Hi friend,
I’m typing this sitting by a large window. You know, when the sun is out shines on a small part of a room. During winter, everyone tries to take that spot.
Well, it isn’t winter right now, but I’m still here.
Comfortable.
I’m using the sun to get some energy and light because it’s feeling so rejuvenating.
I took an in-person visualisation meditation class this morning. The yoga mats kept for us had two blankets and one eye mask. The lights were dimmed, and we were instructed to use one blanket as a pillow and one to take over. I’d only slept for 5.5 hours… Needless to say, I fell asleep.
I kept trying to wake up, telling myself ‘you’ve paid for this, wake the f*** up.’ And peacefully fell asleep again.
I was killing time on YouTube a few days ago. I do that a lot, by the way.
So a video popped up… you know where they interview people at a high-end area and ask them how much they earn each month?
I didn’t know I’d stay through it all but I did. It was shot in Beverly Hills, California.
This one young guy said,
“We were so poor and I kept working really hard on music for nearly seven years.”
When asked about what’s the one piece of advice he’ll give to be successful, he said
“You have to believe a lot in yourself. Blindly. Believe in yourself so hard that it looks delusional because that will make you do things you otherwise won’t. Go all out and fool your mind that you can do it.”
I 100% believe in this.
I always have.
So much that the most frequent dialogue my first boss used to tell me was,
“Niharikaa, you have a ‘reality-perception gap’. You think you’re good, but thats just in your head. It’s not true.”
He said it so often that I obviously internalised that I was incapable and ‘not good enough.’
“Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm but also as experiences in the material realm.” - Paramahansa Yogananda
Something we learnt in the visualisation meditation today was that your mind never stops thinking. It also doesn’t know the difference between reality and imagination. And everything you think manifests in your subconscious.
Thoughts create reality.
And all successful people (my favourite example being Michael Phelps) use visualisation to succeed.
I too have been creating vision boards since 2020 now.
But haven’t harnessed the power of daily visualisation method, yet. I used to visualise freedom from the corporate world every day back in 2020 but stopped once I achieved that dream. Maybe this is my sign to get back at it.
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world." - Buddha
I write this to you because there’s so much more you’re capable of but like my first boss gaslit me, maybe you too believe the snarky remarks you’ve been attacked with.
Maybe you’re dissatisfied and don’t know why… but all the answers lie within.
Maybe you’re told to have realistic dreams but everything that awes us is a consequence of somebody out there dreaming big.
I now leave this open-ended for you to think and derive your meaning.
Love,
N
PS: Here’s my YouTube video that I haven’t had the guts to watch because I cried while recording it and don’t have it in me to go through it again. If you watch it, please leave a comment about what you think :)