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I  lust received this beautiful inspiring story by Email :

A man was exploring caves by the Seashore.  In one of the caves he found a canvas bag with a bunch of hardened clay balls.  It was like someone had rolled clay balls and left them out in the sun to bake.  They didn’t look like much, but they intrigued the man, so he took the bag out of the cave with him.  As he strolled along the beach, he would throw the clay balls one at a time out into the ocean as far as he could.

He thought little about it, until he dropped one of the clay balls and it cracked open on a rock .  Inside was a beautiful, precious stone!

Excited, the man started breaking open the remaining clay balls.  Each contained a similar treasure.  He found thousands of dollars worth of jewels in the 20 or so clay balls he had left.

Then it struck him.  He had been on the beach a long time. He had thrown maybe 50 or 60 of the clay balls with their hidden treasure into the ocean waves.  Instead of thousands of dollars in treasure, he could have taken home tens of thousands, but he had just thrown it away!

It’s like that with people.  We look at someone, maybe even ourselves, and we see the external clay vessel.  It doesn’t look like much from the outside.  It isn’t always beautiful or sparkling, so we discount it.

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Positive Thinking brings strength, energy and initiative

Thinking positively and acting on good constructive thoughts opens the path to our WELLNESS, which at best can be described as a state of mind.

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Let us persevere to achieve our goals and objectives. We must have self-belief that ‘We Can do’ and ‘We Can Win’. Positive Thinking will help us to stay determined and focused despite setbacks, which we shall have to overcome to reach our chosen Destination.

Perseverance

•  Athletes and Sports persons train hard for years. They regularly fight and overcome pain barriers to reach their mark.

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Our thoughts shape and govern our actions. Human brain is a complex but most effective computer, which even the best and fastest chips cannot match. The chief differentiator is its ability to THINK.
While our thought process is shaped by many inputs, which continuously stream into our conscious and unconscious brain segments, one simple thing to be understood is that our total personality, actions and the state of being is resultant of our thoughts.

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Our THINKING is shaped by the multiple inputs stored in our brain since childhood and the on-going experiences we have on a daily basis. Some experiences and events however leave a profound long-term impact on us.

All these experiences and inputs are a combination of whatever we term for ourselves as happy, sad and indifferent ones.

It is a universal truth that life will present all possible combinations in everyone’s life.  No one can aspire to have only ONE kind of CHOSEN experiences.

It is however in OUR OWN HANDS to view and interpret these inputs:

• As Positive or Negative
• To rewrite on Our Old Stored Memory and re-interpret the stored thoughts and experiences.
• To ultimately position ourselves to view things logically while drawing POSITIVES from each occurrence, whether it directly concerns us or not.

The Power of Positive Thinking is immense. We can change our whole personality and the day-to-day state-of-being through Positive Thinking.

A whole body of writings is available on this subject and almost 4,000 books have been written on Happy Psychology and related subjects last year (The Times of India-Magazine Section, Sunday 1st Feb’09).

While there has been tremendous material progress the world over in the last decades and new opportunities are available for hitherto unheard of careers, new services are available, choices for the consumer have increased multifold, we have to recognize that in today’s globalized world, this automatically leads to higher competition and  greater emphasis on performance.

• Is there anything wrong in it? Definitely not.

Evolution is a natural process and the shape of things is continuously undergoing transformation.

• Can we stop it? No.
• Can we ignore this fact? At our peril only.
• Do we want to go back to the earlier ages? Only if we want to regress.

We have to learn to live and enjoy in this wonderful world full of opportunities while being conscious of the challenges the pace of development poses.

There is an on-going debate between materialism and spiritualism and many ‘Gurus’ ascribe higher stress and depression faced by mankind today to the RACE towards materialism.

• Can we stop the Race? No.
• Can we retard the PACE of growth or PROGRESS? No.
• Do we want to scream-STOP THE WORLD, WE WANT TO GET OFF? No.
• We all should and do want to remain on this fast moving train and enjoy the fruits of progress and the increased choices without feeling depressed or unduly stressed.
• We do not want to go to an isolated mountain or an island to pray and meditate, yet want to lead a HAPPY LIFE.

It is definitely POSSIBLE. We only have to imbibe POSITIVE THINKING and the RIGHT ATTITUDE towards things, events and happenings.

This will also help to achieve the necessary BALANCE.

According to Lord Krishna in Gita, the mantra is of ‘Karma’ and of ‘Detached Attachment’. It is a bit difficult but can be achieved to a reasonable degree if we think positively and strive to achieve it through continuous conscious efforts.

CONCLUSION

We can engage in the Worldly Pursuits and also follow the Path of Spirituality simultaneously by following the ‘GOLDEN MEAN’, the path of moderation. We have to keep defining boundary limits for ourselves and should never go overboard.

Positive Thinking helps us to view things differently and enables us to develop a healthy perspective.

ARUN VEDHERA

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