Life means Growth - Development

You experience life as a force that pushes you forward from inside, to reach out to higher and higher levels of living. You may even say that development is a sign of life!

For instance, you could tell if a dry seed that you pick up in your hand has life or not, not by its looks, but only by finding if it would sprout and grow up into a plant!

As long as you grow, you feel you are full of life. You experience energy, surging in you.

Human History Reflects Development

The history of the human-race could be depicted as a development race:

For all the royal splendors that the kings and queens of yester years enjoyed, none had traveled as fast as a poor man traveling by the Indian Railways!

Take your child to your parents’ home. It will find it old fashioned: the style, the structure, the furnishing… Times have changed so fast.

If someone told you in 1995 how millions of people would use wireless communication in 2005, carrying little equipments in pocket, you might have dismissed the guy as one under some illusion!

That’s the speed of development… the race of life, leading us forward…

You Developed, Overcoming Obstacles

As ‘moving forward’ appears to be an appropriate imagery of ‘life’, we may say that life consists of, among other things, ‘overcoming of obstacles’ along the way.

If you look back on your journey to your present destination that you have reached, you might be amazed by the great many obstacles you overcame along the way.

Think of the number of school days you put in attendance, the hours you sat through boring lectures, and for unending years…when there were others, who went around enjoying themselves, doing what they liked!

Or, the many miles you walked or commuted to and from institutions where you sought to ‘qualify’ yourself for your future? The dingy hostel rooms? The stale foods? The late nights spent pouring over books, writing any number of assignments and exams that lasted three full hours each…

May be, you had even to break through or circumvent roadblocks that came from the larger society: any racial, caste, gender, class, or national discrimination gone through?

All those blocks you could surmount, by the force of life that kept pushing you forward from inside…

To Develop Further…

As you want to keep moving forward, beyond where you are today; you may be surprised to find many obstacles come your way, from inside of you! For instance,

• You reached a high level of affluence; but your ability to enjoy wealth would depend on your health – and that depends largely on your habits and style of life that may work against your health, and remain unyielding to change!

• You have a lot of achievements to your credit; but, unable to showcase them, you are stranded where you are, even as you watch your companions move up!

• Your boss makes millions by your service that you render for a fixed salary. But, you don’t venture out with your own enterprise. You say, ‘I have no guts'.

• You married the one you loved, against so many odds. But, the marriage does not blossom as much as you dreamt of; and, you don’t understand why!

• In the same 24-hour-day, a millionaire might manage his/her multinational business, and find time for enjoyment. But, you have no time, even for your self development.

• Same job; same boss. Other employees enjoy life. You come home stressed?

• You study for hours and get less marks; others study less, and score better!

These are examples of circumstances where you may feel there is something inside of you that you need to tackle! And you are right. And, today, there are many like you, searching for ways to improve their quality of life and relationships. And, it’s a great comfort to know that help is at hand from modern sciences, that have grown with mankind. NLP is one such source you might love to learn, in order to keep growing.

Neuro Linguistic Programming [NLP]

This is a new ‘branch’ in psychology, developed in the mid 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in the USA. Its not a natural off-shoot of psychology, but one born of protest: a protestant branch of a traditional science, if you might call it so.

While traditional psychology was busy putting back on track, what it considered, derailed minds, NLP protested saying that every mind is on track! NLP believes that we all achieve exactly the results our minds are programmed to produce. Using NLP, you can reprogram yourself for excellence!

NLP technology helps you to grow and blossom to your fullest potentials. And your potentials are enormous: Even the sky is not the limit! Welcome to learn NLP and apply it to your concrete situations, and to help yourself to keep growing, using NLP.

© M.R.Arulraja 2005

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