Reflections- Key for Actions

By Arti Raghava, 7 February 2021

Often, we are not offered a pause amidst the continuous flow of events of our lives but if we actively seek to find a moment to take a breath it gently sneaks up on us; Alas !! 'moment of true reflection' is a blessing for our soul and the mind. It brings to us something, which we truly cannot appreciate in its glory unless we experience it in the present; an acknowledgement of our learning & growth, a sense of gratitude as well our accomplishments or probably a recognition of our triumphs -trials- tribulations. It is in these findings that we truly see the 'real us' not only reflected but staring back at us to find the most natural path forward gradually and eagerly. The answers come to us floating on the cloud of clarity which reaffirms that we are enthusiastically waiting to meet our future selves who is wiser than our previous version. What a wonderful feeling ......

Many are familiar with work of Mike Dooley, New York Best Seller starting thought movement many years ago simplifying notion of law of attraction for those who buy into it; "thoughts become things" and I recommend it highly if you wish is gain more insights. [Author- Mike Dooley, Manifesting Change, It couldn’t be easier. Atria Books/Beyond Words, November 2010]

Such a profound concept captured in three humble words which can be philosophized, debated, and then proven beyond doubt each and every-time until it takes hold in our consciousness. Our wiser self-connects the dots of our journey through the reflection phase, and then realizes that we are primed to carry out tangible steps advancing to manifest our thoughts into reality. Let me illustrate with an example, a person reflects on last 60 days of their professional space to realize 'Ooh my GOD, I have been able to make such a great friend through these trying time with someone I hardly spoke with earlier" or that a particular initiative failed due to weakly put together communication plan but efforts were greatly received by beneficiaries. This would then elevate the individual's confidence level and help them gain a friend for life and most likely the experience would make them victorious in their next project. Simply put their subconscious drove them seamlessly towards a successful and rewarding path by just taking a pause to reflect on their unsuccessful project and difficult times, guiding their action accordingly.

It is crucial to remember though that we must focus on filtering the reflections that resonate with us the most. I believe that as long as these help us build on positive frame of mind even the most inaccurate deductions that we land on may actually nudge us in the right direction. However, at the most core of our nature every individual is capable of finding the meaning we are searching in these reflections. All we need to do it is to take the time to draw the ones which dominate the theme and reveals in a significant way for us at the juncture of life. It could be as simple as realizing error of our ways of only looking at our failures and thus keep on repeating same cycle over and over again. Other times it could be as complex as finding out that we have honed our decision making skills by going through a steep learning curve of navigating through crisis over crisis which added a huge value in our professional domain. It certainly would depend on what we most need to prepare ourselves for readiness of next phase of our life.

To pull this all together, our reflections help us find meaning, purpose, and make sense of the good, bad and the ugly experiences. Once we gain the knowledge, celebrate, or identify through these reflections it impacts our thoughts which guide the actions we take consciously and subconsciously ultimately leading to consequences or rewards. To understand the science of action and reaction is a child's play compared to the topic we are reviewing. If we were to further elaborate the correlations and for the sake of argument reduce our lives to a single thought at this very second, with all certainty one positive thought will yield success & a negative one shall surely bring unsuccessful result. The concept of 'thought become thing' does not work in mysterious ways and delivers in spades all of the time.

The intent of bringing this article to this medium is to urge those who may have forgotten to reflect to take a moment to do so, to those who may not be able to understand their actions to correlate them with reflections and those who may not be able to make sense of results they are seeing is to bring back their conscious thoughts to the actions. I hope this humble submission brings to someone right what they need right now. If it does, may be reflect on your action that guided you to this article....[laughs].

Carrying hopeful thoughts for everyone.....bringing more hope

Thank you for your time.....Cheers!!