24.06.2015

Self Manage
There is a huge hole
in the heart of all our educations. It is where
the skills and abilities of self-management
should be. No one teaches us how to manage our
thoughts, feelings, attitudes and behaviour, so
we find it hard to manage the four Rs –
relationships, roles, responsibilities and
resources. So let’s get started. Consciously
choose the quality of your thoughts today –
accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative
and clean up the waste. Everything, which means
everything in your life, begins with your
thoughts.
A Free and Open Mind
A free
mind is a mind that is open to everything and
attached to nothing. Most people spend much of
their time looking for reasons to be offended.
An open mind is never offended because it is
free of any attachments. It is never the self
that is offended but always the illusion that
the self has of itself that is affected by
insult! If you can really understand this,
deeply grasp it's truth, live it each day, then
pain will be no more. Next time you 'feel'
offended look closely within yourself at
yourself and ask yourself what was offended? If
you remain aware you will see that it was only
an image of yourself which you had become
attached to, and that image did not resonate
with the image contained in the insult. If you
weren't attached, if you didn't identify with
the wrong image of yourself then there would be
no offence taken. You would then remain free and
therefore happy.
Shedding Off The
Attachment To A Positive Past
A very powerful mis-identification (incorrect
identification) that each one of us indulges in,
to different extents, is identifying with our
positive or glorious actions of the past.
This identification is so strong that almost
every day it comes to the surface of our
consciousness when we switch on the movie of
this story of these actions on the screen of our
minds. By rehearsing this story repeatedly we
love experiencing the same emotions and feelings
that we felt at that time, emotions that we had
enjoyed very much. We not only re-experience
that pleasure but we also love to share the
pleasure by persuading others to see that movie
by broadcasting that movie in front of whoever
we come across. This is normally done in the
form of words by speaking about our professional
or personal achievements, our educational
qualifications, our experiences, actions for
which we gained recognition, our history, etc.,
all a thing of the past. But this is not
talking about the real self, this is just a
story, thus it is a false identification with
something we are not. Every time we indulge
in this type of identification, we strengthen
the incorrect belief that we are talking about
our self. We believe the past is us. This is the
incorrect identification.
If someone were to ask us to describe ourselves
in a few words, instead of talking with humility
about our spiritual self, our virtues, powers,
strengths, etc., which is the real self, we
quickly mention all of the above features of our
past, thinking this will give the other an
impression of our credibility. Even when we
communicate with people over email or some other
mediums, we are quick to mention all these
things in our signature, etc. believing this is
our story and portraying that we are in love
with it and other people should identify us with
this story as we do and love us for the same.
To remember and identify with any memory of
action that we created yesterday is to identify
with what we do. And we are not what we do.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
The Power Of
Concentrated Thought
The thoughts that we create are of different
nature, different intensity and their quantity
also varies from time to time during a
particular day as well as night and also
depending on what action we are performing at
that particular moment of time or not performing
any action at all. They possess immense
potential or power, both positive and negative.
They can either liberate (or empower) us or
limit (weaken) us. This depends on what we think
and how much we think.
The mind tends to jump from one place to
another. Many of our thoughts filled with
doubts, dejection, fears, insecurity,
irritation, worry, comparisons which give rise
to emotions like jealousy or inferiority /
superiority complexes, desires, un-enthusiasm,
etc. are useless thoughts and weaken us. They
defocus us and cloud our inner clarity.
Sometimes we keep repeating certain type of
thoughts inside our mind, we keep going round in
circles. Most of the time, these repetitive
thoughts are negative or waste in nature related
to the emotions mentioned above. Sometimes the
repetitive thoughts can be necessary or positive
also. Even necessary and positive thoughts, when
repeated again and again, turn into the
superfluous (excess) or waste. So it’s important
to think in a higher, concentrated way – think
less and think powerful; such thoughts have a
lot of clarity, focus and spiritual force that
help us to put them into practice more
successfully. A single thought or a series of
thoughts can block the capacity to feel content
and awakened spiritually and make us sorrowful.
On the other hand, a single thought or a series
of positive thoughts can be the key to open the
door that allows us to access, enjoy and
experience the richness of our inner self. But
it has to be a pure, strong, clear and
concentrated thought or thoughts.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the
day
Success comes to
the one who absorbs only the good and positive
aspects.
Projection:
The one who has the power to
absorb, naturally absorbs only the positive
aspects of everything he comes into contact
with. So the response too is always positive.
Never is there reactions towards difficult
situations or people, but there is the natural
ability to absorb all that is good and respond
positively accordingly.
Solution:
Once I instill the habit of
seeing only the positive aspect in everything, I
find myself getting free from negativity. It is
like filling in fresh water into a pail of dirty
water. When there is a continuous flow of fresh
water into even the most dirty water, gradually
the water getting purified. So too I find myself
getting internally cleansed of all negativity
with a continuous flow of positivity.