"Positive thinking" - changing your thoughts for a better life



Positive Thinking


The Enhancement lecture scheduled on Wednesday was about to begin as we took our seats as usual in the Prof. V.K. Samaranayake auditorium. The guest lecturer for the day was none other than Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala, who is a famous writer, editor, counsellor and a teacher in the country. He specializes in the field “Positive thinking” which was also the topic that was given for the day.

Life has many aspects that can influence the well-being of a human. Controlling yourself within your mind is very important, to maintain a healthy life fulfilling key aspects of life such as self-belief, trust, happiness, emotional intelligence etc. This process of controlling is simply identified as “Positive thinking”. Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala commenced the lecture and continued on using many examples from day to-day experiences which shed light to many of the issues that the youth of the 21st century face. Positive thinking mainly focuses on emotional stability which consist maintaining and controlling elements like love, affection, work, leisure etc. According to Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala emotional stability is ultimately affected by love. He explained in extent about how love affects different stages of our life with the use of the concept of “Love tanks”.

·         Love when conceive. 
·         Love and support from parents till the age of 8. 
·         Love and support from family, friends, and having fun till the age of 14. 
·         Peer group love till the age of 21. 
·         Self-Love happens till the age of 28. 
·         Relationships, partnerships, and romance. 
·         Giving unconditional love to someone who is depending on you. 
·         Giving back to your community. 
·         Giving back to the world - Broaden your horizons. 
·         Serving God

These are the main stages as he mentioned. Fulfilling these love tanks at the right age is essential for a person to maintain emotional stability. Not having so can result in mental breakdowns, violence and emotional behavior that affects the environment of the person. These negative behaviors can be conflicted and resolved with simple working techniques and advice to help you replace negative thoughts with happy, successful and constructive thoughts. Counselling is a great way of facing conflicts in life and can help to a great extent in reducing the harmful effects of negativity. Learn how to build up a positive attitude and avoid negative thoughts. You should always expect positive results on whatever the situation you are facing. This builds up an emotional intellect within a person and helps grow emotional stability.
Positive thinking affects almost everything in life. From Brushing your teeth to developing thinking power of your brain, positive thinking helps in making a person efficient, productive, effective and influential. Many of the role models that you find have got a good positive mindset on life and its aspects. Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala continued the lecture effortlessly as he was a counsellor himself saving and helping a number of lost souls. The examples he took from personal experience made the lecture even more entertaining.

In summary positivity is good for every aspect of life and developing emotional stability is key in positive thinking. The guest lecture enlightened us all in general about many situations we face in our day to-day life. Furthermore, Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala gave us a Q&A session for us to resolve additional issues we might have. Many of my colleagues responded to this request and forwarded the Professor with a bulk of questions. He didn’t hesitate to answer any of the questions. He explained every issue brilliantly with the life experience he has and this session made the guest lecture even more valuable to us, and finally the lecture ended as we ran out of time.

The lecture was creative, inspiring, and knowledgeable altogether. I would like thank our lecturer, Mr. S.T. Nandasara for organizing this guest lecture, and Prof. Daya Rohana Athukorala for conducting a very interesting lecture session that would help our future life decisions.

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