Develop your Relationship With Mind

We often prepare to-do list, set up alarm or work on building new habits every single day. Prior to getting involved in the activities, we are infused with enthusiasm and excitement. The diary piles up with tons of scribbles and checkboxes for the later day. A question for you. Have you ever wondered, despite all that picture perfect plans, why we end up procrastinating or I would say, keep delaying them just to feel pity on ourselves every night?

Well, there’s a good news for you. This article is all about building relationship with your mind and how to make it love what you direct it to do, so that you can easily and naturally with least effort work on your monster goals.

Why your mind doesn’t involve in the activities you direct it to do even if the command is as simple as going to bath or jog early morning? (Well I assume my readers have good hygienic habits). Mind is like a great trickster. It knows all your intricate secrets, likes and dislikes. It can hypnotise you and work against your will, even though there’s barrage of workload asking for your attention. Well, why does your own mind have such resistance for your own likings? Before answering it, let’s roll back to some of your past memories. Think back to the time when you promised a child to give what he/she asked for.
Maybe your intention wasn’t to hurt the child that moment, but inadvertently you created a big belief in his/her that you would fulfill that promise. Psst! guess what? You forgot it. In an effect of breaking the promise, that child started disliking you; he/she doesn’t hear your saying until you fulfill it. All these seem relative to you?

The mind works the same way. All the promises that leave undone morphed your mind into a repulsive child. The promises like waking up early and failing to awake, intending to workout for a week and stalling midway, and list goes on. The mind started seeing you as a person who goes back on promises. It started being reluctant on any tasks of your likings.

How would we work on developing good relationship with mind, so that it would gradually start liking us back(like the child)? There’s a simple technique I figured out and working for long by now. I gave it a name ‘Work By Intending’ Technique.

After you complete reading this article, give your mind 5 simple and effortless activities to work on. They can be as simple as drinking a glass of water, 1 push up, reading 1 paragraph of a book, and so on.

Before starting any tasks, say this phrase internally, ‘I intend or choose to …(following the task that you are performing).
After completing each tasks, say this phrase , ‘See mind, what I Intended is easy to do.’ Keep giving your mind various easy tasks and build up to bigger tasks after 3-4 days.

Your mind will naturally like what you choose to do, for it will slowly understand that you are fulfilling your promises what you say internally now.

To surmise, Mind doesn’t involve in your choices most of the times due to your failure in fulfilling promises you made to yourself. To break that chain, use ‘Work By Intending” Technique.

I hope this technique will help you as it helped me immensely. For any queries, drop your comments.

Namastey _/\_

_{be easy stay wise
Uday Nath}