Will Power - How To Use It Right?
Language - English
Author: AMAR Anup Thinktank
ISBN 9781311865922
Copyright: AMAR Anup Thinktank 2014.
Copyright: This publication may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in part or whole, in any form, electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording or otherwise without prior written permission from the author.
Index -
Our Body
Will Power
Misuse of will power
Proper Use of Will Power
Summary
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Our Body -
Our 'body' exists in many dimensions. Some we understand as they are within the capacity of our understanding, we can grasp them, analyze them, prove them. Examples of such dimensions may be our body as mass (60 kilograms), height (65 inches), heart, lung, pulse, breathing etc. these are the dimensions of our body we can quantify, touch and feel. Next dimensions of our body are those we can record and quantify today but we could not, say, a few hundred years ago. Examples of such dimensions include electric activity say in our heart that we can record on an ECG or electrocardiogram today but could not a century ago; electrical activity in our brain that we can record on an EEG or electroencephalogram today but could not say a few decades ago. This does not mean that these dimensions of our body did not exist. They existed but we did not have the ability or capacity to understand them.
Till a few decades ago we could not record thinking by the brain. Now with PET (positron emission topography) we are in the infancy stages of being able to record not only brain's thinking but also some basic emotions like happiness and sadness. Different areas of the brain on the PET scan light up (appear bright) say when one is doing math and other areas light up when one is listening to music. Still different areas show brain activity when one is happy, sad, angry and so on.
Why did I tell you that in so much detail? This was to show you that if you were born say two hundred years ago you would not have believed that heart's has current in it or knew that this current can not only be recorded or but can even be controlled (pacemaker). That does not mean that the current in heart did not exist two hundred years ago. We simply were not developed enough to recognize it.
So in the following pages what I talk about will power may be something normal for discussion in a society two hundred years from now. I am giving you an early peak. It may be difficult to understand the concept when you read the following pages for the first time but repeating in your mind what is written here will be the candlelight that will move you forward in areas yet unknown to your mind.
Will Power -
Let me start with a basic concept. In the terms of the universe physical form and energy are two ends of the same stick. All throughout the universe at millions of points the energy is converted into mass creating planets and galaxies on a larger scale and physical form ultimately being converted to energy at black holes. These galaxies and black holes can be hundreds of millions of miles large. We as humans are a miniscule part of that phenomenon of energy and mass. We carry both and one can influence the other.
On one end are physical products with no energy as wood or stone etc where it is all physical and at the other end are collections of pure energy some call angels etc.
Our living physical body and its physical achievements (car, house, job, position) can be influenced by our energy and vice versa. The energy we have comes in many forms including your inner voice, premonition, your soul and so much more.
Just as now we know that our body is much more than a maze of flash, blood and bones; we also know that we have thinking and we have emotions too. Actually our body has many more dimensions the higher ones being our inner voice or soul and will power and premonition etc being in between these two, today I will talk about the will power.
Will power is one of the many dangerous attributes we have. Will power can be an instrument of achieving the goal of our life, purpose of our birth or it can be an instrument for us for our self annihilation. A person's will power comes in two forms, physical will power and abstract will power. They are different but with some overlapping features. Whereas physical will power (examples - I will do this thing, achieve this in my life) comes from mental training and childhood and later education and experience in life. Compared to that intellectual will power comes from focusing the thoughts on particular topics and subjects by our brain.
Both types of will power can be acquired, developed and used to change the future. Both can change the course of future for you; intellectual will power can even change the course of future for others. Just as a razor in the hands of a child can be a dangerous instrument even though it can be a life saver in the hands of a surgeon; misuse of will power to achieve short term results can be disastrous in the hands of an irresponsible person who is either not aware or who does not believe in the real purpose of being born or the one who does not take the test of life seriously or does not realize the consequences of not achieving the purpose of life.
We are all born with some basic level of will power, both physical and intellectual. As we grow up we either increase or decrease our both will powers based on our experiences, education and training. Changes in the levels of physical will power are quicker to achieve and can come from learning through life, teachers, books, lectures, mentors, speakers etc. They can also be learnt through adverse circumstances. Changes in intellectual will power are relatively difficult to achieve and need long term learning from a teacher, focused intellectual thinking (also called prayer by some) or meditation and self sacrifices in life. More on that later.
Misuse of Will Power -
One major problem in today's world is that more and more people use power of the mind or the will power to achieve and get what they may not really deserve. They do not want to take the hard way or the difficult way but a short cut through the use of this will power to achieve what they want. Listening to motivational speakers, believing in yourself intensely will get you what you want even if you do not work towards those goals as hard as you should but two problems may occur with such achievements. You will have changed the future for yourself but not the destiny (read e book on 'Future And Destiny' by same author) and the second is that you would have lost some of your strength in your will power as you squandered (wasted) your will power in getting what you did not work for (deserve to get based on your efforts).
Some may find this as mumbo jumbo but I do not blame them. I may be trying to teach calculus to someone who still has only developed capacity to do simple math. That does not mean that these individuals do not have the capacity to be able learn and be able to see the light in the future. Life will show them instances which will prove what is written here and that is fine. At a given point in time not everyone can be at the same level of understanding for what is abstract. To understand that language you need to learn the alphabets first.
Proper Use of Will Power -
So instead of using the immense power of your will power to get that you have not worked for, get it simply through power of so called positive thinking will in all likelihood harm you in the future. All those motivational speakers are correct when they say that positive thinking will get you results, if you see yourself as the manager or supervisor or millionaire you will achieve it. They are right but they are telling you only half the story. They are telling you what you want
to hear. They do not know the rest half of the story and that rest half is what I am trying to tell you.
Let me be very clear. You can achieve whatever you want by the virtue of positive thinking as the energy that each human carries is strong enough to achieve any physical result if focused enough and focused properly. Energy can change the course of physical events. There is absolutely no doubt in mind about that. But what I am telling here is, that for your own long term good don't do it.
If you achieve something simply by using your will power without really working for it you will first not get the benefit of that achievement and secondly you would lose some part of your will power that may manifest as restlessness, dissatisfaction in life and even may be as some physical illness. I am not saying that
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