If someone is going through a bad phase astrologically how does the mind affect their problems?

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so if somebody is going through a bad phase according to astrology then how can the mind make any difference in that situation yes, as I said the mind may not change the external reality but it can change the effect of that reality on us so yes, because of some bad phase, astrologically or whatever I may lose my job or I may get some disease or I may meet with an accident these sort of things can happen but then how much I dwell on it, how much I let that crush me emotionally that is up to me so when we chant Hare Krishna Maha Mantra what does it mean? instead of thinking about the problem I turn around and think about Krishna and if I don’t think about the problem so much there are broadly three kinds of thinking about problems one kind of thinking about the problem is simply obsessing over the problem this is so big, this is so big and then what happens, the more we think about the problem just imagine there is a boxing match going on and in the boxing match, the two competitors are there but somehow, one competitor just becomes bigger and bigger and the other becomes smaller and smaller then one smack and the match is over so it becomes like that sometimes when you just passively think about the problem this happened, this happened, this happened and what happens, we become more and more disempowered the problem starts becoming bigger and bigger so obsessing over the problem without anyway thinking about the solution that is very destructive that can make the problem huge the other is where we think about solutions but we apply the solutions half-heartedly let me try this out but we don’t put our heart into anything then what happens, it’s like digging for gold at a hundred places we don’t find gold anywhere because gold is deep down so even if somebody gives us a good solution or even if we come up with a good solution we just don’t apply it, then it doesn’t work so sometimes the solutions we come up with may be wrong also but if we are convinced, it’s better to try it out then we don’t put our weight behind it but if we are half-hearted one is we don’t do anything, the other is we do things half-heartedly then again we don’t solve the problem the third is ok, there is a problem we don’t obsess over the problem I have to think about the problem to solve the problem but then I have to understand that just thinking about the problem doesn’t necessarily solve the problem so quite often, if we just take a break let me think about something else let me absorb myself in Krishna then the mind becomes calmer and after we become calm, then we look at the problem so we decide, this is the problem and this is the time, I lost my job, I have to get a new job yes, I have to think about it, I have to plan how to get a job but in 24 hours of thinking, I lost a job, I lost a job then I not only lost my job I end up, my mind makes me lose my job-worthy results because I become so paralyzed I become so overwhelmed even if I get over-interviewed, oh I lost that job what if I lose this job also, what if I don’t do well so ok, I lost my job, I have to get a job, I have to work for it but it’s not that I have to let that define me completely there is a particular amount of time let’s say I had a job, I was working 8 hours so I work 8 hours to find a job but after that, let me go on with my living life that means we define how much time I want to give to this problem and we give ourselves wholeheartedly in that but after that, we don’t carry it over this problem, next problem we don’t let that problem carry over all the time and this requires sattvahona this requires sattvahona, the mode of goodness and by the practice of bhakti yoga, we can actually see we think all the time but only in sattvahona, we can think about our thinking we are always thinking but understanding what is the way I am thinking am I thinking optimistically, am I thinking pessimistically am I obsessing over something or am I objectively analyzing and learning from things this thinking about thinking is what is possible when we are in the mode of goodness and then we can evaluate and correct our thinking that’s why we will see that sometimes if we are just too burdened by problems we just have to feel crushed, come to a temple just absorb ourselves in krishna katha, then feel calmer and then yeah I can do this, I can try this, I can try that so that way, the mind if we mind it properly then we can even if there is astrologically a bad phase we are going through we won’t make the bad phase worse but rather we will minimize the effects of the bad phase on us