One of the thorniest issues encompassing human behavior is to resist change that walks up into our day to day life. It is a six letter dirty word that brings cold shivers down into our spine because most of us fear of something horrible that might mess up our lives. We do not force ourselves to test our assumptions and lock our minds to do things which are worn out by time.
Isn’t it very easy to lock ourselves to such state of mind? Indeed it is very easy when we see other people locking themselves into same kind of conduct again and again. Nobody likes applying pressure to their minds because we know for certain that we would face severe resistance from our mind. Infact I would say resistance is a kind of shadow always accompanying to changes. So we continue to do things the way they are done before. Our current and past habits play very important role as all habits are deeply ingrained in our nervous system. They are considered sacred and any attempt to change these habits raises violent rebellion within us.
Some may say I am desperate to turn thing around me for better but I do not know how. Some may feel it is just waste of time and energy because every one around me told me that it is not possible or is very hard to change.
We always try to bring changes to our lives which are just peripheral in nature or bring external empowerment. Purchasing a new car, buying a big apartment in rich urban backdrop or buying third generation electronic gadgets or doing things that make us feel good reinforces our assumptions about success in life. Truly speaking though these things bring immense superficial pleasure and psychological satisfaction of owning them, the truth is they do not empower us spiritually. With each sunrise, we pursue them madly without knowing that these forces have taken complete control of our lives. We should questions to ourselves do they have real power to enrich our spiritual lives. Do they really satisfy our spiritual needs?
Though these things make our lives easy and also make us feel good, the happiness is not enduring. It is momentary. The happiness may last for few minutes or say few hours or say for few days. But after their influence gets warded off, we start looking at new things that make us feel good again. The cycle persists once more and it continues till we are stressed out. After that we loose our effectiveness to have a hold over our destiny.
It seems that during certain age of our life, urgency of everything take control of our lives. On one hand we assume that not picking up phone would result into missed out opportunity with our client or our high profile manager; on the other hand, we do not even read mails which might make difference to our lives yet put them off for reading time and again. We just cannot master our way to organize our work and do not distinguish the difference between what is important and what is urgent.
The solution is simple. We have to take control of our emotions. We have to make our lives simple by enriching ourselves with spirituality that empowers us to manage our emotions in more successful ways. Spirituality brings positive impact on our lives and has strength and ability to change destiny.
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