Note From President Vineet Bhatnagar

Have you heard of normal people like you and me walking on hot coals? Not as a parlour trick but as part of a deliberate inclusion in corporate offsite sessions. Why would someone include a trick such as walking on hot coals as a part of, say, a leadership programme? It is to simply break down the walls that we create around ourselves as individuals at home and even at a workplace.

Such short and unexpected experiences show us that we can do things that are beyond our limitations and fears. It allows us to see what could open up for us in the totality of possibilities. Perhaps, everything is possible. We live and dwell in the totality of possibilities. So, can we reprogramme ourselves where we consciously tell ourselves that, “Where I live, there is all good.” Think about these words for a minute – “All good.” Not some, or
a little bit, BUT all good. When you believe that anything is possible, you open up to answers in all areas of your
life. ‘Where we are’ is in the realm of our own totality of possibilities. It is always up to us – individually and
collectively. We either have walls around us or we take them down and feel safe enough to be totally open and to
allow all good to come into our lives.

Someone once told me, “Begin to observe yourself. Notice what is going on inside you – what you feel, how you react, what you believe and allow to observe yourself without any comment or judgement”. When you can, you will start moving towards a larger canvas of the totality of possibilities. And then consider what should change.
Usually, we want others to change for our good, isn’t it ? Next time try the other trick – start the change with you.

Change means that we free ourselves from feelings of fear, isolations, separation, anger, loneliness, and pain. Someone once suggested to me to replace the word “pain”. I could not, so she suggested, try saying, “I am going
through a lot of sensation”. By viewing a painful experience in such a way, you allow yourself to heal more quickly from what could have been a very unpleasant experience. Sometimes, if we can alter our thinking just a
little bit, we can completely change our own experience from a situation.

Think of change as an inner house cleaning. Do a little bit at a time but eventually it will all get done. It could take time but it should be done. Then we are on to a life that is filled with illogical but wonderful peacefulness, where we relax and enjoy life as it comes to us. Many agree that we will rarely be able to change the card that we will be dealt in life, but many of us agree that it is the way we respond to the card that we have been dealt which will create a life of joy or suffering. Find ways to tell yourself that everything is or will be alright. Expand the world of your totality of possibilities.

I like to use the premise that life is wonderful. Life is taking me into a place of greater good. So, it matters less in which direction my life is going at the moment or it was in the past. I believe that it will be all good. This allows me to manage all sorts of situations and circumstances. Because, in the totality of possibilities, the answer to my challenge is around the corner. Raju Hirani gave us the best line in his movie 3 Idiots – All is Well.

— President Vineet Bhatnagar