Positive self-talk

A high-tolerance level when faced with frustration is due to the capacity to motivate oneself. Motivate

yourself to heal. Young Siddhartha, the eponymous hero in Herman Hesse’s book, is asked by his prospective employer, Kumaraswamy, ‘What  do you know that I should give you a job?’ Siddartha answers, ‘I can wait, I can fast, I can pray.’ He gets the job and achieves

excellence in it. 

With affection and compassion, we can make our field a happy one by spreading like a fragrance to embrace all those around us. Everyone has only two choices—life-enhancing and life destroying. An event is not as critical as is your reaction or perception of it. It continues its life inside you, a nuclear landmine of memories that wreak far more destruction than the actual event. The more mind space you allocate to unhappy memories, the more time you spend in the past while being a spectator in the living present, the more you miss the joy the present moment offers.

We need to change the way we talk to and treat ourselves. All of us need a tender, loving caretaker within who nurtures us, not an internal drillmaster who victimizes us in an insulting and disparaging tone, sucking out all our energy, enthusiasm and happiness. Positive self-talk helps in such situations. Be prepared to sacrifice, to wait and do not rush to gratify every desire. Continue with your life’s work and you will be healed.