Feeling Connected : Joy
What is the human nature. Human nature is basically to being your current state of inertia unless you get some kind of external impact. Just sit back and think if you are who you are and you have nothing to do , nothing to prove and nothing to be what you would rather do. Would you be calm , probably yes. Would you be poised and complete ; probably yes. But there is always a big but why does almost all people are never calm and poised. Its so simple to achieve. Because you will really have a hard time to control your emotions , and thoughts as just like your heart its a continuous process and never stops. You can not have a single thoughts for 2 mins unless you practice meditation and the brain has all you emotions stored in a single space and even if you think you control your thoughts you do not. Unless your brain stores similar thoughts in a single place and organizes it in a correct order you can not control your thoughts. At this moment when I am writing this I am thinking 10 different things like I need to work on my typing skills , my communication skills needs improvement , I need to fill out that form which I am procrastinating for so many days and so on.. Sometimes you would also have contradicting thoughts as they are also stored in the same places in your brain and because there is a connecting piece they are even more closely connected. So how would you really isolate your thoughts , there is only one way available as far as I know to make your brain organized. That is meditation. Just like if your desk is really not organized when you are looking for something you can not easily and quickly get it without really taking a long time or messing up your who desk or you have 100 file on your desk without any specific order or in any specific way.Then to get to a specific file you would have to juggle through a lot of the files before getting to the file you have been looking for. We have a lot of sensory inputs like touch, taste , see, smell and hear which feed to our experience and makes our memory. These inputs together make our specific memory or feeling so if we would like to make a memory the more number of sensory inputs we associated something with the better. Think you have met with your person of dreams and he/she is exactly how you had imagined. You want to a calm beach resort restaurant in the first date and where there was salty smell of ocean with warm sand and you were tasting a exquisite red wine holding their hand while the waves are breaking on the shore while you feel the soft sand on your feet with a full moon glistening over the ocean. How likely you would forget this encounter. Probably never. And if at any point of time you would like to go back to that exact moment in your imagination how difficult would it be? probably not very difficult. Because you have every type of sensory input associated with the event noted in your brain and to find that exact feeling you just need to enact or remember one of the sensory inputs. Ever wondered why if you have a special cologne which you wore in your cruise vacation last year and whenever you wore it it reminds you of the vacation time and you feed good about it and it becomes your favorite cologne. Lets take an example where you got a dictionary where all the words are stored in a random order and you are looking for a single word how difficult would it be. Probably you would need at least few hours to get to the word if you do not give up finding the word in between. But think its a dictionary where all words are sorted and organized and you are looking for a word and you also know exactly which page the word is.And also on top of it any word in that dictionary is color coded green for positive connotation , red for negative connotation and yellow for neutral connotation. Now how long would it take to find the exact words. Probably within a min at max. This is the power of indexing and sorting anything. This is also applicable for your brain power.
Now you may be thinking why I have been talking so different things that are not connected to joy. But actually they are. If you need to experience joy first you would have to remember its not outside situation that make you feed joy or sad. Its your internal response that make it. Now if you would like to control your thoughts or move away from a negative thoughts to a joyous one. You need to first create a joyous situation it does not matter if its in real or in your mind. Then associate as many sensory inputs that you can associate with that joyous thought.Then feed the same sensory inputs in a periodic manner and contemplate the thoughts to make that feeling reside in your immediate memory rather than in distant memory. Then make a habit to invoke the exact sensory inputs to recreate the situation in your mind at will or in a periodic manner or when you realize you are not feeling joyous.
Now lets take an example to make the whole thing little more simple. Suppose you want to be always to be happy in spite of the situation. Now as I said earlier feeling joy or sorrow is a response to any situation ; that means you can create the feeling of joy at will in any situation. Or you can create the feeling of meditation in your work schedule even while you are in meeting. Here is a step by step approach..
Step 1. Create a great joyous situation may be in real or in your mind.
For example. Take a wonderful vacation to a pacific island with a magnificent beach with your spouse and kids.Lets think you went to to your own island Fiji and you are in your private beach front mansion. You and your spouse are walking on this delicate soft white sand while the cool green waves touching your feet and making you a feeling of cool sensation while you have this feeling of warm sands .While your kids are playing on the sand and making a sand castle. You are now feeling the a cool breeze with a salty oceanic smell that is coming through beautiful and fragrant flowers making a salty floral vibe.You are also hearing to the soft tweeting sound of of a wonderful variety of birds coming from the jungle near the beach and the breaking of the waves on the shore making it a delectable music to your ears. Now you have got yourself a little fruit salad with tropical fruits like Pinapple , Mango , Passion Fruit with a refreshing and sweet coconut water. You are thinking at this time " Life is heavenly " watching the jade green water of the ocean where you can see all the colorful tropical fish swimming in the water.
Step 2. Note all the sensory inputs here.
Smell: The smell of a salty breeze with the aroma of tropical flower and fruits with coconot
Sound: Ocean waves Breaking. Birds chirping.
Vision: Jade green water.Warm White Sands. Deep blue Sky.
Touch: Soft powdery Feeling of the warm sand. Cool Breeze. Cool wave breaking on feet.
Taste: Cool and subtle coconut. Sweet and slightly sour taste of tropical fruits like pineapple and mango
Thoughts: Heavenly. Calm. Relaxed. Blissful.
Step 3: Recreate the heavenly feeling at will at any time.
Smell: The easiest part recreating this feeling is through the smell. Get a cologne with salty oceanic vibe and fruity and coconut notes. Or you can add more than one cologne to make this smell. Do not use this as your daily wear. Spray this special cologne in a handkerchief and have that in your pocket.
Sound: Have a music in your smart phone with sounds of Ocean waves , Birds Chirping and soft breeze blowing
Vision : Surround yourself with paintings of a beautiful island of your dream and you pictures taken in the island in any way possible but not at places where you will have to see them every time you open it. May be in your wallet. But little away from every days things otherwise you will fall into having that picture as being the cliche.
Touch: This is the toughest part. Have a special stress ball which is having sandy and soft texture. Sqeeze it when you like to recreate the feeling
Taste: Have a chewing gum with tropical fruit. Or have a tropical trail mix with dried coconut chunks and tropical fruit.
What is the human nature. Human nature is basically to being your current state of inertia unless you get some kind of external impact. Just sit back and think if you are who you are and you have nothing to do , nothing to prove and nothing to be what you would rather do. Would you be calm , probably yes. Would you be poised and complete ; probably yes. But there is always a big but why does almost all people are never calm and poised. Its so simple to achieve. Because you will really have a hard time to control your emotions , and thoughts as just like your heart its a continuous process and never stops. You can not have a single thoughts for 2 mins unless you practice meditation and the brain has all you emotions stored in a single space and even if you think you control your thoughts you do not. Unless your brain stores similar thoughts in a single place and organizes it in a correct order you can not control your thoughts. At this moment when I am writing this I am thinking 10 different things like I need to work on my typing skills , my communication skills needs improvement , I need to fill out that form which I am procrastinating for so many days and so on.. Sometimes you would also have contradicting thoughts as they are also stored in the same places in your brain and because there is a connecting piece they are even more closely connected. So how would you really isolate your thoughts , there is only one way available as far as I know to make your brain organized. That is meditation. Just like if your desk is really not organized when you are looking for something you can not easily and quickly get it without really taking a long time or messing up your who desk or you have 100 file on your desk without any specific order or in any specific way.Then to get to a specific file you would have to juggle through a lot of the files before getting to the file you have been looking for. We have a lot of sensory inputs like touch, taste , see, smell and hear which feed to our experience and makes our memory. These inputs together make our specific memory or feeling so if we would like to make a memory the more number of sensory inputs we associated something with the better. Think you have met with your person of dreams and he/she is exactly how you had imagined. You want to a calm beach resort restaurant in the first date and where there was salty smell of ocean with warm sand and you were tasting a exquisite red wine holding their hand while the waves are breaking on the shore while you feel the soft sand on your feet with a full moon glistening over the ocean. How likely you would forget this encounter. Probably never. And if at any point of time you would like to go back to that exact moment in your imagination how difficult would it be? probably not very difficult. Because you have every type of sensory input associated with the event noted in your brain and to find that exact feeling you just need to enact or remember one of the sensory inputs. Ever wondered why if you have a special cologne which you wore in your cruise vacation last year and whenever you wore it it reminds you of the vacation time and you feed good about it and it becomes your favorite cologne. Lets take an example where you got a dictionary where all the words are stored in a random order and you are looking for a single word how difficult would it be. Probably you would need at least few hours to get to the word if you do not give up finding the word in between. But think its a dictionary where all words are sorted and organized and you are looking for a word and you also know exactly which page the word is.And also on top of it any word in that dictionary is color coded green for positive connotation , red for negative connotation and yellow for neutral connotation. Now how long would it take to find the exact words. Probably within a min at max. This is the power of indexing and sorting anything. This is also applicable for your brain power.
Now you may be thinking why I have been talking so different things that are not connected to joy. But actually they are. If you need to experience joy first you would have to remember its not outside situation that make you feed joy or sad. Its your internal response that make it. Now if you would like to control your thoughts or move away from a negative thoughts to a joyous one. You need to first create a joyous situation it does not matter if its in real or in your mind. Then associate as many sensory inputs that you can associate with that joyous thought.Then feed the same sensory inputs in a periodic manner and contemplate the thoughts to make that feeling reside in your immediate memory rather than in distant memory. Then make a habit to invoke the exact sensory inputs to recreate the situation in your mind at will or in a periodic manner or when you realize you are not feeling joyous.
Now lets take an example to make the whole thing little more simple. Suppose you want to be always to be happy in spite of the situation. Now as I said earlier feeling joy or sorrow is a response to any situation ; that means you can create the feeling of joy at will in any situation. Or you can create the feeling of meditation in your work schedule even while you are in meeting. Here is a step by step approach..
Step 1. Create a great joyous situation may be in real or in your mind.
For example. Take a wonderful vacation to a pacific island with a magnificent beach with your spouse and kids.Lets think you went to to your own island Fiji and you are in your private beach front mansion. You and your spouse are walking on this delicate soft white sand while the cool green waves touching your feet and making you a feeling of cool sensation while you have this feeling of warm sands .While your kids are playing on the sand and making a sand castle. You are now feeling the a cool breeze with a salty oceanic smell that is coming through beautiful and fragrant flowers making a salty floral vibe.You are also hearing to the soft tweeting sound of of a wonderful variety of birds coming from the jungle near the beach and the breaking of the waves on the shore making it a delectable music to your ears. Now you have got yourself a little fruit salad with tropical fruits like Pinapple , Mango , Passion Fruit with a refreshing and sweet coconut water. You are thinking at this time " Life is heavenly " watching the jade green water of the ocean where you can see all the colorful tropical fish swimming in the water.
Step 2. Note all the sensory inputs here.
Smell: The smell of a salty breeze with the aroma of tropical flower and fruits with coconot
Sound: Ocean waves Breaking. Birds chirping.
Vision: Jade green water.Warm White Sands. Deep blue Sky.
Touch: Soft powdery Feeling of the warm sand. Cool Breeze. Cool wave breaking on feet.
Taste: Cool and subtle coconut. Sweet and slightly sour taste of tropical fruits like pineapple and mango
Thoughts: Heavenly. Calm. Relaxed. Blissful.
Step 3: Recreate the heavenly feeling at will at any time.
Smell: The easiest part recreating this feeling is through the smell. Get a cologne with salty oceanic vibe and fruity and coconut notes. Or you can add more than one cologne to make this smell. Do not use this as your daily wear. Spray this special cologne in a handkerchief and have that in your pocket.
Sound: Have a music in your smart phone with sounds of Ocean waves , Birds Chirping and soft breeze blowing
Vision : Surround yourself with paintings of a beautiful island of your dream and you pictures taken in the island in any way possible but not at places where you will have to see them every time you open it. May be in your wallet. But little away from every days things otherwise you will fall into having that picture as being the cliche.
Touch: This is the toughest part. Have a special stress ball which is having sandy and soft texture. Sqeeze it when you like to recreate the feeling
Taste: Have a chewing gum with tropical fruit. Or have a tropical trail mix with dried coconut chunks and tropical fruit.
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