Thanks to my obsession with the Magical world of Harry Potter, I often wish that these Spells, Charms, Enchantments-in short MAGIC did exist beyond the pages of Harry Potter.
Only if a memory spell (Obliviate) existed , we could have used it on ourself to forget the things that hurt us.
Wouldn't have bothered about being caught in traffic only if we could apparate or use a floo network or had a FIREBOLT ..The Fastest Broom(NIMBUS 2000 will also do).Messages written on Parchments ,sent through Owls would have been wonderful than an electronic mail right(Nothing can substitute a hand written letter even if it takes time to reach the other person).I have been raving about all these to my friend Vinay(Another soul obsessed with the World of Magic and HP ).The reply i got seemed way too philosophical .He replied to my mail saying
"You believe in things that don't exist.But you don't believe in the will power a person has within them.You believe in the power of a spell like Obliviate even though you know it does not exist.But you don't try to do things which you can do..Like trying to ward off the thoughts that affect you though you ."...Philosophical right(Thanks To Yogananda).
But when i thought later I found it was actually true.My favourite Spell "EXPECTO PATRONUM" triggered me to dwell more on Vinay's Words.I found striking resemblance between this Spell and a stress management technique about which i had given a presentation during my Satyam Training Days. That particular stress management technique was about the power of "PERCEPTION" to manage stress, depression.It was something like this-"Whenever you feel low or when you are clouded by negative emotions you need to think about things that make you happy,recall happy memories,visualise places which you like the most".
People who have read Harry Potter would have noticed the resemblance between Expecto Patronum and this Stress Management technique.Is'nt it??For those who have not read HP let me give u a brief intro onto this spell.Expecto Patronum is a spell cast to repel dementors.Dementors are soul sucking creatures that fill your brain with depressing thoughts and memories.The spell in itself doesn't do much to repel the dementors.It is the power of caster that fights the dementors off.The person has to focus on happy thoughts (despite of being surrounded with -ve emotions) and these thoughts needs to be overpower the -ve emotions and when this happens a silver form-Patronus is produced that wards off the dementors.Did u find an analogy??Dementors are the -ve emotions we are surrounded by and Patronus is the positive force produced by us to fight off those -ve emotions.Mind you its not easy to repel dementors..It is very difficult to charge yourself with positive attitude when everything seems to go wrong...But its not impossible either.It needs Strength of mind and as Vinay always says we will get that by practice.Hope I didn't bore u with my Monologue.
As a Final Note -"Fight your dementors off.You can if you think you can".Cheers!!
Really great that is the reason why i like the spell you presented it very well.... :)
ReplyDeleteAnd one more thing thanks a ton for giving value to my words.
Well said.. Its all within us - to ward off or to succumb to distractions.
ReplyDeleteHave you read "The monk who sold his ferrari" ?
Robin Sharma does exactly this. Picks up a group of saints (the sages of sivana) and then tells us how we can put into use, their teachings, as a solution to our daily stresses.
You put it in a neat way.
Do come up with more of these and we'll see if we can rope in JK Rowling to put these in her foreword :)
Great...to see u phrasing again......I can see a whole lot of effort, thought process and pain that might have came across to pen down these words.....still "NO GAIN IS WITH OUT PAIN" ......No clue of the "OBLIVIATE" or "EXPECTO PATRONUM" but every sentence has sense ......Expecting more varied writings from you......Finally i appreciate u for the way u converted the deadly thoughts in u into eatable idly sambar....good job swami........SWAMIAAYE SARANAM AYYAPA....
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ReplyDeleteThink You can,If you think U can.Really Good.
Unforunately, I am under a spell, "Lazyio Lifeo". Its very hard to come out of it. And I don't see why I should I come out of it at all. Come on, reading 7 sevens books or watching 7 movies! Your blog needs a lot more convincing for non-HP bloke like me.
ReplyDeleteBut that cannot take the way you've written it up. Excellent post. I just don't know what spell has been casted upon you, your blogging has stopped and staled. Time to put a "BACKento to FORMento" spell on you.
@braga: kind of under the same spell..pretty lazy..trying to get back..will start writing soon..
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