160. All in the mind!

In a letter to Indira Nehru, when as a young girl of 16, she was trying to recuperate from pleuresy and suspected tuberculosis in Les Frenes, Switzerland, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote from India, "Health is not merely a physical condition. It is very much a mental affair. You complain  of nerves. We are all more or less nervy but we must not be dominated by them...you should deliberately put worry and nerves on the shelf. It can be done. It has been done." 

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Over the years, I have noticed that my mind plays a very big role in how I have shaped myself so far. As a young girl, I remember drifting through life without a worry in the world and that is exactly how my mind took shape. Gay abandon would be the right word for me then.

However, over the years, life has shown me its different shades; some of which I have enjoyed and some that were not too pleasant. Incidentally, I feel blessed by the fact that my mind has this emmense power to retain only that which is good and has deliberately made me forget the unpleasant situations. 

That is what I keep telling all my family (especially my mother who frets about the strangest of reasons!), friends, colleagues and the people I counsel; forget worrying, start living and have a good night's sleep!

Now it's a fact that each one of us have our fair share of worry. But why worry? If there is a problem, there has to be a solution and the solution is to get to the bottom of the problem. No lock has been manufactured without a key. 

Living in this magic moment should be the mantra for each one of us. It has been done and it can be done.