Mind

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Why do I feel bored?

Monotony is not life, monotony is the nature of the mind. That is, if you left your mind loose, without knowing how to employ it. So, if you do not know how to use it, the mind will use you, and consume you. ...

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How to be intuitive?

Namaskaram Sadhguru. What is the difference between instinct and intuition? Should we follow our instincts or intuition? ...

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Mind / Wisdom For Seekers

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Is inception possible?

Questioner: Namaskram Sadhguru. The other day you had mentioned that thought is very necessary for one to take any action. Sometimes I feel that the action I have taken is based on a thought that's not mine. Is that possible for someone to plant a thought in ...

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How to deal with confusion

Confused mind is good. If you know how to organise your confusion, if you know how to handle your confusion, if you know how to increase the enormity of your confusion consciously, if you can handle your confusion consciously – mind is a very productive instrument. If you are ...

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Mind / Mysticism

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The power of imagination

To make mental process just like a physical process is what tantra is trying to do. To make imagination so strong that after some time it is like physical. You actually create a ghost or you create a god, both are possible. Both are possible – any kind of form you want, you ...

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How to understand your thoughts?

If you look at your thoughts in the context of the whole cosmos, they do not mean anything. If you realise that, you will naturally create a distance from your thought process. So if you create a little distance - when I say create a little distance from the thought process, ...

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Mental Health / Mind / Wisdom For Seekers

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Positive Thinking: How to remove negative thoughts?

There is nothing like negative thought, or positive thought. Can you forcefully remove any thought from your mind. The nature of the mind is such that it can only add and multiply. So, what one should work towards is to distance oneself from the mind, rather than trying to forcefully ...

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Lifestyle / Mind

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Can one remain aware in Sleep?

I'd just like to ask a question about awareness. For example, when I sleep I'm not aware of that or when I dream, I'm not aware that I'm dreaming, and I think it's real. So I wanted to ask you what happens to you when you sleep? ...

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Mind / Success / Wisdom For Seekers

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How to harness the full capabilities of your mind ?

Why humans dominate this planet is because of our ability to use mind. But are you harnessing your capability to the fullest? There are 5 major points of receptivity in one's mind - centres of memory, imagination, perception, perversion and sleep. There are people (called Avadhanis) ...

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Mind / Storytelling

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The man who wanted supernatural powers

Is there a secret mantra to end all your miseries and bring permanent bliss? Sadhguru narrates an interesting story about a man from South India in search of a Mantra to gain magical powers, who traveled all the way to Tibet. What did the wise, old #Buddhist Monk tell him? Did ...

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How to become thoughtless?

Sadhguru, I wanted to know that when we are silent, still we feel that mind chattering, which always bothers us. And our thought always shifts back to past and future imaginations, which will not be any of output. How to get rid of it? ...

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How to manifest what you want?

If you organise your mind to a certain level of organisation, it in turns organises the system, your body, your emotion, your energy - everything gets organised in that direction." Once all these four aspects get aligned, then anything that you wish will manifest. ...

#14 of 28

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Four Parts of The Mind

In modern medicine and modern science there is a tendency to identify consciousness, mind and brain. Make mind a function of the brain, consciousness a function of the mind and to treat them chemically, and to alter them chemically, and that well-being is good chemistry of the ...

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I am confused – what should I do?

Mind can only be confused. If somebody has a clear mind, he must be a fanatic. You understand? The nature of the mind is confusion. That's its beauty. It's always confused, because it can't figure anything. But in can gather everything and mull over it, endlessly. This is the ...

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Mind / Yogic Science

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Is ‘Akasha’ space or ether?

Question: Namaskaram Sadhguru. Sadhguru, one of the five elements, pancha bhuta, is Akasha - Space. And, in one of your YouTube videos, I've heard you, I mean - you say ether. You mention ether about space in Akasha. So, once you, in your talk now, in time travel, ...

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How to become intuitive?

This about intuition. First thing to understand about intuition is, intuition is not a different level of intelligence. Intuition is just simply a different level of computing. So intuition is just that your computing is in such a way, that you don’t go through the logical ...

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Memory & Imagination – boon or curse?

The greatest faculty of what makes us human has become the problem. The best thing we have here for ourselves, as human beings, is this cerebral capability. Otherwise, as a body, you are nothing much. You’re really nothing much compared to a tiger, or an elephant, or so many ...

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Your mind records everything!

See, you may be sleeping. There are many experiments like this, I won’t go into the detail. Even when you’re sleeping, you’re fast asleep you don’t know - I will speak in a language that you do not know, one or ten sentences. Actually we can hypnotise you after many months ...

#20 of 28

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Why do we direct our negative emotions towards our loved ones?

The people you love the most, you kind of tend to dump all your anxieties, your anger, your fears, your insecurities, all onto that one source that gives you the maximum love and the one that you love the most. Why is it that we, as a human race, ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Karan Johar

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Mind / Yogic Science

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Are we stuck in time?

Einstein said that time doesn’t exist. But, somehow we’re stuck in it. And you say that space took a cyclic turn and that’s how we’re stuck in time. Is it only our bodies or our mind? What is it exactly like? ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Kangana Ranaut

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Mind / Yogic Physiology

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Why do people under anaesthesia have this sense that no time has passed?

So, I did a little reading about you. And he’s not as uneducated as he would have you believe. He’s actually quite educated. And I was curious because, I think it was back in 1982, you had your first enlightenment experience I think. And, there’s ...

Sadhguru in conversation at the Harvard Medical School

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Can someone plant thoughts into you?

Can somebody plant a thought? Definitely. Definitely, yes. If you’re talking about someone consciously wanting to plant a thought in you, is that possible? Very much possible. But you shouldn’t get into this mode. Because every time you do something wrong, you will think ...

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Karma / Mind

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How to control your destiny?

Questioner: Do Karmas exist? And how to they affect our destiny? ...

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The mind experiment

People think there is something called as negative thought and positive thought. They want to remove the negative thoughts, and have only positive thoughts. For such people, I would ask them to just experiment for 10-15 seconds. ...

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Is memory a boundary?

I got a little technical question in terms of boundaries. Memory is one of the biggest boundaries, and you mentioned Patanjali earlier. Patanjali, in a funny way he says, anubhuta vishaya asambha moshaha sutaya. As a part of a chittah. And again, ...

Sadhguru in conversation with Matthew Hayden

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Your mind can run 14 concurrent tracks!

Sadhguru, the number of projects you handle, Isha handles, are numerous. I do you handle that? I mean, do you have a very clear blueprint in your mind? Even if you do, how do you bring the volunteers to exactly execute what's in your mind? ...

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