We suffer more in
imagination than in reality - I happened to read this profound statement
somewhere on Facebook and it instantly triggered a thought process in my head.
The above line is true because sometimes the cause of our suffering lies solely
in our mind. We imagine our problems to be bigger than they actually are
causing much distress to ourselves. If we were to replace ‘suffer’ with the
word ‘live’ in the opening sentence, then that holds true as well because sometimes
we live more freely in our imagination than in the real world. The point is
that all of us live in these two worlds – the real and the imaginary and we keep
moving from one to another with effortless ease.
The real world is the physical space and the actual events
and circumstances that transpire in our life. The imaginary world is the
magical world that we create inside our head. It is our thoughts that spin
around to create this magical web. It is the creative space. So depending on
the quality of our thoughts we can be happy or stressed in this imaginary
space. And that after all is what
influences the real world.
I call the imaginary space the magical world because here we
are free to dream the forbidden, the less thought of and be true in the expression
of our feelings. The imagination is far more powerful and dangerous than we
think. It allows access to things not
permitted in the real world. But also allows us to shed inhibitions and
discover our true selves. Not always
does the imaginary turn into real but that is where the ‘magic’ lies – in just
experiencing things in our physical being. And the best part is that no one can
take away this experience from us. So turn around your imagination into your
creative playfield and use it a lot more than you already do and you will
discover that the ‘magic’ I talk about follows silently but surely.
