ThinkRite

The follow up class this time was an Independance day special. It was very stimulating to the intellect. Actually it began with the intellect and ended with the heart thus making it uniquely powerful.

We started out studying the essence of Indian civilizations. Going back thousands of years before to the vedic times, we studied the principle…

Macrocosm in the Microcosm and Microcosm in the Macrocosm

It was very informative. As kirtanya put it, if we have to have access to these knowledge by our own research then we should have read a thousand books before we consolidated this knowledge. After this we proceeded to studying this magnificient civilization from the perspective of Arnold Toynbee, the great historian of world civilizations; the challenges faced and the unique extraordinary response given by this civilization each time it met with a threat. Those responses in turn shaped up a dynamic living civilization. From the civilization we percolated down to the organizations, individuals and nations and how the same principle of challenge and response operated in every group. We questioned our responses to current challenges in business and personal life and upgraded each of these responses to architect a great self for ourselves.

After all, life is not about finding ourself, life is about creating ourself!

Session Date: August 16, 2009

Imagine you are attending a party along with your friend! He plays all kind of foolish pranks and cracks stupid jokes. All along you are with him, quite enjoying his playing the fool. You come home with not a thought troubling you. Now imagine the same scenario with your brother! Even as the party progresses, you ask yourself a hundred times, “why is he behaving so silly? Why can’t he behave a bit more mature? What will my friends think of me now?”

Today is a day that celebrates friendship. So it is only proper that we contemplate a little bit on this most special relationship and what makes it so special? Among one thousand reasons the above mentioned scenario explains it the best. 

In friendship there is no place for judgment and labelling.

Most often a problem in relationship comes only when you label somebody as your ‘husband’, ‘mother,’ ‘father’, ‘sister’ etc and once labelled you try to squeeze the individual to live according to the label. And then when they do not fit the label since they have their own characteristics we feel pained and somehow cheated.  In friendship you do not label the person. He is given the freedom to be a fool, a good for nothing fellow, carefree, irresponsible and so on. You enjoy him and give him the space and freedom to be what he is. That is why while all of life is relationships; the best form of relationship is friendship.

The family in which the husband is a friend to the wife, the parent is friend to the child and vice versa, that family is heaven. Where there is no friendship in families, the story of that family will be written in tears.

So to celebrate friendship day in its true spirit would be to resolve to relate like a friend to all the members of your family. To give them freedom!

Happy friendship day!

The awareness session was as usual brilliant and unique. We covered sensory acuity in great depth and the exercises were great fun to do. Rite-Thinkers exercised parts of the brain that were never exercised before and somehow they awakened the curious, excited, learning child within us and the feeling was very good. There were a lot of questions that took the session to its next level of sub-modalities too.

The highlight of the session was however the friendship day song and the exuberant dance by the right thinkers. It was actually a suggestion by one of the rite thinker that we play a song well known to celebrate friendship and the others welcomed it with great gusto. The women formed a ring for themselves and were dancing away in joy. The men were more rigorous in their step ofcourse! We had a thoroughly nice time together.

Session Date: August 2, 2009