Chancelante Thoughts

Huh! Thoughts, thoughts and thoughts everywhere.

Yesterday, 4th May, 2010 was my joining day at IBM. The block where my joining formalities were being fulfilled was all having great people and their perceptions on different concepts.

Well, the one ideology which represents IBM and which is the basis for IBM's success is T-H-I-N-K.

A paragraph from the walls inside IBM building which caught my eye instantly is as below. This paragraph states what I think too...... just that this is written by the founder of IBM.

Here it goes:

In December 1911, IBM's founder Thomas J. Watson Sr. said, "The trouble with everyone of us is that we dont think enough. 'I dint think' has cost the world millions of dollars." And then he wrote T-H-I-N-K on the easel behind him. Even today, it symbolizes the essence of all that IBM stands for.

Image above shows the THINK word on the easel behind Thomas Watson.

Now every person might be really confused as to why they were thrown or have been landed on earth. Atleast I am confused! A big time confusion to me!

Purpose of one's own life is a BIG question. Probably there would be 60% to 80% who do not bother or ponder on this question during their entire life. But I have always asked one question to myself "Why am I here?" and on what purpose.

As life started revealing itself in its wondrous forms, at every moment, I realized that I am the MASTER of the whole personality I possess. Later realized that there are people other than me influencing my very life in their own way. I read this line in a book "The Noticer" that your death does not dawn on you until your purpose is completed here. Some are destined for great works and some are for menial works. But at the end of the day, every person in this universe has a purpose to have got the life of a human being.

God in his own way fulfills his deeds through us. So PEOPLE! Beware! Do not get confused or ponder on whats your purpose but just live your life the right way. Do not get under-estimated by any means.

At all points of your life, trust your soul, it talks to you always, it becomes heavy when you have done any mistake/sad. Following your "soul talk" will lead you to the right things.

Just take your right hand and place it on your heart, does it feel satisfied and at ease ???? Then its time you congratulate yourself, because you are on the right track.

The present post is being written after perusing through some pages of the book "Why God Is Laughing?" by Deepak Chopra.

So this thought of mine has been actually imbibed into me by this author. Courtesy: Deepak Chopra.

The book says:
Fear tells many lies but is always believed.
If the worst happens, fear will be greatly relieved.
On the day you were born, fear poisoned your heart.
Fear will still be there on the day you depart.

One paragraph was given explaining why we should not fear. It goes as written below:

The world for a person is one big dentist's waiting room with everyone anticipating the next thing that hurts. If everybody is afraid in the waiting room but only five percent wind up feeling pain in the chair, then fear is pointless ninety-five percent of the time. Fear is a terrible predictor of the future.In fact, nothing is as unreliable as fear, and yet people rely on it over and over again.

So basically, what I want to say is that I need to Fire my Fears!

One of my friend sent me a link, actually a video on youtube, no arms no legs no worries. Just seen this and you know what was the next impression on my mind. Nothing but that a little thought process has evolved a person's life to be par excellence. For all those People giving up on life - Learn something from this person out here...... Please never give up on life. I personally know how hard it is to follow and how easy to write in a personal blog :).

Oh! I was going to write on RoleModels..... Dont you all think that this person is being a Rolemodel to all those people who have given up on life. I am quite sure every person would be having a rolemodels in their lives, in case you dont have and think that you dont have to follow other's shadows, you really dont have to.... but people like the one in this video can inspire you to such an extent that having a rolemodel is not that bad.

Again, I come back to my favourite line - "People are what their thoughts make them to be". This man in the video had positive thoughts and has achieved more than what anyone can imagine in their dreams. I read this line in a picture - Any loss, Any damage does not make us victims..... But our thoughts can make us victims to the losses we have had...... Turning around the disadvantage to an advantage is a skill very few have.

Having Identity of our own is what everyone craves for but learning from the inspiring people,I think very few people do. According to me, every human being has something to teach us, if you observe it, you learn it, if you dont observe it, you are at loss.

Never underestimating and being open towards getting inspired would fetch you, your ROLEMODEL..... Search out whose your rolemodel today and let them know how profoundly they have touched your heart and mind!!!

I read a newsletter sometime back which started out with an aphorism “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he”. Then later, I came across many such kind of adages like:
“When you really want something, the whole world conspires in your favor”
“All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.”
“Our thoughts create our feelings, beliefs, and experiences”
“If our thinking is negative, we can drown in a sea of negativity; if it’s positive, we can float on the ocean of life.”
“Watch out your thoughts as they become words and Words become Actions.”

The above things have been told by different people but the lesson to be learnt or rather to realize is that to keep a careful watch on what we think day-in and day-out.

These proverbs have intrigued me to such an extent that I am now a staunch believer of every word written in the above sayings. The book “The Secret” by the author Rhonda Byrne reveals a concept similar to mind over matter kind of stuff. She says that every person is a transmitter/receiver and sends signals to this universe, the universe then picks these signals and respond on what we need. Mind you, the signals to be reaching the universe should be plain and straight forward and the first point where it will actually start is from our thoughts and then our actions. For more understanding, you can always read the book “The Secret”.

Dan Brown – author of “The Lost Symbol” has also mentioned about such kind of similar concept “MIND OVER MATTER”. If you think of having anything, meditating on it and hoping to have it would be sufficient to get it. Sometimes, people’s thoughts are so strong that they take shape very quickly, that’s because the intensity of the thoughts being very high.

Thoughts are ever flowing in our minds, either as conscious thoughts or sub-conscious thoughts. But believe me, at every moment of our life, we are thinking about something or the other consciously or sub-consciously when we are awake.

I came across a site on intention which is trying to prove through a new technology “Noetic Sciences” that human mind has the capability to change its surroundings. Noetic refers to "inner knowing," a kind of intuitive consciousness—direct and immediate access to knowledge beyond what is available to our normal senses and the power of reason. For non-believers, researching more into the Noetic Sciences would definitely bring a new ray of hope.

I would probably go on and on for this topic. Time and again, there have been many incidents or I must say that there are miracles that happened in an ordinary life, something extra-ordinary, which according to me are the result of our own thoughts and their intensity.

I have always been taught that there is a reason behind everything that happens to us and also a reason behind why we are the way we are.

To state an example, we pass our exams if we study and flunk if we don’t, see there’s a reason here too. In the same way, every person behaves the way he does for a reason, and the funniest part is that some people don’t even realize that there is a reason behind the way they behave, they just don’t realize the way they are.

Sometimes, for no reason, you might feel sad and for no reason, you might feel happy or good. Not always this is the case in my opinion, there is a reason behind the way you feel, it may be due to the presence of certain people or the atmosphere.

The realizations to reason the way we feel all the time is just not done by everyone. Basically, we don’t get into the depths of reasoning but just enjoy/regret the way we feel at present and some reasons may be childish that we tend to ignore them altogether. Childish or not, the point is that there is a reason behind everything that happens in our lives with or without your realization. You may ask many questions where there wouldn’t be no reason at all, but that reasoning is not known to us, we are in the darkness and the day we come to light, it may be too late. But there is one thing in our hands, to reason out the things.

Go Back atleast an hour back of your life and Think over, if you really reason out the things that happen to you or just go the way the life takes you without reasoning.

Do not over stress yourself on thinking about what is "Chancelante". It just means "Wavering".... and so the title of my blog is basically "Wavering Thoughts". Could not help having a French term here in the title as most of the other blogs have already used up the words I have thought to put up.......