How To Turn Your Life's Darkness Into Light Poem by Arun Maji

Can you turn your life from darkness to light? Off course you can.
How difficult it is to do? It's as difficult as you think. If you think it's easy, it's easy. If you think it's hard, it's hard.

Some of you suffering depression, some of you suffering anxiety, some of you suffering alcohol addiction. None of you want to suffer depression. None of you want to suffer alcohol addiction. Do you? You try hard everyday to overcome it. Yet things just don't happen for better. Why?

Many years ago, I worked as a doctor for prison. I observed, many prisoners are repeat offender. They finish their term; and several months later, they are back to prison again. Many of them are addicted to hard drugs.

As you know, I am always keen to study, why human do what they do. One day, I asked a man this question- why you do what you do?
He answered- because I have nothing better to do.
I asked- why you come back again and again?
He said- I can't help it.
I asked- don't you try?
He said- off course I try. But it seems, I just can't do it. And now I have given up.

Man is born as a lion. And as he grows up, he turns himself to a rat. Growing up is a kind of Rat-ification process.

Adult life is dictated by fear. You work hard because you fear, there won't be enough money in your retirement. You worship God because you fear, otherwise God will punish you. You don't do things because you love them to do. You do things because you fear negative consequence of not doing it. Because you live your life out of fear, and you do things out of fear; you are always unhappy. But if you do things that you love, you would certainly be happy.

Who fears more? Those who are weak. Because we are weak, it's hard for us to change our darkness to light. This is why we can not quit smoking. We can not quit alcohol. We can not turn our despair to happiness.
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Can you reprogram yourself? Can you turn yourself from a rat to a lion again?Off course you can. How hard it is? Not hard at all.

If you keep singing, you become a singer.
If you keep dancing you become a dancer.
if you keep behaving like a lion, you became a lion.
In psychology, they call it principle of auto-suggestion.

You need to chant every moment of your existence- "I am strong, I am a lion, I can do it." Also, you then sit like a lion, walk like a lion, talk like a lion, act like a lion. You make 'lioness' your identity. I call this "LION MANTRA". You practice this Mantra for one month, and you will see- you are a different man.

Your repetitive thought, your body language, your action- they all have ability to restructure neuronal network in brain. This happens through brain's plasticity. This method is evidence based and stands all scientific scrutiny.

While I was a doctor in that prison, I applied my theory in practice, with some astounding result. I got few prisoners stay out of prison for good.

If you are depressed, you chant this lion mantra. If you are addicted to alcohol you chant this lion mantra. If you want to be a successful great man, you chant this mantra.

I wish you good luck in your journey- to become a lion-hearted man again.

© অরুণ মাজী Arun Maji