This New Year’s Eve, How to Make Resolutions That Actually Work || Acharya Prashant (2015)

Acharya Prashant

Acharya Prashant reveals more about how to make a New Year resolution.   Full Video Link:  https://youtu.be/2JrNr9e9vYs?si=pBQA5pGOteD1UvrV  Full Video: Another ‘New’ year ~~~~~~~~ Video Information: Shabdyog session, 31.12.15, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India  💯  Wisdom Quote: “The new, the happiness that you are looking for, will not come through experience. It will come when you are a little less insistent upon cheating yourself.”  What is the right way to make a New Year Resolution? Acharya Prashant on New Year resolutions shows us why our New Year 2022 resolution will fail.  00:00 This New Year’s Eve, How to Make Resolutions That Actually Work 01:20 Why our New Year resolutions don't work 02:20 The environment has programmed you 03:35 Why you want change  Context: ~What is the best way to approach the new year? ~Do we find that all the enthusiasm has settled down? ~How does the new year become a sad year so quickly? ~Do we make new year resolutions based on the environment around us? ~Why is there no novelty in our work? ~What is the key to bringing newness?  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~~~~~~~~~  #acharyaprashant #motivation #newyearresolution   🎧 Listen to Acharya Prashant on Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/show/2QmVEAA...

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00:00New Year is approaching and we have a great desire for the new.

00:12Do you understand why we keep looking forward to dates, the next important date, the next

00:18important date?

00:19Because there is a great need to become, because we are yearning for change and there is a

00:26hope that maybe the next date might bring that change in my life.

00:29How many of you find that you take resolutions and then those resolutions come to a halt?

00:37There was a beautiful study in the US about the longevity of the New Year resolutions

00:44and it came to be known that the average resolution lasts 7.6 days.

00:49Why does it happen to us?

00:51That we become greatly desirous, we go after something and then very soon we find that

00:58all the enthusiasm has to melt out.

01:02We make great plans, yaasa karenge, yaasa karenge, and by the time the next day arrives

01:07we say chhode yaar kiya nahi.

01:09And the plans could be about anything.

01:10It could be about preparing for an entrance exam, it could be about visiting the gym,

01:14it could be about attending dark classes, it could be anything.

01:18But our resolutions rarely materialize.

01:22No new year will give you the new.

01:26So many new years have come and gone and become old years.

01:31What is happy new year today becomes sad old year very quickly.

01:36Does it not?

01:37The new, the happiness that you are looking for will not come through experience, will

01:42not come through time.

01:44It comes when you are a little less insistent upon cheating yourself.

01:53A newness that replenishes itself.

01:56A newness that is like a fountain, like a river, that has an inexhaustible source that

02:02is replenishing the flow.

02:05You don't have to move an inch.

02:08Yes, you don't have to wait for the next happy new year.

02:13Just jump into the river.

02:14Every single drop of water that will come to you is new.

02:20The environment has already told all this to you.

02:23The environment has told you, when 1st January comes, make a new year resolution.

02:28So you will make a new year resolution.

02:30The environment has also told you that when 5th of January comes, forget the resolution.

02:35You will forget the resolution.

02:37Instead of fancying about what you would do the next year, why can't you go into the

02:43facts of what you have been continuously doing?

02:48It was the same you.

02:50Yes, a little bit has changed on the surface, but your central tendencies have not changed.

02:56So it was the same you last year as well.

02:59You remember the woman you rushed to kiss when the switched off the lights sharp at

03:06midnight?

03:07There was supposed to be a happy new year kiss.

03:09That woman is kissing your neighbor today.

03:12Conditioning happens all the time.

03:14Influences are there all the time.

03:16Environment is acting upon you all the time.

03:19So you are continuously gathering dust.

03:22There is no doubt about it.

03:24But that dust cannot really harm you.

03:28It can be cleaned anytime and when it will be cleaned, you will find that the crystal

03:34is shining as brightly as ever.

03:37Nothing has changed.

03:39On one hand, you won't change.

03:41On the other hand, you won't let change happen.

03:44You just keep repeating.

03:45Life is repetition with no observation of the machinery.

03:51Machinery keeps operating on the auto mode.

03:56So what happens when you observe the machinery?

03:58Something new emerges from it?

04:00No.

04:01The machinery would remain machinery.

04:05The observation is the newness.

04:09Your glance, your sight won't change the machinery as such.

04:17But there is something about observation which will give you a taste of the new.

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