Truly
Precious
More valuable than the things we give to each other are
the gifts of virtues we pass on quietly to others
through our selfless and noble actions. These gifts are
truly precious because they are imperishable and they
multiply the more we share them.
Real Treasures
We usually have a lot of attention in accumulating
wealth (money, physical possessions etc). We do take
care not to waste anything unnecessarily. But the other
treasures of thoughts and time get wasted away. So we
are not able to experience real progress. Each day we
need to check where our two main treasures of thoughts
and time are getting wasted. Constant checking will help
us realize and make us aware so that we no longer waste
our real treasures, but use them in a constructive way
to accumulate all other treasures.
Anger Management And Prevention
As you increase your self-awareness, you will also see
how your anger begins with a moment of irritation
towards a person or situation. If you then give
attention to that irritation by replaying or revising
the event in your mind, which is like giving water to a
plant, it will grow into frustration. And if you water
the frustration, it will grow into anger, which, in
turn, will develop into rage.
Don't suppress and don't express your anger. What's
left? Transform (change). The transformation of anger
requires you to realize the root cause of your emotional
pain. The realization comes by understanding deeply the
self or the soul. When you see the cause it gives you a
choice a) to stop creating it or b) continue creating
it. Unfortunately, although many see why they cause
their own anger and acknowledge responsibility for their
creation, they continue to keep getting angry. They find
many ways of justifying their anger. They have an 'anger
addiction'. They are angerholics.
Are you ready to see the root cause? Do you want to make
new choices? Isn't it time to break your emotional
addiction?
Soul Sustenance
Worry Confused with Concern (cont.)
We are all linked together at a subtle, invisible level,
and communicate with others invisibly. We not only send
but also pick up the energy that others radiate,
especially the ones that we are close to. We demonstrate
with an example how this can work positively as well as
negatively when we find ourselves in negative situations
in our practical lives.
Suppose the class teacher of your child (we take the
example of your son) calls up and says that while
playing in the school playground, your son has injured
himself. She doesn’t explain much but says there is
nothing to worry. She requests you to come and pick him
up from the school. At this point of time your son is
radiating his own spiritual energy which is most
probably the negative energy of fear, stress, anxiety
and sorrow (although the teacher has informed you that
he is fine). At the same time he is also picking up your
subtle spiritual or mental energy. You are driving
to his school to pick him up. At this point of time, you
only have a rough idea of what situation he is in
exactly at that moment because you are physically far
away from him. Guessing about the exact situation is
making assumptions and is a waste of your mental energy.
If you make negative assumptions i.e. you worry and
are scared, then you are sending him the same vibrations
of fear, a negative energy, which he is going to pick up
and it is not going to empower or help him in anyway but
is more likely to weaken and disturb him and even
disturb you in your driving. You have been told that
there is nothing to worry but still you know he is in a
slightly difficult emotional situation and only he knows
how he will come out of it.
What will help him? He needs your support, but what will
support him the most - we are talking about subtle
support, because you are going to take some time to
reach the school and provide him physical support? Your
negative vibration of fear which you may mistakenly call
concern or care as you imagine something bad has
happened? Or the positive vibrations of your
unconditional love and your good wishes, which is true
concern or care? What will you send him to support him
from far away? Worry vibrations or the vibrations of
love in the form of your good wishes for them?
Vibrations of love will keep you also in a positive
state as you drive through the city. Besides, what is
care or concern? It is you sending your positive inner
spiritual light to help another and worry is definitely
not that.
Message for the day
Determination enables us to overcome our weaknesses.
Projection:
When we recognize any weakness of ours, we want to make
effort to remove it. But usually we work on it for a few
days with great attention. After some time, we find
ourselves losing interest and the weakness gets stronger
taking hold of us once again. We find ourselves exactly
where we had started having no further enthusiasm to
work on ourselves.
Solution:
In order to overcome any weakness of ours, we need to
have a strong aim in our mind to remove it. With this
comes the determination to work on it without losing
hope. Even if we find ourselves becoming slack, we need
to remind ourselves that we don't want that particular
weakness in our life. Then we will be able to work at
removing the weakness fully.