Only If You Believe

Hello there!

You know on an average around 65000 thoughts pass through our minds every day. Our mind is just busy building up the web of thoughts even if we don’t want it to and if you have a creative bent of mind then the problem is even worse. Have you ever pondered upon why does this happen? Is it because of the dreams we have? Is it because of your nature? What is it? I think it is because of something deep within us that is part of our value system. The inner recordings of subconscious brain that keeps playing on and on, the things that tell us what is right and what is wrong, the voice that guides us through our tough times, the voice that makes you love what you like and hate what you don’t. This voice is part of our daily life our routine and habits. You may call it spiritual self, inner strength, value system or the part that make us analytical being, things that make us believe.

As Master Oogway says in the movie “Kung Fu Panda”, oh yes that reminds me Kung Fu Panda 2 is being released this week. I loved the first part and very much eager to see the sequel of this great kung fu legend with such a simple message. Here is one of the excerpts:

Oogway: My friend, the panda will never fulfil his destiny, nor you yours until you let go of the illusion of control. 
Shifu: Illusion? 
Oogway: Yes. 
[points at peach tree] 
Oogway: Look at this tree, Shifu: I cannot make it blossom when it suits me nor make it bear fruit before its time. 
Shifu: But there are things we *can* control: I can control when the fruit will fall, I can control where to plant the seed: that is no illusion, Master! 
Oogway: Ah, yes. But no matter what you do, that seed will grow to be a peach tree. You may wish for an apple or an orange, but you will get a peach. 
Shifu: But a peach cannot defeat Tai Lung! 
Oogway: Maybe it can, if you are willing to guide, to nurture it, to believe in it. 
Shifu: But how? How? I need your help, master. 
Oogway: No, you just need to believe. Promise me, Shifu, promise me you will believe.

How simple but profound message “you can’t believe until you let go the illusion of control”. Recently, I started a new business that introduced a new brand of organic natural beauty products into the market. Apart from the usual roller coaster style changes happening around me, I added one more i.e. moving into a new country. Every morning I use to wake up and go for run in Hyde Park thinking how to control this situation and day by day it seems like getting out of my hands, until I recalled this “illusion of control” and there was the answer just in front of me.

No matter how hard we try to control things around us, no wonder how much we think about it over and over again. I’m not saying not to take action but nothing can happen until we believe and let go. You may call it law of attraction, Murphy’s Law or law of universe but in simple words all it boils down to is belief in yourself. As the renowned wise sage said “believe in yourself and the world be at your feet” you just need to believe.