11.05.2015

Health Challenges
When you're facing a
health challenge, whether it's flu or something
more serious, give the body time to rest and
recuperate.
As well as medical care, nourish the mind with
positive thoughts; keep your head calm and your
heart happy.
This will help the body's healing process.
Unselfish love
The
one way to change others is to deal with them
with love. When you
have love for others, you will have good wishes
for them. Your desire
to change them will then be for their good and
not for your own selfishness. Others will quickly respond to your
unselfish love and
you'll find them changing. Think of one person
you want to bring about
a change in. Before you think of changing that
person let there be a
lot of love for that person in your mind. Also
make sure the change
you want in the other person is for his own good
and not for your own
selfish reason.
To Complement And
Not To Compete (cont.)
We all have a place within this beautiful
embroidery of life; let us know it, enjoy it,
express it as our right, but never overdo it
because we feel our role or position is more
advanced, or better than others. Sometimes,
when there is a sense of personal or collective
emptiness, there is the need to be recognized,
which creates attachment to your own talents,
role or virtues.
We have to learn to complement rather
than compete. Nature works on the
principle of complementarity. This can be
seen with the seasons, day and night, the
continual cyclical process of birth, growth,
maturity, decay, death and rebirth. Even our
bodies work on this principle. Look at the face!
Each face has two eyes, one nose, one mouth, two
ears, all in the right position and functioning
in an appropriate way. Which of these is more
important? Would you say the eyes are more
important, so you would prefer to have three
eyes and no nose? Or would you say the nose is
more important, so you would prefer to have
three noses and no ears? We cannot think like
this because it is absurd and illogical. Each
feature has equal value and when we recognize
the equal value of all things, then we stop
being illogical - comparing, competing, feeling
superior or inferior, or striving to be what we
are not. In a society that functions, can
everyone be a doctor, an engineer or a farmer?
Everyone has different talents and positions
because different tasks have to be fulfilled if
the whole society is to run well. If we examine
life carefully, we realize that the recognition
of this principle of complementarity is the
basis of creating a peaceful and happy
coexistence, because the vision of equality
respects and honors the differences.
Soul Sustenance
Self
Empowerment
To fill your self with a quality or power, which
you feel you do not have or one, which is
lacking inside you, try the following exercise.
Suppose you feel that you lack contentment
(satisfaction). To increase this quality inside
you, sit comfortably in a pleasant room with
your eyes open.
Withdraw (remove) energy mentally from
everything around you – turn your attention
inward. You might think of how a tortoise
withdraws into its shell to detach itself from
the outside world, but carrying the experience
of the world with it inside its shelter.
Create a point of consciousness. Focus on
the centre of your forehead. Think of this point
as a bright star, a sparkling jewel, a flame or
a being of light. This will radiate positive
energy, making you feel good about yourself.
Affirm (strengthen) this positive energy
through positive thoughts and images about
yourself such as * I am a contented soul, I
shower everyone whom I meet with the quality of
contentment, * I am a jewel of contentment, or *
I am the child of the Supreme Soul, the Ocean of
Contentment.
Focus your energy on contentment, and let
this become the object of your meditation. As
you focus, you will give contentment life,
turning a thought into a feeling.
Experience this feeling by giving your
conscious attention to it.
During the entire day, you could visualize
yourself performing each action in the canopy
(shelter) of the Ocean of Contentment.
Now perform this exercise for different virtues
like cheerfulness, courage, humility (egolessness),
tolerance, forgiveness, determination, etc.
especially for the ones you think are lacking
inside you. For the qualities already existing
inside you, you could use this exercise to
strengthen those features of your personality
and bring them more into your actions and
interactions.
Message for the
day
To live in the
present is to be free from the influence of the
past.
Expression:
Many times the past
keeps coming back again and again in the mind,
influencing the present too. The present is lost
in thinking about the past. So there can be
nothing done to enjoy the present. All words and
actions then are totally coloured by the past.
Instead the one who is able to free himself from
the influence of the past is able to move
positively towards the future.
Experience:
To be free from the influence
of the past it is important to have a powerful
consciousness of the present. To be able to be
free from the influence of the past is to forget
the past. Because there is the understanding
that it is gone. Also there is no worry about
the future. When I am able to learn to live in
the present I am able to discover how full it is
of peaceful moments.