A Calm Mind
Don't give your mind permission to get disturbed. A
disturbed mind is easily influenced. This will cost you
your peace. Learn to maintain your peace by freeing
yourself from attachments. Competing or comparing
yourself with others will not allow you to focus
inwards. An inner focus allows you to keep your eye on
your higher self. Remember your original nature. It
allows you to forge a link with the Divine. Then it
becomes easy to recognize useless thoughts and replace
them with a spiritual perspective. A calm mind is not
just peaceful, it is focused, self-directing and divine.
Listen and Learn
It is a normal habit for all of us to talk more and
listen less. We always want to put forth our ideas and
don't have the patience or the inclination to hear what
others have to say. Because of this we are not able to
learn but continue to do things in the same way as we
used to. In order to be able to learn we need to be open
and listen from everything that happens. The more we are
able to listen, the more we are able to learn, because
each situation and each person has something new to
teach us. When we continue to learn we continue to
experience constant progress.
Maintaining Your Self Esteem In Relationships
When a person is in love with another human, the
marvelous thing about being in love is that it is a
totally positive projection. There is a person who
projects on to you all that is positive: you are
marvelous, you are unique, you are indispensable, you
are a treasure. That positive projection generates a
euphoric state, of bliss, of wellbeing, whereby you are
flying. You feel loved, cared for, needed and valued.
That positive projection lasts for a time until, with
the dependencies and expectations, the negative
projection begins. "You should have called me, you
should have told me, you should have come at this time,
you should be more like this, you should be less like
that, you should have done this or that." With these
expectations, demands and dependencies, that positive
projection and flying state disappear. The other has
started interfering in your personal space and the
harmony that was there previously is lost. One needs
to learn to have a positive vision of oneself. You
are marvelous, you are unique; don't depend on them
telling you so. This does not mean you need to feed your
ego, but that you need to make the most positive emerge
from within you. Resort to all your creative,
positive, spiritual capacity, so that you do not depend
on others having to project positive things onto you in
order to feel good. On feeling good in an
independent and autonomous way, you will be able to
share with others peace, love and positivism. You won't
be in the state of a victim but will be true rulers and
controllers of your own life with solid self-esteem.
Soul Sustenance
What is Will Power?
The expression will-power is often used to refer
to our ability to put into practice the ideas we know to
be for our well-being and to resist actions (karmas)
which are harmful. This is directly related to the
soul's intellectual strength. When we speak of weakness
or strength in the soul we are referring to the
intellect. In the case of a weak soul (one with lower
will-power) it is almost as if the intellect plays
no part in determining which thoughts arise in the mind,
but they come as if pushed by the sanskaras
(mainly in the form of habits) or are triggered by the
atmosphere around or the moods of others. On the
contrary, a powerful soul (one with higher will-power)
enjoys the experience of its own choice regardless of
external stimuli (influence). Rajyoga meditation
develops the intellect to such an extent that this
degree of control is possible. A practitioner of Rajyoga
meditation can be in the midst of a situation of intense
disturbance, yet remain so unshakeably calm that the
inner strength becomes a shelter and inspiration to
others lacking in that strength. The weak soul is like a
leaf at the mercy of the storm, the strong one, a rock
in the face of a rough sea.
Message for the day
Success comes to the one who understands the importance
of time.
Projection:
When we are working at a task, success doesn't come as
much as it should because we have not been able to
recognise the importance of time. Because of this
sometimes carelessness sets in which makes us lose
valuable time and interferes in what we are doing. Then
we cannot give our best to the task.
Solution:
We need to recognise the importance of time so that we
never postpone what we can do now. We will then always
have the slogan 'now or never' in our mind. Knowing that
what we can do now, we cannot do it as well in the
future, we'll give our best to all we do right now. This
will enable us to use our time in a fruitful way and
success will come very easily to us.