How your thoughts impact the reality around you

 By Karzan

It is rightly said that “You see the world as you are, not as it is”, when we interact with the world around us we do not observe it for what it is, but instead we see a version of the world that best suits our own current mood and feelings. The one thing that decides our mood and feelings are our thoughts.

Moreover, it is a fact that our mind tends to notice those things more which we think about on a greater level.

For example, lets say you are planning on purchasing a specific model of bike or car, you are constantly thinking and analyzing your choice. Now let’s say you take a bus and are travelling to work or college. Now, suddenly you start observing many more people using that exact same of bike/car on the streets than you would do on any other day. You wonder how did the number of people using that bike/car increase all of a sudden. While the actual truth is that, there were always that many people owning that model ofbike/car, but you were too busy minding your business to notice it, but now that your mind is thinking about it, you start to observe things which you used to previously ignore unknowingly.

Same is the case with other things in your life. The time you start your day with happy and positive thoughts, your brain focuses on all the things in your life that make you happier, and hence even the decisions that you take on that day make you all the more happier. You not only achieve your own state of happiness, but you also possess the ability to make those around you happy as well, hence people would also love to be around you.

But, if you start your day with negative thoughts, thoughts of hatred, anger, jealousy etc., your brain focuses on all the things in your life that have made you feel bad, you start remembering many previous incidences which made you feel unhappy. Now, with these thoughts circling around your head, whatever decisions, choices you make that day will only ensure that you stay unhappy and sad. Even the people you talk to won’t feel happy to be around you.

So, at the end of the day, you can either be someone whose company everyone likes and who is content with himself/herself, or you could be someone that no one likes and is himself/herself not happy with who they are.

Your one simple thought can change your entire reality. The Parsi community has a pretty wonderful saying “Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds”, i.e. one should always think good thoughts, as your thoughts impact what you say, which leads to good words; one should say good words, as these words impact the deeds one does and ones life experience is based on the deeds he/she does. Hence, the trick to having a good life is having good thoughts.

People often use the phrase, “I feared this would happen”; one must understand that when they fear that something might become true, you are actually thinking about it, and when you think about something too much, you involuntarily take actions to ensure you get the outcomes you are thinking about.

Take for example, you start your day with the thought that “Nobody likes me”; this simple thought invokes a feeling of hatred, anger and jealousy towards others, eventually you start to behave rudely with everyone (even with those who actually liked you), pushing everyone away; which forces people to dislike you even though they might have liked you before. Hence, you involuntary worked towards making that one thought of yours into your reality.

Another example is, you wake up and think to yourself “today is the day everyone will start to like who I am”, and then you end up behaving kindly and humbly with everyone around you, (a quality that many people like to see in others is kindness and humility), you even act nicely even with the ones you bully/tease you. All these actions of kindness and humility make people like you. Again, you have involuntarily turned one simple thought of yours into reality.

Lesson: Never underestimate the power of your thoughts. Your thoughts shape you and your reality.

 

Some tricks to help you start your day with positive and happy thoughts are:

1.     Yoga: Starting your day with at least 10 minutes of performing various yoga poses can help cleanse your mind and body of various toxins which may be the precursor to many negative thoughts.

2.     Exercise: Just like Yoga, starting your day with some exercise can also help relieve toxic thoughts and toxic waste in your body.

3.     Good sleep: One major reason behind negative thoughts is bad quality of sleep. If you wake up too early in the morning or sleep too late in the night, your mind is in such a state where it is most susceptible to negativity. Hence, even a good quality sleep can help you stay away from negative thoughts.