Positive Thinking – Part 4: How superstition can be positive?

I know I am starting a not so simple concept here. I am not here to talk on superstition – a belief or disbelief? I am just saying that it ha so many positives in it. Shocked! Yes, I can understand as we all have always told about only one side of it i.e. do it this way else it will go wrong.


 
I want you to understand it completely. It is just how your thinking can change you and things around you. It is just matter of belief and just a matter of thinking. You just have to make it your habit. Yes, I want to repeat here this – Bring this to your habit and then only you can make use of it and it will be a part of your life.



I just want to present here that up to a level we can use this to feel positive. I am not going to give a theory here but a few examples as how it can be positive for us. How I use this to think positive –

 - Ok. Let’s start with sneezing. Ah! Yes, this is one of it. We always say/hear that if you are going for some important work and the other person sneeze then your work will not get done. What I do here. I believe that ‘Bless You!’ is a word/habit made to cancel the affect of sneeze i.e. if someone sneeze just say bless you and all negatives of that sneeze will not come to you. Sounds Funny! Yes, it is but it works. Really! Have you noticed one thing above, I said I believe that ‘Bless You!’ is the word. Yes, it is what you believe. Now, since it is part of my habit and part of my normal routine I never feel that it is just my belief I just feel everyone is not aware of this but I know the secret. And it works for me every time and I feel more positive everyday that I have now power to conquer this negative also. I am special.

 - Now, what if someone sneeze again then! I say ‘Bless You’ again. And feel that this is sign from god to me showing don’t worry I am with you. I am myself cancelling the negative of first sneeze by second sneeze. And since I want to show you that I (God) am with you I made that person sneeze. Wow! I feel that I will be the best today in whatever I will do. As God is there with me. Right! What if someone sneeze third and fourth time. I feel that that poor fellow is suffering from cold. There is no signal in this. Isn’t it simple? It I just a matter of belief! And making it a habit.

 - Now, second thing we hear that some numbers are good for us and some are not good. I do believe this in my own way. How? First thing I believe that this holds true only for single digit number. So, I add all digits of a number to make it a single digit number. Now this is how each number plays a role in my life:

 o 1 – Number One is always good for me as it is One

 o 2 – Divide by 2 and you will get 1 so again good. That means all 2 power x numbers are good.

 o 3 – It is ok for me. Not good not bad.

 o 4 – It is power of 2. So I get 1 and so it is good.

 o 5 – Again good as I personally like the number.

 o 6 – It is even number so it has to be good. Also it cancels the affect of 3 (even if any) by doubling it

 o 7 – Wow! Seven is good for everyone so is good for me too. A special number

 o 8 – Power of 2 again.

 o 9 – My Lucky number (27 is my birth date and 2+7 is nine)

 Now, when I encounter any number and I want to know how things will go today I just sum up all digits of that number and decide how my day is. For example I went to write an exam I got answer sheet with a serial number say 3577323. Now it comes to 3 + 5 + 7 + 7 + 3 + 2 + 3 = 30 = 3 + 0 = 3. So, going by my categorization above I feel ok now everything is neutral for me and it is in my hands now to make it positive or negative. And there are no external factors to make it bad. Everything is just neutral for me. In fact I am feeling the same now for this article as I selected this as a random number 

 - Now, other believe most of us have is that everyone has a lucky colour. I do believe the same. And here goes my categorization of same:

 o Red – My Lucky colour

 o Orange – Shade of red and also it is form of energy. So, again it is my lucky.

 o White – It is good for everyone and so for me.

o Pink – Again a shade of red.

o Brown – Never though about it. Seems neutral to me and there is nothing bad in brown.

o Black – Makes me look good. So it is also good.

o Sky blue – I like this one. One of my favourites. So, is lucky for me.

o Yellow- I like this one too. One of my favourites. So, is lucky for me.

o Green – Colour of Parrot. So sweet. A good colour.

o Purple – Shade of blue. So it is good.



So, I have similar kind of categorization for remaining colours. And whenever I am going for some really important assignment of my life I wear shades of red. But suppose I cannot wear read (or shade of red) as it does not suits the assignment OR I just picked one shirt and left without realizing the colour than I just categorize how good it is today and feel positive. I feel I am getting energy from the colour.

 - Now one of belief most of us have is that we should not eat Non-Vegetarian food on some particular days. And some weekdays. And I do follow the same and avoids eating non-vegetarian food on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. And my part of story is that the reason behind this belief is that our ancestors want us to have balanced diet and so they made such belief so that we don’t eat same stuff everyday. Simple, right? 

 Similarly we can have our own true believes for each and every superstition and follow the superstition and I don’t want to fight that a particular superstition is true or not? But I believe in my own story of the superstition. This makes me can understand and visualize that why this superstition exists and how it works good for me.



I hope you understood the concept behind this. It is all about what you believe. Make it your habit and it will work for you that way.



Thanks all for spending your time reading it. I will be back again with my next article soon. Till then, have a happy, positive, fun filled life.