How to make winning a habit?

Everyone of us dream to be successful in whatever we venture into throughout our life time. We try out different ways, techniques and formulae to be successful. To become great achievers, non-stop effort, perseverance, firm determination and confidence is very much necessary . Only then we can be sure to have a sea change in our life.

Experimentation with new techniques without always following the same old rules is another way to be on top. This will lead to give stiff competition to the rivals. Trying out new techniques is a stepping stone to success. Beginning of new things should always be done in a small way and tried.

Most of us run into loss because we dream of huge returns right from the beginning and invest heavily. It takes time to make profits in a business. Building good rapport with people(good communication) and marketing also counts, in business.

The routine of a successful man or a winner starts with healthy habits and good practices. Discipline also counts for a successful lifestyle.

Giving room for the mind to breathe fresh air, early in the morning is a good practice. Pranayama is a good breathing exercise. There are videos and websites that show how a person can practice and be healthy, by introducing Pranayama in his/her life.

There is an old saying,"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise". Many people sleep late after watching TV, chatting, playing games etc. Sleeping late often can lead to diseases such as Diabetes in our later part of life. Recent studies have also shown that sleeping well is also a medicine for longevity.

Strenuous work during night whether physical or mental without proper rest is not good for health. Also, some people have a habit of thinking too much or planning, after they go to rest on the bed, at night. It is not wise to continue with such habits because bed is meant for sleeping peacefully and taking rest. It shouldn't be a place for thinking unnecessary matters. Sleeplessness or insomnia is the result of too much stress given to the mind.

People who take bath in the morning, better to take any kind of food only after having a bath. Having a luke warm water bath is good for health. Even cold water is good for taking bath. Taking bath with very warm water is not good according to Ayurveda.

After bath a few seconds of rest is good. Later, the exercises like Suryanamaskar(salutaions to Sun god) is best if Yogasanas and other exercises are found difficult for practicing. Suryanamaskar is also a respect given to the Sun god who is most powerful among all planets in this universe.

Suryanamaskar exercise is best between 3AM and 7AM. People have an habit of exposing themselves to sunlight, to get benefited with vitamin D. But for this, the sun rays we recieve between 7AM and 8AM is best. Later the intensity of light rays will be more. So, it is not good to expose later. If in the evening, sunlight between 5PM and 6PM is best.

After exercises in the morning, half an hour gap is necessary to start with the breakfast or brunch. It is not beneficial for health, to take breakfast immediately after any of the exercises.

In Astrology too, the Sun god has a special place. There is belief that worhipping or pleasing the Sun god can make a person more intelligent and courageous. The daily practice of Suryanamaskar can make the bones stronger. Wearing red coloured dress during Suryanamaskar can give better results.

For any kind of work or worship related to Sun, red color is best suited.
By scientific research, it is proved that all life in the biosphere and all the activities in the ecosystem of the earth are driven by solar energy.

According to the Indian vedic astrology, the great leaders are the ones who have the Sun very strongly positioned in their horoscopes. Sun is equivalent to Lord Vishnu himself. He is also called as 'Suryanarayan' for this purpose. He is the leader of all planets. So one can change his fortune by pleasing Sun also. Below are the 12 mantras to be said each time a person gives a salutation.

1. Aum mitraya namah
2. Aum ravayé namah
3. Aum suryaya namah
4. Aum bhanavé namah
5. Aum khagaya namah
6. Aum pushné namah
7. Aum hiranyagarbhaya namah
8. Aum marichayé namah
9. Aum adityaya namah
10. Aum savitré namah
11.Aum arkaya namah
12.Aum bhaskaraya namah

These mantras are nothing but the 12 names of Sun god. It's just a way of praising this visible god. There is no question of thinking about any religion. For the well-being and better lifestyle, religion should not be taken into any consideration. But the benefits from it are to be thought of.

The food grain associated with Sun (one of those Nava Dhanyas i.e. 9 foodgrains) is wheat. So, one can take food prepared with wheat after Suryanamaskar. But before that taking half an hour rest would be good for health.

In our daily diet use of Almonds and Walnuts could be very useful. As they have the power to strengthen intelligence.

Suryanamaskar, the 12 salutations starting with one mantra each time produces a positive energy within a person's body.

In the video below it is best demonstrated how one can perform this Suryanamaskar.

A Winner's feelings

One of the most exciting time in our life is the one which gives us happiness when we win something for us, for the people or for the nation. Achievement or winning is rewarded many a times. It will boost the confidence and morale for the future endeavors. Big moments will always create a long lasting impression in our mind and enhances our creativity in many ways. These moments are many a times hard to believe facts for us. Only later we come to know the efforts we put into it for reaching that unbelievable height.



The big success and the moment
Winning moment is a moment that gives rise to panorama of feeling and sensation, of luscious colors and a sense of accomplishment. it is a feeling that even some of the most eloquent of sportsmen are unable to describe, enthralled as they are to merely live through it.



Lively speck:
In differing hues and varying degrees of intensity, it is a moment that all of us go through, a speck in time shared alike by celebrity and commoner, sports superstar and armchair philosopher, the strongest amongst us and the weakest.




When early man chased his mobile dinner in some dark forest, nailed a spear into it and let out a primeval cry of triumph, he was essentially celebrating a winning moment, living through an exquisite winning feeling. Sequences of early man's celebration of success, lodged in some layer of human memory, are played back and back again. Of course there are huge shades of differences. All winning feelings are not alike anymore than all human beings are. And one man's reaction to a winning can be so different from other's.




Sports has had a built-in genius for moments of magic that have about them a certain force of melodrama. Often, to just behold such a moment is profoundly liberating. It is a sheer life as it lets loose a flood of emotion in the winner. And in an age when huge financial rewards and glory hinge on a split second's genius, a single point or the mighty swing of a bat, the moment becomes unrecapturable. The winning moment is so special because it is a reward in itself(forget the money) for the hours of labour and sweat of trying to live up to challanges, of struggling to perform acts that require great dexterity and co-ordination of refexes.



Reaching for the sky:
If these are the days when the image of the modest, self effacing athlete is lost forever, then the reactions of our sportsmen and women today to the mystical experiences of the winning moments are not really exaggerated. They are mostly honest . but then, will some psychologist/philosopher tell us why fists are raised into the skies in such moments? May be it gives the winner a feeling of soaring into space. May be it is because man has always been(subconsciously at least) striving to reach up and become at least for a moment, something he is not through most of his mundane life.







"Behold, I teach you the superman. The superman is the meaning of the earth,"said Freidrich Nietzsche, the peerless German philosopher and genius. and the individual sportsman, at least momentarily, becomes something of a superman at a moment of triumph.


















Bannister's reference to 'exploded flashlight' is perhaps his way of conveying the impression that it was a moment when he had realised a special meaning of life, and it was a feeling similar to the great 'Jesse Owens' after he had become the fastest man on earth in the 1936 Berlin Olympics.






The winning feeling is special simply because it gives rise to an intenser form of consciuousness, a flood tide of inner warmth and vital energy. Often, in the long run, it may be an illusion. The moment itself passes but it is a grand illusion. And on the sports field, it is as close as man gets to feeling totally physically alive.