Inderdeep Kaur
Associate Professor, University of Delhi, India
Title: The art of self-management: Chanting meditation
Biography
Biography: Inderdeep Kaur
Abstract
Self-management is person’s ability to influence one’s own behaviour at workplace, in several other platforms and in life in order to improve one’s performance. In daily life we all run into situations that impact our mental and emotional health. Some such incidents being insignificant are easily transpired leaving us calm mentally and unruffled emotionally. There are however, situations that precipitate excessive stress and anxiety on our mental and emotional well-being. If we are emotionally strong we collect ourselves, are able to manage our actions well in public and bounce back. Such persons emerge as leaders and show high productivity even under adverse situations. At the same time there are people who are unable to take this kind of stress and easily mess up their relations in workplace and in life, and also develop health issues.
It is proven scientifically that fitness to manage stress is proportionately related to one’s Emotional Intelligence (EI), the ability to recognize, understand and manage one’s emotions. If we have a low EI, we will allow stress to speak and will be ruled by negative emotions. In recent times there is an increased emphasis on creating awareness amongst people about ways to cope with stress and anxiety. Several self-management techniques to enhance the EI have emerged and people are willingly drawn to such therapies. Meditation which calms not only our body but also our mind and soul is a promising and widely adopted technique. In meditation we are at total peace with ourselves and attain power of concentration. If meditation is practiced with a regulated breathing pattern, it becomes a powerful tool against stress. Chanting mantra is type of meditation where mind chattering is minimized and internal system purified through deep breathing.