No matter whether you are a teacher, a sales professional, a bank executive, an actor, or a politician, effective communication is the number one quality most of the employees want to have. It’s a quality without which growing up the ladder in our careers seems to be impossible. Not just professionally, personally too, communication plays a very important role...
Verily, that’s the reason why for the last few decades even technology has followed the trend and has developed gadgets, software, etc. to enhance the power of communication. That’s why there has been a constant surge in the use of mobile phones, tablets, smart TVs, and other communicating devices...
Just think for a moment, how often does it happen that you are busy doing some important piece of work at home or in your office and suddenly an SMS in your inbox, a ping on Whatsapp, a notification on Facebook, a tweet by some celebrity you follow, a picture posted by your close one on Instagram, a phone call by a friend or just a habit of regularly checking your phones disturbs your concentration and makes you lose the focus from work within a few minutes? Pictures and sounds of different types continue to invade our mind making the whole body restless...
Besides technology, when we talk about communication, we cannot miss out mentioning another realm where non-stop chatter goes on! Yes, that’s our mind!...
We have got engrossed in watching the videos and pictures of this glamorous world to such an extent that even the thought of seeing God inside us (which was essentially the prime objective of human birth as stated by all texts of wisdom) does not arise in us...
Seeing the pictures on videos through different mediums causes sensory fatigue; however, seeing God internally through the medium of meditation fills us with sensory power leaving us enlightened.
It is, therefore, important to strike a balance between our communication with the outside and the inside world. To know how to strike the balance between the two so that we can achieve Peace and Happiness, read the complete article in May’16 edition of English Akhand Gyan monthly magazine.
