Deepak Goyal

Poor Education System: Vast Change Needed

2012-05-14T17:38:00.004+05:30

Before discussing this topic, I have two questions to ask.

First, Why a country need 100% literacy or all educated citizens ?
And second, Why you want to be a educated person ?

There is a big difference in these two answers. The answer of first question given by most of people "so that the educated citizan can contribute towards the growth of society or country; So that a person can broad his thinking to make country a better place" definitely you have your own answer for it. OK now be ready for the U turn. Answer of second question when asked to school going children, Most of them having answer "Because we want to earn lot of money"

I was stunned. Our coming generation view is so focused and narrow. They have no concern to society or country. They have no role models. There only aim is to be millionaire/billionaire.

With this thinking, They do analysis of the market to see, "which is more money oriented occupation like doctor, engineer, lawyer etc." At most of the time, this survey was done by there parents, grand parents or other members of family. Since his childhood, he was taught that he has to earn a lot of money for himself and his family which makes students more and more focused towards money. If our society is building such a poor foundation for these child. What kind of distribution to society or country we can expect from these children. In other words, we can say our education system is just teaching the ways of making money. This is the first bug and most critical bug in our education system.

Second major bug in our education system is teachers and school management. Teachers concentrate their all energies on the syllabus. And management has put their all energy into multiplying profits. Teachers just concentrate to complete syllabus on theory basis. They never encourage the students to think beyond syllabus. I have met many of the ladies teachers, who have justified there teaching job by saying "We can not pass our time at home; so doing teaching job" Hence they are teaching for their time pass. Not as a social responsibility to produce best students. Definitely we can not expect much from this time pass system. Also a big irony, a teacher's dignity in our modern society is quite low as compare to doctor, engineer or lawyer. The worst chapter is still to mention; Management staff never feel any social responsibility. They have turned schools into business organizations. I feel very sad when I hear about "Sarv Shiksha Abhiyan" The best approach with worst implementation.

Third major bug, our education system does not make a student mentally strong to withstand in this cut throat competition. One question: Why suicide rate, depression patients has been increased exponentially.? Because our education system tells the ways to earn money; But it does not prepare the students to manage the up and down of life. In last decade, competition has been increased by multiple folds. But our education system was not updated as per this market trend. I strongly favor of including motivational classes in education system which should be treated as much priority as given to math and science now. In the childhood, the foundation should be prepared in such a way that he can treat his all life challenges on his front foot. Only than we can have more young generation who can contribute towards the country success.

Your Mind: Resemblance with your PC Processor

2012-05-13T12:22:00.003+05:30

First of all, I strictly recommend to read "Explore the Brain Waves : The potential of thought" article published in this blog. Because only than you can correlate this article scientifically.

After reading this article, you can understand that meditation is not the tool for sagas and fakirs. It is very meaningful for a common people. A person can live his life in a more efficient way and can face his challenges of life in a peaceful way.

Fine, Our mind is the like a processor. I hope you are familiar with computer processor. It is same with that except It is having very very strong processing capability as compare to computer processor. As you know if there is a big load on computer processor; PC becomes slow and eventually it stop functioning and it hangs. Than we have to reboot the computer. If we are wise enough, We can stop the particular process which is increasing the load of processor from task manager of window.

This is exactly same with Mind processor. In daily life, all of us are surrounded with multiple complex problems, It is like putting more and more load on mind processor. And this may be the reason that people are suffering from depression, anxiety, stress etc because they have over burden their processor. Unluckily, Those people are going towards processor hang state. If not given treatment in a proper direction.

But question arises, Today's era is full of competition, to withstand in this competition, we should be mentally strong. We should be mentally strong only if your mind processor capability is strong. And that is possible only if you can distinguish the processes which are overburdening your mind and you are capable enough to close them. Friends, Here I am trying to open all this secrets in this blog. Also I am waiting for your comments for it.

Again, If we quickly analyze, when a PC processor overburden ? As a common experience if we open multiple complex programs/process in parallel; PC becomes slow. Similarly if we open multiple complex life problems simultaneously, we overburden our mind processor and it becomes slow in the form of stress. So question arises how can we deal such situations of life..? I will answer this question in my next blog.

Thanks for reading. Please forward this blog to others if you think it can be beneficial for others.

Explore the Brain Waves : The potential of thought

2012-05-11T11:51:00.005+05:30

Friends, I request to all of you to read each and every line of this article carefully. Because here we are talking about your mind, your thought process. You can be more intelligent, more social, more perfectionist if you catch the clue mention in this article. All are not my exactly views. I have taken from different sources and merge them. Waiting for your feedback.

Brain has a unique set of brain waves. In neuroscience, there are five distinct brain wave frequencies, namely Beta, Alpha, Theta, Delta and the lesser known Gamma. Each frequency, measured in cycles per second (Hz), has its own set of characteristics representing a specific level of brain activity and hence a unique state of consciousness.

Beta (12-30Hz): Beta brain waves are associated with normal waking consciousness and a heightened state of alertness, logic and critical reasoning. As you go about your daily activities you are at Beta. Higher Beta levels translate into stress, anxiety and restlessness. With the majority of adults primarily operating at Beta during their waking hours it is little wonder that stress is today's most common health problem.

Alpha (7.5-12Hz): Alpha brain waves are present in deep relaxation with the eyes usually closed and while day-dreaming. The relaxed detached awareness achieved during light meditation is characteristic of Alpha and is optimal for programming your mind for success. Alpha heightens your imagination, visualization, memory, learning and concentration. It lies at the base of your conscious awareness and is the gateway to your subconscious mind

Theta (4-7.5Hz): Theta brain waves are present during deep meditation and light sleep, Theta is the realm of your subconscious mind.

Delta (0.5-4Hz): The Delta frequency is the slowest and is present in deep, dreamless sleep The following chart shows the EEG (Electroencephalography) graphs of the four major levels of brain.

In everyday life, an average person goes through all the brain wave states. When we are awake we function at around 21 CPS, the beta brain wave frequency. While principally remaining at beta, our brain does dip to alpha about 3 times a minute. However on going to sleep, the brain activity slows down and within 10 to 15 minutes of sleep the average person produces delta frequency predominantly and they are in the state of deep sleep, they are unaware of what is going on externally in their environment.

“Sleep research” further shows that after about 70 to 90 minutes, there is a change in brain frequency that it speeds up and starts producing predominant alpha brain waves. As this is occurring, typically the person is also dreaming. But it only lasts 5-6 minutes in the first sleep cycle for the average person and then brain waves decrease again back down to delta and the person experiences almost another 70 to 90 minutes of delta. Again the brain speeds up for the second sleep cycle producing the alpha brain wave state. This time around the brain functions at alpha a little longer. So throughout the night we find a fluctuation between deep levels of sleep & alpha levels, in and out, all night long with most people sleeping 4, 5 maybe 6 cycles per night.

With the delta deprivation study, the scientists found out that totally depriving a person of delta sleep, he can go up to 30 to 45 days before any notable effects start occurring. But on depriving a person of the alpha portion of the sleep, the scientists found that right after the first night of alpha deprivation, people complained of being fatigued even though they had all that sleep. On depriving those of the second night’s alpha sleep state the people complained that not only they became very fatigued but very irritable. On depriving the test subjects for 3 to 4 days of alpha sleep state, the people complained of losing normal problem solving ability. Some of them started almost hallucinating.

They then found that if they allow those people to go to sleep undisturbed, the following night they had a very large increase in the percentage of alpha functioning, as if they had to make up for the alpha they were deprived of the previous nights. Based on these studies, many scientists have come to a conclusion that it is a necessary requirement for a human being to function at least a few numbers of times at alpha level if they have to be at top physical mental functioning.

Well, it wasn’t very long before scientists came up with the idea of what would happen if, instead of suppressing alpha, we increased it. What will that do? Using bio-feedback training on test subjects they found that by increasing the duration of time a person spends at alpha brain frequency, they reported feeling more better, improved health and lesser anxiety in daily life.

It is interesting to learn how to use more of your mind not only to help yourself in solving the problems but also to channelize your mental energies in a special way and to bring your life more under your own control.

Corruption : Who is responsible (Part 1)

2012-05-10T18:30:00.003+05:30

Currently corruption is one of the most heated topic for discussion. I appreciate Anna and his team to make this topic so prevalent. Everybody is blaming the government and cursing the system.But cursing the system is not the solution of the problem.Corruption is the main cause which is prohibiting our country to enter in the queue of developed nations.We have to analyze the root cause of corruption so that we can prepare in a more efficient way to fight against it.

First of all stop blaming others for it. We all responsible for the corruption. It might be possible you are not in favor of me for it. But my dear friend, Please answer my question; "If you were the political leader, will you not accept the bribe ? Will you not favor your relatives, friends for particular job/task. Or can you please name a person from your surrounding whom you think is the best ideal political leader binding by all the rules" If you have given affirmative answers than I must say you are quite emotional; Not very practical. Because this is the trend of Indians now. Whoever is in power, he exploits the system, turns the laws in favor of himself.

Again question, From where the corruption enters in our system ? I think, the main problem lies in our electoral system. Political parties and leaders spends thousands of crores in the elections. Now there prime motive is not the philanthropy, but to recover their money spent in election in multiplication. Also it implies a poor citizen who possess very strong leadership qualities, is not eligible for election. Because Indian political territories are quite broad and to have a impact over the whole territory, a person need to take the help of mass communication like media, newspaper etc. which proves so costly that a middle class can not afford it.

The second problem again as I write in my all blogs, is our education system. Today's educated person does not evaluate his decision on the basis of reasoning. He is easily influential on the basis of area, religion and other narrow mentality. He never gives his vote to an eligible candidate; rather than his voting decision is very much affected by caste, religion, area, relationship etc. If our educated person is behaving like this way; than what kind of society we are going to build for next generations. Today's educated persons are so self centered that they have forgotten "They exist because the country exist, nor the country exist because they exist." Definitely our education system very much focuses on making Doctors, Engineers or Lawyers rather than making a good social person.

(To be continued)

Introduction to Blog

2012-05-10T14:48:00.001+05:30

Hello Friends

First of all, Very warm welcome on visiting my blog. I personally think, society are no longer the societies now. It is just a group of human beings which are in the race of earning money. And to win this competition they can degrade themselves to the lowest possible extent. I can not understand what kind of culture we are passing to our coming generations; totally money oriented.

Let us make society a better place. The following are the purpose of this blog. Please have a look :

1. This is the place where we can share our views on current issues. I invite all of you for the open discussion on the problems and issues which affects our society..

2. I have great interest in exploring the universe. It is one of the greatest mystery which still need to be unlocked. Galaxies, Blackholes, Nebula etc are really big riddle.
Again, Einstein has made it more complex by giving theory of relativity. Let us put our best effort in solving them.

3. I have big interest in astrology. But the biggest surprise for me "How our ancient saga have so vast knowledge about planets and galaxies, when they have no access to any kind of powerful binocular"

4. I want to know all about mind. It is well said "A normal people use just only 1% of his mind" Than how can we increase this percentage. I think, our mind is the replica of this whole universe. Now question arises what represents blackhole in our mind :)

5. Meditation and different kind of meditations for working man/woman.

And much more... So please keep tune on this blog.. If you have any suggestion, please send it to deepak.goyal198@gmail.com.

I am waiting for your proposals.