20.04.2014

Excellence
With the aim of excellence,
I bring beauty and quality into each word and action.
Change
Never believe anyone who says you
cannot change, or that you should not tamper with your
personality. The truth is, you are already changing
numerous times every day. And it is never too late to
contemplate a change in personality, which simply means
changing the way you see and respond to people and the
world around you. It is up to you. You can either live
with the pain that is known as stress - it's what most
people do because it seems the easiest way to live - or
you set off on the adventure of self-discovery.
This is not some New Age fashion. Every time you change
one of your old habits, of creating pain as a response
to life, it will be one more step towards enjoying a
riper old age. If you want to live a long and healthy
life, kill your stress and your pain with truth, before
it kills you!
The Concept Of Letting Go (cont.)
An example of how the pleasure turns into desire, the
desire into need, the need into habit, habit into
dependence and finally the dependence into an addiction
- process (explained yesterday) takes place can be seen
in some smokers. The smoker, little by little, liked
smoking, then desired to smoke, then needed to smoke;
he/she created the habit of smoking, it turned into a
dependence and finally into an addiction. It began
because he liked it but it ended up generating that
addiction.
We live disconnected from ourselves, with a lot of
unnecessary dependencies and needs. When you think that
you need to smoke, you believe something that is not
true. What does it mean that you need to smoke? Negative
effects of smoking on the body are well known; we
already breathe in enough pollution from cars and we do
not need to breath in more unnecessary smoke. However,
the person who smokes believes that it is a need and,
while they believe it, they don't realize, or if they do
realize, they don't want to accept that it is an
unnecessary dependence.
This process can happen in many other cases: emotional,
mental and physical dependencies and addictions towards
people, objects and ideas. When we are hooked we lose
emotional, mental and intellectual control over our
inner selves and in our awareness. The solution is in
knowing how to let go.
Soul Sustenance
What Is ‘Clean Communication’?
With the self covered
by the clouds of so many external influences and many of
its own negative beliefs and past experiences, the self
is normally unclear about its own self. The light of
spiritual knowledge brings clarity to the self, about
the self. This helps me to communicate with others much
more clearly than when I am not sure or clear about what
is going on inside me. There is a direct connection
between the quality of subtle activities in the form of
thoughts and feelings going on inside me
and the quality of my interaction and communication with
others.
Very importantly, relationships are also connected with
attitude and vision. Sometimes, I may feel
I have said and done the right things to someone, yet
still someone is not behaving towards me as I would
wish. At such times I need to check my attitude towards
that person and the vision with which I am seeing them.
I may find inside a slight feeling of disapproval
towards that person, a feeling of discomfort, a
resistance to something in their personality. Neither of
us may be conscious of it, but my negative feeling casts
a shadow on the other person. They are not receiving the
acceptance or respect from me, that they should (on a
subtle level), although externally I may be showing them
a lot of respect. This subtle lack of acceptance and
respect from my end influences their ability to hear me
clearly (on a subtle level), and the way they behave
towards me. The practice of meditation enables me to
clean out my thoughts, feelings, attitudes and vision,
ensuring that what I share with others on a physical and
on a subtle level is positive. Then it is much
easier for me to connect with others and for others to
connect with me in a positive way. This is called
‘Clean Communication’.
Message for the day
Real positivity is
being positive even in negative situations.
Projection:
It seems very difficult, if not
impossible, to maintain positive thoughts when we are
faced with a negative situation. Even with a strong
intention to be positive, challenges come in the form of
relationships, physical illness, difficult circumstances
etc and we find ourselves weakening.
Solution:
A long time of practice of maintaining inner self-respect
is what will help us in a difficult situation. To
maintain self-respect means to understand and appreciate
our own uniqueness. With this practice of self-respect
we will not be dependent on the external situation but
will find the strength within.