Saturday, May 29, 2010

Career TIPs | 7 Steps to positive self talk




7 Steps to Positive Self Talk

 

positive self talk

Most of us are in constant mental chatter. We talk to ourselves all day long and, unfortunately, this self talk is frequently negative. Often it is tainted with guilt about our past or anxiety about our future. This negativity can destroy any seed of hope that we may otherwise have in striving for our dreams.

Our actions are inspired by our thoughts. If we can change the way we think, we can begin to change the actions we take. It is human nature to seek personal growth; whether financially, emotionally, physically or spiritually. Practicing positive self talk can help us set in motion actions that will bring us greater rewards.

The following are seven steps to positive self talk. By following these steps you will begin to rid your inner conversations of negativity and instead have empowering thoughts.

1. Eliminate Internal Negative Chatter

The first step is one of awareness. It will be hard to make a change to positive thinking without being acutely intimate with the thoughts that run through your mind. Recently, I was amazed to discover deep buried emotions from negative thoughts that I had for fewer than 10 minutes. Without awareness, I would have carried the hurt and anger inside. Awareness helped me to bring them out to the open for me to deal with.

Undoubtedly it will not be easy to make a switch if you have a long history or negative self talk. Your talk became negative over the years due to various factors. For instance, if your first grade teacher repeatedly told you that you were "stupid", you might believe it to be truly the case. You would find that your inner chatter would often be filled with talk of "I am so slow" and "it is so hard to learn". If you constantly tell yourself such negative stories, your actions are going to reflect your low self esteem. It will be difficult to get very far if you are always putting yourself down.

A common negative talk involves telling yourself "I can't". When you say to yourself "I can't" or "it is too difficult", you are creating a resistance. Having such a mental block will prevent you from achieving a task you could otherwise succeed at.

Anytime you catch yourself saying "I can't…", turn around and challenge your own claim with, "Why can't I?" Research shows that most geniuses became the people they are also because of the hard work they put in. So if you would like to be successful, you need to start saying "I can" a lot more.

A great method that I have also found useful is to say "Cancel Cancel" each time I find myself saying something negative, whether in the mind or verbally. The method works if you sincerely have the intent of becoming a positive thinker.

2. Positive Affirmations

Affirmations are positive statements of a desired outcome or goal. They are usually short, believable and focused. By repeating them over and over again, you build inroads into your subconscious mind, opening up the possibility of a new state of thoughts.

An important step when repeating affirmations is that you need to read your affirmations aloud with feeling. The mere reading of the words bears no consequence unless you put some emotions behind them. Of significant fact is that your subconscious mind takes any orders given in complete faith and after repeated self talk. So the daily practice of repeating affirmations is important.

Initially you may be skepticism toward the statement of your positive affirmation. However, if you follow this simple set of instructions your skepticism will soon give way to a new set of beliefs and then crystallized into absolute faith.

3. Positive Scripts

One thing that you may observe is on how easy it is for your mind to build negative thought upon negative thought. The chatter not only does not stop but it spins a drama that traps and limits you.

From now on, regularly do this exercise instead. Spin an uplifting story that runs like a movie script. Some visualization will be helpful. You build on a story with a positive outline. The longer you can tell this story to yourself the better. It is also best if you can make this story one about having all your goals achieved. When you do this, you start to internalize your goals and dreams, as if they are something that you have already achieved.

4. Replace Negative Influences with Positive Ones

It is important that you identify external negative factors in your life which may be holding your thoughts hostage. For instance, your mental state can become toxic by being around friends who are negative. If you are not vigilant enough, you will start to adopt their thoughts as your own. Hence, be alert to what your negative influences are. If they come from certain friends, limit your exposure to them as much as you can. Refrain from discussing your plans with people who will be unsupportive of your dreams and goals.

Instead surround yourself with thoughts and actions from people who will empower you.
From being uninspired and de-motivated, you will begin to feel uplifted and driven to greater self growth. The positive energy that they vibrate will start affecting the self talk that you engage in as well.

5. Present Tense Messages

You may find yourself daunted by the many things you need to do in order to reach your goals. It just seems overwhelming to become the success that you secretly desire for. Your mind gets caught up in an endless stream of worry.

What may be helpful is to concentrate on steps you can take in the present. If you find yourself becoming stuck, stop and say, "What can I do right now?" Change your internal talk from a future anxiety ridden one to one that is about the more manageable present. You cannot control what will happen in the future but you can take the necessary steps now that will build a better tomorrow. Taking the necessary steps require you to focus your thoughts and inner talk on Now.

6. Confront Fears

Fear is often what holds you back from your success. You are scared of taking chances because you fear losing the security that you enjoy now. You try to convince yourself that you are happy in your current state when in fact, you are not. Your self talk may sound positive in your attempt to lie to yourself. But somehow, there is an inner knowing that you are short changing yourself.

Ask yourself what you are afraid of. What can be the worst that can happen? Take a step-by-step approach in breaking down your fears and see if there is any way round to looking at things more positively. When you confront your fears, you will often realize that the worst case scenario is not as bad as you think. In fact, the benefits of change are worth the risk. Your inner talk begins to change at this point.

7. Focus on Enjoyable Moments

It is much easier to have a positive attitude if you focus on the enjoyable moments in life rather than the difficult ones. While there will inevitably be challenges, you need to remember that life consists of ups and downs and the good times are forged through the bad.

So choose to fill your mind with positive images and thoughts. Make it a conscious habit. Simply bring your mind back every time it goes astray in its thoughts. For a start, if you can be grateful for what you have presently, your self talk will also change to be in alignment with one of joy. A state of gratitude does wonders to your psyche.

Conclusion

Replacing self talk from a negative to a more positive one is not going to happen overnight. If your mind has ingrained habits of thinking negatively, it will take some work and time. However, if you find yourself often struggling, unable to achieve your goals and talking yourself down, then you should grit your teeth and commit to the process of change.

By following the above tips to positive self talk, you will experience an improvement in the quality of your life. The rewards are plentiful with greater happiness, peace and joy. Best of all, you feel empowered. With the change in energy, you are more likely to reach your highest potential and achieve success.



Friday, May 28, 2010

The Ultimate Science of Gayatri Mantra…

The Ultimate Science of Gayatri Mantra…
GAYATRI MANTRA & Its Scientific Meaning
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Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic dharma. This mantra has also been termed as Savitri and Ved-Mata, the mother of the Vedas.
Om bhur bhuvah swah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat
The literal meaning of the mantra is:
O God! You are Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Almighty, You are all Light. You are all Knowledge and Bliss. You are Destroyer of fear, You are Creator of this Universe, You are the Greatest of all. We bow and meditate upon Your light. You guide our intellect in the right direction.
The mantra, however, has a great scientific importance too, which somehow got lost in the literary tradition. The modern astrophysics and astronomy tell us that our Galaxy called Milky Way or Akash-Ganga contains approximately 100,000 million of stars. Each star is like our sun having its own planet system. We know that the moon moves round the earth and the earth moves round the sun along with the moon. All planets round the sun. Each of the above bodies revolves round at its own axis as well. Our sun along with its family takes one round of the galactic center in 22.5 crore years. All galaxies including ours are moving away at a terrific velocity of 20,000 mile s per second.
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And now the alternative scientific meaning of the mantra step by step:
(A). OM BHUR BHUVAH SWAH:
Bhur the earth, bhuvah the planets (solar family), swah the Galaxy. We observe that when an ordinary fan with a speed of 900 RPM (rotations Per minute) moves, it makes noise. Then, one can imagine, what great noise would be created when the galaxies move with a speed of 20,000 miles per second. This is what this portion of the mantra explains that the sound produced due to the fast-moving earth, planets and galaxies is Om. The sound was heard during meditation by Rishi Vishvamitra, who mentioned it to other colleagues. All of them, then unanimously decided to call this sound Om the name of God, because this sound is available in all the three periods of time, hence it is set (permanent). Therefore, it was the first ever revolutionary idea to identify formless God with a specific title (form) called upadhi. Until that time, everybody recognized God as formless and nobody was prepared to accept this new idea. In the Gita also, it is said, "Omiti ekaksharam brahma", meaning that the name of the Supreme is Om , which contains only one syllable (8/12). This sound Om heard during samadhi was called by all the seers nada-brahma a very great noise), but not a noise that is normally heard beyond a specific amplitude and limits of decibels suited to human hearing. Hence the rishis called this sound Udgith musical sound of the above, i.e., heaven. They also noticed that the infinite mass of galaxies moving with a velocity of 20,000 miles/second was generating a kinetic energy = 1/2 MV2 and this was balancing the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence they named it Pranavah, which means the body (vapu) or store house of energy
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(B). TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM:
Tat that (God), savitur the sun (star), varenyam worthy of bowing or respect. Once the form of a person along with the name is known to us, we may locate the specific person.Hence the two titles (upadhi) provide the solid ground to identify the formless God, Vishvamitra suggested. He told us that we could know (realize) the unknowable formless God through the known factors, viz., sound Om and light of suns (stars). A mathematician can solve an equation x2+y2=4; if x=2; then y can be known and so on. An engineer can measure the width of a river even by standing at the riverbank just by drawing a triangle. So was the scientific method suggested by Vishvamitra in the mantra in the next portion as under:-

(C). BHARGO DEVASYA DHEEMAHI:
Bhargo the light, devasya of the deity, dheemahi we should meditate. The rishi instructs us to meditate upon the available form (light of suns) to discover the formless Creator (God). Also he wants us to do japa of the word Om (this is understood in the Mantra). This is how the sage wants us to proceed, but there is a great problem to realize it, as the human mind is so shaky and restless that without the grace of the Supreme (Brahma) it cannot be controlled. Hence Vishvamitra suggests the way to pray Him as under:
(D). DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT:
Dhiyo (intellect), yo (who), nah (we all), prachodayat (guide to right Direction). O God! Deploy our intellect on the right path. Full scientific interpretation of the Mantra: The earth (bhur), the planets (bhuvah), and the galaxies (swah) are moving at a very great velocity, the sound produced is Om , (the name of formless God.) That God (tat), who manifests Himself in the form of light of suns (savitur) is worthy of bowing/respect (varenyam). We all, therefore, should meditate (dheemahi) upon the light (bhargo) of that deity (devasya) and also do chanting of Om. May He (yo) guide in right direction (prachodayat) our(nah) intellect dhiyo.
So we notice that the important points hinted in the mantra are:-
1) The total kinetic energy generated by the movement of galaxies acts as an umbrella and balances the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence it was named as the Pranavah (body of energy). This is equal to 1/2 mv2 (Mass of galaxies x squre of velocity.)
2) Realizing the great importance of the syllable OM , the other later date religions adopted this word with a slight change in accent, 

Saturday, May 8, 2010

India's 10 best paid Business Leaders ! & their kingdom


Anil Ambani

Age: 49 years


Remuneration : Rs 48.01 crore (Rs million) (includes Rs 34.65-crore

(Rs million) proposed commission for FY08 by Reliance Comm)

Worth: $42 billion


Designation: Chairman


Group: Reliance - Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group


Other companies: Reliance Natural Resources Ltd, Reliance Capital Ltd,

Reliance Energy Ltd, Reliance Communications Ltd, Reliance
Infrastructure, Reliance Entertainment, Reliance Power, Reliance
Health, Mudra Communications, Reliance BPO Private Ltd, Dhirubhai
Ambani Institute of Information and Communications Technology

Background: Anil Ambani, the flamboyant younger son of the late

Dhirubhai Ambani (who founded one of India's largest businesses,
Reliance Industries) is an MBA from the Wharton School of Business,
University of Pennsylvania. He earlier completed his BSc from the
University of Mumbai.

After Dhirubhai's death, the two brothers found they could not work

together. To solve the problem, the Reliance companies were divided
into two groups ? one went to elder brother Mukesh, while the other
went to younger brother Anil who formed Reliance ADAG.

Under his chairmanship, the constituent companies of Reliance ADAG

have raised nearly $3 billion from global financial markets in a
period of less than 15 months.

Reliance ADAG has a market capitalisation of Rs 325,000 crore ($81

billion), net assets in excess of Rs 115,000 crore ($29 billion), and
net worth to the tune of Rs 55,000 crore ($14 billion).



Mukesh Ambani


Age: 50 years


Remuneration : Rs 44.02 crore (Rs 440.2 million)


Worth: $43 billion


Designation: Chairman and managing director


Group: Reliance


Other companies: Reliance Industries Ltd, Reliance Petroleum Ltd,

Reliance Retail Ltd, Reliance Industrial Infrastructure Ltd, Reliance
Europe Ltd, Reliance Jamnagar Infrastructure Ltd, Reliance Ventures
Ltd, Reliance Global Management Services Private Ltd, Reliance Fresh
Ltd

Background: A chemical engineer from Stanford University, he earned

his MBA degree from Stanford University. He joined Reliance in 1981.
Among his many achievements include the company's backward integration
into petrochemicals, petroleum refining and oil and gas exploration
and production. One of his biggest achievements is the setting up of
the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery in Jamnagar.

Shyer than younger brother Anil, Mukesh limits his presence in the

media. Incidentally, his only daughter, Isha, who is just a teenager,
has been listed by Forbes as the second richest heiress in the world.

The Reliance Group's annual revenues are in excess of $34 billion. RIL

is a Fortune 500 listed company.




Kalanidhi Maran


Age: 43 years


Remuneration : Rs 32.41 crore (Rs million)


Worth: $2.6 billion


Designation: Chairman and managing director


Group: Sun TV Network


Other companies: Sun Pictures, Sun Direct, 20 television channels

including Sun TV, Udaya TV, Gemini TV, Surya TV and Surjo TV, 45 FM
radio stations including Surya FM, S FM and Red FM, two Tamil
newspapers including Dinakaran and four weekly Tamil magazines
including Kungumum. It also runs a philanthropic organisation, Sun
Foundation.

Background: Despite coming from a hardcore political background -- his

father is the late Union Industries minister Murasoli Maran, his
brother Dayanidhi Maran was the former communication and IT minister,
his great-uncle is Tamil Nadu's veteran politician M Karunanidhi ?
Kalanidhi was more interested in television. He began his independent
career in 1991 with the monthly Tamil video news magazine, Poomalai.
He was just 27 had had, under his belt, an MBA from the University of
Scranton, USA.

He went on to launch Sun TV, the first privately owned Tamil

television channel, on April 14, 1993. Today, Sun TV is one of the
largest broadcasters in India. Its footprint includes programming and
channels in all the southern languages. It has also launched a DTH arm
and recently forayed into film production.

Sun TV was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange on April 24, 2006.

After the listing, Maran was mentioned in Forbes's list of the world's
billionaires; this year, he features on the list at No 446.



Kaveri Kalanidhi


Age: 37 years


Remuneration : Rs 32.41 crore (Rs million)


Designation: Joint managing director, Sun TV Network


Group company: Sun TV Network


Other companies: Sun Pictures, Sun Direct, 20 television channels

including Sun TV, Udaya TV, Gemini TV, Surya TV and Surjo TV, 45 FM
radio stations including Suryan FM, S FM and Red FM, two Tamil
newspapers including Dinakaran and four weekly Tamil magazines
including Kungumum. It also runs a philanthropic organisation, Sun
Foundation

Background: Kaveri Kalanidhi responsible for deciding the content mix

on Sun TV's various channels and monitoring viewer feedback. She
assists in the selection of anchors and newscasters. She is on the
board of trustees of Sun Foundation and supervises its day-to-day
functioning.

Kaveri has a bachelor's degree in arts from University of Madras,

Chennai. She was appointed joint managing director of the company on
December 15, 2005. Kalanidhi and Kaveri were married in 1991.




P R Ramasubrahmaneya Rajha


Age: 76 years


Remuneration : Rs 32.39 crore (Rs 323.9 million)


Designation: Chairman and managing director


Group: Ramco Group


Other companies: Madras Cements Ltd, Ramco Industries Ltd, Ramco

Systems Ltd, Rajapalayam Mills Ltd, Sudarshan Spinning Mills, Sri
Vishni Shankar Mills Ltd, Rajapalayam Spintext, Sri Ramco Spinners,
Rajapalayam Textiles, Sandhya Spinning Mills, Tanjavur Spinning Mills
Ltd, Ramaraju Surgical Cotton Mills Ltd, Sri Ramco Biotech, Ramco Wind
Farm and Ramco Lanka Private Ltd. Some of the charitable institutions
it includes Raja Charity Trust, P A C Ramasamy Raja Education Charity
Trust, Shri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Seva Trust, Ramco Industrial
Training Centre and P A Chinnaih Raja Memorial Higher Secondary School

Background: Rajha took over Madras Cements and the Ramco Group in 1962

from his ailing father and company founder, P A C Ramasamy Raja. Under
his stewardship, the group has established a national presence and
seen its turnover multiply ten-fold. Madras Cements is the sixth
largest producer of cement in India. It is also one of the largest
wind energy producers in the country.



Kumar Mangalam Birla


Age: 41 years


Remuneration : Rs 20.14 crore (Rs 201.4 million)


Worth: $10.2 billion


Designation: Chairman


Group: Aditya V Birla Group


Other companies: Grasim, Hindalco, UltraTech Cement, Aditya Birla

Nuvo, Idea Cellular, Birla Sun Life, Birla NGK

Background: A chartered accountant who earned an MBA from the London

Business School, Kumar Mangalam Birla is ranked at No 78 in Forbes
magazine's list of the world's billionaires. He inherited the business
from his late father, Aditya Birla, at the age of 27.

Today, besides running one of India's biggest conglomerates, Birla

also serves on the prime minister advisory council on trade and
industry. In the past, he has been the chairman of Securities and
Exchange Board of India's committee on corporate governance and the
chairman of SEBI's committee on insider trading.




Malvinder Mohan Singh


Age: 34 years


Remuneration : Rs 19.58 crore (Rs 195.8 million)


Designation: CEO and managing director Group company: Ranbaxy

Laboratories Ltd

Background: Singh graduated in economics from St Stephen's college,

New Delhi and earned his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business, Duke
University, USA.

Before taking charge as MD and CEO, he was president, pharmaceuticals,

and executive director responsible for the global operations covering
pharmaceuticals, API and manufacturing across Ranbaxy's global
footprint of 49 countries.

He is a member of the National Council for the Confederation of Indian

Industries and co-chairman of CII's national committee on Intellectual
Property Rights (IPR), CII.

In June 2008, Ranbaxy reached an agreement with Daiichi through which

it will acquire a majority stake in the former. Singh will continue as
CEO for some time




Sunil Bharti Mittal


Age: 51 years (October 23, 1957)


Remuneration : Rs 19.55 crore (Rs 195.5 million)


Designation: Chairman and managing director


Group: Bharti Group


Other companies: Bharti Enterprises, Bharti Airtel Ltd, Bharti

TeleTech Ltd, Telecom Seychelles Ltd, Bharti Telesoft Ltd, Bharti Del
Monte India Pvt Ltd, Bharti Retail Pvt Ltd, Bharti Retail Pvt Ltd,
Bharti Axa General Insurance Company, Bharti Axa Life Insurance
Company, Bharti Axa Life Insurance Company, Bharti AXA Investment
Managers Pvt Ltd, Bharti Resources, Jersey Airtel Ltd, Bharti
Foundation

Background: Mittal started his first business at the age of 18,

financed by a loan of Rs 20,000 from his father. Moving from one
business to another, this first generation entrepreneur Mittal built
the Bharti Group into India's largest mobile phone operator in just 10
years.

He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2007.


Mittal is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School. He has been

awarded the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) degree by the G B Pant
University of Agriculture & Technology. He is an honorary fellow of
The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers.



Sajjan Jindal


Age: 48 years (December 5, 1959)


Remuneration : Rs 16.73 crore (Rs 167.3 million)


Designation: Vice chairman and managing director


Group: Jindal South West Holding Group


Other companies: JSW Steel Ltd, JSW Energy Ltd, JSW Holdings Ltd, JSW

Infrastructure and Logistics Ltd, Vijayanagar Minerals Pvt Ltd, Jindal
Praxair Oxygen Co Ltd, JSoft Solutions Ltd, JSW Aluminium Ltd, JSW
Bengal Steel Ltd, JSW Energy Ratnagiri Ltd, Raj Westpower Ltd, JSW
Cement Ltd, JSW Jharkhand Steel Ltd

Background: The second son of the late O P Jindal, joined the Jindal

organisation after his graduation from Bangalore University in 1982.
Today, JSW Steel is the third largest manufacturer of steel in India.

Earlier this year, he took over as the president of the Associated

Chambers of Commerce and Industry. He is also director of the Indian
Institute of Management, Indore and the National Shipping Board.




Onkar S Kanwar

Age: 66 years


Designation: Chairman and managing director


Remuneration : Rs 15.54 crore (Rs 155.4 million)


Group: Apollo


Other companies: Apollo Tyres Ltd, Apollo Tyres KFT, Dunlop Tyres

International

Background: Kanwar has successfully led Apollo Tyres (he inherited the

initial business from his father Raunaq Singh) for over 27 years.
Under his leadership, Apollo has not only witnessed a turn around but
has also emerged as a market leader.

A science and administration graduate from the University of

California, Kanwar is also immediate past president, Federation of
Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry, and past president,
International Chamber of Commerce, Automotive Tyre Manufacturers'
Association and former director, Export Credit Guarantee Corporation
of India.


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