No, It is not a typo or gibberish! It means “All is Well”. Let me explain.
Many of us have heard these words from several spiritual and motivational speakers. Recently I listened to a podcast of a spiritual speaker and heard the words ‘All is Well’ and it reminded me of a line from the 2009 Bollywood hit movie ‘3 Idiots’. In the movie, the protagonist whenever faced with challenging situations would put his right hand on his heart and say ‘Aal eej Vel’ – reflecting a pronunciation by a person not fluent in spoken English - “is” pronunciation sounds like “eej”. And most Indians even if they are fluent in English pronounce “W” as “V” and vice versa as most Indian languages do not have clear "V" and "W" sounds like in English. Instead, they have a single sound for both. And people from Scandinavian and Eastern European countries also have difficulty in pronouncing “V” and “W”.
His attitude and thinking were that everything is going to be fine, and he would constantly remind himself by doing that when confronted with demanding circumstances. Those words stuck with me as it did with millions who watched the movie. There was a lesson in that. We all generally tend to panic when presented with difficult situations. Fear strikes us, makes us anxious and nervous and thus we react negatively or behave in such a way which is detrimental to ourselves. Even if one does not verbally say those words aloud and put the right hand on the heart, we should have that philosophy and frame of mind and remind ourselves that “We are going to be OK”. But it is easier said than done.
Many of us struggle to believe that we will be alright no matter what challenges we face. Those folks tend to automatically think the worst and that the sky is falling. That is entrenched in our subconscious. Over the past several years I have faced several life-changing events, and my subconscious mind would take over. I would feel dejected, angry and sad. The thoughts of “Why Me” hounded me. After hearing several spiritual speakers, the instances of “Why me” thoughts did reduce. The additional thing I benefited from listening to them was that I started to consciously train my mind to believe that I was going to be fine. It was not easy after years and years of subconsciously reacting to unpleasant situations I faced. But slowly and steadily I started to make a conscious effort to say to myself “All is Well”.
The key here is consciously thinking and internalizing that. So, when faced with any challenging situations (big or small) by design I would say to myself “All is Well” in my mind or sometimes verbally if I was alone. It is not easy to have that frame of mind as your subconscious mind is not conditioned to be that way. Initially, I would think that this is all so superficial or not real. But slowly started to see how this helps psychologically. Mind you doing this doesn’t magically make the challenges go away. They still exist but being in “All is Well” frame of mind and consciously doing it increases your ability to face them by enabling you to remain calm and make rational decisions to respond to the situation rather than react. I started making steady progress in that way of conscious thinking. Although now sometimes I allow the subconscious to take over, the number of times I do that has substantially reduced.
Try it. If a very practical, logical, and data-driven person like me who generally does not believe in these kinds of soft things can do it anyone can.
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