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- I. M. Soni

When self-appraisal is low, approach to living is unrealistic. Life goes at a snail’s pace. It is burdensome. Fatigue overtakes. You are deep in a dungeon.

There is little satisfaction either in personal relationships or in one’s work. It is as if a formless, dismal cloud spreads over life, muting everything with inexplicable nothingness. You are victim of distorted thinking. If nothing stings you, life looks bleak, a feeling of nothingness haunts you that anything you do will not make any difference, then you are already in distortion of your thinking.

You can help yourself by adopting the technique called thought-changing. In simple words, it means that you can assert in dealing with your own black thinking.

Optimistic and bright thinking brings about a cheerful outcome. Self-fulfilling predictions do tend to materialise in reality.

The young man who “sees” himself with a rose in his hand, going to meet his love, is more likely to get a warm welcome than the one who sulks and sinks with a scowl on his face!

This is summed up: You can give your thoughts the power to improve and brighten your behaviour. Emile Coue says, “By believing oneself to be master of one’s thoughts one becomes so.”

Thus, the first basic of thought-changing is that the very thoughts you think influence your feelings and action.

By motivating your thinking, you can change it. Once you do that, you automatically gain power over feelings and action. As soon as you start using that power, your life begins to brighten, dispelling gloom.

Your mind is assailed by dark feelings, darker thoughts. The mental environment is fouled. Sometimes you hear prophets of doom issuing grim predictions. All these combined, smother the bright and hopeful ones.