DON’T THINK; BE HAPPY

I read somewhere that we are not human beings going through a temporary spiritual experience. Rather we are Spiritual beings going through temporary human experience. For me it means that we were designed to be guided by our emotions and not by our thoughts. Our emotions were supposed be shaping our thoughts rather than the opposite of it. But ironically since the time we became a part of this spiritual – physical world we are trained to think before we do everything, even before we feel.

At School we are taught to think before we ask a question, and at home we are expected to think before we say anything. At play we are trained to think before we play and at party we should think before we party. Sounds familiar!! And in this whole mayhem of thinking we actually forget that thinking is not something we were designed to do inherently. No, No…. please do not get me wrong, I am not an advocate of impulsive and erratic behavior. That will create chaos. The point I am trying to make is that too much thinking inhibits the ability to do. What differentiates humans from other beings is not our ability to think but rather our ability to articulate our emotions. It is our emotions and our cognitive interpretation of them is what makes us so special. The more we are able to understand our emotions and act according to them the more successful we are. But before we are able to do so it is imperative to understand success also. Success is not what our friends or our parents or our society defines for us. No one has the right to decide what success is for me. It is only me who can decide. In my opinion and I may well be wrong, Success is what makes me feel happy, and content, and accomplished. So anything that will instill these emotions in me is success for me and likewise the activities that instill the opposite feelings are failures. 

From here I come to my initial statement where I said “Don’t Think”. Instead of keep thinking whether I should do this or not or do that or not, I should be able to feel whether doing this is going to make me feel happy or content or accomplished or any such positive emotions as we may paraphrase. 

You may say that this principle looks good in theory and it is easier said than done and I totally agree. It not easy for me either and I still cannot say whether I have been able to do this effortlessly. It does require effort and in spite of that I do miss the target many a times. Any art is mastered only through practice and the more you practice, the better you get. And on more than one occasion I have felt the immense power of this practice. When we say that we are the creators of our own destiny, it means that the law of universe follows the Belief ->  Behavior -> Destiny principle. To elaborate, our practiced emotions become our belief which in turn manifest in our behavior and finally shape our destiny. 

So the next time before you do anything, don’t think whether your family or your friends or the society or whether even you want to do it. Just observe and feel whether doing THE THING is going to make you feel good or going to make you feel bad and you will get your answer.

DON’T THINK; BE HAPPY.