30.09.2014

Adam Cooper in
Singin' in the Rain at the Palace Theatre
Don't Worry, Be Happy
When we worry, we make problems bigger than they
really are. Don't worry. Be happy.
Did you know that singing improves your mood?
So, sing, sing, sing your worries away.
Accept whatever you have no control over.
Prepare whatever you can. Keep the thought: at
the right time, the right things will happen.
Performing A Spiritual Audit At The End Of The
Day (cont.)
Yesterday we had explained how self evaluation
at the end of the day is extremely vital to
one's progress and development. A useful
exercise in this regard is keeping a daily chart
for about 3 personality traits or points
and filling it up every night (lesser than 3 is
also fine, but not more , because then you might
feel lazy in keeping the chart after a few days
and also you might lose focus and the
personality traits may not transform as much as
you want). You could either evaluate yourself
with a yes or no or perform a percentage wise
evaluation like 50% or 90% for e.g. We have
mentioned below, some of the common traits from
which you could select the traits to keep a
daily chart for. You could incorporate some
other specific traits (not mentioned in this
list), which you want to change or develop,
depending on your personality:
In the entire day, today; not only in my
words and actions, but also in my thoughts:
* Did I see everyone's specialties and keep good
wishes for each one, in spite of obvious
weaknesses being visible?
* Did I remain free from all forms of anger,
like irritation, frustration, grudge, revenge,
etc.?
* Did I ensure that I neither give nor take
sorrow, hurt, pain from anyone?
* Did I remain free from waste and negative?
* Did I remain ego less?
* Did I remain untouched by name, fame, praise,
insult?
* Did I remain stable?
* Did I remain free from judgments, criticism,
jealousy, comparison, hatred, etc.?
* Did I keep a conscious of serving each one
whom I met?
* Did I bring the 8 main powers into practice
and experience being powerful?
* Did I remain in self-respect and give respect
to everyone?
* Did I practice being soul-conscious in actions
and interactions?
* Did I take a one minute break every hour to
reflect, meditate and control the traffic of
thoughts in the mind?
Yog
The crux of communication is wastage. In
writing, the search for expression, the
sensitivity to its reception, the pressure of
time, drains away the energy of thought at its
conception. When it arrives, it is diluted (or
exaggerated); it may come late or the reader is
busy. "Might" is read as "won't", sorry for
"can't", "love" for "much love". In speech,
instead of doing, doing is spoken of, and the
gap between the two takes action away until
instead "love" means "leave me alone"; "thanks"
means "hurry up"; silence means "I'm tired" or
"busy". Moments when speech meets action; and
both spring out of a single thought into clear
expression are rare. There are gaps of darkness;
semi-openness; semi-honesty. Funny people convey
truth in humour and serious people seek out
quality in their friendship.
A day will come when what you think, do and say,
will all be equal expressions of one force. And
the force will be you. Not a mixture of
conscience and impulse, duty and desire. Just
you. You will just live. And what you are living
will be part of the river that will run through
everyone. The landscape of your mind will be
unique, but the water will be the same and it
will be clean.
What will words be then? Words will explain
things that would take too long to show, like
how to climb a mountain. Words will represent
things. Words will be destinations, not
journeys. They will be like palaces not tents.
There would be no point in decorating a tent
because it is always being moved. But a palace
is fixed, traditional, rich. There will be no
irony, sarcasm, no ambiguity for these destroy
value. Instead words will be filled with depth,
age, and above all resonance, because they will
be places of meeting and enjoyment, free from
ego of debate or discussion. You cannot learn to
communicate like that from a human being. For a
human is filled with the past and every word
spoken is weighted by that. Love felt deeply has
desire in it somewhere. You have to learn it
from God. It is called yog.
Soul Sustenance
Simple Exercise To Identify Your Hidden Fears
If you want to overcome and overpower fears that
exist inside you, you have to first take a look
at your feelings and hidden emotions. After
realizing your feelings and emotions, you have
to know how to manage them and finally correct
or overcome them. Given below is a simple
exercise that will help you to achieve that.
This exercise will help you identify the
conscious and sometimes sub-conscious (very
subtle) fears that lie inside you. Choose an
area of your life that you feel is negative and
needs some improvement. Now, ask yourself these
three questions:
1. What do I really want, what is my aim and
objective?
2. What obstacle/obstacles are stopping me from
achieving my objectives?
3. What prevents me from dealing with or
overcoming that obstacle?
For each fear that comes to you in response
to the question no. 3, ask yourself the
following questions:
A. What is the worst that can happen, if what I
fear occurs?
B. What is the best possible result for me and
for others, if I do it even though I feel afraid
of doing it?
C. Keeping in front of you the answer to
question B and comparing it with the answer to
question A will inspire you to overcome the
fears that lie inside you.
Message for the day
To forgive the self is to have the ability to
forgive others too.
Projection:
I sometimes find it very difficult to forgive
the mistakes committed by others. I do try to
understand but am not able to understand the
other person's behaviour and so find it
difficult to forgive them.
Solution:
When I have love for myself and am able to learn
from all that happens, I am able to forgive
myself. When I know to do this, I can understand
the other person too from his perspective and
can easily forgive him.