There is a famous saying that we are the
product of our thoughts. Hence this article is written to understand the
importance of thoughts, their contributing factors, thought analysis and
purification techniques.
During all day we keep thinking about things,
events, families, issues, future, money, office and several other stuff. Our
thoughts drive us to take some actions and hence we are moving towards our
destiny by each and every action. That means our thought is the strongest part
of our destiny as it is the root cause of every action. In my opinion, our
Thoughts Process primarily consists of following five contributing factors. I
will include some of the details of each factor and summarize the Thought
Purification tips under each category below:
1. Education:- Education
broadens the horizon of our minds. More education means that the mind is exposed
to more knowledge and possibilities. Education when combined with experience
result in more mental growth as compared to a less educated person. Hence the
quality of thoughts are directly linked with the education. So to keep our
'thoughts seeds' healthy we must seek for Good knowledge, the knowledge which
freshen up our brain cells, which gives us positive energy and boosts up our
mental power. So we must keep learning new things throughout our life in order
to synergize.
2. Desires:- This is
sometimes a killing factor. For example, If we let our brain running behind our
desires blindly, we will end up with considering short-cuts in our life for
achievements. These short cuts basically kill the purity of thoughts and
consequently bound us doing social evils such as back-biting, lying, deceiving,
stealing, fraud, bribery and other forms of corruption. Hence, we have to have
sold control on our desires to control this phenomenon. But this does not mean,
we should drop our genuine desires. Remember, Positive desires combined with
Positive Thoughts and Actions will result in success. However Positive Desires
combined with Negative Thoughts and Action will result in crimes which I just
mentioned above.
3. Brought up:- Each one of
us has been brought up in a unique way by our parents. Some of us have been
grown in very healthy physical and mental family environment. Some have mixed
kind of situations both positive and negative in terms of finance, family
bonding and social lives. Our mental growth has been based on all the events
which have been taking place in our childhood, teenage and even our current day
to day life. We can't go back to past to change our brought-up but what we can
do is to drop the negative part of our past and tightly hold on to the positive
one. It's pretty much straight forward. If we wish to keep the Negative things
in mind, that means we are polluting your brain and your 'Thinking System'. So
the choice is ours!
4. Company (family &
friends):- This is something we can really work on to make our life
happy. A mature 'human environment' is an indication of healthy mental growth.
We must always try to surround yourself with positive, fun-loving, friendly,
optimistic, constructive, cheerful and bright people so the brain is free from
stress consequently brain will automatically start working on positive thoughts.
When with family, we should always endeavour for creating a happy environment by
meeting the logical desires of family members, cracking jokes, listening emphatically. This helps divert the brain towards positive feelings and hence
our upcoming thoughts would be mature, positive and stress-free.
5. Circumstances:- Good and
bad things happen to everyone but we must not throw ourselves totally on our
circumstances. It is said that life is 20% what happens to us and 80% how we
react to it. So consider every challenge as a new adventure and try to adopt a
positive approach for a safe exit. Control your circumstance by surrounding
yourself with positive people, behaving good with others, taking corrective and
preventive measures for any mishaps. There are situations when we don't have
control on the events happened to us. In this case, we don't have much choice
but to live with the situation. However we shouldn't let such things steal our
peace of mind. So we need to seek help from others and try to find solution. It
is advised not to get involved too much for any situation. It is wisely said by
someone that if you can't laugh on the same joke again and again so why worrying
on the same trouble again and again!
Conclusion:- You are the
product of your thoughts. Quality of your thoughts determines the level of peace
of mind. Good thoughts result in good fruit, bad thoughts bad fruit. So every
seed of thought matters. Always remember: Small minds think and discuss about
people, average minds think and discuss about events, higher minds think and
discuss about ideas and great mind actually execute & innovate in
silence.
Source: email from Geetika Oberoi to Fropki@yahoogroups.com
