Inner Joy Makes us Great
Two Opinions on Inner Joy
This is a monthly column on becoming a great human being and
has two opinions on the subject from western and eastern part of the world
namely Michael Thallium from Spain and Dr Amit Nagpal from India.
Michael Thallium, Spain
Writing on the inner joy has been a challenge for me. In the
begining I wanted to explain and show what it means, but then I realized that I
would become too theoretical if I would do so. Then I decided to find an
example and just let it speak on its own. And that’s what I did. I found a
great video of Alice Sommer Herz, a 108 year old lady who survived the
holocaust and overcame a cancer at age 86. To me that’s a very good example of
inner joy. She speaks about optimism, but you can feel her inner joy when she
laughs.
I believe that when you experience that inner joy, people just want to
“stick around”. Everybody loves being around someone who sees the good side of
things and feels the inner satisfaction to have done something well. No more
words, just inner joy. Watch this!
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Brief Profile
Michael Thallium is a Global and Greatness Coach based in
Spain. Michael has spent many years of his life traveling around many countries
and continents, sailing the seas and flying the skies all over the world. Since
2008 he is dedicated to his passions namely coaching, language &
communication and music.
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“Always believe that something wonderful is about to
happen.” quoted a Facebook picture.
I wondered, “Is this not the most difficult thing in the
world to do?” This is the exact opposite of Murphy’s Law and most of us are
rather expecting something bad to happen, something to go wrong all the time.
Even I have applied Murphy’s Law in my life. With one thing
going wrong after another for many years, I developed an unconscious fear that my
happiness is going to be short-lived and something bad will happen soon. To add
to our troubles, sometimes we have people in our immediate environment who are
panicky, cynical or full of fears. We don’t even realise when and how their
fears become a part of our unconscious personality as we are absorbing negative
energy from them unknowingly, more so as children.
In my opinion it’s very simple. If we are soul oriented, we
will be joyful most of the time and if we are mind-oriented (under mind’s
control), we will be stressed most of the time. I had once posted on Facebook,
“Those under the control of the mind are taking classes in stress management
and those under the control of the soul are giving classes in joy and ecstasy.”
Frederick Koenig says, “We tend to forget that happiness
doesn’t come as a result to getting something we don’t have, but rather of
recognizing and appreciating what we do have.” I had translated a beautiful
Hindi story “The Money is with you” (I read in childhood) and explained its
relevance to inner joy. The story says that all that we are looking for outside
is actually inside us. The Joys is within and the sooner we realise it, the
better it is for us and for our inner peace.
Often I come across people who complain that they were not
able to meditate for a long time; they failed to silence their mind and so on.
My usual answer is, “Meditation is a practice for finding perfect peace for
those who have already found peace.” Unless we create an attitudinal
shift-adding gratitude, subtracting complaints, dividing challenges (sharing it
with a higher power), we cannot multiply our happiness and joy. If we are
patient enough to work on attitudinal shift and practice contemplation
(meditation) simultaneously, it will be the best of both worlds. Else we should
focus on attitudinal shift for few months before we start meditating.
If you are full of grudges or guilt, if you are full of
hatred or cynicism, if you are full of blame game or wickedness, if you are
full of selfishness and expectations-how can meditation help you find peace? It
would be like putting s fire extinguisher on permanent duty with a building
which has the risk of fire all the time. Would it not be better to demolish
such a building and create a new one?
When I read Louise Hay's story, I found so many things common
in our struggle (though her struggles were much more than mine). She definitely
has been one of the strong inspirations to find joy come what may.
Mitesh Khatri says, “The Label you give to Situations &
People becomes your Emotional experience of them, so Label wisely what situations
& people mean to you.”
Let us try our best to give the label ‘JOY’ whenever and
wherever possible and we are all set to uncover our greatness.
Brief Profile
Dr Amit Nagpal is a Personal Branding Consultant &
Global Success Coach. He is based in New Delhi, India and specializes in
personal branding with a holistic touch. His philosophy is, "Enlarge as a
Human Being, Excel asa Social Media Being and Evolve as a Personal Brand.
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