“We are the results of what we have thought”
-
Buddha
Once the above quote is understood thoroughly, it will present
remarkable results in your life for you will understand that you are the
problem and you and ‘Only You’ are the solution.
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! A sense
of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but
self-confidence leads to self-realisation and successful achievement. Because of
the importance of this mental attitude, this post will help you believe in
yourself and release your inner powers.
It is appalling to realise the number of pathetic people who
are hampered and made miserable by the malady popularly called the inferiority
complex. But you need not suffer from this trouble. When proper steps are
taken, it can be overcome. You can develop creative faith in yourself-faith
that is justified.
Lack of self-confidence apparently is one of the great
problems besetting people today. In a university a survey was made of six
hundred students in psychology course. The students were asked to state their
most difficult personal problem. Seventy-five per cent listed lack of
confidence. It can safely be assumed that the same large proportion is true of
the population generally. Every where you encounter people who are inwardly
afraid, who shrink from life, who suffer from a deep sense of inadequacy and
insecurity, who doubt their own powers. Deep within themselves they mistrust
their ability to meet responsibilities or to grasp opportunities. Always they
are beset by the vague and sinister fear that something is not going to be
quite right. They do not believe that they have it in them to be what they want
to be, and so they try to make themselves content with something less than that
of which they are capable. Thousands upon thousands go crawling through life on
their hands and knees, defeated and afraid. And in most cases such frustration
of power is unnecessary.
The blows of life, the accumulation of difficulties, and the
multiplication of problems tend to sap energy and leave you spent and
discouraged. In such a condition the true status of your power is often
obscured, and a person yields to a discouragement that is not justified by the
facts. It is vitally essential to re-appraise your personality assets. When done
in an attitude of reasonableness, this evaluation will convince you that you
are less defeated than you think you are.
We build up the feeling of insecurity or security by how we
think. If in our thoughts we constantly fix attention upon sinister
expectations of dire events that might happen, the result will be constantly to
feel insecure. And what is even more serious is the tendency to create, by the
power of thought, the very condition we fear.
The greatest secret for eliminating the inferiority complex,
which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to
overflowing with faith. Develop tremendous faith in God and that will give you
a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
However, this is the point where most of us fail to add the
true feeling of faith. Let me illustrate it with an example, suppose you visit
a restaurant and ordered your favourite dish, now probably until you receive
your dish you will pass your time looking around the ambience of the hotel or
playing a game on your mobile or anything that you like at that moment, at this
point you will never doubt thinking what if my dish is not delivered, or should
I order the same dish to another restaurant simultaneously, because you believe
that once you placed an order it will be delivered to your table. But when it
comes to prayer you forget that once you have placed your order than undoubtedly
it will be delivered to you.
