Ninty percent of the potential can be actualized only when If we look at the mind, there are thoughts we address samskaras. This huge potential and perceptions which are accumulated in our can be experienced through meditation mind at a conscious level. But there are deeper techniques. memories and stored knowledge that we use to help us solve problems. Then there is a To give you an example of what I just whole range of emotions and experiences that described, I would like you to take fifteen are embedded in the unconscious level. This minutes of your time on a simple exercise. is where the samskaras or engraved Take a white sheet of paper and just write memories reside. down whatever comes to your mind. Please do not edit, filter or pass judgment on any of Most corporate training programs focus the thoughts that come to your mind.

Just on the conscious mind to impart knowledge behave as though a thought recorder (just or particular skills. But actually it is as though like a voice recorder) is attached to you and we are sitting on a volcano of emotions that you are jotting down whatever comes to your is just waiting to burst and erupt any time! mind. Now after fifteen minutes put the pen These hidden emotions are what make us aside and read what you have just written. behave inefficiently and even illogically at times! If you have honestly recorded whatever came to your mind, you will realize the kind of So samskaras or engraved memories stray, unconnected, illogical thoughts that go interfere with the decision-making process, through the mind. These thoughts are like these can be called the inefficiencies present friction in a machine.

They make the machine in the mind! The more the number of engrams, very inefficient and unproductive. This is the the more clouded is our thought process, and root cause of low productivity. the lower is the output. In other words, to produce a particular output, having more Several of my disciples, who have gone samskaras will require more time or people through this process and consciously worked or costs. So this results in lower productivity. on eliminating their samskaras, always come and tell me that they are now finding so much time in their busy lives since they are no longer Freudian representation of the troubled by the wavering mind and illogical thoughts. unconscious mind The tool for elimination of these stray Most readers who have studied thoughts arising from samskaras is what I call psychology are familiar with the Freudian meditation.

Once these thoughts are interpretation of the mind. Traditional training The tool for elimination of these stray eliminated, it is like reducing the thoughts arising friction in a from samskaras is machine and what I call allowing the meditation. machine to be more efficient, more productive. Thousands of people from all races, nationalities, social and economic background have gone through this process of eliminating samskaras in our meditation programs. Thousands of people come and tell me that in addition to improving their overall productivity, they are able to maintain better interpersonal relationships, feel less stress, and be more creative and innovative in their personal and professional lives. I have also had interesting conversations with leading corporate leaders and Nobel Laureates on this subject where they have shared amazing evidences of improved innovation and intuitive skills developed as a result of becoming free of samskaras.

So we can now elaborate on the equation to describe productivity. We can restate the equation as follows: Productivity = Output/Input Input = (Intellect + Technical Skills + samskaras) As you know, we live with our mind 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For most people, the mind is constantly running, analyzing, passing judgment on individuals, having various emotions and responding to situations, all of which is dependent on the level of samskaras that may be haunting us. Without the load of these samskaras, you will find that your innate intellect and the skills you have developed through your education, training or life experiences will directly be used in delivering the output instead of being knocked around by your mind. You will see the productivity simply shoots up! This is an area that has mostly not been looked at by companies and organizations.

But there are simple tools and techniques from the Eastern mystics who have developed techniques to cleanse the mind of these samskaras. Sometimes people ask me, If we are free of samskaras, will we stop thinking? Will we become lazy and complacent? I tell you, it is actually the opposite. Please refer again to the experiment I gave you a while back on jotting down your thoughts on a piece of paper for fifteen minutes. If the mind is free from the effects of samskaras, you will see a quantum jump in intelligence and you will be creative and a whole new zone of intelligence will emerge. You will see that all of a sudden you will be able to develop skills of intuition and innovation that emerge from your being.

Understand, this is not a mystical zone you are going to enter into. Be very clear, the skills of intuition reside in all of us. They have been clouded by the impact of samskaras. Let me now describe how a mind-body system that is free from samskaras will improve intuition and innovation. Impact of samskaras on intuition and innovation Intuition is a wonderful subject. If you ask modern day CEOs how they took major decisions in their lives, what caused the turning point in their lives, again and again their answer surprises us. Again and again they tell us that their success came from something beyond their intellect that gave them the energy or the guts to take the decisions. This is not just the case with successful CEOs, it is the same with scientists also.

The other day I had a chance to have lunch with Dr Charles Townes*, Nobel laureate in the field of Laser and maser. I asked him, Sir, how did your discovery happen? How were you able to do it? He answered in a beautiful way, I was just sitting in a park in Washington DC and suddenly something happened. The conclusion was there in me. Suddenly the conclusion was revealed to me. I penned down what I experienced. Now I had a big difficulty. I had the conclusion but not the steps. I was not able to present this to anybody else because I knew only the conclusion but I didn't know the steps. This happened not only with Charles Townes*, it had also happened with Albert Einstein*.

He says, Whatever new happened to me, came through intuition and not through intellect. He summed it up beautifully, saying, The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. Whether we believe it or not or accept it or not, there is something called intuition. Of course, even Einstein* says this is a gift, because we are not sure when it will come and whether it will come or not. But yogis, the mystics, say again and again, you can work for it and you can be sure about it. You don't have to think that intuition is a gift. You can work for it. It can become a part of your life.

Whatever new things have happened, have happened only through intuition, only when something has happened beyond your intellect and your whole being is integrated. When you are at your peak, something opens. You may call it revelation or intuition, which happens beyond intellect. Mystics have again and again said that it is a science. If you can tune yourself to this intuition or this energy, which is continuously available in your being, you can use this in your regular life. Mystics again and again say it is an incident and you can make it happen. They know how to make it happen. We will see how you can awaken that power inside your being. We will see how the intuitive skills can be linked to the workings of the mind which I discussed earlier.

Before we discuss intuition in greater detail, let us first dispel the myths that intuition Dr Charles Townes - Nobel laureate in physics for work related to maser and laser. Albert Einstein - Scientist and Nobel laureate. When you don't know the logic, you call it a is some kind of coincidence. a fluke of Nothing can happen without a nature.