Law of attraction!

I have been in a confused state of late. This led to introspection and I kind of replayed my entire life in a bid to understand how and when things took shape to lead me where I am today.

That is when I realized some of the thoughts/visions that existed in my mind as a kid. As I went back the memory lane, I was surprised to find that how life unfolded before me later on in life, i already had a preview much before it happened. The more I probed, the more I saw visions that stared at me as a kid translated in to reality later on in life.

I desperately went out searching for the book "The Secret" which I had bought about 2 yrs back. I had read it and left it one corner. By the time I found the book, I was exhausted to read it. I turned to see the online documentary on the book. That was the good thing to do. As one after other, speakers spoke about the law of attraction, it was hitting me hard. Here I was, I was a fine example of it. I did not consciously apply the law of attractions but how life unfolded before me was exactly what I visualized it to be. Some were good, some were bad, others resulted in the stagnation that I always feared.

I did lot of research on the net on this law of attraction. I read the views of the skeptics of this law. They did make a point. However it did not convince me that the law is fake. How can I ignore my own life and how things unfolded. If there is law, there are exception too. Like per the law of gravity, an apple comes down, but there is an exception to this rule as well, the balloon goes up. Exceptions does not render basic laws flawed, it only highlights conditions when a law can fail .

I made a resolve to set the vision for the rest of my life and live and breathe it. I decided to apply the law of attraction to my life in all earnest. I know the law will work, as for the exceptions that I will leave to the skeptics to track :-).

Revolution

The happenings in Egypt have not got the kind of coverage expected of such an event in India. Right now we have out own set of domestic issues that has caught the nations attention. High-end corruption tops the list.

Ordinary taxpayer is frustrated at the insatiable appetite of the politicians. The scams run in to billions of dollars and with a new case being uncovered these amounts are setting new records.

How much does one need for a good living? In a country where majority of the population still struggles for basic necessities, billions are stashed away by the politicians hobnobbing with the elite business class.

The government when it comes to taxes says there is not much room left to offer reprieve to manage the budget deficit. The ordinary man on the street has to bear, taxes, frequent rise in petrol prices and also inflation.

If we take in to account the loss caused to the public exchequer due to corruption, the funds are enough to cover the budget deficit caused by tax cuts.

The issue with ordinary Indians is that we are very tolerant people. Politicians have looted the country for ages yet we allow them to be the in the centre stage of politics. Indians might have the best minds, but they have the shortest memory. We have become a nation of people who have lost hope that change is possible.

Economic prosperity has pushed a whole lot of population from middle class to upper middle class status. The more the person moves up the ladder, less affected he is by the happenings around. Gap between the rich and poor also has widened. Rise of the Maoist forces in the country is also a result of this. We express our frustration or lack of it in extreme forms, a middle path is not visible.

Mass activism like the kind witnessed in Egypt is required.

Initially I thought lack of leadership could be the reason for lack of activism. The Egypt uprising showed us how in the new age no one is needed to lead from the front. What is required is awakening. Indians are sleeping, or rather pretending to be asleep. As the saying goes “you can wake up a sleeping person, but try waking up a person pretending to be asleep.

Wake up my fellow countrymen.

Positive Thinking

The other day when I visited my family doc , she advised me to stay positive. Since I know her right from the time I was a baby, I opened up to her. It was bad day I guess so I was ranting.

Her statement made me wonder, because she herself is going through a crisis time. Her husband is suffering from lung issues , which has severely affected his mobility and hence hers too. I recalled how active her husband was, both of them were very religious. They used to conduct annual pilgrimage to holy places and my mother used to go with them. The couple always was present at all religious functions, they were engaged in godly service post their retirement.

Apart from that they also volunteered for a lot of charity.

When my doc's husband fell ill, first thing that came to mind is , why them, because as far as I know they were good people in all respects. I had read somewhere that making you suffer is god's way of testing your faith. When my doc made that statement I thought she too is taking this as a test of her faith.

I am not a very religious person, but yes I am very driven by my conscience. Looking back at life I am grateful for things that life has bestowed on me. Yet as the Maslow's need hierarchy theory suggests, one set of needs are fulfilled our aspirations graduate in to the second set.

So the quest continues.

Is it natural to be positive always. Is it not human to slip in to negative zone. I consciously try to be positive, but there are moments when you start slipping. I think most of us are in neutral zone, I mean neither positive nor negative. As we go about in our day to day life most of us remain in the neutral zone till we face a situation wherein we are pushed to the positive or negative zone.

When I was young , I noticed that my dad and mom used to say they expect the worst outcomes out of things, so that what ever is the result, it doesn't jolt them. I think it was their way of expecting something positive, strange but that was their take. In my case, I have seen whatever is my fear comes out to be true, so I cant afford to take their approach, it does not work for me. But at times it is not in my control, I don't know if its my thought process that results in how my destiny shapes up or is it the universal force which kind of warns me in advance what is in store for me and when it happens I am like " I knew this was going to happen".

Your mind can think positively, but your heart is your god. If you listen to it, it will tell you what is coming up. Train your mind to think positive, but never ignore the heart. That has been my experience.