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ARE YOU AWARE OF EXECESSIVEVIOLENCEANGERSELFISHNESSLACK OF UNDERSTANDINGHATREDINTOLERANCEMISTRUSTAROUND YOU ?HAVE YOU PONDERED EVER OVER THESE PROBLEMS ?HAVE YOU OBSERVED THESE THINGS AROUND YOU AND COME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THEY ARE AFFECTING NOT ONLY YOU AS AN INDIVIDUAL BUT ALSO YOUR FAMILY, THE IMMEDIATE SOCIETY AROUND YOU, SOCIETY AT LARGE AND ULTIMATELY THE WHOLE WORLD?BUT WHY SUCH A SITUATION WHEN HUMAN BEINGS ARE CONSIDERED RATIONAL AND INTELLIGENT BEINGS.
YOU ARE AN INTELLIGENT MAN / WOMAN IT MEANS :- • YOU CAN THINK LOGICALLY • YOU CAN USE KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE AVAILABLE WITH YOU IN A RIGHT WAY , AT THE RIGHT TIME . • YOU CAN COME TO A CONCLUSION OF ANY PROBLEM. IQ means the capacity of your intelligence in comparison to a set standard and it shows your level of intelligence. BUT DO YOU KNOW WHAT CONTROLS YOUR INTELLIGENCE?
INTELLIGENCE IS CONTROLLED BY STILL DEEPER INTELLIGENCE KNOWN AS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE Emotional Intelligence makes us aware of our feelings and that of others.Gives empathy , motivation ,compassion and ability to respond skillfully to pleasure and pain. Emotional Quotient measures the depth of your emotions in comparison to a set standard and it shows your level of emotional intelligence. Goleman argued that EQ is a basic requirement for the use of IQ. If the areas of our brain that FEEL are damaged , our ability to think effectively diminished . BUT IS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE IS THE ULTIMATE INTELLIGENCE?
INTRODUCING A STILL MORE DEEPER (PERHAPS THE BEST ) LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE- SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE. DANAH ZOHAR and IAN MARSHALL as a result of their pioneer work , have come to the conclusion that the spiritual intelligence is the ultimate intelligence; and the level of spiritual intelligence can also be measured and expressed as Spiritual Quotient as SQ( like IQ and EQ). This is the intelligence used to solve the problem of meaning and value.
THE BASIS OFSPIRITUALITY We are essentially spiritual being trying to have human experience by asking certain fundamental questions; “ WHO AM I ? ” “ WHERE AM I GOING ? ” “WHAT DO OTHERS MEAN TO ME ? ”
ACCORDING TO DANAH ZOHAR Spiritual Intelligence is about the human need and talent for finding meaning in experience. It is about, Having a direction in life, and Being able to heal ourselves of all the resentment. It is thinking of ourselves as an expression of a higher reality. That is precisely the reason why Spiritual Quotient is gathering more and more importance over IQ and EQ.
BASICS OF SPIRITUALITY Spiritual Intelligence motivates people to balance their work schedules to spend time with the family (as spirituality demands expression of higher values, feelings and emotions in everyday life). An executive with high SQ might look beyond profit margins and devote time for voluntary work with orphans. Spiritual Intelligence also addresses the need to perceive our lives in a broader and larger perspective as all of us are one part of the nature & all of us are Sons& Daughters of one Mother Earth. A very narrow and constricted view of our individual lives denotes a very low level of SQ.
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF SQ DISTINGUISHES IT FROM IQ AND SQ IQ primarily solves logical problems. EQ allows us to judge the situation we are in and behave appropriately. SQ allows us to ask if we want to be in that situation in the first place. IQ and EQ is selfishness oriented and it relates to ‘ I ’ only. But SQ is pure intelligence without limitations imposed by selfish interest.
HIGHER SPIRITUAL TRUTHS ARE TO BE EXPERIENCED We may talk and reason all our lives, but cannot understand a word of Truth unless we experience it ourselves.
EVALUATE YOUR SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE Some simple questions we can ask ourselves. Their answers may be ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ or ‘Sometimes’. Remember that for nobody but your own inner self will be hearing theanswers. • Is it incorrect to consider all religious-spiritual activity to be the past time of the elderly, or those who have time hanging heavily on their hands? • Are you drawn towards places of worship (temples, churches, gurudwaras, mosques etc.) • Do you have a prayer room, or a place of prayerful focus, say an alter, in your home, where you devote some time to communion with the Higher Forces? • Do you feel the need to seek guidance and blessings from God whenever you are at the threshold of an important event in your life? • Do you feel the inner need to be with Nature to calm yourself and commune with Natural phenomena? • Do you feel the urge to pick up books, or articles, on religious, spiritual or metaphysical subjects, whenever you see them? • Do you feel the urge to ask God’s help, whenever any situation in your life seems to be out of your control? • Would you like to go on a holiday to a place of pilgrimage to provide joy to your mind, body and spirit, in a composite manner? • If you suddenly heard a piece of devotional music, would it touch an unseen chord in your soul? • If somebody you know, or do not know, needs help, whether physically, financially or emotionally, does an instinctive urge spring from within your heart to provide whatever succour you one capable of giving? Give yourself 10 points for every ‘Yes’, 0 points for every ‘No’, and 6 points for every answer that you give as ‘Sometimes’. Add the score and the sum will give you an idea of your level of spiritual intelligence.
SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES OF SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE • In the early 1990’s research was carried out by neuropsycholigist Michel Persinger, and more recently, in 1997, by neurologist v.s. Ramachandran and his team at the University of California, on the existence of a “God Spot” in the human brain. This built-in spiritual centre is located among neural connections in the temporal lobes of the brain. On scans taken with position emission topography these neural areas light up whenever research subjects are exposed to discussion of spiritual or religious topics. • The work of Austrian neurologist Wolf singer in the 1990’s on ‘the binding problem’ shows that there is a neural process in the brain devoted to unifying and giving meaning to our experience – a neural process that literally ‘binds’ our experience together.
EIGHT SIGNS OF HIGH SQ • Flexibility. • Self Awareness. • An ability to face and use sufferings. • The ability to be inspired by vision and values • An ability to see connections between diverse things (thinking holistically). • A desire and capacity to cause as little harm as possible. • A tendency to prove and ask fundamental questions. • An ability to work against convention.
HOW TO DEVELOP HIGH SQ? The steps to greater Spiritual Intelligence. • Become aware of where you are now. • Feel strongly that you want to change. • Reflect on what your own centre is. • Discover and dissolve obstacles. • Commit yourself to a path. • Remain aware there are many path.
CONVENTIONAL TYPE SOCIAL TYPE INVESTIGATIVE TYPE ARTISTIC TYPE REALISTIC TYPE ENTERPRISING TYPE :THE PATH OF DUTY : THE PATH OFNURTURING : THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE : THE PATH OF PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION : THE PATH OF BROTHERHOOD : THE PATH OF SERVANT-LEADERSHIP CHOOSE YOUR PATH ACCORDING TO YOUR PERSONALITY TYPE
WE BET THEY CAN • CAN A PERSON LEARN HOW TO BECOME MORE SPIRITUAL • CAN THEY DEVELOP AND RAISE THEIR SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE /SQ?
“THE WAY” • PRARTHANA– Prayer from the core of your heart. • SADHANA– Self study through meditation. • JEEVANDHARA – Improve way of life, march forward. You do not need to find a GURU to guide you. Know your path and start your journey. GURU will find you. You can start your journey simply going through the suggestions given in this presentation. The eagerness to move ahead in life along with proper tuning is what one needs initially.
IMMEDIATE GAINS • BETTER APPRECIATION OF ONESELF. • A MIND WHICH DOES NOT BOTHER UNNECESSARILY. • INCREASED LEVEL OF SATISFACTION. Etc. A life without struggle is no life at all. Calm sea does not make a good sailor. A brook will loose it’s song, if obstructions are removed. Spiritual intelligence enables you to confront your problems, obstructions, sufferings and metamorphose them into the song of your life. You must possess a very high level of SQ to know the song of your life and play it as masterfully as you can.
