Less than a Minute Life Lesson-2410 Promotion and Character

Paralytic Mind, Fractured Thought

In the recent time when I slipped and fell down from the bed, I was not able to move my right leg as well as my right hand, which I used it as a support when I landed on the floor for a minute or so, I was worried and I felt was it a fracture or a sign of a paralytic attack, however I was slowly gaining my movement and helped myself to stand for a while and started walking.

I went and sat in a chair and asked for a cup of coffee, while having my coffee, I was reflecting on my childhood days when I have fallen many times, twisted my legs and had bruises in my knee etc, but never thought about a fracture or a paralytic attack. I was comparing my present thought and my childhood days; these are some of my insights I got from the experience of falling in the age of 48 and falling when I was young.

When I was young, I was ignorant at about ailments and focused on my fun and games, but when I am aging, I am aware about ailments and focused on my health. However, this insight didn’t stop at this level, I was asking myself why should I think about a fracture or a paralytic attack, why can’t I wait to hold my thought and help me to stand on my feet, the answer that struck my mind was – I am mentally old and mind is drawing data relating to pain and suffering. After finishing my coffee, I slowly climbed the stairs and went to my terrace with the thoughts that was running in my mind. I was reflecting about my thought and smiled sarcastically by asking myself how I can ever think about paralytic attack without even understanding about it and did feel bad about those few minutes.

Later at the night I affirmed myself with the following statements

• It is ok to fall, but it is not ok to jump to a conclusion 
•  It is ok to have a pain, but should not suffer with unwanted thoughts
• It is better to focus on how to recover rather than think about the consequences 
•  It is my body that has fallen, but I should not allow my spirit to fall
• The child in me should live in me and for me to live long
• Age is a number and incidents are not permanent

We should neither paralyse our mind, nor fracture our thought, we should keep affirming ourselves that pain disappears when the confidence appears

M.L. Narendra Kumar