Dealing With the Winds of Change
- Team Kiron
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
By Rajgopal Nidamboor
Everything, including the evolution of our inner voice, depends on the foundation process — the process of seeking answers to questions that we all face in life. Or, what can change our lives, for the better.
For such a percept to emerge, it takes resolve, and not just intent. When this happens, it leads to what is articulated as the expansion process — a stage for garnering new ideas, insights, or intuitive leaps and using them to ‘upgrade’ our life and our voyage through time.
The whole process is best summarised by way of an ancient Eastern tenet, “When the student is ready, the teacher will come.” What does this connote? That we are apprentice and coach at the same time. In other words, when we learn, understand and ‘process’ our thoughts and feelings, our mind is rid of worthless mental clutter. This provides us with the canvas for true wisdom to surface from deep within our conscious and unconscious mind. The result is not only heartening, but also comforting. It provides us with a sense of solidity — in the midst of the ever-present winds of change.
The two processes — foundation and expansion — are like ploughing a field, planting the seed and harvesting the yield. Or, watering and adding compost to nourish the roots of a tree — to endure the winds of change. This is not just a simile. It relates to nurturing our inner voice and our soul, while connecting ourselves to the cosmos with a sense of divine energy of equal, also superior, value. This uplifts our vision and mission for leading a life full of empathy, peace, progress and harmony.
Rajgopal Nidamboor, PhD, is a wellness physician-writer-editor, independent researcher, columnist, author, and publisher. His published work includes hundreds of newspaper, magazine, Web articles, essays, meditations, columns, and critiques on a host of subjects, aside from four books on natural health, two coffee table tomes, a handful of eBooks, and an encyclopedic treatise on Indian philosophy. He calls himself an irrepressible idealist. What he likes best is spending quality time with his family and close friends, and in reading, writing, listening to music, watching cricket/old movies, and mindful meditation. He lives in Navi Mumbai, India.
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