Its all in our Mind...

Happiness: - Think a Happy Thought

Welcome Back Readers,

Lemme start my post with Srimad Bhagwad Gita Chapter-18 Sloka 36-37

“sukham tv idanim tri-vidham srnu me bharatarsabha
abhyasad ramate yatra duhkhantam ca nigacchati

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yat tad agre visam iva pariname 'mrtopamam
tat sukham sattvikam proktam atma-buddhi-prasada-jam”

O Arjuna, best of the Bhāratas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.

Don’t worry…. I am not going to lecture you all about Bhagwad Gita but I hope that my previous blog post has given you some direction for being happy in your life. Now moving ahead with my agenda to bring happiness, in this post I will try to give my best on describing on how one can be happy using the power of happy thought.

There’s a really nice saying that “You become what you think”. True guys…. Our mind has a subconscious power which is well described by the author Joseph Murphy in his books called “The power of your subconscious mind”. Our subconscious mind gives us the power to overcome many things in our life, so I thought why not it will give happiness to us and I tried to do so by myself and learned a great lot of things which I will be describing here.

START YOUR JOURNEY WITH A FRESH AND STRESS FREE MIND: -

Most of the time it is said that our mind is at most of its power in early morning. So, a student is advised to study during early morning to remember everything. It might have worked but I have never tried it during my childhood. But what I have tried is to start my day with a happy thought in the morning when I wake up.

In this stressful life our day to day activities starts with what happened in work and ends with the same. Gradually our life is being controlled by our work life rather than the balance of the work and personal life. The person who finds the balance will automatically live a happy life and for now days this seems to be impossible no matter how much you try. For the same, as I have described in my previous post on how our wants is overcoming our need, it is also creating the imbalance in our life. It is not possible to control our wants but starting our day with a happy thought will surely slow down the impact and lead us to attain the light of happiness.

THINK POSITIVE AND BE POSITIVE: -

As told earlier starting the day with a happy thought, now you just don’t have to stop right there, but to continue the same throughout the day and this can be done by having positive thoughts. When you think that you are doing this or they are doing this, your mind become upset if things don’t go according to your way. It is well described in Chapter-3, Karma yoga in Bhagwad Gita, that all person does their work in pre-prescribed manner and no one does anything out of their own will but by the direction of GOD.  

So, keeping this in mind whenever anything unpleasant action happens to you don’t be sad but think it as positive way or a new beginning of things. I will tell you from my personal experience when my whole day was going bad and I was sad but later in evening I realized that all happened for a definite reason and I was happy that it happened to me.

DON’T GIVE UP: -

We as a human being tend to give up quickly rather to try. But a word of advice always floats around that one should try again and again. Failure are the pillars of success, very true.. If you fail only then you will come to know about what not to do and trying the same thing to do will finally give you success.

How to keep up the tying?? It’s just doing what said in above think positive and be positive. If anything didn’t go according to you then don’t be sad but try to make those thing in your way which will give you happiness. My personal experience was when I started learning computer, I failed in that subject in my 1^st trimester exam and instead of trying harder, I changed to economics in which I also failed more badly than computed. Then I tried again for studying computer with a positive thinking and help from my teachers. You will not believe me I scored in top 10 in my class in my final computer exam result.

I hope my personal experience will motivate you to try again and again, If not, please read the book called “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” by the author Rashmi Bansal, where you will find how 25 MBA person from IIM left their high paying jobs and entered entrepreneurship, through their patience and trying again and again became leading companies in India.

ENDING YOUR DAY WITH A HAPPY THOUGHT: -

All said and done but still you have a night to spend after your long and tired day. Our mind process the things which we do all day and during our night it absorbs the entire things to our subconscious mind which in turn build up our personality. Thus it’s important to be positive after our work in our personal life also.

You must have noticed that your entire night has been ruined by a bad evening, undelightful food or an unpleasant conversation with your family. Whatever may be the reason, it affects you and only you. So, you must be in charge of what can happen to you, thus choosing the happy thinking process will let you stay happy even after all the bad things happened. While going to bed think about all the positive things happened to you and how you are going to stay happy for the bad things. Let your subconscious mind have all the happy thinking of yours to turn your personality to a charming and happy person.

SUMMARY

Start your journey with a fresh and stress free mind which will be incorporated throughout your day.

Think positive, be positive and stay positive, as you can’t control all the things happening around you but can only control you, your thoughts and actions.

Don’t give up even if you have tried harder try again and you will gain more experience.

End your day with a happy thought which will turn your personality and your life a happy one.

Thank you dear readers for your time and let’s think a happy thought to change our life and live happily.