We
live in a complex world. This world is full of grandeur, which we enjoy and
relish. When the enjoyment is over; we remember those events for satisfaction. Again,
this same world provides us a lot of sufferings, sad information and scarcity
of basic needs at times. All walks of
our life are pervaded with these two factors of joy and suffering. In this
complexity, some people struggle more than others because of the circumstances
and socioeconomic constraints they face. So, they struggle to sort out their
conflicts for most of the time and unable to savor the sweet fragrance of the
life. It seems they struggle because of their less physical power and stamina to bear the
painstaking situations. But here is the catch. Their struggle is very painful as
they think, is the case with almost everyone. Barring a few who is born with a
silver spoon, it is quite common for all. In fact, the wealthiest persons labor
harder than an average person. People are aware that if they don’t struggle, if they
take their lives comfortably, their survival will be in danger. So, they shape
their thoughts in a positive way and get engaged in all meaningful activities. Thoughts
are always important to our well being.
For example, some people may try to repair their damaged relationships,
some others who relentlessly distribute the power of their consciousness to
reduce the community hatred and there are some others who desperately try to
reduce the corruption level of our political system. You may also find some
people who are very much interested to spread brotherhood transcending the
barriers of religion.
While
doing all above activities, people sometimes give up because of its daunting
nature. The thoughts then appear in
their mind that we are too small to bring radical changes in the society. When this thought erupts in your mind, you
become the slave of negativity, passivity and you are unable to find any promising
outlook. This behavior only creates a
stumbling block for the forward movement and then, the activities do not
produce any tangible results. In the
midst of any job, if there is an iota of passivity and thoughts of doubt, the
same must be removed immediately. We must always think that we are neither too
small nor we should be afraid to discharge any activities, which create benefits to
mankind. It is all psychologically inflicted,
and we don’t get the desired success as we plan for.
All
of us are regularly downplaying our capabilities. We can perform more than what
we achieve. We are always influenced by this defective perspective and not able
to shine anymore. No sooner, we are able to make a correction in our thoughts;
we flourish with respect to our personal, physical, philosophical and social
context. We try our best to do a lot,
but most of the time, with a doubtful mind and scattered thoughts. We get
ourselves busy in multi-tasking. But we
don’t pay our sincere attention to one task at a time. Owing to our superficial needs, greed and
ambition to achieve many things at a drop of the hat, we accomplish all our
tasks with a half hearted approach and focus. Instead of being involved with a
single task and finish the same accurately and perfectly, we reminisce the past
happenings and dwell on the future fantasies. We weave our thoughts in such a
way that job becomes secondary, but our ego must be satisfied. In this way, we lose our considerable time
and energy. We should not forget that attention
is not a mere slave of our mind; it is a storage house of our energy. This energy of giving attention to a
particular work has utmost importance.
This is the major benchmark of our success.
If
you like to be more assertive and want to control your thoughts, you must
become mindful and have a grip on your attention. Your attention must be centered on one point
at a time. Then, whatever you want to achieve, the same is bound to
materialize. Remember that attention can
run both in negative and positive directions. You have to exercise power of
mind to ensure that you cling to the positive side maximum time. You cannot completely eliminate negative
directions, but through practice, you increase your mind power to eliminate the
negativities. However, because of our
habit, we sit idle and procrastinate and allow the negative thoughts to grab
us. Some people, of course, are always
negative. They are always depressed and
always in a pessimistic mood. They feel
pleasure to criticize others. They discourage others is their achievement. They do not allow
others to see the light after the tunnel. There are others who out of their
fear, not ready to take action. They
feel that their actions will bring negative output. Some other persons out of their jealousy and
hatred want to avoid any activities with a feeling that will bring disastrous
results. It is better to keep them at a distance and not to be influenced by
them. The Mother Teresa taught us that it is imperative for all of us to
develop positive consciousness and to
propel the same to carry out positive thoughts for the betterment of the
individual and the society.