Success - THE PATH TO UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT

Most of the times things don’t happen in our life the way we wanted them. At times we are sad, unhappy, broken, and angry. We end up saying life is unfair from our own consequences of events that happened to us. Instead of finding way out through our sorrows we blame external things, on which we don’t have any power to control. Or we spend our time in regretting more and more which in turn we land up feeling depressed. Convincing our self that “I don’t deserve this ” and we start hating ourselves or someone. Creating gloomy atmosphere around us.

Most of us fail to understand instead of solving our existing problems we create a breeding ground for more problems. Finally we get ourselves caught in to a complex web of problems and situations. This article helps you to understand and identify your present situation how to simplify your complexities in a step by step process.

First step

  To understand our problems and situations, we have to keep our mind free from agitations and anxiety. A still and calm mind is the one which can find the causes of our problems effectively.

So now how to calm our ever deviating mind

A very common habit of our mind is wandering day and night. In present generation, how many of us face the difficulties in concentration? Most of our day to day mistakes are caused by lack of concentration.

Eg. We forget our keys or documents or anything and keep searching for it. Each one of us would have faced this thing in life.

Let’s get in to the details of our thoughts.

Thoughts are broadly classified in to 2 categories

1   *   We keep thinking about our past stuffs, at times about our happy times and start craving for the same to happen in future or unhappy stuffs on which we would have created a lot of aversion that it should never happen to us.

2    * We keep dreaming about our future and we keep building our expectations about what should happen to us and what not.

So, either the mind roles in the past experiences or future expectations. What we really lack is that the mind rarely stays in the present.

Present is the only period on which we have the power to change or control. As the past is dead, future is yet to come, the present is all what we have with us.

Most of us would have heard these lines

“YESTERSAY IS HISTORY, TOMMOROW IS MISTRY, TODAY IS A GIFT HENCE IT IS CALLED PRESENT”

Let’s see the techniques to keep our mind in present in my next article J

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