A light in the darkness

                                                          Image credit:  Peggy und Marco Lachmann-Anke   on Pixabay Pondering over the concept of decision-making, I was compelled to think about what really makes us take a decision. Why do we ever choose to decide? When this question was thrown to me by the author Antony Robbins, I was like I never thought about it, it just happens. As I proceeded in my reading the discussion was becoming more interesting and the answer I came up with was really a shock to me. The author talked about why did Donald Trump do what he did and why Mother Teresa did what she liked? Both of them are making decisions to do things but in different ways. Even though it is about decision-making why are they different in all manners? Decision-m...

                                                            Image Credit: Andy on pixabay Carrying you back to my previous post on "How do you see the pain experience?"  I learned to see pain as a learning experience to make better decisions. This landed me on a page that teaches us how to handle our pain for better results. This post is to draw the power from the pains we are suffering.  1) Surrender The pain has the power to break us to the extent that we feel crippled. How do we see this crippling experience? Does it hurt our ego? or does it unite us with our true friends who are always there with us when we need them ( unity). Pain reminds us that we are not complete in our own selves rather we need help to complete ourselves. It teaches us to give due cons...

As I was pondering over pain and how it has transformed me, I learned a very good lesson. As life brought challenges and I met failures in my life, my outlook towards life was blurring every now and then. It was impossible for me to trust that something good could happen to me now. I was shattered and broken.  This was the time I met my God. I started looking away from my failures and setbacks towards God. This transformational shift in my thought transformed my victim thought into a victor thought. It instilled in me new hope and channelled my thought process towards a positive outlook. From there on, I never took the path of negativity. I always try to keep my thoughts on a positive track, even when life says you are a big fool. I say to myself,Let us see what comes out. This positive outlook has been very helpful to me in making my life look beautiful and good.  Today, when I look back on all these pains, I feel they were all important for me to shape me into what I am now....

 So, as I have promised to share about the various dimensions of pain we face, we need the magical wand of forgiveness. Now, before talking about hurt and pain, I would like to say that hurt is neither less nor more. Hurt is something that crushes us beyond repair. Smedes (1984) categorised it as personal, unjust, and deep. I also do not put it into hierarchy but rather try to understand them with them. As I was exploring this topic of pain I came across the word "mental pain." I was like ah! For everything we now have started adding mental. This search introduced me to a new understanding of the world of Pain.  I was once driving, and the drive was long. It was almost 9:30 p.m., and I had not reached my destination. I was anxious and fearful too. I remember I was in all my senses, but something happened at that moment, and my vehicle hit the barricade of the road, and I fell and hurt my knee. It was a sharp pain. This is also a personal pain, but physical. We are not discus...