The Chart of Concerns is a personal transformation tool that can help us in changing our life for good.

The chart is mapped on our hands, so that we can remember it easily. Also the associations in it can make it easier for us to remember the chart. Another purpose of mapping it on our hands is that we do not need to carry any external tool or even the chart itself. Our left hand is the Hand of Concerns, the different aspects of our life we must care for. Our right hand represents People of concern, all those who we must care for. The chart is simple to understand and easy to remember. In fact the chart is so simple that it can be easily taught to children of all ages.

Hand of Concerns
Refer your left hand, it is our hand of concerns, things we must care for: Here 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Little finger (weak finger) represents health. Ring finger (with costly ring) represents wealth and all resources. Middle finger (vulgarity) represents and reminds us of love and respect (opposite of vulgarity). Index finger (pointing to destiny) represents success in different aspects of life. Thumb (up/down position doubt) represents peace of mind (opposite of doubt, fear and worry ).

The three phalanges of each finger on this hand represent, from top to bottom, when we are with ourselves, with family and with others respectively. Mind Can Matter by Milind Lokde is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercialNoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://mindcanmatter.com

None of the Concerns are mutually exclusive, i.e. none of the concerns can be neglected and they depend on each other. If we dont have good health, we wont have wealth, love and respect, success, peace of mind. If we dont have peace of mind, we wont have good health, wealth, love and respect and success. If we lose love and respect, we wont have good health, wealth, success and peace of mind.

People of concern
Now refer your right hand, they represent different people in our life we must care for : 1. Little finger (weak finger) represents ourselves. 2. Ring finger (relationship) represents our family and relatives. 3. Middle finger (attaching a better meaning love) represents all people in our life whom we know and love colleagues, neighbors, friends and community. 4. Index finger (pointing to everyone) represents all human beings everywhere on earth. 5. Thumb represents all living beings, whether visible or invisible, on earth or anywhere in universe. The three phalanges of each finger on this hand represent, from top to bottom, - Irrespective of Age, Sex and Status respectively. Like for hand of concerns, people of concerns is incremental. When we care for ourselves, we can take care of your family. When we care for ourselves and our family, we start to care for others we know and love. When we care for ourselves, our family, others we know, we can start caring for everybody. When we care for ourselves, our family, others we know and everybody, we can start caring for all other beings. All beings, cats, dogs, birds, etc need health, wealth (all resources good food, water, etc), love and respect (and not driven away from every place they go), success (to build nest, have courtship, have offspring) and peace of mind (away for noise pollution and fear of human beings). If we form concentric circles around the fingers starting from the little finger we can see the hand as circles of concern. The circle of concern keeps on expanding as we start caring for more and more people. We can observe that all the great people in history had a very large Circle of Concern. People having smallest circle of concern are usually selfish and put themselves before others. But here by following the Hand of Concern (Left hand) even though we start by caring for ourselves we are actually making ourselves better in every way, but not at the cost of others, not being selfish. We cannot expect to help others if we cannot help ourselves. If we remember and recollect this chart even twice each day it can bring tremendous change in our life and outlook. This chart is very powerful and the benefits are just too many to list. The chart also makes most previous and upcoming blogs on Mind can Matter redundant by covering every aspect of our life. The different benefits of the chart includes among others : 1. It develops in us the four brahma viharas (heavenly states of mind) Metta (unconditional love towards everyone), Karuna (compassion for the less gifted), Mudita (Sympathetic joy towards those well gifted than us) and Upekka (Equanimity treating everyone equal). These brahma viharas do not all exist naturally in us and need to be cultivated. Also these emotions cannot be compared with any other states of mind we know of, as they are all selfless and not directed to just a few people. 2. We can love and understand a man and a woman equally. Thus it helps deal with all issues based on sex differences including love matters, sexual crimes, power struggle between sexes, failed marriages, divorce, etc. Mind Can Matter by Milind Lokde is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercialNoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at http://mindcanmatter.com

3. It spans all religion and geography, thereby bringing peace in the world. 4. We can really start to care for every being in this world and will stop extinction of beings due to selfish human nature. 5. We wont need legal system for anything. 6. It gives equal status to all ages. This helps us understand our children and elders better and help in improving quality of their life. 7. It undoes everything that we have learnt through our imperfect society, religion and language and brings an insight that is unique to each of us and that we can share among us for a BETTER WORLD. Let us see how we can use this chart : Method I : This is a longer method, which can be practiced when we have enough time. For every finger on left hand we watch the three phalanges for every finger of right hand and its phalanges. For eg. May I, independent of my age, sex and status, have good health for myself, my family and when I am with others. May I, independent of my age, sex and status have wealth and all resources for myself, my family and when I am with others. Method II : This is a quick method, which can be practiced anytime, anywhere May I, irrespective of my age, sex and status, have good health, wealth and all resources, love and respect, success and peace of mind for myself, my family and when I am with others. May my family and relatives, irrespective of their age, sex and status, have good health, wealth and all resources, love and respect, success and peace of mind for themselves, their family and for others. May all whom I know and love, irrespective of their age, sex and status, have good health, wealth and all resources, love and respect, success and peace of mind for themselves, their family and for others. May all human beings, irrespective of their age, sex and status, have good health, wealth and all resources, love and respect, success and peace of mind for themselves, their family and for others. May all beings on earth, in water or air, visible or invisible and anywhere in Universe, irrespective of their age, sex and status, have good health, wealth and all resources, love and respect, success and peace of mind for themselves, their family and for others. Sabbe Satta Sukhi Hontu. May all beings be happy and well.

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