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Mind-Training — Can We Miss This Step?

Dr. Monica Gulati

Abstract
No matter how qualified we may be, there is a high probability that we are still ruled and
manipulated by our thoughts. There is a high probability that we are too sure of our thoughts
and opinions and identify too tightly with them as ‘me’; have images about their own ‘good’
self, and the self of others, and know that to be true. We may still live in a kind of superiority
complex, which for some may be an inferiority complex, nevertheless stressing on a kind of
division, – and seeing ourselves as someone special owing to the rigid belief we have in the
thoughts and stories in our head. Basic mind training, where one learns to step back from the
stream of thoughts cannot be missed and, if missed, we easily can witness the havoc on the
world it can create. This article explores the necessity and urgent need of being the master (in
increasing degrees) of our mind.

Doc and what not. However, there is still
a very high possibility that our minds are
mostly not within our control. That we are
too sure of our thoughts and opinions.

Haven’t we seen enough that people (we
might be one of them), who may at times be
scholarly or who may have even excelled in
some fields, with many achievements to their
Introduction name, but still have rigid and stubborn ideas in
their minds about other people or images about
We may have had a good education, in their own self, which they hold to be true, and
relatively good schools, studied subjects and the rest they might dismiss as not true?
done all the things that need to be done in
the process. We may have completed even What does it tell us? What does our own life
higher degrees, Masters, PhD, M. Phil, Post tell us?

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