Harmonious Self Restraint to Achieve Your Goals & Success

There once was a farmer who lost his watch in his barn. He could not afford the loss because the watch had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low among the hay for a long while; he gave up the search but enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn with the promise of a good reward for the person who could find the watch.

Lured by the reward, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and around the entire stack of hay but still could not find the watch. Just when the farmer was about to give up the search, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another chance. The farmer readily agreed as he somehow wanted to find the watch.

After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The farmer was both happy and surprised and so he asked the boy how he succeeded where the rest had failed.

The boy smiled and replied, “When everyone else were searching madly all around, I did nothing but sit on the ground and listen. In the silence, I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that direction.”

A peaceful mind can think better than a worked-up mind. Allow moments of silence to your mind every day, and see, how sharply it helps you to set your life the way you expect it to be!

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.. The challenge is to silence the mind….

Next in the line of the five mental health enhancers suggested by Lord Krishna is Aatma Vinigrahaha. Aatma means self and Vinigrahaha means restrain. What an appropriate order?

Having developed good outlook and positive emotions and developed the habit silent introspection, it is now important to exercise self-restraint to sustain the gracefulness.

Self-restraint is the ability to stop doing or saying something that you want to because you know it is better not to.

Self-restraint is feeling to do but deciding you would not. Self-control is an essential ingredient for achieving success and for living a satisfying, meaningful and moral life.

“A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls.”

Is self-restraint inherent or developed? I have seen some people taking the excuse that they are poor in self-restraint by nature, and they are seemingly very proud of it. Lord Krishna has not given any exception. He asked everyone aspiring to lead an ideal life to exercise self-restraint.

Although some people inherently have more self-control than others, research has found that effective self-control can be cultivated and strengthened to become a habit and a way of life.