At the clinic I am always telling patients to give up smoking. Quit smoking before it kills you, I tell them. Today I ask you to quit pain and watch your life change.
Each and every one of us faces new challenges everyday. Adversity does not ask our permission before presenting itself; and the pain it brings along with it can be very overwhelming. Even so, we need to realize that in every equation that a challenge poses before us, pain assumes a value of great significance only if we allow it to be so. If we feed it by focusing on it, it wields a power that can kill, else; not.
We often hold on to pain almost as if were we to let it go we would feel a sense of loss. As if choosing to cling on to it will find us the solutions we are looking for. Just as we can become habituated to all things in life, so also we can become habituated to pain. We begin to accept it as part of the problem and continue to bear it as best as we can. This need not be so. All that is needed is a change of focus. Pain needs support to stand tall; from today stop lending it that support. Choose to be free of pain, physical or otherwise. You have it in you to do so. Choose the experience; eschew the pain. A friend once told me that all energy can turn to positive energy if we so choose it to be. It is an incredible thought; a thought that enables us. There is no negative energy only that which has not been energized positively.
We spend so much of our time and energies on looking at the cloud and hunting for the silver lining that we forget that the cloud is in the blue sky that envelops it. The cosmos compliments us; we only need to be aware of those compliments. Think about it hasnt every negative experience brought about positive learning? Then why view the negative as negative; why not acknowledge it as a part of the positive? Look at it as the first fraction of the beautiful whole. Real beauty does not lie in perfection it lies in imperfection. So look at all the blemishes that life offers you as the contrasting elements that highlight the beauty of your living experience. Am I revealing some big secret to you? No. I am merely reminding you of what you already know.
Truth has many facets. We hold on to the one we find most appealing. Ultimately it doesnt matter what facet we choose to look at, for the whole is always a diamond radiating brilliance.
From today, look for the hidden meaning in all your experiences. Look for the higher messages that they bring to you. Every experience is borne of our choices, conscious or otherwise. You ask a question of the Universe and it will answer. Learn to recognise the answers when they come to you whether it is luck in physical form or a part of pluck that you display. From today see the larger picture. Look beyond the pain and see the painting. Like I said, it is only a fragment of the beautiful whole. From today choose to know that.
Dr. Ripal K. Kotak
Aano bhadra krtavo yantu vishwatah.(- RIG VEDA)
"Let noble thoughts come to me from all directions"
REGARDS
Miss.Shaija Vallikatri Bhaskaran
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