4th December 2009
Your `Mind' is the athlete, not your body!
"The power of one is above all things the power to believe in yourself. Often well beyond any latent ability previously demonstrated. The mind is the athlete, the body is simply the means it uses." -- Bryce Courtenay
Read the above quotation again and again and you will know why you are doing what you are doing and why you are doing it the way you are doing it. Many of us think that it is the body that works. It is not only the body that produces the results of our action; it is the combination of the mind and the body. Our body is just like a tool that we use. Unless the tool is powered, it cannot produce any result. It is not only the sharpness of the drill bit which decides the penetration rate. If there is no power to use the drill, what is the use of the drill? You may have the material to drive a hole, you may have the desire and the keenness, but you may not have the power.
This example is true with reference to the human system also. The brain is the drill and the mind is the power. You need to be empowered and not driven by others to do what you want to do. Empowering means to be motivated from within. You have to believe that you have to do it for your survival. You have to enter every activity as though your very survival depends on your successfully completing the activity. Your mind has to be convinced that it is a do or die situation. Your mind has to tell you that it is a critical issue and not merely an optional issue. While I write this I recall what Mahatma Gandhi said:
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi himself is an example on how this principle works. By no means Mahatma Gandhi was a physically strong person. It was his determination and will power which gave him the stamina. The same is true for any one who succeeds in life.
We take a lot of nutritious food to strengthen our body and we do a lot to make our body strong and safe externally. But, think for a while, as to what we do to strengthen our mind? We go to a gym to improve our physical stamina. Do we do anything to build and improve our mental stamina? What is the use if we are physically very strong, but mentally weak?
N C Sridharan
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