Introduction To Thoughts

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.” – Swami Vivekananda 

 

 

Thoughts can be described as mental pictures, ideas, information, belief,emotions etc experienced by a person at a particular point of time.  

 

Thoughts form the major activity of the human mind. It is said that on an average a person experiences around 6200 thoughts per day. 

 

These thoughts can be some events about the past, present or the future. Thoughts can also be positive or negative thoughts. It is said that thoughts has the power to shape your destiny. Your present situation is the outcome of the thoughts that you had been carrying with you all along in your past.  

 

The person who you are likely to become in the future is determined by the quality of the thoughts that you carry in your life. Successful people tries to consistently vibrate with positive thoughts like love, peace, happiness, joy, gratitude, forgiveness etc. They try to eliminate all the negative thoughts like worry, fear, anxiety, anger, guilt, shame etc that held them back in their life.  

 

Each thought is said to trigger a certain chemical within the body. The cells within the body react to the chemical that is generated by the thought. Positive thoughts generates hormones like dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin etc which are also known as the feel good hormones and which have a positive effect on the cells of the body. 

Thinking is the process of generating thoughts. Thinking can be of different types. Some of them are calculation, evaluation, analysis, reasoning, judgement, critical thinking, lateral thinking, rational thinking, emotional thoughts etc.

We would be understanding more about the different types of thoughts, the science behind thoughts and also about Visualization in our subsequent blogs.

 This year, I'm participating in #BlogchatterA2Z  powered by theblogchatter.com 

Improve Happiness in Life

The following are some of the steps you can take to improve Happiness in your life :

• Identify the activities that motivate you or keeps you happy.

• Make a list of things that makes you happy and helps you to progress further in life.

• Classify the list as to how frequently you need to experience those mentioned things based on your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well being.

• Always try to see and hear positive things in your life daily.

• Avoid negative talks or certain news feeds that generates negative emotions. 

• Be mindful of the thoughts that enter your mind. Avoid negative thoughts. Feed your mind with positive thoughts. 

• Practice meditation on a daily basis so that you become more relaxed, self aware, intuitive and happy. 

• Practice Yoga and Pranayama so that you keep your body and your inner self very flexible, relaxed and aware. Happiness is just not doing things that excite your mind alone. It also includes generating happiness for your entire body which includes mind, organs, cells etc.

• Spend sometime to relax yourself in a meditative state so that you listen to your body and do what is good for your inner self.

• Always remember that if you feed good positive thoughts to your subconscious mind it will in turn respond to you in a positive manner thereby bringing you success, happiness, peace and bliss.

• Be spiritual and believe in God. God is eternal and has infinite powers. We being the children of God are also powerful.

• Express a sense of gratitude to God for giving all good things in your life. 

• Forgive those people who had angered or cheated you in the past and move on with your life in a positive and a happy manner.

• Follow a hobby or passion and make sure you spend sometime every week to develop and upskill your passion.

• Socialize with good friends once in a while. Share your memories, thoughts, ideas and happiness with them.

• Remember the great moments in your life when you had achieved something great like winning a medal, certificate, cup or a recognition. Cherish those moments frequently and motivate yourself to do good things in life frequently. 

• Listen to motivational speeches of great personalities or Spiritual gurus. Learn some winning secrets from them that would help to bring happiness and joy to your life.

• Spend lot of time with your family members and share love and happiness with them. 

• Help people who are in need of help. Help can be in the form of money, services etc.

• Give happiness to others so that you in turn receive happiness to yourself. Wish friends on their birthday. Gift your loved ones with something special on important occasions so that they become happy and you in turn receive the happiness. 

• When you become happy there are lot of happiness hormones that gets released to your body. Some of these are endorphins, dopamine, oxytocin etc.

• Live in the present moment. Don't postpone your happiness to a later time. For example when you say something like I shall enjoy when I get a job. Once you get a job and when you feel busy then you would say something like I shall enjoy when I get promoted to a Senior level. Never postpone your happiness to a future date. Always try to enjoy and be happy in the present moment because your bright future depends on how happy and successful you are at the present moment.