When we look back over the past century, we find that humans have achieved tremendous economic and scientific progress, but our inner powers have declined over the same period of time. That is evident from how easily people become upset, worried, or angry nowadays. These are symptoms of a weak mind.
Just as a cellphone battery retains it charge according to how the phone is used, the way we think determines how strong, or weak, our mind becomes. If we think unnecessarily, we waste mental energy, and negative thoughts deplete the mind even faster.
For success and happiness in life, it is essential to create positive and powerful thoughts, which strengthen and stabilise the mind. An even more effective way to energise the mind is the practice of meditation. Connecting mentally with the Divine is like plugging your mind into a power station — it fills the mind with His powers.
What are problems? They are the creation of weak minds. Just as weak and negative thoughts distort our perception and we begin to see situations as problems, powerful thoughts do the opposite: they change our point of view in such a way that the problems cease to exist.
How do our thoughts change our life?
Each thought we create carries some energy with it. Positive thoughts carry positive energy and negative thoughts have negative energy. When we think, this energy radiates from us to the atmosphere.
The energy, which spreads in the form of vibrations, influences matter all around us and subtly shapes the world according to how we think. Have you ever noticed the difference between the vibes inside a temple and those in a hotel? That is the result of the kind of thoughts and feelings people have in those two places.
Instead of brooding over matters that trouble us, if we think confidently, with full conviction, of living the kind of life we want, that reality will start taking shape. This is not wishful thinking. Countless people have experimented with purposeful, positive and powerful thoughts and achieved remarkable results. They have cured themselves of decades-old ailments, many have come out of poverty, or got the job they wanted, while others have mended long-broken relationships.
All it takes is conscious effort to think in the right way. We all have the power of thoughts with us. It is up to us to use it.
B.K. Surya is a senior Rajyoga teacher at the Brahma Kumaris headquarters in Mount Abu, Rajasthan.