You're listening to Ted Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hu, Sri Lankan monk Jayshree matter found a way to fill her life with bliss and grace even at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in her country. She calls it a magic pill to eradicate suffering.

And in today's Talk from Ted Women 20/20, she shares the simple way she transformed her life. It's something we can bring into our lives to.

During the peak of coronavirus pandemic in Sri Lanka, that is mid 2020, I came up with a surprising way to fill my life with bliss and grace, a magical month that was nurturing in the garden of my mind. It feels like all good thoughts that I have planted in my mind has begun to blossom into something beautiful. This magical mantra was like a magic pill for all perceived suffering, which not only affected my life, but everyone else connected to me.

Thirty eight years of my life, I went on a self-seeking journey, finding who am I? I went through a conscious dying process, letting go of everything, attach to my name, well-established career as a coach, a charity consultant, hypnotherapist, energy healer. Intimate relationships, attachment to family. Twelve years of well established business. So what was this magical mantra that transformed my life for better? Thank you for the two simple words that fill the space between my ears like a music in my head.

This experience profoundly during the pandemic, as everyone connected to me was filled with fear and doubt and anxiety, and I had to do something different. The first thought came to my mind first thing in the morning as I walk was thank you. And the last thought occupied my mind when I went to sleep at night was thank you. I was thinking thank you. When I eat. When I drank, when I woke up, when I was I'd said silently when I consumed every man made materials.

It was like a music in my mind, sometimes I said the word thank you loudly, even to inanimate objects like Sun and the moon, that the stars, birds, butterflies, trees, little creatures in the garden as if I was great in them. When you say thank you, it creates a harmony between you and the external condition under observation. It helps you to bring your attention in words. It may be initially just a word running in your head without a true feeling of gratitude in your heart, a word is a sound.

And a sound if a vibration and vibration creates energy. So when you keep thinking, thank you after a while, that energy start penetrating into a heart center and the rest of the body. We cannot do much about troubled times and conditions in life, but we certainly can do something to calm ourselves during troubled times. Human mind is like water. If it gets affected by external conditions, it creates movement and you cannot see that at this magical month.

I thank you. And the true feeling of gratitude in your heart can help you deal with any life situation peacefully, joyfully and blissfully, may all beings be real happy, free from all suffering and be enlightened. Thank you, thank you, thank you. PR ex.