The voices within

I still remember my school days when a teacher of mine told us to close our eyes. We did that, wondering why. And then she said," Do you hear something? There are two voices you should be hearing". We, being innocent, answered, "Yaaaaaasss Teeaaacheerrrrrr!". She added, "One is God's voice, and the other is Evil's voice. Evil's voice gives you bad thoughts; it doesn't let you hear God's voice. It's up to you which voice you listen to. Do you hear the evil's voice?" And we do the exact singing, followed by, "God's voice is very soft, whereas Evil's voice is loud enough that you only listen to it. So always listen to God's voice."

We were all saying "yes, yes" to what the teacher said, though we didn't hear any voice. At some older age, I realised she was fooling us, thinking how a normal, healthy person could hear voices in his head. She might have just said that to keep us silent and wait for the bell to ring. And still, the question, "Is it really true?" lingered in my mind always.

It's indeed true. Overthinking works on the same concept. Overthinking thoughts hits you louder than normal thoughts. Overthinking thoughts correspond to Evil's voice, and normal good thoughts correspond to God's.

How do we deal with overthinking? It's simple: stop being attentive to those thoughts; the more you pay attention to them, the more trapped you are. I know this is not easy, but nothing has been easy in the game of human life. Effort has always been a constant trade of exchange for it, and its amount depends on how giant your leap is in the game.

If you stop paying attention to it, it's simple that you should be listening to God's voice, which is soft enough that overthinking strikes you at such a point, too. You overcome it, show what you are, and the worth of those traps you wouldn't want to fall into.

I vaguely remember my teacher adding, "Evil's voice never lets you live in peace; it always tells you to do wrong things, which disturbs you as a person or others around you." At this age, we are capable enough to recognise right from wrong, and that's how we identify the voice that also disrupts our peace.

I do not know in what context all this she said about. I used to enjoy listening to such things, which makes me feel good. This sometimes doesn't make any sense, and so we generally ignore them, which is, again, that evil things hit us harder than good.