We become what we think about.
By: Sohaib Ashfaq
Tags: Happiness In Life, Positivity, Education

Life is just like a race. To win this race, you have to be equipped with all the necessary thing to get a medal in this race.Now You would have in your mind about what are the equipment needed for this race. The most important tool is your mind.It is just like the engine of a vehicle. No matter how much beautiful your vehicle is if its engine is not in working.

“The mind is just like a muscle — the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.”

If we want , not only to survive in this world but to live our life to fullest , then we have to move with a growth mindset and bury the Fixed mindset along with procrastination and fears . Now you will have have a question that what these two terms are : Growth Mindset and Fixed Mindset. Let me clear this with the figure below

Difference between two mindsets

A person with growth mindset is the one who will have a mind full of positivity. He will be a Thomas Edison in himself. He will the one who appreciate others for their achievements. He will be the one believing in himself. He takes the challenges as opportunities to excel in life. He don’t give up after a failure.

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t. — Thomas Edison

Experience of Doing exercises for a positive vibes in my life:

Negative Mindset

I have struggled a lot with depression and stress due to some family circumstances and financial lacks. I sometime began to hate the life and ask Allah for death. But then some friends of mine helped me in constructing my emotions. I had a lot of negativity in mind about the Institute I am studying in, the teachers I am studying with and my fellows. I always keep focused on what flaws they have , what are the short comings in them7

2. What I used to do was, to see the world with a very narrow mind. I used to see the flaws everywhere. Never had in my mind that their will be a positive side of this picture. I never went to search the positivity behind the so called negative picture.

3. what I learned from this course of Amal Academy is hopefully a ice breaker or a turning point of my thinking . I have started thinking positively about everything even that much, that I start finding some positivity even in a bad looking or seemingly useless thing .

“The only place where your dreams become impossible is in your own thinking,”– Robert H Shuller

firstly I used to give up very early untill unless their is someone behind me to give me a shout that you can. I am struggling to become a self motivated person. After this course , I have learnt a lot about how the positive thinking can act as a all in one tool to become successful in life.

Be positive and change the WORLD

3. I have practiced a few tips to enhance the positivity that I read in the Course:

I have started to show Gratitude and Thank Allah Almighty after every prayer for everything He has given to me.I have started showing gratitude to my friends even for their little help and little kindness.

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Emotions are contagious

I have started to write every day about anything positive that happened to me recently or during the whole day. Writing about positivity basically help us to make a habit to think positive.

I have also started doing some mindful cardio exercises that includes some breathing exercises, scan your body in imagination from head to toe, keep ticking on something. These

what is a Mindful exercise

Results:

After doing these little activities I have seen a lot of change in myself . I have been loving every thing around me . I have been observing everything around me to find out something positive in that. I have started little acts of kindness. Life is turning out a lot colorful and way better then before. Even my friends are surprised and they have asked me that is it a change that you brought up or just a artificial thinking. I will try my best to continue to learn more and implement it more and more in my future.