Part - I

IQ and EQ give way to spiritual intelligence, the ultimate intelligence that can add value and meaning to your life.

Living on the edge, oscillating between commercial deadlines and personal debts has become the fate of all of us. We are sleeping under the covers of unconscientiousness, never attempting to uncover the truth hiding in the depths, never even realizing that there is a truth.

We are repeatedly engaging ourselves in the activities, which make our minds rigid and enslaved. We are always conforming; when there is conformity there can obviously be no freedom. Yet what the mind inherently seeks is freedom. All of us disallow our minds to think freely with a frequency that is alarming. The mind conforms, imitates, because there is more apparent security in conforming, in following a pattern. We do all kinds of things for the simple reason that it has been the norm; we may be educated abroad, may be a great politician, scientist or a management guru but we have a lurking fear that makes us confirm to the social obligations that have been treated as sacrosanct. When the mind conforms there is total denial of freedom, perception and independent inquiry and which restricts thinking. Humans have been unable to keep pace with their own phenomenal evolution and growth; they aren't at ease with it. It makes them lose their touch with their human self; which has been followed by a downward spiral into what has been known as consumerism. The renewed interest in spiritual training can be traced to the rigors and complexities of the modern, competitive working environment, which breeds stress, tension and complexes among employees.

To resolve this, management is required - "Managing the vast space in the brain in which there is unimaginable energy." 'Thought is an attribute that belongs to me; only that is inseparable from me.' Moreover, Rene Descartes said, "Cogito ergo sum", i.e., I think. Therefore I am. This management of thinking is the topic of our discussion in this article.

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* Contributed by: -
Naina P. Modi,
PGRM 2003-2005,
XIM Bhubaneswar.