![]() ![]() And on the wall right across was an A3 size poster with the same sentence again staring at me. As the man and the machine hummed away, I simply stood there aware of my being and thoughts. So during one of those days, I walked to a nearby stationary-cum-xerox store to photocopy some documents. I often used my walks and other routine activities to become mindful and present. By a quirk of chance, I had chanced upon Eckhart’s Power of Now and had begun a deep practice of mindfulness. I had then shifted back to Chennai with my wife and had set up my Hypnotherapy practice there. ![]() It was not until many many years later that I discover the real meaning of the statement and that too by accident. But the inner guilt and self-hatred were quietly weaving away their garbs. Finally I made some sort of temporary peace with my mind by accepting the thoughts and telling myself that this is how I was – different from others – and I simply needed to keep it a secret. Creative exploration of how many more bad thoughts could I come up with given a situation became a compulsive mental stance. As I delved to find out the bad, I ended up discovering more bad than I could think up of before. In desperation, I tried to investigate what bad thoughts were. To my despair, the more I tried to control the bad thoughts the more they seemed to pop like corn on stove. I vividly remember trying to control my thoughts and words. Regrettably, I didn’t understand the statement any better that day and the ‘ Moral Science’ class unwittingly sowed one of the early seeds of guilt and self-hatred in me. That meaning could not have been any farther from the real meaning of the statement. ![]() The phrase ‘negative thought’ wasn’t familiar to me back them just good thoughts and bad thoughts. So it all begins with controlling your bad thoughts. And finally our character will chart our destiny. We need to control our actions for otherwise they would become our habits and if we do not control our habits they will become our character. We need to keep our tongue in check else we would end up acting our statements out. The gist of the meaning (that our ‘ Moral’ teacher gave us that day) was that we need to keep our thoughts in control else we would end up speaking them. Unfortunately the influence was a negative one. Later, in one ‘ Moral Science’ period our teacher lectured us on the meaning of this statement. I fail to remember if I was formally introduced to it or I happened by it. My first brush with this profound statement was in my early school days. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.” Watch your habits, they become character ![]()
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