21.12.2014

Are Your Opinions Really Yours?
Examine your opinions about others. Are your
opinions about other people really yours? Or
have you adopted other people's opinions? We're
shaped and influenced by other people's ideas.
But our opinions should be a reflection of what
we really think and feel, right? Connect with
your values and then create your own opinions
Freeing Myself Of My Inner Darkness (Meditation)
Breathe deeply... Become serene and feel a
sensation of peace and wellbeing inside
yourself... Now have a conversation with
yourself... I sit down comfortably, like an
observer in silence. I stop paying attention to
everything around me: objects, people,
responsibilities, places... I centre my mind on
the present moment... The serenity, the
peacefulness, wrap around me... In this calm I
can see the dark corners of my inner being...
They are like shadows... I see the fears, the
anxieties, the guilt, the bitterness, the
selfishness, the unhappiness... They are
weaknesses that lie in some corner of me...
I accept that there are these dark areas within
me... I observe them and I realize that I am not
that darkness, I am not that weakness; it is not
real; it is like a shadow... I focus now on what
is real; all my energy concentrates itself in
the centre of my forehead and I visualize the
energy centered like a point of light... It is a
star of love, of peace, of wellbeing, of
contentment... I only have to access these
original qualities and allow these energies to
strengthen my soul... To do so, I continue to
observe with calm, with patience... I don't
allow my mind to judge or analyze what is
happening to me... Everything that has happened
to me forms part of the past... I have learned
from my mistakes... I forgive myself... I
forgive others...
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Constant Progress
Although we do have a lot in our lives, we have
expectations from situations and people around
us. We constantly think of what we have to get
from them. Such expectations make us dependent
on others for self-progress. Then we find
ourselves experiencing progress only when things
are going right or when people are cooperative.
Instead of thinking about what we want to get,
we need to pay more attention to what we have,
so that we can do our best using these resources
to acquire what we want. Thus we will experience
constant progress in our life, whether the
situations are positive in my life or not.
Soul Sustenance
The Law of Expectation
In our relationships with others, it is good to
want the best: "I hope you do very well, I am
sending you my positive energy and this is my
way of encouraging you and giving you courage.
However, if you don't achieve what I think you
are capable of, I will not feel frustrated. I
will not be dependent on you satisfying my
expectations, but I will always want the best
for you." If you have faith and confidence that
something will happen, it is a prophecy that
must come true. The expectations we have of
someone, whether negative or positive, do have
an effect on the person we are relating to. Many
investigations into this question confirm the
influence that the expectations of educators
have, both in the performance and in the
behaviour of their students. Everything points
to the conclusion that the teacher's
expectations form one of the most influential
factors in the academic performance of their
students. If a teacher expects good results from
their students, their performance will be much
closer to their real capacity than if their
teacher is expecting poor results.
Message for the day
The power of good wishes enables disheartened
ones to experience happiness.
Expression:
The usual reaction to the negativity in another
person is to behave negatively too, i.e., to
express negative qualities. This continues
although this does not bring about the desired
change in the other person. On the other hand,
when there is the ability to see the positive
qualities in the other person and have good
wishes based on that it becomes a source of
power to bring about a change to positivity.
Experience:
When I have the ability to give positive
feelings and good wishes to the other person
even when they are negative, they are able to
get the power to change the negative to
positive. I find that the change that I seek for
in others is much quicker and easier than if
there is the emphasis just on negativity.