HOLISTIC MIND BATH COUNSELLING: A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO WELLNESS AND THERAPY.
Holistic Mind Bath Counselling: Benefits, Techniques, and Tips.
Throughout the day we are constantly surrounded by pollution. Pollution makes all its victims murky and dirty. We are blessed with one of the fundamental elements of nature- water, which helps us in the process of physical cleansing. Water to some extent is tangible and accessible for most of us in varying quantities. Without water there would be no life and not just that but everything would be more contaminated than it already is. The dust particles stick to the surface of our skin and to remove this we use water. But what happens when we need to undergo mental cleansing? We cannot really use water or any other element of nature for that matter. In India we hire domestic help to clean our homes everyday, who do we hire to clean our mind that remains with us 24/7.
FOUR MIND CLEANSING THOUGHTS TO PONDER ON
A Mind bath can be done in different ways.
Just as we need to have a physical bath daily, we need to practice mind cleansing everyday.
What happens to our physical body if we don’t bathe daily? The same will happen to our mind if we don’t cleanse it on a regular basis.
The result will appear in the way of negative emotions like depression, worry, addiction, confusion and anger, that we all can do without.
Everything that takes shape in our lives is a result of our thought process. Some times we may not be aware of these thoughts and develop a pattern of behaviour without realizing how deep rooted they are. When these patterns of behaviour surface they form our personality. Deep rooted negative patterns may cause a lot of mental agony and suffering.
There are 2 very important factors that may adversely affect the mind.
1. What we eat.
2. Our lifestyle.
Do you really think it is just a chemical disparity in the brain that is merely responsible for mental ailments like depression and addictions? Could it not be directly connected to a person’s eating habits and lifestyle? Alcohol addiction for example, creates a negative pattern in the brain, finally leading to physical addiction as it gets into the blood stream.
WHAT WE CAN DO
· There are certain emotions that delude and contaminate the mind.
· We are all aware of this and they are so simple to understand but so difficult to let go of. These are obstructing diseases that retard our spiritual development.
· If one can learn the art of consciously become aware of these perverse patterns of thinking then one can enhance the quality of their mind.
Negative thoughts are numerous. Some familiar ones are mentioned below. Think we all at some point of time have experienced these. Once we become aware of the negative thoughts we can slowly start removing them. The negative energy can be channelized to positive energy by the positive thought conversion process. A person does not have to go to jail to be a prisoner. He can be a prisoner of his own negative concepts, ideas and thoughts. This needs to be avoided.
Negative Thoughts
Jealousy
Ignorance
Ego
Desire
Hatred
Fear
Greed
Violence
Stealing
Lies
Positive thoughts push open the blocked passages of the mind caused by negative emotions and allow free flowing movement of superior emotions. Just imagine a blocked pipe carrying water filled with all kinds of debris. The flow of water will not only get retarded, but in some cases the pipe may burst due to the pressure. Same thing may happen with our minds. If the negative thoughts keep collecting we may have a mental breakdown due to the pressure of negative thought accumulation. The antidote for negative thoughts is positive thoughts. This happens by slowly and mindfully understanding, then building and nurturing positive thoughts in order to avoid any kind of negative crises in the future.
Some positive thoughts that we all have within us and can put it into practice in our lives.
Positive thoughts
Prayer
Spirituality
Gratitude
Compassion/Kindness
Truth
Acceptance
Tolerance/ Patience
Humility
Contentment
Self contemplation
Love for all beings
Ralph Waldo Emerson rightly says, “The ancestor of every action is a thought.” So by keeping thought positives we are giving rise to a sparkling and evolving mind.
