There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so- Hamlet

Isn’t that true? We often hear we become what we think. All the motivational gurus say so, all the scriptures tell us that. Still how many of us can actually control our thinking or even want to control it? We are miserable and we start loving our miseries. We are prejudiced; we don’t want a rational discussion. We are fearful of some thing; we don’t want to think that the fear can be just wishful thinking.

It happened with me and I discovered that it affected me so much that I actually fell ill. I am, by and large, a very optimistic person. But I let myself slip for a few days and found that I was suffering from one ailment or the other. My friends were concerned and my family was worried. Then one day I had the epiphany. And that was the moment of my journey to recovery.

Our thinking can affect us in ways we cannot even fathom. It can not only spoil our relationships, affect our productivity at work or work havoc with our mental state. It can actually cause us physical ailments. So may ailments which are psychosomatic are caused by not stress but our getting affected by that stress.

I hear the argument that it is easier said than done but I am telling you, it can be done. All you need is to change your thinking. One, acknowledge a negative thought. Denial will not work. Two, say this sentence to that negative thought. “ Thanks for coming but please leave now. Repeat it till it goes away. Mind you, it will take practice and even after continuously doing it, there will be relapses. So as professor Moody says in Harry Potter, ‘Constant Vigilance’.

Do it for a day to start with. See the wonders it will do in one single day. Come on I dare you

So be it!!!