Tuesday 30 September 2014

32. Listen to Heart – Opening up Leads to Openness….

Hari Bol....

32. Listen to Heart – Opening up Leads to Openness….


Openness is an experience. It is mindset of a person. He is ready to accept. He is ready to change. He accepts feedbacks. Accepting feedbacks of positive is an easy game but openness to negative feedback is totally dependent on the persons’ attitude and nature. It is dependent on his mindset. He has to believe that I have to change and not change others. It helps us to be away from confused state of mind. We have seen in the article “Listen to Heart - Don’t be fused by being confused…..” We should make our mind clear and be ready to learn by unlearning process. I would once again refer to the previous article “Listen to Heart - Learning by Unlearning has No Bar ….”


Openness helps you to be more alert thus increases the alertness. A man with openness in nature is very frank and free as his thoughts are clear. He is a man to respects and believes in honesty. His principle of life would be based on sincerity and transparency. He is a man who believes and practices listening to heart. He is true to himself and others. He believes in humanity. Openness is always based on a relationship which is further based on honesty. They are open to suggestions so that improvement can be made.


Openness is dependent on intellectual curiosity, intellectual interests, perceived intelligence, imagination, creativity, artistic and aesthetic interests, emotional and fantasy richness, and unconventionality. Creative achievement comprises of creativity across the arts, sciences and life. The factor which controls is explicit cognitive ability, intellectual engagement, affective engagement, and aesthetic engagement. Affective engagement and aesthetic engagement were associated with creative achievement in the arts, whereas explicit cognitive ability and intellectual engagement were associated with creative achievement in the sciences. Intellectual and Openness aspects of the broader openness to experience personality and are related to different modes of information processing and predict different forms of creative achievement.


One can get a sense of openness by simplest way by looking. People who are not open to openness would be staying alone and would love to be aloof and lonely. They would be with negative energy and would be boring and dull and on the other hand people who are open to openness would be enthusiastic in nature and would love to mingle with people and would be with positive energy. So if you think everyone around you is boring, then you're relatively open; if you think they're all nuts, you're relatively closed. Here's how openness is a positive at work and how to cultivate it correctly. The artists are most creative has a tendency towards activity, a tendency to initiate numerous activities that lead to, or provoke, rich external stimulation. This richness of input creates a corresponding richness of output. It is a state of mind. It is the layer of mind soil where ideas are able to take root.


“Glasnost” was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union. It was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the second half of the 1980s. Glasnost is often paired with Perestroika (literally: Restructuring), another reform instituted by Gorbachev at the same time. The word "glasnost" has been used in Russian at least since the end of the 18th century. The word was frequently used by Gorbachev to specify the policies he believed might help reduce the corruption at the top of the Communist Party and the Soviet government and moderate the abuse of administrative power in the Central Committee. Russian human rights activist and dissident Lyudmila Alexeyeva explained "glasnost" as a word that "had been in the Russian language for centuries. It was in the dictionaries and law books as long as there had been dictionaries and law books. It was an ordinary, hardworking, nondescript word that was used to refer to a process, any process of justice of governance, being conducted in the open." Glasnost can also refer to the specific period in the history of the USSR during the 1980s when there was less censorship and greater freedom of information.




The talk started between two close friends, namely the Hrishikesa and the Gudakesa. As friends, both of them were on the same level, but Arjuna voluntarily became a student of the Krishna because of his open mind as he wanted his advice as none could have better than Krishna for him. Krishna was smiling because a friend had chosen to become a disciple. As Lord of all, He is always in the superior position as the master of everyone, and yet the Lord agrees to be a friend, a son, or a lover for a devotee who wants Him in such a role. But when He was accepted as the master, He at once assumed the role and talked with the disciple like the master - with gravity, as it is required. It appears that the talk between the master and the disciple was openly exchanged in the presence of both armies so that all were benefitted.


All Glories to Lord Krishna & All His Loving Devotees….. Hari Bol……
Courtesy: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is (by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ) ,  Srimad Bhagavad-Gita ( by A. Parthasarathy  & www.gitadaily.com ) Chapter 2 : Text 10 , www.google.com, Wikipedia, Cohen, Stephen F.; Katrina Vanden Heuvel (1989 repr. 1990). Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers. W. W. Norton & Company.  Check date values in: |date= (help)

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