Seasoned Hands Can Warm The Consciousness

Posted on Apr 04, 2020 by Harsha Vardhan (Founder Director & Trainer)

Humans are a sophisticated integration of body, mind and soul. We are essentially our environment. Depending on whether we are a stone or a sponge, we pick up impressions from our immediate environment. It is often a very concerning worry for parents as to whom their children mingle with. We often worry that the children don’t listen to us but we should be rather concerned that they are watching us.

In this fast information age the amount of bytes being exchanged are phenomenally high. Majority of them are needless and distracting. We have more information but less knowledge. We may have more knowledge but little wisdom. The information we exchange today in a year is much more than mankind exchanged in the previous 200 years. We have literally cooked the soup we are in.

As we step out of childhood and adolescence, our emotions, our feelings, our attitudes have not yet ripened into maturity. We live life and we learn as we live. Often, we end up reinventing the wheel. The youthful exuberance often leading to proud rebels. Quick money and zest for so called living your life, often makes us thrill seekers. The merry-go-round of lusty sense gratification of life looking for a new-high, ultimately leaves us rather high and dry. The life wheel is not centered and it wobbles as it moves. When faced with challenging times, it cannot stand the speed and easily disintegrates.

We are all well intended in our minds though. We are all seeking happiness - our birthright. But in a wrong place, in a wrong way. Unless we are guided back into the soothing pillow by an assuring hand, we can continue to waste our precious incarnation on the planet. We have programmed our sense of happiness, achievement and growth from our peers or the media that works with surgical precision to guide us into one compulsive road of consumerism. One simple thing that can bring life into equilibrium is simplicity.

They say familiarity begets contempt. It is often hard for us to listen to the free advice of our elders. They have seen it all in their own challenges of life. If one hasn’t failed in life, he can’t be a good guide. We tend to ignore them unless it comes from outside. As we trudge along life in myriad ways, we often unconsciously hold remnants of stress, frustration, emotional upheavals, cynicism and wariness in our consciousness. They erode our optimism and innocence. They actually remain not just in the brain, but even into our body tissues often afflicting with unexplained illnesses.

Every individual has scores of unmet needs, unfulfilled expectations, lamenting hearts, wishful thinking, unforgiven issues, physical challenges, past trauma, discredits, embarrassments, childhood incidents, bullying subjugation, deaths of dear ones and so on.

Who can help such adults? Will your spouse do that? Or a parent? A teacher? People from adolescence to old age have no one to reach out to. In these complicated times people have no inner life to fall back to. They suffer in silence with a rehearsed cheerfulness for the gallery. Most of the time, all they need is a patient hearing. They mostly know the right thing to do. All that is required is empathy and a loving hand on their shoulder. Sometimes it takes a wise stranger to do the balancing trick.

Growing old is mandatory but getting mature is optional. A privilege people deny to themselves. To successfully rebalance life, one has to not just imbibe with the mind and intellect using the will power but to realign their consciousness. The abyss of consciousness is to be dived deep in order to bring about changes that are lasting. The day your zeal to be helped reaches its pinnacle, God sends that someone you will listen to.