How to keep your mind cool and improve your intuition

Problems, Stress and Worry...people are always oriented with these words in day to day life. But as Swami Sukhabodhanandhaji says "Worry is like a rocking chair, it does not go anywhere but just sips off your energy", so think about it.


It is always interesting that there so many techniques to solve a problem in this world, but most of us have no idea what is the real mechanism of it, how these techniques work inside our body and outside in this world. For example, there are many techniques to control anger and manage stress like breathing exercises, yoga, sports activities, etc but how about if we can understand the logic behind these techniques and do those activities - isn't it much more interesting and practical to follow, an exciting feeling to do those exercises with much more excitement and enthusiasm. So, one of the things I felt would be good to present today was - how to maintain a cool mind and how it helps you improve gaining knowledge.


We all know that there are several ways to maintain our mind cool, some of them are by doing meditation and yoga, but what if we know the mechanism of how meditation works in our body - isn't this exciting because "Many of us think that they think, but really they are not thinking and most of us who think they know the real cause, really they do not know much about what they think" and this blog of mine is to provide knowledge which most of us have no idea about, as many feel meditation is all related to philosophy and holds no practicality, thats where many of us misinterpret things wrong way.


Recently I listened to these two great spiritual gurus (Swami Sukhabodhanandaji and Swami Bodhanandhaji) explaining about the mechanisms how meditation works in our body, which not only gave me a practical reason and great excitement which fueled me further to do meditation on much regular basis, something which gave a much needed boost, surely thought of spreading the wealth of knowledge I gained which would help others too.


The two basic ways how meditation works are:
a) The first mechanism that happens in our body is - when meditation is done it increases the size of areas related to emotions in our brain (like Hypothalamus) and people who meditate show much difference in the way they handle their emotions and how they respond with other people during stress and anger.


b) The other mechanism that happens in our body is - when meditation is done it increases the level of an excitatory neurotransmitter known as "Dopamine" (released from Hypothalamus) and commonly associated with the reward system, providing feelings of enjoyment and reinforcement to motivate a person. People who meditate are always excited, vibrant and always ready to learn new things, on the contrary side when a person is depressed - Dopamine tablets are given to increase dopamine levels to make the person feel normal.


These ways meditation not only helps us improve intuition but also gain focus and improves our body immune system. So the best way to be in a great shape and maintain life balanced way is to do meditation and yoga to keep our mind cool and improve our intuition power to excel in this beautiful life because life now is very challenging and always tensed, person who keeps his mind cool and takes the wisest decision excels in life, reaching great heights possible, so thats the reason why oftenly we hear in USA is "Chillax dude!!!" (when someone gets excited), so all one needs to do is be calm and cool in mind and work to the best abilities to attain excellence in life.