Little Deep Thoughts

All our feelings, beliefs and knowledge are based on our internal thoughts, both conscious and subconscious. We are in control, whether we know it or not. We can be positive or negative, enthusiastic or dull, active or passive. The biggest difference between people is their attitudes. Our present attitudes are habits, built from the feedback of parents, friends, society and self, that from our self-image and our world-image. These attitudes are maintained by the inner conversations we constantly have with ourselves, both consciously and subconsciously. Attitude and thoughts do not change overnight. Even if the idea seems strange give it a try, as you have nothing to lose, but only to gain. Ignore what others might say or think about you, if they discover that you are changing the way you think. The first step in developing positive thinking is to change our inner conversations. - What should we be saying? One approach is called the three C's: Commitment, Control and Challe...

A positive mental attitude not only helps you visualise what you want to be, it helps you become it. It is not just wishful thinking. It's having a mind that is geared for success, a mind planning and working out ways to reach a goal and preparing for achievement. Here are few actions and tips to help you develop the power of positive thinking : - Always use only positive words in your inner dialogues. Use words such as, I can, I am able, It is possible, it can be done etc. - Accompany your inner dialogues with feelings of happiness, strength and success. - Do not heed negative thoughts. Calmly refuse to think these thoughts, and substitute them with constructive happy thoughts. - In your conversations with other people use words that evoke scenes of strength, happiness and success in their minds. - Before starting with any plan or action, visualise clearly in your mind its successful outcome. If you visualise with concentration and faith, you will be amaze...

If you become a passive self-observant and observe yourself and your actions intently for a day or two, you will realise that the most dominant feelings of your daily existence is fear. Fear limits and shapes our actions in myriad ways. The way we dress, the way we communicate with the world in general consciously or unconsciously, the way we establish relationships with people and things, the way we take different decisions, accumulate things or form opinions or stand points, are influenced substantially, if not completely, by our self preservation instinct, which in simple term means our concern for survival. All our efforts in this world are guided by this singular most concern, which has many other guises, our concern for approval, our concern for acceptance, our concern for having the best of everything. It is this concern, which drives us to have more and more of what we already have, in the anxiety that what we have may not be sufficient enough to protect us from scarcity whe...

Drive away from your mind all unnecessary, useless and negative thoughts. Useless thoughts impede your spiritual growth; obnoxious thoughts are stumbling blocks to your spiritual advancement. You are away from God when you are entertaining useless thoughts. Entertain only thoughts that are helpful and useful. Do not allow the mind to run into the old grooves and to have its own ways and habits. Be on the careful watch. Thoughts of sin haunts the mind of some people. One person always thinks, "I have committed a very heinous sin. I do not know what to do." Again and again, this one idea haunts his mind. This is a bad habit. These people do not know how to divert their minds. They become pray to these 'haunting thoughts'. Virtue and sin are relative terms. They are creations of the mind. Sin is nothing but a mistake. Remembering God's name, charity and fasting will destroy at one any amount of sin. You must eradicate through introspection all sorts of mean thou...