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Start A Positive Thought Factory

Pramod Batra

Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character.

If it is your character to watch your thoughts, words, actions and habits, you will be able to weed out your negative thoughts as they arise. A negative mindset is the result of unruly emotions. Once you are aware of this, you will be able to ensure whatever is good for you.

For controlling my thoughts, I have found a simple way: GIGO vs BIBO. I have improvised on GIGO – a computer term meaning Garbage In Garbage Out – by calling it Good Ideas In Good Ideas Out. In fact, to some extent, a computer and a human mind are comparable inasmuch as what you get as output depends on what you feed in as input. As you sow, so shall you reap. But then, man is a funny animal. He thinks he is smarter, that this truth is applicable to others and not to him. How mistaken a man can be! Otherwise why would he allow himself or his children to sit in front of the idiot box and watch all that trash. It is a fact that my biggest enemy or friend is myself!

It is for this reason that I do not allow my mind to be bombarded with bad ideas from television and video, friends and associates, books and newspapers, and so on (BIBO – Bad ideas In Bad ideas Out).

Each one of us, at night, empties our pockets into an almirah or a drawer of the dresser. This process has inspired me to empty my mind before retiring, into the waste basket, because the bad ideas which I collected today won’t be needed by me tomorrow. During the day we pick up little worries, jealousies and resentments, which must be emptied from our minds. If we do not discard all these items, they are bound to poison our minds.

This daily mental drycleaning will help us to have 6 to 9 per cent of our minds empty for new and better ideas to come in. And incidentally, if we avoid this cleaning, it will surely cause stresses and strains, because then there is no end to the filth which accumulates in our minds. Our minds become like dustbins.
For this reason, I am very selective about what I read and the people with whom I spend my time. I want to be happy because I have to manufacture good thoughts.

Our minds are thought factories and can manufacture either positive thoughts or negative thoughts. Only we can decide which thoughts to manufacture. Those who want to be happy, train their minds to create happy thoughts. People who constantly manufacture negative thoughts are under some wrong impressions and are mixed up about their priorities. They have not given a thought to what their goals are in their environment. They have not decided about their exact destination and therefore keep on changing speed and direction. Whenever they find themselves on a wrong road, they become negative. They want to go to Lahore but are on the road to Peshawar!

Let us take two farmers – each having two acres of land. Farmer Santa does what his ancestors have done for ages. On the other hand, we have farmer Banta who is always visiting an talking to professors of an agricultural university and is thinking and working innovatively all the time. Who will be better off? Naturally, Banta.

My takia kalaam (pet expression) is chardi kala wich (on top of the world) and balle balle (hurrah! Hurrah!) – never have I thought otherwise. I follow the concept that if sickness is unavoidable, relax and enjoy it! President Nixon wrote Six Crises when he was hospitalized for a knee injury during a presidential campaign.

I never share my problems, my anxieties, my worries, my stresses with anyone unless he can help or guide me. Also, I get my inspiration from Guru Nanakjee, Nanak dukhiya sag sansar… (Oh Nanak, in this world everyone has big problems). Mentally, I am prepared for everything – including death! So what – if it has to come, it has to come. And like our Lord Krishna says, “Do your job”. Just do it, buddy, and the rest is in His hands.

Things have to go on in life. I have seen people who have done very well in favorable as well as in adverse circumstances. It depends purely upon an individual’s own mental makeup and how he prepares for life.

Our mind is like an acre of land in which we can either grow flowers or weeds. Unfortunately, it is human nature to grow weeds if efforts are not made to plant your own SEEDS (Stories, Examples, Exhibits, Demonstrations, Sayings) of happiness. And like a piece of land, unless tilling, seeding, watering fertilizing and weeding is done as required, we are surely going to get weeds!

My mind and my heart are my best assets. I must “invent” them, consciously and subconsciously, through exposure and experience – every day, before I go to sleep. For me, these are my adjoining acres of land to cultivate and harvest…as I sow, so shall I reap! It is in my subconscious that I can assemble positive thoughts and store them like one does on a computer memory disc (capacity: one crore pages)! I do not use my mind as garbage cans for the trivia which is produced daily by the mass media, friends, colleagues, near and dear ones. I select what is best and derive inspiration from shabri ke ber (sift the good ones), and I reject what is likely to pollute my mind and my heart. I listen to motivational cassettes, read motivational books and seek friends and colleagues from whom I can learn. I make and conduct my own programmes for my mind and my heart.
Think poor, stay poor. Think rich, stay rich! Your prosperity or poverty is a result of your thinking. You can be either rich or poor, depending on how you train your mind the THINK. Everyone knows that this is a fact. Every religion says so. I have been able to achieve prosperity, to some extent, by following simple rules. I could not select my parents or my children; the rest I can and I do, as much as possible! I keep the company of those who are seemingly happy with what they have got and also happy with what they don’t have.

Again, my mind is my factory of thoughts. I order it to produce positive thoughts such as “I am rich, I am happy.”

Air-condition your heart and your mind instead of air-conditioning your house!
When you think positive thoughts, many things will happen on their own. Your stresses will disappear! It is definitely not wealth but wisdom that makes men rich. After all, the richest man is the one who wants the least. Wealth without wisdom is very stressful. Riches and stress are inseperable, unless you are a wise and mature man.

If you want happiness for a lifetime…learn to love what you do.
Remember, a wise man can become rich by dint of sheer hard work. 

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