The Power to Change Ourselves Instantly

I believe that there should be a way to change ourselves instantly. But I haven't yet found it.

I don't believe that changing ourselves should take months or years. The reason for this belief is my faith in it. I don't have any rational explanation for my belief. Like faith in God's existence, it is an intuition that I have.

An example will make things clearer.  Let us say I want to stop being angry at people who don't do things the way I expect them to do them. Now if I want to stop being angry, I feel that I just need to decide that from this moment I am not going to be angry, come what may. I'll do whatever it takes to stop being angry. I shouldn't take too long to make this decision. I know that I don't stick to this decision for long. My faith is that there should be a way of making irreversible decisions.

Do I need a help from my spiritual self - from my Atman. E Stanley Jones says that we won't change ourselves until we surrender ourselves to Jesus Christ. As I am a Hindu, I'll interpret that statement to include surrender to Lord Krishna, or Rama, or any other incarnation of God. I haven't tried that out. So I am not sure whether this way will work.

The Bible says, "Ask and you shall find". I am in search of the way that will change me in an instant. I am confident that this way exists. I'll find it out - with God's help.

Avoiding Boredom

A few years ago I experienced the truth of this message: Only if our mind roams into the past or the future while we do a task, the task seems boring. If we can live in the present while doing the taks, we will not experience fatigue or boredom. I think, this is the message of the Gita as well. The Gita asks us to focus on an activity without being worried about the results. When we worry about the results, we are living in the future. And, that means we are not focusing on the activity. Therefore, to avoid boredom or fatigue, and to develop enthusiasm for life, we need to live in the present.

Following this philosophy, I was able to do so much. I cleaned the sofa, I scrubbed the wash basins, I cleaned the bathroom and I experienced no tiredness. Amazing….that works……

Reading about Attitude

Yesterday I started reading a book called Attitude is Everything by Jeff Keller. The book's introduction got me hooked.

The author was a lawyer in the US. After being a lawyer for several years, he started dreading going to his office. And he was depressed and felt tired most of the time. Then one day he saw on TV an infomercial on positive thinking study material. He ordered it. The day he got the study material, his life took a new direction, a positive direction.

His introductory piece reminds me of my own troubles at the workplace and how by reading books by Norman Vincent Peale,  Robert Sculler, Zig Ziglar, and E Stanley Jones, I was able to perform better at work.

I hope to continue reading this book through the next few days. The content seems to be so life-changing that I am going to read a chapter a day and immediately start implementing it to my life.