CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE, CHANGE YOUR LIFE

                           

 As I was sitting in the spiritual retreat, keenly listening to my guru, he suddenly raised his voice, looked in my direction, and said, ”You change your outlook towards the world and don’t complain about the world.” It came like a bolt out of the blue to me as I least expected it. I did complain about people treating me badly as I was upset about the way they behaved. It came as a rude shock as it sounded as if I had no grounds to complain. But, since it came from my guru, I accepted it in the faith that there may be something good coming out of it. I swallowed my ego. It instantly changed my attitude towards the world. From then on, I started seeing everyone empathetically. It was difficult in the beginning to accept people who had wronged me, but, because my guru asked me to bring a shift in my attitude, I obliged. Thus, my area of concern started shrinking and my area of influence started widening. Looking back, I think this was the greatest turning point in my life. I was willing to obey and it did a lot of good to my life.

 

Experientially I understood that I cannot change the world, but I can change the way I look at the world. A very defining moment in my life. This had a great impact on my life. Ever since, I have been a happy and peaceful person. I refuse to hand over the keys of my happiness to the world around me. Whenever we execute a choice in life, we need to remember that it will have its own consequences. Your perspective of everyone and everything in the world will decide your happiness. A small shift that you make, could have a huge bearing on the quality of life you live. No more am I at the mercy of the world. I am master of my life. No more complains, as my acceptance level has gone up many notches. Instead of attempting to correct the world, I keep correcting myself and so I have grown in my maturity by leaps and bounds. This has helped me to attain emotional equanimity.

 

“Attitudes don’t care where they are shaped, but once shaped, they become your behavior, either creating you or destroying you in the process.” -mahatria Ra

 

People suffer their own ego, their own anger, their inability to adjust, their lethargy, their incompetence,their judgement of others, their compulsion to gossip, their irritability, their manipulative mind, their lack of manners, their shallow mindedness, their mood swings, their cunning nature, their greed, their jealousy, their stupidity, their need for attention, their craving to be loved, their insincerity, their lack of emotional equanimity, and so on. Should we be the victim of our own negativity? Should we not change our attitude and overcome our weaknesses? We should bring a paradigm shift to our attitude towards the world. We always think that the world is wrong, not realizing that our own spectacles is scratched.

 

Life will be greatly altered if only we realize the joy and the peace that we can experience if we change our approach to life. First accept who you are. Don’t deny your weaknesses. Look within and see what you need to do away with. Be brutally frank with yourself. What is, is. List down the changes you need to bring in yourself. Work on it one by one. This will be the starting point of a beautiful life that you can live. Who wants to be unhappy in life? Everybody craves for Abundance of happiness. We should be willing to give up in order to go up in life. Take ownership of your own life. When you decide to change, not only will the world around you benefit, you will the greatest beneficiary. You will be gifting yourself the most beautiful life. What are you waiting for? Start today, start now!

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