What determines the success of
whatever we undertake is the internal communication that keeps going in our
minds with or without our conscious involvement. If we keep repeating to
ourselves something like this: “I have not been set right from the beginning.” (When
there is a failure) “There is no use trying.
This is all in my stars. I have no time for anything. There is always
more than what I can cope up with.” It is not because we set in a wrong way
that we do not achieve. It is this thinking that makes things wrong. Whatever we think continuously turn into reality. Thoughts have energy of their
own. Bad thoughts produce bad energy, and consequently, bad forces, bad effort
and bad associations. No wonder bad things result. But when we keep positive
thoughts, they come into our lives too. Success in love, relationship,
profession is all greatly influenced by the way we keep thinking.
Mind and body are totally inter-connected. If
you are sad your body assumes a posture suitable for sadness: looks down, drops
shoulders, comes to a ‘closed’ position, breathes shallow and you talk
desperate or sad things to yourself. If
you are happy or confident, you draw your shoulders, sit, and stand or walk upright
in an open position, look straight and tell yourself good, confident or
encouraging words. To be effective in life, we need to be in a‘peak state body
physiology.’ If you are in your negative posture most of the time, you will
feel drained with no energy left to dream or work for your goals
Even the images we keep in our
minds-past or present -are important too. We have the option to enlarge all the
good stuff –every success, achieving any goal, confident situations and
whenever we felt courageous or happy. Let these images fill our minds. Brighten
up these experiences, hear whatever sounds we heard, see all that we saw then
more vividly and feel whatever we felt during those ‘good’ moments. Let our
minds be filled with these positive experiences. Let us also make an inventory
of our assets. Just start writing right now the good qualities you
possess. It could be: your intelligence, memory, hard working
nature, ambition, and ability to make friends, reading or learning habit, good
physique, height, or anything you consider good. How many of them can you note
down now? Let the list be a little exhaustive. Keep the file open for a few
days and ask those who know you well to help you too. Once the list is
comprehensive, go through them everyday once may be just before sleeping or
just after waking up in the morning. We
have to learn to ignore our negatives. You may quickly run through your mind to
be aware of them. There must have been a lot of unpleasant experiences in your
life just like in anybody else’s. We have to learn to throw them away from our
minds. Experiences stay put or opt to leave depending on how we entertain them.
If we accentuate them they get impressed and they refuse to leave; if we fade
them into insignificance they simply disappear. If you recall something in
color, make it black and white and fade it further into a defused sate. Lower the pitch of the sounds you hear let
them echo from afar. Make the whole experience small, smaller. If it was the
size of a football earlier bring it down to the size of a cricket ball and
still smaller may to the size of a pin head. Then you throw it out of your
mind. Now it has very little impact on you. The faint defused echoes of
something will altogether disappear. Your mind is free of its clutches. Fill
the space thus created with a positive experience and later with another. Let
your mind be filled with such powerful experiences a enabling you to become
more confident.
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