Elevate your state of mind

It is easy to have a positive frame of mind when one is in a place with uplifting and powerful vibrations.

- B.K. ATAM PRAKASH

The same is true when we are in the company of optimistic, wise, or congenial people. There are similar good feelings when everything in life is going well. But can we have an elevated state of mind even in adverse situations?

Good company, a nice place, and favourable conditions may give us an emotional uplift, but that is borrowed energy, which may rise and fall with changing circumstances. An elevated mindset, in the deeper sense, is not constant happiness or excitement - it is inner steadiness, mental clarity, and self-respect and calm even when things are not going the way we want.

This kind of elevation is less about feeling good and more about being grounded. A sustained state of elevation cannot be created by forcing ourselves to think positive. Forced positivity in the face of negative situations creates stress. What is needed instead is the ability to remain uninfluenced by external situations.