Getting rid of frustration…
If you are sad, your body assumes a certain physiology. You tend to look down, you
draw your shoulders down and make your breathing faster.
You communicate to yourselves in a barely audible or inaudible voice something like this:
Oh, I am always unlucky; see what has happened now. I need not expect any thing good from this life….
On the other hand when you are happy you tend to raise your head up and draw your shoulders back exposing your chest and start breathing slow and deep.
If you can bring your body to the confident posture when you are frustrated or sad, its intensity will immediately come down. But if keep on the body physiology of sadness always, even when there is some good tiding, you will feel unhappy only.
Nothing is eternal
However deep your sorrow is at the moment, it will give way to good feelings and happiness eventually.
There is nothing permanent here. Night has to give way for the day. Around a shadow there is light. If there is a death there is certainly a birth.
The sky may become cloudy dark and menacing; but the next moment the sky is blue and sunny. A balmy breeze wafts across with the fragrance of blooms. After the tempest and a tsunami the sea becomes very quiet and tranquil.
There is no sorrow which time cannot erase. The forces that took you to the depths of hell will later lead you to the bliss of heaven.
When you are frustrated or sad, remember those who love you-your children, partner, parents, or close friends. Immediately the intensity of your sorrow will come down.
If you compare you life to those of the blind, deaf, crippled, mentally retarded, mad and the mute yours is so much better. You are definitely lucky.
Winning and losing
There is no need to be sad when you fail. There is no success without
failure. If you want great success be prepared for great defeats too.
Who has to face more
failures?
Those who succeed or those are failures in life?
Undoubtedly it is those who succeed.
Edison failed 10,000 times before he could identify a substance (tungsten)
that will withstand the heat when electricity is passed through the thin filaments of the material. Electric light thus became a reality. He failed more times when he tried to identify a plant that would yield latex.
Abraham Lincoln failed in everything he tried. He failed so many times in elections. His business attempts were failures too. Ann Rutledge, the only woman he ever loved, died when he was 27. But he never gave up. Every failure brought him to his goal and eventually he became the president of the United States.
Failure