I used to spend fifteen minutes looking into the mirror everyday. I wanted to appear great. Over the years looking great became an obsession with me.Till one day, i fell so ill that I lost twenty kgs over a span of two months...My body was so worn out that even a beggar would not want to converse with me. Lying down in my bed i picked up a magazine...... The headline on the front cover read " Do you love yourself when you look good or do you experience a sense of greatness when you feel good"

Earlier, I had a belief that one could feel good only when he or she looks good.... but here i had a better choice.....

It has been proved scientifically that those who feel good about themselves and are not too much concerned about their facial make-ups live a longer and more happier life than those who are obsessed with looking good. I had this general belief that if i look good i will feel good. Now this is true to some extent but i had not really understood the hidden meaning of feeling good. As a matter of fact looking good was my only objective in life and feeling good was something which was incidental...

It seemed to me that Mother Nature wanted to teach me something.... I was definitely not looking good during my period of illness and i did not have the courage to see myself in the mirror... So I had no option but to feel good about myself...

What does feeling good really mean? Feeling good means you become your own teacher.You value yourself. You rate your own core beliefs, set your own benchmarks and allow a higher force within you to evaluate your inner thinking. Feeling good is about watching your mind as it travels within you... You do not allow any other person to judge you because you have appointed the best and the most impartial judge within you...

You are the only person who is aware of what your mind thinks and by appointing a higher force within you to watch the movements of your mind you have probably taken the best decision of your life.... Why do you want other people to rate your core beliefs and values? The external world can applaud or criticize your work but they cannot take away the principles,honest intentions and real force guiding your actions...The truth of the matter is we might be disappointed when someone does not accept our view point, our works or ignores us outright but that does not make us powerless. It only pinches us ... We fall from the cliff only when we fall in our own eyes ... when we fail to stick to our noble intentions and thats what gives us the real pain ... that is when we really feel bad about ourselves... The external world is only an excuse for feeling bad you actually feel bad when you let yourself down....

Feeling good is not giving a chance to your higher self to point fingers at you. It is always nice to look good but this should not be your basic objective in life. When you feel good you automatically look good. There is a radiance which surrounds you, a force which compels people to get close to you, to talk to you, to interact with you.... Good looks can only turn heads around but feeling good can pull them towards you...

Next time that you have an option, focus more on feeling good and watch as the world bends it rules for you ......

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Lecturer, entrepreneur and Fortune 500 business consultant, Vish Writer is the author of the Amazon No 1 bestseller, "The Joy of Becoming God" For more information, visit: