{"id":2405,"date":"2015-04-02T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T16:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/?p=2405"},"modified":"2015-04-26T10:36:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T05:06:42","slug":"living-in-a-metaconscious-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/living-in-a-metaconscious-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in a metaconscious state"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each one of us keeps waxing and waning in the cyclic pattern called life. How we deal with extremes – the high and low points of life as we call them – is\u00a0crucial to how well we get on to the\u00a0next wave.\u00a0The high points risk of making us rude, while the lows can be depressing. I’m not against\u00a0emotions or letting them flow; but trouble is when emotions take over logic and lowers consciousness down to the individualist level<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I must’ve developed logical reasoning pretty early on. But I do remember becoming emotionally aware as I connected with more and more people over teenhood. More recently, I began training my mind to be self-aware<\/a> – basically keeping a\u00a0constant check on emotions to\u00a0alarm the brain of a possible shift in the emotional equilibrium. Experts call this cognitive monitoring<\/a> or being in\u00a0the state of integral consciousness.<\/p>\n

With this, my goal is to be fully conscious to count lemons as they come,\u00a0and make my best attempt to make\u00a0lemonade. I’m continually adding recipes of wisdom to improve the conversion rate. But at least, whenever a situation excites, perplexes, or angers me, I remind myself that the time has come! To blend all the learning – from those motivational blogs, self-help books, and inspiring TED talks – into a potion that\u00a0the mind can\u00a0sip while\u00a0dealing with the problem.<\/p>\n

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But unless it is\u00a0an internal battle (such as one related to ambition, failure, regret), there will always be someone else who’s emotions are being affected by your actions. The flip-side of rational consciousness is that employs logic and reason alone when dealing with situations and relationships, often missing out on the emotions of others involved. This why I favor and struggle to get in to an integral state of mind, which adds logic to a pluralistic view of the world, appreciating and valuing others as human beings.<\/p>\n

Complaining about an annoying service in this state, for example, keeps reminding you to take it easy and that its not the customer service exec’s direct fault.\u00a0You realize how\u00a0your actions are influencing their mental state; let alone their commitment to resolve. Sometimes I’m on the other side of this; listening to\u00a0customers,\u00a0sales, delivery and support, and buffering the pressure to engineering and quality.\u00a0 While I must understand each of their situations, I still need to employ logic and reason to convince them and get things done.<\/p>\n

In saying all this, I’m not claiming to be the next big authority on psychology. I only want to share a success story of the internal peace I’ve found by exhibiting private and public self-consciousness in routine life. Over time, this mind training has allowed me to introspect better, act with\u00a0the best intentions and deliver a better experience to people around me. \u00a0I hope it helps you too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each one of us keeps waxing and waning in the cyclic pattern called life. How we deal with extremes – the high and low points of life as we call them – is\u00a0crucial to how well we get on to the\u00a0next wave.\u00a0The high points risk of making us rude, while the lows can be depressing. … Continue reading Living in a metaconscious state<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[730,729],"tags":[996,580,1001,995,578,926],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-human-capital-business","category-life-people","tag-conscious","tag-emotions","tag-health","tag-psychology","tag-relationships","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/metaconscious-state.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prasadgupte.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}