Improve your willpower with jut one practise

Willpower is very much like a muscle. And like a muscle, it tends to get exhausted with use. However just like the muscle, willpower can also be developed. That’s the nature of our brain

If you apply it to Math problems again and again, it becomes better at them. If somebody engages in football, that portion of the brain, which is engaged in that sport, tends to develop. Similarly we can develop our willpower by exerting it.

Simple exercise for example: the body says ‘you need to scratch’, but you resist, ‘i will not’. It may seem like a small thing, but if you do it, you will discover that the willpower has started increasing.

An even more powerful way developing willpower, is meditation. What happens in meditation? You sit down to meditate to clear your head from thoughts, and your mind says, ‘i don’t enjoy this, i would rather think of this or that’. Now the intellect controls the mind by bringing the mind back to the present. Every time the minds wants to wander off, you pull the mind back, by exerting the muscle of self-control. What’s the result of it? With a constantly exercise of meditation, you will find that your willpower has jumped many rungs. Try and do it. And is not even necessary that you can succeed in your meditation, because even if you don’t, you are still exerting your willpower. You are every time practising.

That focus, that concentration is an application of your self-control. And self-control developed in one area of your life, will stand you in good stead in all other areas.

So endeavor to enhance this muscle of willpower, through practises such as meditation.