Our mind is a
mystic. As much as there is a positive side for it, it also has a negative side.
First, let me tell
you a story of Tutu and kuttu, the twin dogs which belongs to a village in
India. Even though these dogs are twins,
they both differ so much in their characteristics. Tutu safeguards the village,
it never allows any other dog to enter into the village, it loves everyone in
the village and is kind whereas kuttu is arrogant, it bites all the kids that
are playing and always barks unnecessarily. These villagers loved tutu and
hated kuttu. They also started feeding tutu more and taking care of it as if
their own pet. On the other side, kuttu was fed very less and was not given any
importance. As a result of this, the kind tutu started being more favorable to
its caretakers and kuttu became very week to even bark.
We all have tutu and
kuttu within us. It all depends on who we feed the most. If you feed the
positive personality more, you will a positive person with all the blooms. If
you chose to feed the negative personality more then you will become more
arrogant, unlovable and worthless with time.
When you are in
competition with yourself, it means that you are in competition with your
negative self.
Your negative self
is something that restricts you from achieving your goals. It loves laziness
and so it will command you to be lazy and you know what most of us listen to
what it says. Your negative self also loves entertainment, distractions, and
vagueness. It is the culprit that always wants you to check social media even
if you have nothing to see in it. It will never allow you to be focused on it. Do you
know why our negative self has so much influence on us? It is because we give
our decision making power to it. We hand it over to it and listen to it as if
it is our master.
Our negative self
gives first place to distraction. So when you have given the decision making
power to it, it will give priority to distraction whenever you are trying to do
some work. For example, say you are sitting in the exam hall trying to remember
what you have learned but your negative self to whom you have given the ultimate
power will start playing songs instead of giving you the answer. It might seem
funny but it is important. Every one of us has dreams to conquer and goals to
achieve. Our positive self will always have long term thinking and long term
goal whereas our negative self will concentrate more on short term pleasures.
For example, if you wanted to lose weight, you know that you have to hit the
gym regularly and eat clean but at that time your negative self will pop up and
will demand rest, it will have cravings for pizza all of a sudden, it will tell
you that 'you are going to have a cheat day only today but will end up having
cheat day every single day.
Your negative self
grows only when you feed it. Say, suppose you have this craving for junk but
you suppress this feeling and continue to eat healthily, it means you have won
over your negative self. All that you have to do to stop this negative inner voice
is that you have to act against it. Don't just let thoughts flow and act
according to it, learn to control your thoughts and direct it where you want
to. You have to be aware of when your negative self is distracting you and act
against it. When it says order junk, you should not. By feeding it less and
suppressing it more you can take back the power you have given to it. When our
negative self suppresses, our positive self blooms automatically.
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