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Dr. Jinadasa is a chartered engineer, martial artist and film maker, as well as being an experienced transformational speaker, and spoke about and demonstrated the importance of maintaining heart, mind, health, passion and focus in order to boost one’s career and leadership.
Dr. Jinadasa’s techniques stem from an inscription at the Temple of Delphi in Greece: ‘Know yourself and you will know all the mysteries of the Gods and the Universe’. Fittingly, all of his methods ultimately result in people getting to know their bodies and their minds, both the conscious and the subconscious, better in order to reach the full potential of their physical and mental strength.
Firstly, under boosting one’s heart, Dr. Jinadasa spoke about how in order to love, appreciate and forgive one another, we first need to love, appreciate and forgive ourselves. And while most people are familiar with the 80-20 rule (to do 80% of the work but to only expect 20% of the results in return), Dr. Jinadasa is an advocate of the 100-0 rule, wherein one does all the hard work, but expects nothing in return.
Under bettering our minds and our focus, Dr. Jinadasa demonstrated a number of exercises designed to boost memory and concentration. From creating memory pegs to doing squats with crossed arms and thumbs squeezing your earlobes, to a sixty second exercise to recharge one’s brain. Breathing plays a particularly important role in recharging the mind, and regular deep breathing and de-stressing every two hours is recommended, as is drinking a lot of water throughout the day.
Dr. Jinadasa placed special emphasis on passion as being the driving force behind our goals and our ambitions. Encouraging everyone to do something they love and are passionate about on a daily basis, he also highlighted the fact that most of our negative emotions have a cause behind them that must be identified and recognised as a gift before the negative energy can be turned into positive energy. Encouraging participants at the workshop to get up and dance then and there to distress, Dr. Jinadasa pointed out that negative emotion need to be expressed freely and let out before we can move on. Additionally, seeing as the left side of the brain is logical and the right side of the brain creative, he stressed the need to balance and integrate the two, even though unfortunately most education systems place more emphasis on the former, stamping the creativity and passion out of children at an early age.
Health being a vital component of overall wellbeing, Dr. Jinadasa pointed out that a healthy body is slightly alkaline, and that our blood pH levels should be roughly 7.4 for optimum performance. Alkaline foods include fresh fruit and raw vegetables (uncooked as to maintain the high levels of energy in the food, which lessens significantly after cooking) and green tea.
Chewing each mouthful of food approximately 32 times also aids digestion, allowing it to occur faster and more efficiently. Drinking lime-water on an empty stomach, drinking a lot of water through the day and exercising regularly is also encouraged.Dr. Jinadasa firmly believes that while one’s potential is limitless, our limitations are self-imposed, and therefore we must eliminate the latter before we can achieve success.
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