I am sure everyone of us loves to keep our homes neat and tidy. We do our daily chores and routine of dusting, swabbing and cleaning. Without these tasks, somehow we are not comfortable even sitting in our drawing room. Let’s accept the fact that we are slaves to routine. Yes, a change once in a while is good. But just having to do nothing and whiling our time is not anyone’s cup of tea for sure. Just to break away from the routine and spend some fun time, I met my cousin. We had planned not to meet outside and R City Ghatkopar was the ideal place where we could meet up since it was equidistant.
I had visited the place many times, but had so much to catch up with her. Being Christmas, the entire place was beautifully decorated with all possible decorations. There was Santa in red (Red happens to be my favorite colour) and I love Santa. I associate him with goodness and sweetness. Come Christmas and the entire mood and surroundings change. When I was young, I associated X mas with cakes. I was lucky to have a lot of Catholic friends and went to their home to eat the plum cake (which till date I love eating).
While taking rounds in the mall, I happened to glance at the homestores which had a lot of household accessories, cleaning material and so on. As mentioned earlier, I love to do the cleaning work of my home. My mind caught the attention of the cleaning equipments and devices. For a moment it just struck me that we always do the cleaning of our physical place and surroundings. People who have bigger homes too make it a point to open each room, dust it and ensure to keep it clean and tidy. Yes, I do the same and am sure everyone does it. But what happens to those mental rooms in our mind? We are too busy to clean up these rooms. For our understanding, I have categorized our brain into four rooms. These include the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual rooms.
The physical room can be associated with the physical body and so we need to dust this area. It implies we need to take care of our physical body by eating right, drinking right and of course by giving thought to what we put into our plates. The mental room needs to be visited daily and we need to be careful as to what thoughts and feelings we are feeding our brains with. A simple way to dust the cobwebs and negative feelings from this part of our mind is by simple meditation for atleast 10 mints to begin with.
Yes, so what comes next is the emotional space in our brain. We tend to get intimidated at times when we are hurt. We experience feelings of anger, distrust, jealousy and many other feelings. Positive affirmations are the answer to this. Lastly, it is the spiritual area of our brain. The best way is the power of the mantra. Even Westerners are beginning to believe in the power of mantra or jaap. Any good affirmation when repeated time and again becomes a mantra.
So happy cleansing all the rooms of your mind !!With mental fitness comes physical fitness. Let’s seriously give thought to what we feed our minds with.
I am eagerly looking forward to all the positives that the NEW YEAR is going to bring to each one of us.
Keep smiling and love you all.
Blessings Always
Rekha
The brilliance of silence cannot be defined in words as it is beyond the capacity of the human brain to comprehend it !!- Rekha Mahadevan
The above is a proverb or sentence that I have contributed to the site of new authors.
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