RIGHT TURN
It’s all about positive tuning
A loss of a near-one completely breaks down some people and some others just sob. Many lose their sleep over silly problems but few have the power to absorb any shock. This depends on how you tune your brain to react to a situation. Tuning is of three types.
Permanent
Our culture, customs and beliefs have great impact on our tuning. Unlike foreigners, we cannot eat frog legs or monkey brain. Japanese tie broomsticks in front of their houses as is pumpkin in our case. While noticing a cat coming in the opposite direction, some turn back home. Thus, beliefs and traditions tune our brain. Many of our old customs are good, but some may not stand for logic. A successful person tunes his brain pro-logic and discards superstitions.
Temporary
A terrorist is mesmerised to believe that sacrificing for a cause is patriotism. He turns into a ‘suicide bomber’ to kill many innocents. The impact may be for a shorter term, but the influence is powerful. A student on failing an exam or love commits suicide under a temporary influence in a fit of frustration.
Self-tuning
This is the best out of the three. A successful person is guarded by his ‘brain’, and not by heart and emotion, loves not only his target but also the travel towards his target. A student, who wants to become an engineer, should develop interest in maths and physical sciences, to enjoy his study rather than other luring interests.
Aristotle said – the purpose of education is to tune the brain for a better purpose. Meaningful education has great impact on our thinking, aptitude and emotional intelligence. A well-known scientist Pavlov experimented on our sensory organs and found that the five sensory organs are inter-related.
That is why our fingers tremble under tension, heartbeat increases due to anxiety and eyes turn red when angry. For his great work on reflex-actions, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1904.
Anger is not an action but our reflex action to somebody’s action. By adopting the principle of tuning, we can change our attitude and can simply grin in a situation where we are habituated to blow up in irritation.
Same way, a student can control the tension before the examination. Education develops emotional intelligence. Imagine a situation where you have lost your purse in a remote village and you knew nobody there. Instead of brooding over the matter or panicking, you should think various ways to come out of the problem.
Positive tuning means how perfectly and skilfully you react to a crucial situation... or in a conflict... or in a conversation... or under tension.
It preaches self-control, discipline, restraint, concentration and composure. We will discuss how to develop positive thinking later. (To be continued next week)
YANDAMOORI VEERENDRANATH
www.Yandamoori.com
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