Our mind is just not limited to subjective and objective feelings. It is also not just the seat of intelligence. It loves amusement as much as rest, juxtaposed by habitual periods of activity. Get the point? People, especially night workers, who deprive themselves of adequate sleep show signs akin to psychosis. This also demystifies the seven-eight hours’ benchmark of sleep, which most people living in cities fail to achieve. In other words, the quantum of sensory stimulation and information processing we do each day compels us to find enough time for physical rest — to uphold mental strength and balance. The fact is modern living does not allow us to tweak our senses to process an endless flow of stimuli. The paradox also is we are recompensed for it. And, what also takes a pounding is our ‘turning inwards.’
There’s so much in common between life and cricket. The two have a precise, regimental routine. Like the way you hit the road in the morning to reach your office desk, or Rishabh Pant attempting to stroke the ball like a Roman gladiator from the word ‘go.’ It sets the rhythm. If anything goes off-beam with the tempo, one gets edgy. You go on doing your job, all right, but the flow somehow takes the backseat. For all you know, everything could change, for the better, the following day. But, not all of us think in this manner. Isn’t it time we all did — for our own good and for everyone’s good?
Think of yourself also as a tennis player on the centre court called life. Strive to be a part of Wimbledon in your mind’s compass. This will help you get ‘centred.’ Also, focused. Most people are out of sync and balance because they don’t give enough time to ‘centre.’ Just place yourself at the ‘centre.’ You’ll see how things work for you — not against you. In so doing, you’ll also not get subjugated by the pressure others put on you — or, you self-inflict upon yourself. ‘Centring’ is the key to open the mind-body-soul door of life.
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