PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

An Intellectual Process

EXPERIENCE shows that man is like an innocent flower bud in his childhood. But as he reaches the age of maturity, he develops various perversions in his personality. For example: stubbornness, egoism, defiance etc. To develop a true personality man needs to cleanse himself of such perversions. Personality development is done in two ways. Man should have either preserved his nature in which he was born or else the only other method is to remove one by one, the artificial layers that cover his personality until his true nature emerges in all its purity. This is in likeness to the way cattle chew cud.

Research and experiments reveal that every experience or thought becomes a permanent part of the human mind and in turn shapes the human personality

According to modern psychological research, it has come to knowledge that the human mind can be divided into three major systems. These three parts are found in every human being right from their birth.
They are:
1. Conscious mind
2. Sub-conscious mind
3. Unconscious mind
Research and experiments reveal that every experience or thought becomes a permanent part of the human mind and in turn shapes the human personality. Even if man tries to remove this thought or experience from his mind he will not be able to do so.

When a thought comes in the human mind, either positive or negative, it first appears in the conscious mind. This can also be called living memory. After this when man sleeps at night, due to natural processes, the thought moves from the conscious mind to the sub-conscious mind. When this process takes place, man has only 50 percent of conscious control over this thought. The remaining 50 percent is beyond his control.

When he sleeps the next night, this thought travels further and reaches his unconscious mind. At this stage, this thought is completely out of his conscious control.

These day-to-day thoughts which appear in the human mind, develop his personality. As the thoughts are, so will be the personality. Positive thoughts will develop a positive personality, but if these thoughts are negative, then his personality will continue to develop negatively. Such being the case, a pertinent question arises as to how to develop a positive personality.

The method of developing a positive personality is that when any negative thought emerges in the mind of man, he ought to eradicate it in the first instance itself. A specific process of converting the negative aspect into positive should be undertaken.

The method of developing a positive personality is that when any negative thought emerges in the mind of man, he ought to eradicate it in the first instance itself.

To consider a few examples: if a person is angry but forgives immediately, then the anger will not take the form of revenge. If the success of others above one creates a negativity, one should immediately convert it into acceptance; lest it turns into jealousy, becoming a part of one's personality. With every negative thought, this corrective process should be undertaken immediately. If there is a delay in this process, then it would soon happen that these thoughts will reach the subconscious mind and, after sometime, it will enter into the unconscious mind. When this happens, it will become such an integral part of the personality and even if man wants to detach it from his personality, he will not be able to do so.

Generally people do not carry out this cleansing process. They pay the price in the form of carrying a negative personality hidden behind a civilized appearance. The negative personality is actually an evil personality. Any man or woman who wants to save himself or herself from such a dreadful fate must adopt the above-mentioned corrective process in their daily life. Besides this, there is no other solution to this problem.