How to Use the Power of Sangha to Achieve Your Goals in Relaxed Ways
Increase the quality of life and make the journey stress-free with your group of like-minded people.
Today's life is getting lonelier and competitive than ever. Gadgets and technology have replaced people. Goals, plans, and targets are the talk of everyday life.
Comparing success creates tension, stress, and panic.
A joyful life of your younger version turns into a stressful series of events. The ever-sucking, tireless routine goes on in circles. The aloneness leads to desperation and depression.
To have a genuine friend with whom you can share your heart openly seems a far distant dream. Slowly, frustration takes a toll on mental health.
Never in the past did mental health take lives.
According to WHO, close to 800,000 die of suicide each year. Darshak Rana points out accurately; we are at war where the enemy lies within.
Life throws us in unfavorable conditions, where it seems to be a scarcity of genuine people. The stress at work or in personal life stretches your patience thin.
The Ancient Spiritual Philosophy of Sangha Can Help in Improving Mental Health
The word 'Sangha' means a spiritual community of like-minded people. It is still a common practice in India to have sanghas. Every master stresses the importance of it.
The emphasis on having like-minded people in life is crucial to a peaceful life. You don't have to be part of a spiritual community. Your Sangha is where you identify people as yours. You feel motivated in their presence, yet relaxed.
A surprising study at the University of Kansas shows how humans are drawn to like-minded people. Opposites may attract for a short time. But comfort builds around like-mindedness. We all seek resemblance and a common ground for the relationship to grow.
The quality of life shifts enormously when you are part of a beautiful, like-minded people. You enjoy life effortlessly.
2 Important Things to Watch Out for While Identifying Your Sangha
There are many groups, societies, or Sangha's functioning. It can become confusing to determine what is the best fit for you. Look out for these 2 things:
- Similar thinking, passions, or missions in life
- People with common goals with a helping and loving attitude
You can either build your Sangha or be a part of any Sangha where you feel connected. Building Sangha is a tedious process. But not impossible.
Take whatever suits you. But extend your arms to embrace others and open your heart, too. People with a common goal and similar thinking are the two foundations to find your sanghas.
Similar thinking gives a common ground to build your communication. You understand each other's struggles. Motivating the self and inspiring others becomes common.
You don't compete but uplift one other.
A common goal helps you focus on where you are and where you want to be in life. Your goal can be peaceful living or a housing project, or just helping the homeless. A common goal makes you connect with others deeply.
I realized the importance of Sangha when I became a part of beautiful spiritual Sangha. For a long time, I was on the quest to find the truth of life. It was a lonely and tiring journey with moments of demotivation.
When I became part of this Sangha, my journey leaped effortlessly. The quests, struggles, direction, and inspiration were easy to receive.
The same happens when you become part of any Sangha of your common goal and passion. Then, sharing and motivation become effortless. Life becomes light-hearted.
Friction in Life Leads to the Learning of Lessons, but a Bounty of Your Growth Happens In Peace
For most, everyday life is a struggle. You learn survival tricks. But living the whole life in resistance and defending oneself is exhausting.
Being in the company of your Sangha life flows effortlessly.
We all love the company of people who are like us. People with similar thought processes, passions, goals, and struggles attract us. This group of similar attributes makes life stress-free and joyful.
The comfort of acceptance makes you open up freely. You don't have to wear a fake mask to impress others — a place just to be yourself.
Friction in life takes away your energy. Acceptance conserves it, leading to light-heartedness. You can then focus effectively on other things in life.
The company of like-minded people nuzzles you to the flow of life. Growth happens when you relax. Authenticity in life leads to joyful living.
Like-Minded People With a Common Goal Inspire You to Do Your Best
A group of like-minded people has similar struggles and goals. When the purpose of life is the same, inspiration comes easily.
Procrastination disappears. Not only does your progress happen in leaps. But you also enjoy the journey that drained you earlier. The aim of life is not always reaching to goal. But evolve as you go there.
Your Sangha understands your struggles and empathizes. The commitment towards your goal binds you all together. Inspiration follows itself when you have a genuine company of people.
A group of inspired people can do wonders. Bill Gates once said:
“If you took away our top 25 people, Microsoft would be a mediocre company.”
Accountability and Focus Increase as You Take Advantage of Group Energy
Group energy is potent. It can transform lives if the foundation is strong.
Your group can be about fitness regime, building a writing business, crowdfunding, planting trees, or enjoying life. Group energy makes a significant shift in your mindset.
Dr. Gail Matthews, a professor at the Dominican University, conducted a study on accountability. Results showed that your chance of attaining your goal increases 76% when you share your progress with a friend.
Group accountability pushes you to do your best.
The joy that you derive after a bit of push motivates you to do more. The journey towards the common goal becomes more enjoyable, relaxing, and uplifting.
Old Patterns and People That No Longer Serve Leaves You to Make More Room for New Habits And People
As you progress further in life, the patterns that you no longer identify drop by themselves. Similarly, the people and circumstances fade away as you move ahead in life.
It is not frightening. It is evolution.
Forming a habit is complex, and it is even more challenging to get rid of that habit. Sangha motivates you. Instead of procrastination, you do your best, irrespective of any excuse.
Various studies show that the people who worked out in groups were 95% of those who started weight loss program completed program. People with a shared mission help you make changes in your life with no stress.
In groups, old patterns dissolve smoothly. New habits develop. Sharing the journey towards your goal makes the transition stress-free.
Sangha Is Your Support System in Difficult Times
When I was a kid, I took pride in having 4 fathers and 4 mothers. I never understood why I called my aunts and uncles mothers and fathers. It was fascinating and adorable for me.
More than a decade back, my youngest aunt (one of my mothers) died. The irreparable loss shocked everybody. But the robust support system of the extended family helped my cousins recover. My other mothers took up her role in nourishing their family as their own.
Life always throws some challenging situations. Life spares none. Life becomes stress-free when you have a dynamic support system.
Unconditional support helps you to share and overcome any situation with ease. Be it a crisis in personal or professional life.
Sangha is a family beyond family to share your struggles and joy and love.
Having a heart-to-heart chat is uplifting. Your tensions dissolve, and a refreshing experience of life happens. You enjoy and share your love for life. Absorbing that love, you radiate joy and love effortlessly in other areas of life.
When you open your heart for a group of people, then you open the possibility of the entire world being your Sangha. Your unconditional love, support, and joy make it possible.
Takeaways
Be a part of Sangha or a support group. It is transforming to have a genuine family that loves who you are from their core. With no expectation, unconditional love flows non-stop.
Life can become a lonely journey. However, a group of like-minded friends makes it easier to walk. Motivating each other, hand in hand, life becomes fun to live.
Inspiration and sharing your struggles becomes effortless. The transformation of self and the journey of life becomes beautiful.
The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we’ve been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love. — Nhat Hanh
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