Chitharogyam - The Mind Clinic

Living in the ‘here and now’ means focusing all your  attention to the present and letting your ‘Chitta’  ( चित्त )  or the mind pay close attention to whatever you are doing at the moment. Regular practice of being mindful will help your mind to stick to one particular task in hand and let you work efficiently on it by letting you to be completely immersed. If you have ever tried doing it, you must have known that it is easier said than done! It is extremely difficult to tame our mind to stop wandering. But, as I have mentioned in my previous blog ( How to silence the mind ), you can take help of these techniques to first calm your mind and then take it further. There are thousands of things which are going on in our mind every single moment. The multiple thoughts just over lap each other and in some cases, just one single thought is enough to split our attention and make us completely lose our track. It is a never ending tunnel of thoughts. We are either constantly thinking about the

The hustle and bustle of everyday life makes it difficult for us to calm our mind, because it is constantly running, without control. No matter how hard you try to take a break from the overwhelming thoughts, it just won’t stay calm, hence; it is rightly called a ‘monkey mind’. It inexhaustibly keeps on jumping from one thought to the other and gets you nowhere! Thousands of scriptures have mentioned some of the wonderful techniques and exercises to get a hold of the reins and control the speeding mind, or at least divert it towards constructive thinking pattern. Thankfully, nowadays people are extremely aware of their mental well being yet; a lot of work needs to be done in this field to reach out to as many people as we could, to share wonderful ways to lead a good life. That being said, I too, am on my own journey towards being more aware of the eternal truth of life, but I thought it would be a great idea to have a group along with me on this journey, right? So, let us have a loo