Everything will be Okay!!

Keerthana Thiagaraj
3 min readNov 30, 2020

Our mind can be our biggest challenge and obstacle, yet if we manage it skillfully, it can be our biggest ally.

Our mind is fascinating.It has its own rhythm, its own patterns and tendencies, it is self-conscious, and yet we are not aware of many things spontaneously happening. Waves of thoughts arise and subside in our mind and we have no control over them.🏇🏼 It is really important to calm ourselves and concentrate on the ongoing circumstances.

We judge ourselves for feeling pain, sadness, fear, which then produce feelings of things like shame and guilt.We end up just feeling bad about feeling bad. It actually stalls out any healing or progress or problem solving.

Penchant of the Mind:

It is found that an average person has about 12,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. Of those thousands of thoughts, 80% are negative, and 95% are exactly the same repetitive thoughts as the day before.

We can see that one of the tendencies of the mind is to focus on the negative and ‘play the same songs’ over and over again.‼️

Substantially, 85% of what we worry about never happens.

Most of our worries are baseless and result from an unfounded pessimistic perception.These baseless…

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