Chanting - Management, Culture & Creativity

MCC is a course I took in my B-school. We were supposed to work in a group of 8-9 and make a 20 min presentation on a topic of our choice. Very luckily, we chose to present on "chanting".

While the effort itself was immense fun, 2 in the group went to a nearby school to interview kids and later students and staff at our very own college, and the rest of us compiled information and videos from the web; the real joy was in finding the content we came across. If you've seen the movie "The Secret", I might be restating it, but chanting might just be the way to chase a dream.

How do I realize a dream? By constantly thinking of and believing in the reality of that dream. That's what chanting is. It's repeating a word, an idea, a abstract thought, till it becomes the truth. We referenced a Buddhist monk's talk about the "Power of Chanting". We referenced Prof. Emoto's work ("The Hidden Messages in Water"), to show how thoughts and words can affect water and hence us (90% of the human body is water). We picked scenes from before sports games and wars. Chanting isn't just to pump adrenaline, it's to establish a belief, a belief that's meant to become the truth. It's to establish our conviction and remove the randomness in the outcome, to make the results deterministically positive. We referenced prayers and hymns from religions across the globe too. Accordingly, they seem to be an easy & guaranteed way to reach the Almighty.