Moods

Sometime we feel off-key. We want to kick someone, we want to bad mouth someone else. Not the best of behavior. But that is human tendency. We feel like questioning Mr. Murphy for making some ‘laws’. Especially the one which says, ‘when things go wrong, they do’.

This is like rubbing salt over the already open wound. Adding insult to injury.

Dr. DV Gundappa, a famous writer in Kannada, has written a very famous book called ‘Manku timmana kagga’ which has 945 poems of 4 lines each.

One of my favorites is ‘Eshtu Chintisidaroo..’

The poet says: how much  we  keep thinking, we will end up in having more and more doubts in this universe. May be Brahma has ‘written’ that we should keep on undergoing difficulties, our fate is just that’

May be, if we try to rise above the mundane situation, things will be better. But how many people can?

To get to mood we need to put an extra effort. If we are in the office, try to have a strong coffee so that the caffeine starts clearing the clot in the brain! We can listen to some soothing music plugging the earphones so that we can shut off the outside noise. After a few minutes our mind will become cool. We can also listen to the same sound again and again like say... om!

There are many famous singers who have sung this type of chants for 30 minutes!  We can put it in repeat mode and keep listening.

When at home and our mood is off, we can try doing praanaayaam. This will help to a maximum extent.

Instead of this, if we start raving and ranting, it takes us nowhere. It will deteriorate the situation. So, to mitigate the heaviness of the situation, we have to put on a smile forcefully.

Then why to create brouhaha in the first place?

Especially when one’s mood is spoilt, the best thing to do is to be totally cut off from other people at least during the first one hour.

One of the worst moods is the surly mood. We may even become angry. If we decide to write and express our anger on someone, consider the relation with the recipient is soured for lifetime. Unless, of course, the other person is so familiar with our moods and behavior, we may be pardoned!

In Gita, Lord Sri Krishna says, anger is one of the worst vices. When the mood is spoiled and the people around are insensitive towards your sensitivity, then there will be chaos. If getting moody is one of our ‘virtues’ and if we can’t get out of it, and still we want to be friends with everyone, better we withdraw into a shell till our mood becomes fine.

To get moody is human, to come out of it fast is divineJ