you can be free from your memories and be empty and blissful in the unconscious zone, then you can be alive and fresh every moment without the burden of your past engraved memories. Then the Energy of your Being will express itself in its purest form. When this happens you will make decisions out of an energy called intuition.

Earlier we touched upon the power of intuition in the case of Charles Towne. Each and every one of us has the power of intuition in us. We have all experienced it a few times in our lives for brief seconds. These moments of intuition are clear signs of latent power in us. If we recognize and encourage it, we can express the higher dimensions of our Being.

Einstein says, 'The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant'.

But let me tell you, rationale is the intimate enemy and intuition is continuously available in us and we can use this in our regular life. We can work for it, so that it becomes a part of our life. We have created a society that encourages and honors the servant – the rational mind, the logical mind and has forgotten the gift.

Intuition is all about processing the data received spontaneously. We can prepare ourselves and tune ourselves to this Energy of Intuition through techniques and methods and a little deeper understanding of our system so that we can clear the unconscious zone of the blocks.

Intuition happens only when inner space is empty of engraved memories.

We will see how we can harness the Energy of Intuition in us. How we can move from Unconscious to Conscious to Super conscious and how to move from instinct to intellect to intuition. Right now the unconscious zone is like a room filled with furniture with no space. Once we remove the furniture, once we clear the engraved memories then the energy of intuition can flow without obstructions.

To clear the unconscious zone of these engraved memories we need to expand our understanding a little more to see where these engraved memories are stored in our system. Decision making can become intuitive with pure visualization if we work on the Mooladhara chakra or the Root Energy Center because the energy is currently being wasted in this energy center. Most of our thoughts are originating in this energy center. To work on clearing this center we will understand more deeply about the science of thoughts.

Where do thoughts come from? How to be in no thought state or no mind state? To be able to resolve the issue, we first accept and become aware that we have an issue. We will watch and recreate the problem and then resolve the problem. But, to resolve the problem we will also have to know how the hardware and software is designed.

_TECHNIQUE 1_

_Illogical, independent & unconnected._

Notice how they are illogical, independent, unconnected thoughts. The mind is nothing but a collection of thoughts. These thoughts rise up in succession like the bubbles in a fish tank. All these thoughts that rise in the mind also appear to be connected. But just like the bubbles in the fish tank the thoughts in the mind are also independent and unconnected.

There is no connection between the previous thought and the next one. All the thoughts are un-clutched and unconnected. Only when you write down your thoughts you come to know that the thoughts have no real connection. You may be thinking about having a cup of coffee and the next moment you may think about some office work which is pending. There is no real connection between having a cup of tea and the office work. Both are independent events. Even if there are two consecutive thoughts about the same event the thoughts are unconnected as there is no continuity. There exists a silent gap between these thoughts of which one is not aware

If you notice, thoughts are nothing but your knowing. It is all about what you hear, read, saw, touched, felt through your senses. You cannot have thoughts about what you don't know. You cannot have thoughts about what you have not perceived through your senses..? am I right? Thoughts are related to what you already know. Even the imaginations about future are based on what you know using or constructed from material that you know.

This knowing along with emotions become like files with high resolution pictures with audio and video are stored as memories in our system. This is what keeps playing in us throughout the day as thoughts.