Inner Engineering
Inner Engineering is a program created and taught by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev. The training views life fundamentally as a question of good management of one's inner self:
- "If we want to live well, both externally and internally, how well we live here simply depends on how well we manage our surroundings and how well we manage ourselves. Fundamentally, life is management. The quality of your life depends on how well you manage your body, mind, emotions, situations, home, communities, nations, the world and your life in general. But generally, we think of management only in terms of business or industry, not life as a whole.
- "... If you look at yourself and compare how happy you were when you were five years old and how happy you are today, if we make a graph out of it, is it moving upward or downward? In a day, for how many moments are you really happy? If you look at this graph, is it going up or down? Down. That means you are a bad manager, because after all, everything that you do in your life is in pursuit of happiness. You educate yourself, you pursue careers, you build families, and you run after your ambitions because somewhere you believe that fulfilling those things will bring you happiness. After doing all that, if happiness does not multiply but is going down, that means you are a bad manager of yourself.
- "Anybody who does not know how to manage his own body, mind, emotion and energies but is managing outside situations, is doing so only by accident, not by intent. When you manage situations by accident, you exist as an accident. When you exist as an accident, you are a potential calamity. When you exist as a potential calamity, being anxious all the time becomes a natural part of your life."
Therefore if happiness and well-being are based on externalities that can never be in one's total control, the only way to achieve these are by management of one's inner world.
Sadhguru takes a scientific, pragmatic, non-religious approach to self-improvement. His manner is candid, light-hearted, and no-BS!
Resources
File:Enlightenment sadhguru.pdf (pdf ebook)
- Note: this ebook was given as a free download from Isha Foundation.
My favorite part of the book is Chapter 7, Inner Management. I had the uncanny, spooky feeling that Sadhguru was speaking directly to me, knowing very well my faults, fears, and failings. It was at this point I know I had to undertake the Inner Engineering program. I can only believe that this program would be invaluable to anyone who wants to live life to the fullest and make a difference in the world.
Links
http://www.innerengineering.com/
- About
- Introduction class - a very impressive video talk given by Sadhguru
The Inner Engineering course is available online and on location. I intend to participate in the online course as soon as possible!
