How to overcome external barriers?

The basic need of the life is not only to survive, but also to discover inner fulfilment.  When you reach this position or accept this condition in life, you will not have any fear for failure.  We all are afraid of various types of failures, because we fail to energize our mind through the internal stimuli. 

The basic nature of any human being is to compare with other ability and status-quo. It only leads you to failure path because you will be going on thinking that someone is always better than you. 

Based on these postulates, records are broken in the field of sports and in any competitive activities.

There only lies the track of failure.  You can only progress in a positive way when you will be able to discover your inner fullness. People mostly say that because of external situation, they fail, but it is not. The mind is always the source of failure.

If you think that you will fail before you start the said activity, you will not be able to achieve any success. 

So, mind is main source of any failure. 

Of course, mind is not the creator of any bondage or it does not shackle your freedom, but it is a media through which you notice bondage or you lose your freedom. The mind only provides you either inner heaven or hell.

It depends on you how you use your mind – rightly or wrongly. If you use your mind wrongly, you will be bound to have more miseries and sorrows, but if you use your mind rightly, you will achieve more and more accomplishment. 

So, how can you use your mind wisely to achieve the maximum from the same? 

You need to be alert all the time to this fact.  When the external situation provokes you and everything falls into your mind and if the mind receives the same with rigidity with anger, with hurt, with a feeling of nepotism, then you are exciting your mind with impure thoughts.  So, in this situation how you receive the external situation and how you translate the same internally, it will be a real issue.

One needs to observe the said phenomena in real life. In the office, when your boss reprimands you, how you take it into your stride?

It depends on you.  If you receive with regret, with resentment or with revenge, you will be burning with flumes inside. But if you receive the same with love, compassion or with generosity towards your boss that he is instrumental to correct your feeling, you will learn more from such an impulse. Unless our mind has a tenacity to learn, you can never progress in your life.  You will grow old, but not grow up. 

What is the definition of an experience?  It is your way of showing feeling to a challenge how you combat the odd situation. If your mind challenges with odd situation based on your past work experience, it strengthens you and you can become victorious with situation and it will also modify your background. Hence, you will never free to see or to observe that you cannot learn.

Learning happens when you are free to observe at your sweet will, but one is a victim to what one knows, one is bound to what one knows and hence he is not free enough to see or to observe and he cannot learn anything. 

Precisely that is the reason, in all management schools, there is a word, “out of the box thinking”.  If you are confined into your box, you cannot see any other thing out of that box and you will not be in a position to have new ideas in your mind.  Hence, you will lack and you will lose your ability to see something new or learn something new.

Sometimes, in family, it happens that you have done something wrong with your daily activities, your father or mother will be terribly upset because they feel that because of your this activity, you have not only put down their image, but also you have degraded their upbringing and their reputation in the society.

You might be doing the activity based on your external stimuli, but since you have not got enough inner fulfilment, you fail to take a corrective action.

You are not able to energize your mind in a positive direction.  You become aged, but you are not grown up. So, your bad action is recognized by your parents and they understand that you have done wrong thing and so, they scolded you.

But you have to take this admonishment to the right spirit because they have provided you the inner fulfilment correcting your mind stimuli based on external environment.  Hence, you need to always think for a new thing, observe the new thing, increase your capability to learn the same so that you discard the unnecessary and unwanted stimuli of external thought.