Inspiration vs Motivation
When your brain cells are
stimulated to do a creative work you are inspired. Inspiration is positive
attitude; a positive thinking that might get triggered by a speech, a book, a
person, an event, beautiful scenery, a song, an incident and virtually any
thing on the globe. A motivation is a
physical effort to come out of desperation. Hunger is a motivation to escalate
the desire to eat food. We normally use motivation when we are in sad mood.
Motivation is an action that will bring a person out of despair.
Sources of Inspiration:
Nature: Nature is the greatest
source of inspiration. Many writers get inspired from the wonderful nature.
Bird watching, travel across the blue waters of the beaches, seeing an amazing
travel spot, high altitude areas, freezing continents, darkest forests, eye
arresting volcanoes, vast gross fields, wonders of the sea world, fascinating
animal kingdom are parts of nature and a true inspiration to every one.Albert Einstein once said: "We know less than one thousandth of one percent of what nature has to reveal to us."
Music: Music is undoubtedly inspires.
One of the greatest powers of music is its healing effect. In one of the Shakespeare’s
drama the hero says ‘If music be the food of love, play it and give me the
excess of it’. Great musician of the modern times Guy Garvey
says that ‘we sound like the Waltons and my band Elbow inspires me, when they
come out with a new idea and he converts it into reality’.
Travel: Travel around and the
exciting experiences are a great source of inspiration. Travel not only a great
source of inspiration but a binding miracle of human races.C C Chapman a freelance content creator, speaker and consultant tells that travel amazes him because the exposure to new cultures makes the traveler a better person. While on travel and walking through the streets of a strange place, with noise around and the new food you eat and the conversation with totally unknown people and the stories you hear from them about themselves and their experiences in life and each of these add strings to the fabric of your soul.
Yoga: Yoga will relax and
inspires the nerves system and opens up new channels of extraordinary yogic
experiences. Once Swami Vivekananda told to some one who asked him ‘What is the
great yogic experience you had’ and he said, ‘I have reached the top of a hill and on
the other side I see a beautiful garden, amazing and eye arresting’. He further
said ’If you want to see it you must climb the hill’. So the extraordinary
experiences are personal and inexplicable. You have to reach yourself to that stage to experience them The Yogic experiences are not scientific discoveries that could be shown through an experiment. Like the colors of light can not be seen without a prism, yogic experiences can not be felt without practice. Swami Vivekananda the then Narendra before meeting Ramakrishna was a normal person and not a great believer of God. He had a great quest for knowledge and truth but not inspired by any event until he met Ramakrishna. On one of the occasions when Vivekananda went to meet Ramakrishna he questioned the Guru to show him God. Then Ramakrishna said 'can you bear Lord's power?,' the presence of God. He immediately said 'yes'. Then Ramakrishna kept his hand on the head of Vivekananda and Vivekananda felt a jolt of light in his mind which he could not tolerate and shouted 'Where am I? ', Where am I?'. Then Ramakrishna removed his hand from his head and said you practice yoga and prepare yourself to see God. That is where Vivekananda experienced an inexplicable inspiration and subsequently realized God and became a man of virtue.
Book Reading:
Book reading is a great inspiration tool and an illiterate becomes
literate. Reading habit improves memory power among children. There are few who are passionate reading and normally called bookworms.
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