"Events happen first in the mind before they happen in the external world."
When I read these words for the first time, I immediately got interested in attending the workshop on mind training, titled "The power of sub conscious mind," conducted by Dr Jeetendra Adhia, the internationally acclaimed mind-trainer. The event which was held over the weekend was the first of its kind in Kuwait.
Dr Jeetendra Adhia is a medical doctor with an MD in preventive and social medicine from Mumbai University under his belt and 30 years of experience as a doctor. Dr Adhia has to his credit several books on topics related to mind, with 'Spring of Inspiration' ranked an all-time best seller. He has also produced many audio CDs, DVDs, audio books, charts, and posters on the same topics.
The seminar and workshop by Dr Adhia's mind training Institute was held on Nov 16 and 17 at Live Theatre, Discovery Mall, Soor Street, Kuwait city and was organized by indiansinkuwait.com.
What is The Mind Power?
In Dr Adhia words, God has given everybody the same amount of mind power. It is something distributed equally, be a beggar on the street or the President of the United States. What makes one person succeed is the extent to which he or she utilizes this power. A survey says that even the most successful people have never utilized more than 10 percent of their mind power.
While many of us do work hard to achieve our goals, but not everyone succeeds to the same degree. The reason is that not everyone uses the mind power in a sharp way as it ought to be employed. What can help sharpen our mind are qualities like a positive attitude, inspirational reading, relaxation and self-development training.
Our mind can roughly be seen as having two divisions, namely the conscious and the sub-conscious. Conscious component of the mind is only ten percent, 90 percent of the mind is sub-conscious. While ten percent conscious mind works like a boss, the 90 percent sub-conscious behaves like servant. If boss gives the right directions and commands, the servant has to oblige and carry these out. Dr Adhia says the sub-conscious mind works 24 hours a day, even when a person slips into a coma.
Our sub-conscious mind accepts our thoughts, beliefs and commands without any logic or argument and makes it happen in the external world.
Explaining how the sub-conscious component of the mind works, Dr. Adhia said somewhere between our state of being conscious and falling asleep lies a very important state of mind called the alpha state. This is the stage where the sub-conscious is in an activated state. During this alpha state, our sub-conscious is ready to accept our commands and start to work on these.
Our conscious mind can give positive commands and right directions, and the sub-conscious will oblige accordingly. That is called the mind power.
How to use sub-conscious mind power and achieve goals
Any thought that is repeated over and over again will get imprinted within the sub-conscious, which cannot distinguish between what is real and what is imagined. This is why visualizations, affirmations and repeated images can have such a powerful effect in our life.
In this mind theory, Dr Adhia develops a program which includes listening to the sub-conscious mind, relaxation, the effect of the sub-conscious mind on the body, thinking and beliefs, breath management, power of suggestion, sleep management, using the mental clock, concentration techniques, goal setting and achieving, dream management and divine planning and creating opportunities.
In this program, goal setting and visualization plays a key role. Dr. Adhia says the first step has to be mind cleaning. Through relaxation and breath management, one can achieve the alpha state and apply the forgiveness statement. That means that if you forgive your enemies, your mind will emerge clean. Dr. Adhia suggested that everyone should try to become a positive thinker for at least one month.
The second step is goal fixing. Make a wish and set the goal high. Then, draw up a chart to achieve that goal and conjure up a vision board. This can be like having a dream home, professional goal, dream car, monthly income, dream office, bank balance etc. Keep this chart where you can see it. It will gradually get imprinted onto your sub-conscious mind.
During the workshop, Dr. Adhiya taught many practical exercises to help achieve the peace of mind. Participants were taken to what he calls alpha state of mind, and their goals imprinted in their sub-conscious mind. He also teaches techniques that help in problem solving, spiritual healing, removing phobias, confidence building and other life changing skills.
Speaking about himself, Dr. Aadhia said, "I am not a guru. I am a scientist. I will show you the way. If you realize your own power, there is no need to go anywhere. I am a trainer, not a healer."
This life changing workshop was a unique event and turned out to be an eye-opener in understanding our own mind. This first ever seminar and workshop in Kuwait by Dr. Adhia was organized by IndiansinKuwait.com.
My experiences
Knowingly or unknowingly, everyone at the workshop experienced the sub-conscious mind through visualisation techniques. When Dr Adhia explained how to use the visualisation technique and see your own mind screen, I remembered some of my personal experiences also. I would like to share these.
I was a journalist in India more than 10 years back, writing in my native language Telugu. Due to various personal reasons, I decided to come to Kuwait. I researched about conditions in Kuwait on the web and then came across the newspaper Kuwait Times. After I sent my resume from India, the idea about a job in Kuwait Times got fixated in my mind. After two months, I reached Kuwait and five days later, I got a call for a job interview at the Kuwait Times. That very day, I joined the team.
Another thing that happened recently was my determination to lose weight.
I was very thin seven years ago. Over the last six years, I gained a lot of weight, and grew potbellied. I was nearly 20kgs overweight. Six months ago, my wife decided to hang a photograph from our marriage in our bedroom. As I looked at that photograph day after day, I made a determination to lose weight. I started with a diet plan and in just two months, I lost the extra 20kgs. I was not familiar with mind techniques but it seems they do work.
After the inspirational seminar, I have decided to follow the relaxation and mind training techniques.