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Apr 29, 2012 Features / Columnists, Food For Thought
How many times have you found yourself procrastinating, when the job would only take you a few moments, minutes or hours to complete if you attended to it? Do you find yourself thinking a lot and as a result end up doing less? If so, then read on…
One of our greatest assets are our thoughts. How much do we use that asset throughout the day without even ‘thinking’ about it! Do we stop to count? Imagine, if each time we created a thought, we were spending dollars or dinars (you can decide the amount per thought) – we would certainly stop to think about what we were thinking, right!
Yes, imagine a time, or a world, in which we only think that, which we want to give life to. Imagine also, if everything we thought of came to life – it would be pretty embarrassing at times wouldn’t it?
Just because people can’t see your negative thoughts doesn’t mean you get away with the crime. Negative thoughts drain the mind and body of energy. Negativity is a hole that creates a leakage, draining the soul of its invaluable power. Power that took time to accumulate! We wonder why, by the end of the day we are so pooped! Could it be that we allow our minds too long a leash?
There is a story of two monks who were walking from one village to another. Their vow of chastity also meant they were not allowed to touch any woman. Along the way they saw a young woman afraid to cross the river alone. The elder monk picked her up gently and walked across with her. After dropping her on the other side, the two monks continued their journey in silence. After about two hours the younger monk could no longer conceal his surprise and asked the older monk why he had broken the vow and touched a woman. To which the older monk replied. “I picked her up two hours ago and dropped her there and then, but it seems you have been carrying her all this time!”
Waste thoughts are no less. Repetitive thinking also depletes the soul of energy. Ask yourself, why you would revisit a thought recurrently? Primarily because you are unsure, or take it a step further, maybe because you are insecure. It may not be a bad thing to re-check a thought once or twice for sake of clarity, but if you are constantly unclear, always confused, and riddled with self-doubt then you need to take a deeper look at yourself. Learn to decide, take risks and then flow with the drama of life. It’s more fun!
When you think less and decide more, you will accomplish a lot more. The amount of time it takes to iron a few shirts or wash a few dishes is a few minutes compared to the hours you may deliberate over it… so as in Nike style, ‘Just do it’!
You will begin to feel more productive and enjoy more efficiency in your life. This will give you a sense of accomplishment and hence more satisfaction.
Remember, life is not all about getting there, or achieving more of this and that… it’s about being. Learn to be. Learn to master your inner state and the outer state will follow suit. If the mind is clear and the heart is clean, this will reflect in your surroundings and relationships. Learn to feel every thought before immediately acting upon it.
Between every stimulus and response, there is a space… a space in which to choose. Choose to be calm, choose to be at peace, choose to be still, choose to be silent….
It’s Time… to think less and to BE more! Be selective about the thoughts you create – waste and negative deplete you of your soul power. Learn to value your treasure of thoughts – after all it is powerful thinkers who become powerful do’ers! Make a decision with conviction, then the question of ‘to be or not to be’, will not arise!
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