​How are we affected by positive or negative thoughts?

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positive and negative emotions how do they affect our consciousness or how does our capacity tap our consciousness affected by positive or negative emotions yeah so basically see there are thoughts thoughts themselves grow into emotions and then emotions grow into intentions and intentions lead to actions so if you compare a snowball at the top it may just be a small marble size but when it starts coming down a mountain it gets more and more snow it becomes so big at the top a person could just crush it with their foot but when it comes down it may crush a whole person so like that initially we have thoughts so for example suppose thoughts is the root so for example suppose there is a person who is recovering from some addiction recovering from drug addiction so then any thought comes maybe I can take a drug at that level it’s just a thought no I won’t it’s just over it’s like crush the snowball at that time but then yeah you know I felt I feel so stressed I’ll get some relief I want it I want it right now so from that thought it is level of desire now desire is where emotions come in so at the level of thought it’s more dispassionate okay I can see that book over there that’s just an observation it’s a thought entered in my mind hey that picture looks nice at this level think more about it thoughts lead to desires the desires can be positive they can be negative I like it I don’t like it whatever it is so now at the level of desire the momentum has become more snowball has come down it has acquired some snow and then at the level of intention it has become very forceful yeah I want it I want it now I’m going to get it no matter what who says the drug addict has now decided to again have a relapse so at the level of intention it is very difficult to stop at the level of desires at the level of emotions it’s stoppable now desires and emotions they are not exactly the same no when we desire something that means we feel there is a motion related with it so so we could say desire is like the current and emotion is the water that is flowing in the current so desires cause emotions to flow and based on our attitudes if I have a pessimistic attitude then the flow of consciousness gets either misdirected or choked say if I have some difficult situation I can see it as a challenge and think okay how can I learn something new how can I come up with some idea how can I grow in this situation but then my can’t do anything or a consciousness goes into too much worry this may go wrong that may go wrong that may go wrong and I feel powerless I feel helpless I feel victimized so negative attitudes they choke the power of consciousness or they misdirect whereas positive attitude it helps us move our consciousness forward now there is there is positive thinking which is based on perception of the positive aspect of the reality say if I have a glass of water which is half full I can see it as half full that is positive I can see it as half empty is negative attitude now this is something which we can do simply by mental adjustment spirituality also helps us to do that but spirituality helps us to do something more spirituality doesn’t just change our perception it changes our perspective see perception means what I focus on perspective means from where I see if I am at the foot of a skyscraper then I just can’t think the skyscraper is small skyscraper is so big in front of that I am tiny but if I am in a plane and from that plane the skyscraper looks small so like that spirituality doesn’t just change our perception what we see it changes our perspective it raises us from the ground to the airplane level so I have a problem the problem appears so big how can I deal with it I get overwhelmed by the problem but when we raise our consciousness to the spiritual level and I understand that I am spiritual I am a part of a whole I am indestructible then it is like we see the same problem from the perspective of the airplane it appears small it appears at least manageable so spirituality is not just about thinking positive you know it is about changing our perspective of reality so it is not just looking at the positive aspect of reality but getting a new perspective of reality where we see ourselves as bigger than our problems and by seeing ourselves as bigger than our problems we naturally become positive so the recipient of the Gita the warrior Arjuna is depressed he puts aside his bow and says I can’t fight I will not fight he is practically in tears but by the end of the Bhagavad Gita he has lifted up his bow and is ready to fight so his bow represents our determination so worldly ups and downs will dishearten us and put aside our bow I can’t fight we become depressed but when we hear spiritual wisdom when we spiritualize our consciousness we pick up our bow we are ready to fight the channeling of our consciousness becomes much more effective when we have a spiritual vision of reality does it your question thank you any other