Forbearance and endurance are paramount keys to achieving success
Anand was a mere mentee at a celebrated
flautist’s music school. The youngster was bewitched by a damsel who too was
learning to play the flute under the expertise of the legendary musician.
Anand and Bhairavi were ensnared by craving;
they were in a tearing hurry to achieve stardom through soulful renditions of
the fabled Ananda Bhairavi raga. Their respected Master was however certainly
not impressed at the proffer of his novitiates and admonished them.
“One needs enormous tapas to arrive at the
world stage,” he added.
A Zen Story: Years ago, a
greenhorn was learning various nuances of breathing techniques and meditation
at a temple of knowledge. After acquiring some basic skills, he approached his
monk as to how soon he could graduate from the monastery and begin to spread
the knowledge of Zen Buddhism. The impassioned monk was to say impassively, “It
will take you ten more years.”
“Master, I will practice twice the number of hours, then how long will it take me to become a suzerain of Buddhism?”
“Thirty years,” was the bland reply.
Learning to Learn: Forbearance and endurance
are paramount keys to achieving success. Tearing hurry and sheer desperation to
climb the ladder to achieve fame in any field leads only to severe
psychological problems.
Psychotherapy: The intent of a
therapeutic approach is to upend the pyramid. It is to ensure the betterment of
the victim’s life. The therapy reinforces the client’s resolve for mitigating
distress leading to an improved lifestyle. By adopting a holistic line of
treatment, the mind is blessed with positivity, becomes robust and develops the
ability to eschew unwelcome habits.
There is astonishing progress in the victim
who undergoes a mental transformation; the thinking pattern changes
dramatically and becomes empowered to make mindful decisions on the voyage of
rehabilitation. Gifted and trained psychotherapists combine their clinical
insights and their mental GPS to zero in on suitable psychodynamic therapies.
Dynamics of Rehabilitation and Recuperation:
Fundamentally, psychodynamic therapy cogitates that it is an intra-psychic
conflict that is primarily responsible for the psychological malady. The
fountainhead of the problem lies within the psyche of the individual. Research
in the field opines that querulous desires of childhood and unmitigated
childhood fears are essentially responsible for intra-psychic disorders.
Keeping in mind the above two factors, psychotherapists deploy the technique of
free association and eliciting information through visualisation, dreams,
thoughts, and feelings to create a database. The cutting edge of the therapy is
provided as the therapist glides and floats from the intellectual frame to an
emotional plane. Psychodynamic therapy enfranchised the therapist to understand
the mind of the patient and provide emotional succour.
Last but not least, the duration of treatment
is of tremendous significance. The magnitude of the problem is obviously a key
determinant of the span of treatment. However, around 15 to 20 vigorous
sessions put the patient well on the road to renascence.
Alternative therapies
Unbridled ambition could also trigger
alcoholism, bulimia, heavy smoking, and substance abuse among others. In such
cases, alternative therapies such as practising the unique rhythmic breathing
technique of Sudarshan Kriya, Vipassana, sessions of yoga and pranayama, and
meditation techniques of Yoga Nidra, help in the relaxation of the mind and
body immensely.
(The writer is the
CEO of Chhattisgarh East Railway Ltd. and Chhattisgarh East West Railway Ltd
and is a faculty at the Art of Living. Views are personal)
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