Sujatha NJ_HRLP024_Self Leadership_23May2013

The serenity of love is so beautiful and pure. Being selfless is imbibing love into you and being one with the self. Being one with the self makes u let go of your ego, listen to your intellect, being compassionate and finally being mindful. They say, if you have to meet lord Krishna, you first need to learn to be Radha. If you want to meet Lord Shiva, you need to be Parvathi. Hence if you have a vision or burning urge to be a leader, first we need to learn how to love. To love is being ourselves, Being ourselves is being one with the SELF.

When we are with ourselves is when we attain the supremacy of our dreams. I say dreams because, we are not limited to one goal in life, we have multiple factors leading us to what we are today. Hence we need to dedicate ourselves like Radha or Parvathi to our goals. Then you will see that the goal itself is coming towards you.

‘To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.’ - Lao Tzu

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‘Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.’- Ralph Waldo Emerson

With this thought, I end my blog my stating that, surrender yourself to your dreams, to your vision, to your goals and believe in them like how you love your mother. The universe is like a mirror, it will give you all you ask for with dedication.

Love all,

Su

Latika Malhotra_HRLP027_Self Leadership_May2012

The power of consciousness transcends time and space. Consciousness is connected to soul or maybe it is soul itself but the level of consciousness depends on the purity of soul. What a delightful thought to start my day.

As our lecture on Self Leadership unfolded, purpose and power of five senses became meaningful. It just astonished me as how mere gazing into eyes can connect you to soul. Truly they say, “Eyes are window to soul”. Eyes convey message of soul. They speak lot about a person. Poor me, I always thought it as a mere organ to see the world. I just got enlightened that it can make you see beyond the world. Eyes, gestures, body language reflect your personality.

O my dearly Lord!! I never knew the power of Listening. I always thought it is the best speaker that makes the difference but to my surprise it is the best listener who stands out in the crowd. Power lies with the follower. It is the follower who chooses the speaker. Only the best Listener can observe surroundings and deeply analyze it.

“A touch that changes life”. A touch of love, a touch of security, of friendship can impact your life immensely. A hug to say I am there for you, a kiss to say I love you, touching feet to say I respect you. Power of touch can heal a person physically and mentally.

As I will step into the business world almost year from now, I realize how important it is for me to make full use of my Senses to make my work place positive, to reflect the aura of belongingness, to be connected to my colleagues emotionally. I am truly enlightened by the session from Anil Sachdev. My perception about many things has changed and my journey of self realization continues…

Shivaraj_MLP005_Self Leadership_May 2012

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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."
-- John Quincy Adams

    I was very excited to attend Anil sir class because his earlier speeches had always brought some positive vibrations in me and also to the environment, so the day came where his first session was about self leadership and it was extremely blissful. He started the session with explaining six layers of me which would make as a complete understanding about oneself. The way he narrated the conceptual subjects into a simple one was amazing.

I always had a question in my mind about who am I and the purpose of my birth, the way he brought slow change into my mind was really phenomenal. The Six layers slowly crept into my heart; I felt some emptiness in my heart.

The first layer was perceptual intelligence which described about our 5 senses such as hearing, listening talking, touching, tasting and smelling. It was essential to know about all the 5 senses and controlling all the perceptual intelligence will discover you to unlock the next level of “Instinct”. Further he went into the exploration of other layers such as emotional layer, Intellect layer, and ego and at last the inner source of “I”

It was a complete silence that I felt in my “I”, finally he also answered about purpose of birth by narrating a small conversation by swami ji that temporary happiness will not sustain for long term and permanent happiness depends on serving for others , making others happy which will create a great pleasure to oneself. I had great impact with this answer since I was searching for the answer for a long time, I never know how I am going to serve others but I from my inner I pledge to attain the peace of joy in myself. I also pledge myself about being intimacy to everyone, will also kill my ego and proceed with my heart.

The next day session was followed up with accessing directly to the inner source of me, Anil sir taught as some of the techniques which brought transformation into me. I wondered that why they have never taught these powers when we are as a kid, because this power could have made a great impact to every individual development. The power of observation, power of listening and power of touching was some remarkable powers which we had in our insights but we are never aware of these super powers.

It also taught us about concentration, constant efforts that you need to put in for any of your work. Power of listening had made a great impact on me, listening to others is such a powerful tool to build up our own character. Finally the power of touch was impetus when I witnessed a sense of positive vibration spread throughout the room, it was electrifying and I was wondered how spirituality can make difference in life.

Anil sir session has really torn all my perception about life and has really made me to think towards better progress of my life as a better human and an inspired leader

Priyanshu_MLP011_Self Leadership_May 2012

Building my way to self leadership has come the realization of the power of the layers which initially obstruct the path to Self.  Every layer, starting with our senses to our ego is bound to be constrained by time and space and the only independent entity, is the soul. Direct contact with soul transcends our ability to be affected by spatial and temporal aspects and it also diminishes its effect on the other layers.

The most important things of life come for free and one could not realize it better than in the process of becoming aware of self. As Anil Sachdev, guided us, I realized how powerful and wondrous our senses are. If nurtured properly one can enhance one’s potential beyond the imaginable limits of physical being.

The act of going beyond the rational mind was the key to the same.

Power of Observation as it is said enables us to perceive a human being beyond the obvious. ‘The most effective way to communicate is Silence‘ is something I never believed in but today I got to experience it. The task to explore through eyes enabled me to learn how much we can express just by a glimpse. When we build a true connection to I, the eyes say it all. The shine in eyes of my companion enabled me to get a deep glimpse into her persona and she put across a message which would have consumed hundred of words to convey.

God gave us two ears and one tongue, I guess that’s how much he wanted us to listen as compared to speak. Power is always vested with the listener as he/she lends ear to the speaker. As the power of a deity is derived from its followers, same way greatness of an leader is manifested through the number of lives he/she has been able to transform or make better.

As the eyes and ears facilitate communication, same is done by the skin. A gentle touch on the head from elders, teachers, or guru is sufficient to give us the power to lead our way in life and we call it the blessings; same way a hug, a kiss or any touch is sufficient to convey us the message in most meaningful way. The same way through our touch we can transfer our positive energy to other bodies in order to heal them, something much beyond the rational understanding.

Hence, another pebble of being aware of senses was laid down today in the path of self leadership.

Mahima Singh_HRLP004_Self Leadership_May2012

MAGIC of being MYSELF

Inside my heart resides a soul that can visualize , express,say , travel across  the boundaries  the SOUL that is LIMITLESS .It uses the sense of expressing through EYES,observing through listening,from the EARS ,with the sense of touch spreading the UNCONDITIONAL LOVE and PROSPERITY amongst the people all around . Its the beauty of our own characters that brings out a strong person who ought to be the future inspire for others.
I feel like a free bird who just want to discover places around with no specific directions to restrict me .
its the power of being myself that can create the magic .
i can hear the voice of inner sense which wants me to completely shed my ego and wants me to just fly in the open sky .
THE EYE - i can use you for conveying the message of any emotion i am going through  ,you are my greatest assets i can use as one of my strength to observe and analyse other people's emotions around me
THE EAR - i can use you for listening to such beautiful thought of the great leaders across the world , i can use you to listen "i love you" the most precious words from my mom , my father my sister, my brother . i can listen to the worries of people around and i can  hear the water making noise when coming with great force , i can hear the wind blowing .
THE TOUCH - the power to HEAL  the weaker , the power to stimulating the power of purest amongst the  pure to the one who is in need of that energy that can do wonders to the life of that sufferer
the power to show the feeling of love to our own beloved . its effect is long lasting that gives immense sence satisfaction to the one who is in need
" A HUG can just do the MAGIC that a simple handshake can not do "
THE TASTE - The power to taste the delicious or the worst ,the scientist use this power to make the medicine out of the practicals done on the chemicals and the chef uses this ability to create some exquisiteness in the food
in all we have the power to do unimaginative task   .
the great source to analyse own self is to be aware of ourselves .

Priyam Malik_HRLP039_Self Leadership_May 2012

Our session today morning focussing on the 5 senses was yet another amazing experience for me.

It was less of a lecture and more of a journey. It made me realise the power within each one of us. The beyond imagination capabilities that we all have and most of us were ignorant about them. But not anymore.  I never gave a thought about what I always had. My body was given to me by the Almighty and I always took it for granted.

Today I was amazed. During the session I felt so many emotions and had such a deep understanding of my own self. Our eyes are the most honest, even more than our mind. They are the door to our inner self. How amazing it was to understand some one through only his eyes.  The fact that the more senses we included to understand some one, the more distracted we got, was pretty interesting for me. Though it made things easier for us to understand in a literal way, it also was somewhat superficial as compared to understanding only through the eyes.

I always knew we should be a good listener but I didn’t know how good a listener were all the great leaders. It is a powerful tool to understand the world around and keep learning throughout one’s life.  Today I questioned myself before I listen to others, do I listen to my inner self? That is a question I want to remember always!

And then I was exposed to the leadership of touch and how touch can heal. It is so amazing to know and explore the potential in the leadership of touch. You know, not always medicines can work but there are some ways other than the conventional ways of science that are beyond imagination, that can change human life forever!

-Priyam Malik

BALAJIN_002_Self Leadership_May 2012

I attended the most anticipated Leadership lecture by anil. After a few formal discussion the statement he said was “I am responsible for my learning “this seems to be small the insight of this gives you lot of meaning .For me this helped me to realize my commitment, my dreams, aspirations and confidence to attain this. It was not like a class taken by a CEO, I felt I am sitting and listening to my dad .I never expected he would be so spiritual and simple.

He ignited my thought with that statement and now he comes up with another question who am I? And what’s my purpose in life? This was a group activity, I need to share my thoughts with my fellow mates. Last statement had lot of insights to motivate me and what can I say about this question? if you know the answer there won’t be any problem in your life . Identifying the purpose of your life is the most difficult aspect in our life though I came up with a purpose i had a strong inner feel that it’s not my purpose. I am still in the process of identifying my real purpose of my life. 

The term Education is derived from the latin word educate which means knowing the self but even after being graduate hardly only few were able to know ourselves.  Then he came up with “6 layered model of self awareness “ to understand one self better ,this deals with 1)Body 2)Instinct 3)Mind 4) Brain 5)Ego and Life giving force or soul . Leadership is all about responding rather than reacting and to be a leader we need to know the self, our strengths and development areas.

He narrated a  interesting story which happened between a set of students and swami ji when one of the students asked how to live a happy life to swami ji , swami ji reverted couple of question back to students

1)      What would you do to be happy for an hour ?

2)      What would you do to be happy for a day ?

3)      What would you do to be happy for a month ?

4)      What would you do to be happy for a year ?

5)      What would you do to be happy life long ??

Being selfless(unconditional Love)  is the key thing to be happy for ever, irrespective of your situation make everyone around you happy which will make you happy .

            I have always had pride in saying as a engineer that I don’t want a language to communicate my thoughts I can communicate even through my drawing’s, which is considered as the communication tool for the engineers. anil gave a exercise of expressing our stories through eyes followed by eyes & gesture and followed by eyes, Gesture & lip movement . 

           This exercise really made me to think about myself since when I was expressing my story by this way, my partner was not able to understand or able to relate with any sequence of it. This made me to think about my expressions and storytelling ability. When we make an eye to eye contact we go deep and understand the person. Communication through eye is very important aspect which I need to improve a lot.

           Anil shared lot experiences which he had throughout his career. His session was interactive and brain storming. His motivation was filled all over and I am sure this set of students would be ready for any challenges in life and it’s also a day many of the uneducated graduate turned to be an educated graduate.

Priyanshu_MLP011_Self Leadership_May 2012

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                                                         I found thee I need nobody,

                                             thou show my way and  I will be somebody.

And as I complete my 10^th day at SOIL, I am glad to say I found a right place to worship. As the key to successful education is to imbibe and imbibe spiritually and that’s what my journey has been about since past ten days. Before  entering Soil, I never knew that such a beautiful induction awaits me, which will take me through both knowing each and every comrade as well as also provide me a true companion, the one which through several years of socialization estranges us, The Self.  

The journey on which Anil Sachdev has taken all of us is in fact not less than any pilgrimage, it’s a brilliant way to self. The ‘I ‘which lies hidden under the several layers of tangible and non tangible coverings. Through profound introspection, treading my path through perceptual intelligence, manna, emotions, intellect and the most influencing i.e. ego, I found I, a reality that is the purest form of self totally individualistic and beyond any constraint. Something so powerful  that our ego declines to recognize its potential.

The Journey to ‘I’ was aimed to empower oneself with leading of Self, as one cannot lead others when one is not even capable of leading the self. Leading, as I was able to realize is the most wonderful way of selflessly giving others what It needs to take them ahead, to make them progress. The key ideology behind being a leader is not attributed to the glory of the designation but the ability to be pivotal joint which carries the team forward. The ability to give is the priceless possession of every human being and I feel lucky to realize it. The fact that every leader displays the most basic traits of humanity is because they don’t need anything to satisfy themselves, they just give.

And hence, this was the first pebble that I laid in the lifelong learning of being an inspired self leader.

NitikaThakral_HRLP021_May2012

Nitika Thakral HRLP021

The outermost layer of the 6 layered model is the layer of perceptual intelligence which comprises of the sense organs.

The sense organs are the gateways to the outside world through which we exchange both positive and negative energies. These energies percolate down to the layer of Life Giving Force-‘THE SOUL’. The direct access to ‘THE SOUL’ helps us to transcend time and space. The intermediate layers of information, knowledge and intellect drain off the negative energies. The energized body dissipates the attained energy all around.

The mapping of feelings to expressions are displayed through are eyes , gestures and body language.

Eyes are the direct connectors to the heart of others and help us experience the vast sea of thoughts and feeling that goes within one and all.

After today, I want to use my eyes to speak the unspoken and liven the dead. I want to develop a listener within me with a heart full of acceptance.

Priyam Malik_HRLP039_Self Leadership_May 2012

Today my very first lecture at SOIL, made me go through so many thoughts and emotions. I was speechless at times and the next moment, I wanted to desperately talk. It was a great learning experience for me. An experience that I will never forget. 

I realised when we say that 'not everything has an answer', is not actually true. I now think since we do not know the answer and we do not even try to find one, we make excuses. It is all about understanding your own self. All about discovering - removing the cover!

There is a silent witness in me and in every one else which will always be there. I can’t push myself to listen to it or find it one day. It will be a journey, a process that will take a life time. I need to realise my purpose in life. I will definitely have ups and downs my entire life; it will be all about learning and taking the experience along.

The six levels/layers that describe our existence taught me about my own self, my feelings and my thoughts.

It is not always about being right or wrong. It is about, I think, sub-consciously being conscious.

I many a times felt I trust every one quiet easily but this warning was through my brain/ my intellect. My mind/heart makes me compassionate towards others and now I am sure that humans are to be trusted!

I might feel I cannot do it or I am not meant to be here but that is not true. It is about how to deal with it!

I learnt a lot more than these mere words can express and I am sure my whole class did!!

Indeever Arora_MLP006_Self Leadership_May2013

"The wind may blow from any direction, but the direction in which you go depends on how you set the sails." 

This is what self leadership is all about. Today's session is all about the power inside you and the effect of it on others. In this we have learned the the fastest travelling thing in the world is thought. It travel 100 times faster than any other source like sound, light and its the biggest energy. In this thought process there is spiritual mind also connects with the soul and make any impossible thing possible.people who have control on their consciousness they also have control on their time and space.

Then there is a understanding of the giver and taker relationship. In this the giver get more benefit than the taker.There is the power of unconditional love which is biggest in the world. unconditional love means giving others without expecting anything in return as such. then we have realize that there is a difference between the i and , I is the learner and i tells you that i an distinctive than you.And one true thing about us is that we all want to be the center of universe, and nobody wants to be the part of this universe. 

After that we have tried to realize the power by three simple exercises:-

1. Power of observation:- We normally don't believe that just by looking at your eyes and by your gestures somebody can read you or understand you fully but after this exercise we actually realize that body language is more important than the spoken words. Except that it create the bonding between the two person when they look into each others eyes. 

  

2. Power of listening:- As talking is important in the same way listening to somebody attentively is also very important. Because if the listeners are not attentive speaker also looses his/her interest after a period of time and he feel neglected. Because here all the power is with listener not with the speaker.As a listener is following you that's only the reason you are a leader.Some of the best leaders in the world are the the finest leaders. 

3. Power of touching:- The touching also transfers a lot of power to others and can cure or work as a medicine to a lot of diseases. It is not about touching somebody physically, you can also transfer your energy to him by lot of other ways and one of them is meditation. power of touch connects one soul to the another which creates lifetime bonding.  

So this session made us more aware about the hidden powers which are there in our body and how can we use them to overcome our problems and the problem of others. By practicing it regularly we can realize our full potential.