Our thinking creates our reality

What if I lose my job? What if I lose my girl friend? What if people reject me? What if I fall ill? What if this happens? What if that happens? This kind of “what if” thinking, leads to profound anxiety to such an extent the individual experiences panic which affects their rhythm of life.

This story is about the harm caused by “what if thinking” …

Once upon a time there was a saint living near a mountain village. He rendered spiritual protection the villagers .One day he saw germs capable of creating a chronic disease entering the village.

The saint stopped the germs and told, “I am protecting this village and I won’t allow you to enter this village”. The germs replied “There are 400 old people in this village who are at the end of their lives. We have come to help them complete their life journey”.

The saint took assurance from the germs, that they will kill only those 400 people. However when he heard that 800 people died because of an unknown disease, he became very angry. He called the germs and enquired “How did 800 people die?”

The germs replied, “We killed only 400 and the remaining 400 hundred died because of their own thoughts and fears of “What if I get this disease”, “What if I die”?

Our thinking creates our reality…

Once, I met an anxious mother, who panicked when her daughter was late to come back home by an hour. Her constant thoughts were, what if my daughter was kidnapped, and what if she ran away with her lover, what if she has met an accident – as these thoughts didn’t go away, she became even more scared and nervous. She called her husband and cried. Her husband in turn became worried and anxious and called his neighbours to ask them to help support his wife and to search for their daughter. The whole atmosphere was under panic.

The daughter was late because the bus she was traveling in broke down and needed to be repaired.

Contrary to the simplicity of the daughter’s reality, the anxious mother created a panicked reality because of her thoughts which side tracked her from the rhythm of life.

In such situations instead of letting the “what if” thinking pattern take over, take few deep breaths to relax and calm yourself and visualize good things happening and tell yourself that you can handle it – “I can handle this situation”, “I can handle anything that comes my way” and you have created a new reality where come what may…..and you will handle it….

At any stressful situation keep repeating to yourself, “I can handle it” and this new reality of you being able “handle it” will always help you to dance to the rhythm of your life.