Have you ever absentmindedly placed your car keys somewhere, and so you can’t find them just when you need to leave for work? Sometimes we look frantically and just can’t seem to locate lost items, while on other days, when we are a little calmer within ourselves, we seem to locate them fairly quickly. Many successful sports stars also credit their increased resilience and competence to a calm state of mind. Is it possible to consciously train our mind to be organized and calm in responding to any situation? Are there practices we can do or steps we can take to maximize our memory capacity and clarity of mind?
Sadhguru elaborates on how the yogic sciences have traditionally used sound to hone the mind: “You have heard people going into long chantings, maybe in the temple, or somewhere, have you heard people doing hums and all chanting, and chanting away for hours together? So, this chanting was used to wire the brain in a very big way, because the sounds that you employ have a big impact on what happens in the brain.”
“So, these mantras were structured, as certain mathematics is involved in this, and a certain poetry is also involved in it at the same time. Because of using a certain level of structured sounds, it wired their brains so much that they have a phenomenal sense of memory which is almost humanly impossible. Normally in modern times we consider these things humanly impossible. They had that kind of memory because of using these sounds in a particular way.”
Sadhguru then goes on to emphasize the importance of mental clarity: “So, we have to work on clarity: what is it that gives us clarity of mind? First thing is, we learn to… if our clarity is not good by itself, the simple thing is, to handle things with a certain precision. This is Hatha Yoga. Where your feet should be – here, not there, to bring that precision – what you’re trying to bring in your body, bring that precision in your mind also, let the mind imitate the body.”
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