PEACE OF MIND—FOR WHAT? Personality Development

PEACE OF MIND—FOR WHAT? Personality Development P EACE of mind means a condition that is characterized by the absence of anxiety. It is good to live with a peaceful mind. But, what is the purpose of this peace? Generally, people believe that peace of mind is essential because it makes us tension-free, helps us lead a joyful life, makes us do our job or business in a better way, gives us good health, and so on. It is true that a peaceful mind gives us all these things. But, it is an underestimation of the blessing called a peaceful mind. A peaceful mind is another name for a positive mind. In truth, it is this peaceful mind that makes us capable of living life at its highest level. The fact is that our mind is a continuously-thinking machine just as the heart, which beats constantly. It is very important to give our thinking a positive direction. If we fail to do this, our thinking process will start moving in the opposite or negative direction. After this, the entire creative ability of the mind will be affected. Only a positive personality can achieve the bounties of nature. We are living in a world of challenge and competition. Everyone is free to act according to their own will. This state of affairs creates all sorts of social problems which people generally give the name of ‘Social evil’. It means that the happiness of one person may be the displeasure of another. So, practically speaking, in society one disturbs the happiness of another to achieve one’s own happiness. In this situation, it is natural for a person to think negatively. Every person’s thinking process has a tendency to turn in the negative direction. This situation leads to the greatest loss for every human being. The loss being the inability to develop oneself as a positive personality. Only a positive personality can achieve the bounties of nature. A negative personality will be deprived of such bounties. People with negativity live in frustration and die in frustration without achieving the high goal for which they were born.