A Shrewd Kid & few Profound Resonations

I have often heard of kids getting influenced by paying keen attention to the actions and words of the people around. 

Witnessing it personally, I landed with so many other profound thoughts. 

We (myself, a 4 year old kid, her 10 year old elder sister and their parents) were in a kids play area room where few toys were messily spread across the room. 

While that kutty (little one) was playing happily along with her sister around the mess, her dad was expressing his genuine concern on how few kids are unaware of the self-discipline to keep the toys back to its original place and how parents should impart this important self-discipline to their kids.

After a while, when we were about to leave, while it appeared as if that naughty kutty was still playing with the toys, to my utter delight and surprise, that little one was actually collecting all the toys from the messy ground to keep them back to it's original place AND in perfect order! 

 

That little wonder had actually been listening to her dad's conversation all along! 

When I expressed my awe at her shrewdness, her proud dad humbly revealed that she diligently follows the cleaning self-discipline at home.

It's not just about that self-discipline that I was impressed with. I absorbed and observed something more.

She had leapt one step ahead of her dad's teachings. To not only clear the mess that we create but also to clear the mess that others create! 

Of course, we knew she was trying to impress her favorite dad (striking similarity of my memories with my Appa🙂), nevertheless she was inspiring indeed! 

For a moment, I travelled back to my good old days when I would eagerly look forward for my Appa's impressed expressions; No matter how miniscule my good deed was, his proud smile and motivating words have been and continuing to be my biggest treasure to embrace and live up to my core values.

With all these train of thoughts, I stumbled upon an interesting analogy to a widely known concept.

Many a times, a widely known concept gets deeply ingrained in ourselves only when we can personally 

resonate to it through an impactful event or analogy. Have you experienced it? 

Similar to how that kutty exhibited sharp attention to her dad's words and silently turned those words into actions; Our very own sub-conscious mind not only sharply listens to what we tell ourselves or others, it also manifests those words/thoughts into happening reality in unimaginable ways! 

I perceive this is what is termed as the 'Affirmations' theory.

One of my mentors once enlightened me with the "Affirmations" insights. 

I was told, "For instance, if you are angry too often and would like to become calm,  keep telling yourself "I am calm" and visualize yourself to be calm. Your wish would turn up into reality!"

Initially it seemed to be easier said than done. With time and practice, I perceived it is viable and recently I could totally resonate to this affirmation insight via that shrewd kid!

My resonating take-away is to be consciously aware of those "attentive ears", that may reside "within" and "around". 

We may call it as we like to and believe in: Intelligent "sub-conscious mind", benevolent "God", the kind "Universe" or The "Supreme power".

 

It doesn't matter how it's named, the manifested outcome relies on our echoing, affirmative words and thoughts. 

What do you say, Do you resonate with it? :)