Booting yourself everyday

I look at Mind as a computing machine. Over years it has built a huge set of rules, data and emotions tagged with it. These are interrelated. It looks to me that Mind rules me. Everyday morning it hands me a card and on it is written how my day will go. Fewer times it will hand me a card that says, today will be great. And this if from its inclination to stick to negative. This is what our mind does, someone comes and says you are good, we ignore that. Somebody comes and says you are bad and we remember it for long time. While strategically it is a good thing because this makes us better person continuously. But overdose of this causes lot more sadness than is necessary. And Mind doesn't know what this overdose is, where to stop.

But there is a variable that is in our total control. Mind cannot load all of its rules, data and emotion at the same time. It has smaller RAM. So we can exercise some control. If we consciously load good data, good emotions and good rules are loaded. And then there is no place for other not-needed data to be loaded. Everyday if we boot up this computing machine with something exciting that we plan to do, compassion, love, peace and happiness, there can only be more of that whole day along.

In the beginning we will find it hard doing this daily. Mind would come back and say, hey you are fooling yourself. Reality is different. But with practice you can make it an everyday affair. Waking up, booting right OS (operating system) could fetch you a great day with lots of productivity and joy.

This is booted up OS will govern what you perceive (Generalize, Delete and Distort). And depending on what you perceive your actions vary and depending on actions you get results. And the vicious circle goes on.

Remember that once you are booted properly, you might still take on issues of life and deal with them. But it will not be by fear but by a well thought and cool Mind.

As a Guru said, meditation is slowing down mind, increasing focus/attention and then thinking about any of divine quality (peace, love, strength ...). This to me is booting up of mind. As Shri Shri Ravishankar says, the prayers we sing (for e.g. hanuman chalisa) is praise for lord. And by praising we dwell on the divine qualities. And by the Mind just listening to these qualities loads right OS. I find that writing makes it more stronger as this causes your mind to consciously think, and hence load the right OS. That is why diary and blogging might be such a cool idea.