How to increase intellect to arouse creativity?

We  are aware that we live in the creative age.  The competition is fierce and the desire for materialistic comfort is always in upsurge trend. At the same time, longevity is  more.  Though most of the time due to constraints in life, we are gloomy. The occasional happiness  when arrives, we try to forget the sad episode and get energized to involve in the revelry.  Despite all these things, we live now with more creativity.  The more and more  people like to shine and show their creativity in the fields of arts, music, literacy and spirits. As per Daniel Pink, there are four ages, the Agriculture age, Industrial age, Information age and the modern conceptual age of creators. If we consider his theory of last one, the faculty of creativity is not an inborn quality. It is an acquired quality and can be learned, of course, with perseverance and dedication.  Creativity is that art by which you can perceive your world  in a new way, give focus on lateral thinking to find out solutions to your problems and turning new ideas into realities.  Your new ideas may not produce results immediately, but if you give your  focus steadfastly, you will be able to find out something fruitful out of your ideas.  Here, don’t misled between creativity and  the power of imagination. Creativity depends on what you think and what effective actions you take to turn the thoughts into realities.  If you only think and don’t act, the same cannot be termed as creativity.

Creativity often comes from the power of thinking. It could be dull, ordinary or just a routine one.  Or you could have a big thinking, but the same may be beyond  your capabilities.  You must acknowledge the fact that at the initial stage, very few thoughts  are truly superb and  you cannot take the same  as granted for implementation.  To bring ideas into action, you first recognize your talent, assess your intelligence and passion.  Once you are able to identify these attributes and hone your skills to think in a right direction on a continuous basis, the effectiveness of  the power of thinking  will be increased substantially. Here the intellect has a prime importance.

The ability to think, questioning others to know the causes and effects, an inquisitiveness to learn more, weigh various options before deciding a solution and also the ability to discriminate between the good and the bad depend on your intellect and deep observation power.  Take the case of eminent scientist Newton. When an apple fell on his head, he did not ignore the issue as a trifling one and utilized his intellectual power of thinking to develop the famous law of gravitation.

An argument may come up that everybody is not Newton.  It is absolutely correct, but unless you use your intellect, you won’t be able to arouse your creativity.  To sharpen your intellect, your mind needs to be calm. The disturbed mind cannot yield any intellectual’s thinking because the same will be distorted.  To have a calm mind, you need to get rid of desires and ego, which create pressure and make you sensitive.  You must inculcate a habit to think bypassing the self-centered values.  Your thinking must focus not on an individual basis, but on a collective basis. Life should not be fixed only to your family members and beloved one. When your thinking is related to I, me and myself, you cannot sharpen your intellect, because you will always remain within the boundary of routine actions.  If you are able to break through from this syndrome of limitations, you can achieve an extraordinary performance.  But the problem lies that we are so much bogged down with the concept of me, we are not able to observe the world freely.  We are mostly fixed in our limitations.

The mind must be in reverential mode.  The mind must be propelled to think on right direction, and then you must discharge all your responsibilities to your best possible ability knowing that the results will depend on many factors, which are beyond your control.  If you surrender yourself to the divine power, your mind will become calm.  You must think not only for your own benefits, you think of others too. Love for others will bring solace to your life. We get this lesson from Krishna when he said to Arjuna in the Bhagwad Gita, “Love the Kauravas, but kill them, if you have to.”  Love is an universal phenomenon, but the actions behind this depend on the nature you are dealing with. 

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Your body must work ceaselessly with all energy and enthusiasms, but there should not be any attachment.  You can reach this stage of detachment when you are able to focus your thoughts  on the higher realm. Detachment from the lower realm or worldly affairs is only possible, when you get attached to the higher.  This provides a sense of availing objectivity, which in turn, provides you a divine blessing.  Respect is the real mantra of success.  It provides you an opportunity to convert your talent to achieve your desired goal.  Respect is one of the major parts of intellect through which you can find out an opportunity  how to utilize the same for the betterment of your growth.  The more you show respect to everyone, you will also get the same as a reciprocating behavior.  When your intellect goes up, you will be able to provide many brilliant ideas and these ideas will provide you to hone your creativity.  You will do your best and take all corrective measures till your ideas become fruitful.  Respect converts mediocrity to excellence. It converts your belonging from an ordinary person to an extraordinary intellect person.

Remember God both in distress and happiness

God has created this world and decorated the same with all beauties and wonders, namely the moon, the sun, the stars, and the mountains. He then created the first humans in his image Adam and Eve and placed them in the Eden Garden. He gave them fruits and vegetables to eat, water to drink and authorities to rule over birds and animals. God was very happy to create all these. God instructed Adam and Eve to eat all fruits, except those belong to an Apple Tree in the middle of Eden on which snake resided. In the Bible, snake represented as Satan, who had all intentions of betrayal, deception, jealousy, scorns, temptation and wanted Adam and Eve to disobey God’s rules. Snake befriended with them and sowed seeds of poison in the minds of Adam and Eve to be against God. He tempted them to eat an apple, so that they could have an ultimate wisdom, knowledge and be alike the God. Adam and Eve ate an apple given by the snake to trust the wisdom and be similar to God. When God came to know that they disobeyed him, he was so upset and threw them out of the Eden Garden.

 

The question has arisen as to why Adam and Eve did not obey the God. Was it just because of the temptation of Snake? No, it was because of disbelief and was not having any faith in God’s plan. This trait is inherently received by us from our ancestors; Adam and Eve don't have faith in God even though they are his creation. God has that much of love for us that he has created us as his own image. He has given all what we need; yet, we have doubt in our mind and so many times, we show our frustration, particularly in our distress.

 

In day-to-day life, many a times, we hear from people complaining that God does not listen to their prayers or God is not favorable to us or he listens to all but not me. Actually, we pray but lacking faith and not by heart. Our prayers are not capable enough to open the door of God’s heart.  Every time, we blame him for a small failure, saying that it’s our misfortune that God is not looking at us. If a student fails in his exam, he blames that God does not help him. If a woman cannot conceive a baby, she blames God that he punishes her. If there is no rain, we blame him. If it’s raining cats and dogs, we blame that he is so hard. If we become ill, we blame him that he is cruel to us. Even a lift does not work in a shopping mall, we utter – “Oh God”. We never miss a single moment to complain the God for any odd or unfavorable situation, which is taken place in our lives. Many of us think that we are not like the one, who are very famous and celebrities. Why we lack something from others? We always compare ourselves with others as we cannot do what others do. Someone thinks that he is not intellectual like others. Another thinks that why God did not make him like Sachin Tendulkar. An average looking girl feels sad as why she is not looking like Aishwarya Rai. We always mourn what we are not made for. We never appreciate God’s creation and thank him for giving a precious life.

 

On many occasions when the difficult situation takes place, we get frightened and easily surrender to the problems rather to fight. We lose our faith in God. God has given us enough courage to face the problem. Yet, we put down all weapons before fight the battle. In fact, we are habituated to be in our comfort zone and don’t allow ourselves to bear a little pain. Life is such. Each moment brings new challenges and new problems. To be frightened and surrender to the situation is not just enough. Our minds are disturbed with worries about worldly things. We worry most of the time about food, drink, clothing, house, job and marriage.  Half of our life we waste in running after money. We like to chew up past history and worry about future on which none of us has any control and thus, we can’t enjoy our present. Why to worry about a thing which is already over. God has a perfect plan for each of us. He is the “Almighty” - Omniscient, Omnipotent and Omnipresent. He is the father of all. He knows what to give, how much to give, when to give and who deserves what. In the Bible, Jesus said, “do not worry about everyday life – whether you have enough food and drink or enough clothes to wear. Is not life more than food and your body more than clothing? Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than birds are? Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing. If God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that is here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why don’t you have a little faith?”

 

One day, a wise man happened to attend a spiritual talk in a Church.  The priest took out a thousand rupee bank note from his wallet. He said to the people sitting in the Church that all who want this money raise their hands. Hands were raised in a great number. He then crushed the note with hands and said now who want this. Again, all hands were raised. He soaked the note in water and said who want this note. All people raised their hands. After, he threw the note in the mud and said who want this note. Hands were raised in the same number. The priest said that all wanted the note irrespective of not being in water or mud or crushed with hands. That’s because the value of the note remained same. Similarly, it does not matter how much time we fail in our life or fall down or get frustrated and circumstances made us kneel down, the value of life remains same. We are more valuable in the eye of God. Since, he has created us he will give what we require. Tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today. We should believe him, his deeds, and each of his words blindly. Have faith in his creation and his plan. He wants us to face problems. He wants us to struggle hard. Yes, he wants us to remember him in our agonies. He really wants us to pray and pay high respect he deserves as a creator of the whole world. He has not said that he will not give pain, sorrow and hardships. But he will surely give courage to fight against difficulties.

Never lose hope. Pray by heart and with lasting faith. He must respond, sooner or later. If he delays in response, be patient. Make sure that he is planning something better for you. Remember, some miracles take time and have faith.

Right mind is the abode of God; explore the same

Right mind is required to produce quality output and it is an eternal truth. By your luck, you may obtain some output and excellent result, but for continuous achievement, you need to use a right frame of mind. If you study the  law of ‘’Exploration of the right mind’’ and apply correctly, you will receive God’s energy and feel real happiness in your life. Here, the word “right” means a state of mind which obeys the laws of Primordial God, who created this universe.

 

This rightness does not correspond to the results of scientific study or research. Science advances at a rocket speed, develop many inventions, produces various developments in technology for the benefit of mankind, but it is not that easy for science to define this rightness. Its basis is in the existence of God and the existence of the spiritual world. You may feel something very right and act accordingly to your belief, but the same may not be correct at all in the world of faith, which is eternal and immutable. This world of course is very different from the truth of everyday life and science also can’t explain that truth. Science is definitely a useful tool for our progress and it acts as a yardstick to take earthly judgments.  As per you, the things which are right in a scientific sense may not be proven true. For example, science claims that humankind emerged several million years ago and they were the diverged form of Chimpanzees four million years ago, but there is no concrete scientific based proof of this theory.  To get rid of unnecessary conflict, it is prudent and wise on our part to follow the rules of society. Whatever we are taught by our parents, teachers, religious preachers, we are told to follow the same. Just as Jesus Christ once looked at a coin bearing the image of the head of the Roman Emperor Caesar and said to his disciples, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s”, (Matthew 22:21)  there are things which follow the rules of the material world. It is not worthwhile to fight against those established rules.

 

About twenty five hundred years ago, Buddha detached himself from the material comfort to become a monk, in order to find out the answer to why human beings face pangs, distress, pain of birth and death in their lives. Sacrificing his whole life, he developed the right mind and saw the whole universe as one with a sole purpose to serve the human beings. Like him, you may also try to develop the right mind and engage yourself to love others by giving. This giving does not mean, of giving money. This giving is to ensure a bonding with others to find out the possibility of a common mind of the rightness, all though there will be people with different personalities, nature, behavior and countenance. In this context of right mind, once you are attached to others, the conflicts and disharmony will not arise at all. So, even if you  occupy an individual body and soul, but with the help of the right mind, you are tuned to think only good for others. When the majority of the people will have the right mind, the world will become a utopian one.

 

How to uplift your life?

On the eve of any auspicious occasion or festival, people prefer to gift precious things to their beloved, which obviously bring joy to them. In the same way, you also become jubilant to receive gifts.  The exchange of gifts to celebrate functions and festivals is a common syndrome.  But have you anytime thought of giving gifts to yourself to increase the intrinsic and positive value of life?  The answer to this soul searching question will be mostly ‘no.’ Don’t be panicky because the majority of human beings will fall in this category. No one has ever thought of  this subject of introspection that deeply.  But this is fact that to increase the idealistic value of your life; you must give the following gifts to yourself.

1. Gift a power to build your health and maintain a system to be always healthy both physically and mentally.  The proper diet, a strict regime of exercise and devotion to God  is the precious gifts for you.
2. Gift a habit to read and write at least for an hour every day.  The statistics say that any successful person in any corner of the world maintains the habit of reading and writing minimum 2-3 hours each day.
3. Gift enthusiasm because if you devote your attention to anything with full focus, you definitely achieve the result.  Enthusiasm increases your agility and provokes you to struggle more to taste the success even you have to transcend steep obstacles in your life related  to your profession or social.
4. Gift the habit of positive thinking.  The continuous thinking of positivity even in the midst of your distress, failures, despondency and gloomy situations increase your sustenance power and then you will be surprised to visualize your summum bonum.
5. Gift endless love so that you love yourself and others. Mostly, this word is linked to the understanding of most of the people as the love for food, drink and sex.  But your gift is more than this and it is related to intrinsic love.  If you understand the inner meaning of this concept and practice this power, your life will be very colorful and then you will develop a habit to serve others and extend your helping hand in their distress. Your countenance will be so charming that people will enjoy your company.
6. Gift knowledge and increase the power of your knowledge.  This knowledge is a vital tool based on which your survival depends.  The more you acquire this trait in any field or various fields depending on your grasping power, you will lead a meaningful and blissful life.
7. Gift the habit to meditate for a reasonable time to control your tottering mind.  If you resort to this activity of carrying out meditation for twenty minutes daily, you will be able to calm your fidgeting mind.  A controlled mind will never recede you into a shell of negative traits like showing jealousness, involving yourself to show favor, nepotism and anger.
8. Gift listening ability.  A good listener always wins half the battle.  In any situation of conflict, hullabaloo, quarrelsome, if you maintain your this gift, the opposite person will automatically calm down and the acrimonies arise out of any situation will be evaporated like a water vapor.
9. Gift power of hearty smile.  If you smile on any occasion, the whole world surrenders to you.  Just apply this philosophy to see the outcome.

10. Gift feeling to remember God in each of your endeavors.  If you are able to inculcate the habit of saying,” If God be for me, who or what can be against me,’’ in any situation, He will definitely help you to overcome your grief and sorrow.  And when you are in a joyous mood for achieving any success in your life, then also your thinking should be that because of His support and guidance, you are  able to achieve the said feat.

The material gifts are enjoyable and the same will bring in joy to you, but the above gifts will not only inflame your inner power, but also will increase the intrinsic values of your life  with respect to increase your idealism.

Are we lacking to produce creative leaders?

When creativity word is referred, we think that is the domain of a few talented, versatile and extraordinary knowledgeable people. In reality, you and I all are creative. God has created human beings in his own image and has bestowed upon us all qualities and powers to the extent what we are capable of doing. We need to submerge within us and dig it out all hidden qualities.  If we can utilize those qualities in a proper manner, we will be one of the creative people. The only hindrance is our   mindset.  As a parent, you have to ensure that your children adopt this quality of creative leadership from their childhood. Unfortunately, our education system does not add this type of curriculum which not only increases the mind power, but also gives a killing instinct to combat the adversities in life.  Precisely, that is the reason, we feel very comfortable, happy, relax when the things are smooth and easy going, but whenever there is a bit volatility, the situation is not as per our desire or circumstances make us stressed, we lose our identity and sometimes even break down. Here, the leadership quality is very essential which teach you how to effectively lead a life and teach others to follow the said principle. To lead others is not an easy task. Failure of a person in terms of living a good life is the failure of his leader. It is a leader who identifies a person’s hidden quality, instructs to minimize his lacunas which hamper his progress emotionally and spiritually. The leader’s growth oriented principles guide him to walk on a right path and makes him aware of all the moral values and ethics. A good leader must be an extraordinary one because a good tree always produces good fruits. As you can identify a tree by its fruit, you can identify people by their acts. And a tree that does not produce good fruits may be chopped down and thrown into the fire. In short, only a good leader can produce new leaders who in turn teach others to follow the right path.

Leadership is a very thoughtful and purposeful subject in today’s society. If you go by the theories of modern research, gone are the days where the leaders are only supposed to tell others what is to be done as per their own knowledge. Today, there it is a new way of leadership that gives weightage of transpersonal creativeness. The modern research mainly the neurological research teaches us that most of the hidden treasures which are concealed in human beings are not explored at all. The leaders only consider that task should be accomplished as per their dictum. They don’t give much focus on human beings in terms of their emotional intelligence, cognitive dimension, creativeness and spiritual inclination. Without arousing these traits, you can’t develop your people; maybe they are your students, junior colleagues, children or employees, but unless you guide your people effectively, you cannot ensure their growth. In the early part of the 20th century, Abraham Maslow described the details of human psychology that all humankind is stated to opt for self-actualization.

Based on this qualitative pattern of thinking, you have to evolve a theory of transpersonal vision and make a radical change to define the role of leadership. The leadership is not merely to acquire knowledge, distribute the same, nurture the same, solve problems and counter the pressure of technological advancement by learning more and sharpening your skills. The creative leadership is a systematic development of one’s own self in terms of his ability to deal in with various fundamental aspects of human psychology so that more leaders are made. The proverb of “leaders are born, they are not made” is completely a fallacy.  The transpersonal leadership platform is one of the identified secrets by which the leaders are trained how to genuinely take care of them and in turn to take care of their people.

The transpersonal leadership values the intrinsic quality rather than polishing the extrinsic traits. Here, the leaders allocate responsibilities to their people unbiased and they also consider their leaders without any suspicion. Further, over a period of time, a sense of belief will be formed between the leaders and their followers. The most vital satanic element which is known as the ego does not play at all in this type of transpersonal behavior. This ego is a destructive role in augmenting this type of transpersonal leadership. The consideration must be that “I will start leading” and “if any change is needed, the same must be started with me.” This concept is to be put forward in the follower’s mind once they show a slight improvement to absorb their leader’s advices.

The wicked leader is the one who they despise. The best leader is the one who is respected by all people unanimously. A true leader always gives credit to others when the work is done and accomplished perfectly.

The transpersonal leadership based on the creativity starts with the leader, who is able to steer past, the growth of his people without asking any recognition, name and fame for him. In the process of leadership, he is not carried away with his emotion and he does not show either any favors or nepotism.

To him, people’s transformation is only meaningful. But in reality, under the role of leadership, the leaders are not governed by this ideal concept and so the need of more transpersonal leaders are very essential to augment the prosperity of mankind.

How to enlighten your soul?

When you die, your body gets extinguished, but the soul leaves and enters another body. This soul is the unchanging spirit that is the guiding force of all the human beings. Our body is like a cloth, which covers the soul, but this is the spirit for all your vibration means energy through which you perform all the actions required to maintain your living. The soul is like a lamp, which is shining within yourself and guides you to perform all the activities either good or bad. The soul is sheathed by three layers, namely mind, sense and flesh. The mind is the inner layer, whereas the senses are the middle layer and the flesh is the upper layer. When the mind and the senses are not aware of the energy (Bramha) within, people tend to become egoistic and ego then governs their all actions.  Ultimately, they will be propelled by ego and  all the actions will be guided by this demon. These people prefer to describe themselves,“who they are,” rather than “What they are.”

Our soul is eternal and the body is mortal. Knowing this aspect fully, we become obsessed with the physical, material and sensual aspects of life.  The more we show our attachment to our body, the more we become unhappy.  If we wish to liberate ourselves in life, we must search our ‘self’ and induce self-realization.  Self-realization will make you not to feel that much obsessed with your body. If you delve into the philosophical aspects, there are three states in the life of any human being. They are – the waking state, the sleeping state and the dreaming state.  But a very few are aware of the fourth state, which is the intense concentration through which, if properly utilized, we can realize the true purpose of our life.  Mostly, we are governed by our senses and  move on the periphery without going in depth. We carry out various functions as per our mind and thoughts evolved therein. What we eat, what we buy and when we will sleep and what we could do to impress our friend, neighbors and our colleagues are the factors, by which we take action daily.  While performing all these activities, we seldom allot any time to think of our world within.

All of us have a centre of serenity, self-knowledge, and keenness to understand our capability and urge to keep peace almost all the time.  When we are able to recognize this centre, we acquire an experience of true freedom and at that stage, we  are able to overcome tension, anxieties, all types of fear, inferior complex and despondency, which always haunt us in our life.  We always have a hunch for joy and fun.  We can obtain the same provided we try for the same, but for that, we have to arouse our inner self.  Once we are able to establish this fact, we can discover our own divinity.  Then you can automatically get rid of the environment of gloomy, pathetic situation and despair. You will be considering yourself as the infinite spirit of pure, true and everlasting blissful human being. Today’s glamorous world is full of complexities and these environments cause stress and to avoid the same, you have to learn the consciousness reduction techniques. 

The meditation de-clutters your mind, relieves you from negativities and energies your nervous system.  It also increases your creativity, problem solving skills and makes you calm. It guides you to embrace upon the path of harmonious living.  It increases your powers of love, forgiveness and making you ideal human beings.

Meditation increases your mindful awareness.  Through this awareness, you live in the present and enjoy the sequence of moment to moment living.  It enables you to get the best of your life.  It stops your restlessness and your approach for fragmented thinking.  It improves your concentration power, focus and memory.

You can consider the following steps to cultivate the theory to enlighten the soul management.

a)      Try to be silent for a defined period of time every day.  Ensure, your this practice is not disturbed.  Through this, you can improvise your true self. You will be able to arouse your inner power. It will take a considerable time and so you need to have patience.

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b)      You must ensure breathing correctly, which is the primary energy of life.  This energy establishes the vital link between your body and mind. This deep breathing is a unique and systematic pattern of increasing the power of your mind, which in turn, revitalizes your body. This breathing exercise, when associated with yoga and meditation, you will be able to connect yourself with divine power, of course, it requires a dedicated and sincere practice.

c)       You must decide to serve others, help them to come out from distress.  Ensure to do maximum benevolent work for others.  You can extend your cooperation as much as possible and in as many as ways.

d)      You must learn the value of acceptance.  Without God’s blessings, you are not able to do anything though you feel that you have done. It is all His wishes, you only perform.  By God’s will, you search peace and you get the same.  Many things happen to us for which we are not aware.  Even we are ignorant to identify the reason and so, believe in God and trust Him.

If you accept the above management, your soul will be purified and a purified soul is the container of a good mind and healthy body. In this way, you can enlighten your mind.