Our perception, thinking, judgment and interpretation of the happenings within and around us has a great influence on our lives. When this happens in the positive direction, our state is shifted to the right but when the contrary occurs then begins a vicious cycle of negativism. Negative thoughts about ourselves or the world around us negatively impacts on our output reducing our efficiency and effectiveness. This in turn affirms, confirms, reaffirms and reinforces our preconceptions and old beliefs deepening and worsening our condition. Mind rooted clauses like “I knew I wasn’t going to make it” or “I am always unlucky” subconsciously dampen our impetus and zeal to forge ahead. With such partis pris, our motivation declines and more and more we move towards supineness. We lose our ego, start hallucinating, having illusions and delusions. If we do nothing or no one does anything about it we finally go emotionally flat....becoming philosophers of life!
As humans we are endowed with a mind filled with unlimited and an overwhelming creativity. But this innate gift from the Great One only becomes dominantly expressed when one thinks positively …when one thinks positively about oneself, when one thinks positively about others, and about one's environment. An finally if I may borrow from the words of an anonymous wise one “in the end, life is not about what the world does to us, it’s all about how we react to the challenges we encounter along the way. Failure is a word; of itself powerless. Only we can allow it to become a state of mind”.Be a Positive Thinker
Ahhh LIFE: Biological before being enhanced by Nurture - Did we get the right toss of the genetic die with our parents so that healthy dopamine is well embedded in our synaptic junctions to kick-start away from depression, lack of concentration, feelings of emptiness, guilt, and worthlessness? Did we get the Nurture of MDGs of clean water, health, access to education and loving support of our parents to propel us to our potential and destiny? A long Shot, when you look at it - and despite all the odds stacked against us, we go forward, achieve, fail better, succeed and create the exogenetic cultural framework and epigenetic mutations that, Yes, indeed, the knob is inexorably turning clockwise towards success! Hal Carim 20 October 2010
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