28.10.2014

Courage
One of the highest forms of courage is the
ability to face my own negativity
without feeling guilty or bad about myself, and
then take responsibility for
changing it. To begin this process, I first make
contact with my deepest
spiritual core. Reflecting on the things I care
about mostly gives me a
glimpse of my innate goodness. Building on this,
God will, if I let Him,
gently reveal in me a caring and compassionate
nature that can even be
described as divine. The courage to let go of
unwanted thoughts and
feelings will develop when I accept that my
higher, divine self is not
separate from me, but lies at the very heart of
who I am.
Acceptance
Accepting life as it is a multi-faceted concept.
While it's good to
accept circumstances and people as they are, it
would be unwise to act
out of blind faith or dejection: Either we say
things will happen if
God or destiny wills it, or that things are
never going to improve so
why bother... Both perceptions spread a negative
vibration. Acceptance
means I don't confront a situation or person
simply because things
aren't to my liking, as this drains me of energy
I could use to
reform the problem. With a clear mind, heart
open to the unexpected,
and willingness to make a difference, I link
myself to God and take His
energy to be successful in my goals.
The Three Root Causes Of Anger
Any time we sense irritation, frustration or
anger emerging inside our
consciousness, if we take a close look at it, we
will notice we are fighting a
war in our consciousness with one of these
three: either with another
person, most obviously or with the past or with
our self.
We are at war with the past because our anger is
always towards
something that has already happened and looking
at it we react
emotionally which means we are trying to change
it, which is
impossible. Any scene that has taken place a
year ago, a month ago or
even a second ago cannot be changed. We may be
completely convinced
and we may believe we can. That's because we
hold this belief
subconsciously. Somewhere and sometime in the
past, we have picked up
and absorbed the belief that the world and its
circumstances should shape
up exactly as we want.
When our internal desire of a certain type of
circumstances is
not fulfilled, or in other words something
against this belief
happens, our instant reaction is one of the
various forms of
anger and we tend to try and change the incident
that has happened
in a far-off past or a past that has just gone
by. We keep replaying a revised
incident, with words and actions that we would
have liked and that suit our
convenience and we also keep nullifying the
actual incident or remain in a
un-acceptance mode towards it. This is like
fighting a war with the incident.
We tend to do this inside our minds, repeatedly,
even realizing somewhere
deep within, that it is impossible.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Soul Sustenance
Topics For Meditation Thought Commentaries
As you start your meditation practice, you need
to have in mind some
simple topics for your thought commentaries on
which you base your
meditation. Repeat them gently. Doing that will
give you enough time to
experience the feelings hidden inside them.
Realization of thought
commentaries will help your thoughts to develop
and your thoughts will
slowly expand as you now guide yourself in your
meditation. Take up a few
simple topics or phrases as the foundation for
your meditation. Initially,
listening to a guided meditation commentary on
an audio cassette or CD,
which is available at any Brahma Kumaris center
will be extremely helpful.
As you get an idea about what thought
commentaries are all about, you can
gradually start creating your own powerful,
positive, thought
commentaries. These will ultimately have more
meaning for you because
they have been created by you and you will
easily be able to relate to them.
You can continue to take the help of recorded
commentaries, though, from
time to time. Given below are a few topics for
your thought commentaries,
which you would find helpful and which you can
explore.
• I am a subtle (non-physical) point of
consciousness, which resides within
this body (situated at the center of the
forehead), I am the energy which
brings this body to life every day. I am the
energy which uses this body to
see, to speak, to touch and to hear. I am the
energy which experiences
everything via the body. But I am not this body
• I am a soul, a being of light, situated at the
center of the forehead,
radiating pure light into my body, out towards
others close to me and the
world. As I turn within and remember who I am, I
experience my own
capacity to have pure love for all others. It is
a generous (kind) love that
neither wants nor needs anything in return.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Message for the day
God's love brings out the perfection from
within.
Projection:
The power of God's love brings about change
internally.
Through His love everything old and unwanted
finishes. There is the
natural tendency to bring about such perfection
that the one who loves Him
and gets His love becomes like a mirror - a
mirror in which perfection of
others too is visible.
Solution:
There is such inner strength that I get because
of God's love that
even if somebody does something to hurt me, I
don't allow myself to get
hurt. Even if people are saying negative things,
they don't influence or
touch me in a negative way. I am so full with
God's love that it naturally
flows out to those around me.