Establishing Good Practices

Good practices must be continued because in a world with so much going on it’s hard to identify which practices are good and which are not not. Moreover, a thing may be very good for one but not so good for another. Then, if and when a thing is identified as good for one, there’s no certainty one is doing it right, well and getting the most out of it. If and when that does happen viz. we identify a practice to be good for us and also learn the way to do it/use it, making it a regular practice is the next challenge. Doing what’s good for us needs commitment and discipline. It needs much more effort and perseverance than other things because usually that which is good for us doesn’t seem exciting, pleasurable or even interesting. The joy, benefits and more that good practices bring start as a rare tiny drop, slowly becoming a rhythmic drip to a trickle and then, maybe, to a lot more. But that comes much later by which time usually the practice has become established in one’s life and has altered him so much that no one seems to notice what changed, how and when. So there are many challenges before we may benefit from them though there may be many good practices around to cherry pick at our convenience. We keep looking for something better and rarely find just the right one...good practices slip through our lives like the proverbial sand from fingers and our interest and knowledge of them remains as an idea, a thought, a possibility - but never quite an experiential reality. So, once you find something interesting viz. it grabs your attention at the mental level, and it’s working well for you because you’ve experimented a little and already find something useful there, begin to do it right and you’re even getting results within a short time of practice, you owe it to yourself to make the big commitment and gain from it! That’s how you gather speed on the road of life to a thing called skillful ability. Skillful ability is what delivers success at many levels. - rajyogi (Rajesh Kanoi)