Enjoy
When I finish this project, then I will be happy! When
this situation is resolved, I will be fine. When I reach
my goal, I will finally relax, be peaceful! Do not
postpone your happiness; enjoy whatever comes your way.
Unloading Your Pressure Baggage (cont.)
Sometimes the pressure we are carrying is related to the
situation we are in, sometimes we even carry a pressure
of one situation in another situation i.e. it is
unrelated pressure. All this continues throughout the
day, day after day. What all this pressure does is
increase the quantity of thoughts that we carry in our
mind, which in turn reduces our efficiency and
discriminating and judging power. The words and actions
coming out from such a state of mind are improper and
lacking in power, conviction and clarity. To ensure
that we do not carry pressure baggage on our emotional
back, as per our pressure equation (shared in the first
message of this series), we need to change the incorrect
beliefs that we carry, which are the root cause of our
pressure and at the same time increase our ability to
bear the different life forces. We carry thoughts
that are determined by our belief of what success is and
what failure is, what winning is and what losing is.
Although we perceive such beliefs to be true, they are
not true; they are like a facade that influence our
perception of reality and generate in us feelings of
pressure. The truth, on the other hand, is deeper than
beliefs.
While meditation will serve as an important tool to
increase our inner power to tolerate or resist life
forces; spiritual knowledge, understanding and wisdom
will serve as an immensely important tool which will
help us in correcting our beliefs. So in
times of pressure, stopping yourself for a minute and
assessing your thoughts, then going backwards, and
checking the beliefs which are the root cause of the
thoughts at that particular moment and then changing
them requires strength and clarity, which we will obtain
through the medium of spiritual wisdom. Once the beliefs
are corrected, the thought patterns will change.
Thoughts like - * Maybe I won't arrive on time, * If I
don't finish this assignment successfully, I will lose
my next promotion, * If I lose my money in this
financial investment, my family will stop appreciating
me etc. which we create all the time - will be replaced
by more positive thoughts of security, fearlessness,
patience, peace, faith, determination, certainty etc.
Soul Sustenance
Worry Confused With Concern
One of the most incorrect beliefs that we have
acquired since childhood is that to worry is to care,
worrying is caring. Our parents are the people whom
we grow up with and are closest to in our childhood. As
soon as we are born, in fact even before we are born,
even when we are in our mother’s womb, they start
transmitting the energy of this belief through their
thoughts and later on when we are physically present in
front of them, through thoughts, words and actions; to
us, which we catch, because we being a spiritual energy,
not only transmit or radiate but also absorb energy. As
we grow up, this false belief keeps reaching us from
everyone on a subtle as level as physical level from
whom we meet and are close to including our friends,
siblings (brothers and sisters), spouse etc. and
slowly we start accepting this belief as being
completely true and lead our lives according to it and
even transmit the same to others. That is why it is
extremely difficult to find a single person today who
does not live according to this belief or does not bring
it into their daily lives to some extent or the other.
A very common example of the above belief which we all
have gone through sometime or the other is when we are
late by just a few minutes in coming back home from
office. On reaching home, we are asked a thousand
questions and by our family members, perhaps our parents
or spouse or children about where we have been and why
hadn’t we bothered to call and also informed about
another thousand negative assumptions they had made in
that much time. Why? Because they had been worried for
us. We are normally surprised with the fact they are
worrying, because 9 out of 10 times we are late because
of a not so serious reason, but our family members
explain that we were worrying for you because we care
for you.
But worrying is not caring. Worry is fear or anxiety
and care is love or concern, they are two opposite
emotions which can never exist together at the same
time.
In tomorrow's message, we shall demonstrate how
on a subtle energy level, true love and concern is more
beneficial than worry in coming out of negative
situations, in which we find ourselves every now and
then.
Message for the day
To experience newness each day is to be creative.
Projection:
Sometimes we find things to be very monotonous. There
seems to be nothing new that is happening. Days pass on
and we tend to become action-conscious only trying to
finish the tasks at hand. We feel caught up in the
routine not able to enjoy anything anymore.
Solution:
Instead of just doing what has to be done in a
monotonous way, we need to take a thought each day to
experience something new. There is such a variety in
each day, we only have to discover ways of experiencing
it. When we learn this creative art, we'll never be
bored, but will be able to enjoy everything that comes
our way.
Self-control
Usually when we talk about control there is only a
thought of controlling others or situations. There is
really never a thought of self-control. Again
controlling the self is understood as something
difficult and painful. So we generally force ourselves
to change or adapt our thoughts, words and behavior with
a great deal of difficulty. This further makes it
difficult to have interest for self-control. To have
control over ourselves means to be a master. Our
thoughts, words and behavior need to be according to our
orders. This is real self-control. For this we need the
practice of being a master and not to become a slave to
anything. The more we practice the consciousness of
being a master; everything that is our will naturally
obey our orders.