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.
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