Thoughts are a part of us....

During one of my recent yoga sessions I was instructed to take deep breaths and to think of the many thoughts arising in my inner self. Slowly I was told to remove all unwanted thoughts which I felt don’t deserve to be in me and to keep a single thought which seems to be my priority for the time being. And that’s what I did with all the obedience of a disciplined student I maintained that thought in me for a few minutes. But suddenly to my surprise I was instructed to even remove that very single thought.  All of a sudden a sense of vacuum engulfed me and I was left with none but myself. I was told to concentrate only on myself and my body. Reluctantly though, I tried to do as instructed and I got submerged into my existence in the form of my body. The mindless body seemed nothing but a lump of matter sans all thoughts of our loved once.  It’s so very difficult not to think of the people whom we love so much and the various thoughts that we are surrounded with.

It’s a dread to even visualize ourselves without a mind and the various emotions that we are made up off. Though the day’s sessions went pretty easy and refreshing I was impatient to have my thoughts running back into me.  It’s not that easy not to think of the people whom we care so much and love so much and for whom we matter the most.  But sometimes emotions do drain out the energy in you and if it is so then why at all these emotions and attachments were embedded in us? A good friend of mine always used to say that Expectations reduce Joy. But then it’s these expectations that make us live. It is these very expectations that allow us to be who we are and to make us see others as part of ourselves. Expectations don’t reduce joy but it gives you hope to live another day with people whom you love so much because it’s a dread to loose any of them.