Thoughts

It is important to know that there is a relationship between your thinking and the way you feel. It’s important to realize that you are constantly thinking. Don’t be fooled into believing that you are already aware of this fact! Think, for a moment, about your breathing. Until this moment, when you are reading this sentence, you had certainly lost sight of the fact that you were doing it. The truth is, unless you are out of breath, you simply forget that it’s occurring.

Thinking works in the same way. Because you’re always doing it, it’s easy to forget that it’s happening, and it becomes invisible to you. Unlike breathing, however, forgetting that you are thinking can cause some serious problems in your life, such as unhappiness, anger, inner conflicts, and stress. The reason this is true is that your thinking will always come back to you as a feeling.

Try getting angry without first having angry thoughts! Okay, now try feeling stressed out without first having stressful thoughts – or jealous without thoughts of jealousy. You can’t do it – it’s impossible. The truth is, in order to experience a feeling; you must first have a thought that produces that feeling.

Unhappiness doesn’t and can’t exist on its own. Unhappiness is the feeling that accompanies negative thinking about your life. In the absence of that thinking, the unhappiness, or stress, or jealousy, can’t exist. There is nothing to hold your negative feelings in place other than your own thinking. The next time you’re feeling upset, notice your thinking – it will be negative.

Remind yourself that it’s your thinking that is negative, not your life. This simple awareness will be the first step in putting you back on the path toward happiness. It takes practice, but you can get to the point where you treat your negative thoughts in much the same way you would treat flies at a picnic: You shoo them away and get on with your day.

There is story in Jataka Katha of a Brahamin who was returning home. It was hot day of summer and almost noon time and he decide to rest under a banyan tree. Suddenly the thought came to his mind wish i can get cold fresh water to quench my thirst. Now the tree was actually wish fulfilling tree and would fulfill all desire of anybody who has taken shelter under it. Brahamin started thinking of various pleasure and all those thing started appearing infront of him. Suddenly he thought what will happen if some tiger comes now and boom tiger was there. This lead to thought tiger will kill me and unfortunately tiger pounce on him and actually killed him.
So this story also have other moral but it also establishes the power of thoughts. All our actions are based on thought. If I want to slap someone first a thought will come then it will convert into action. Ayurveda and other medicinal discipline also talks about how people with positive thinking get cured faster than those who never want to think that they can be cured. That why we always try to create positive healthy environment around deseased person.