24.04.2015

Think Simply
With so many choices
and decisions, so many demands from people and
events, in our modern fast changing world, it's
a real challenge to 'keep it simple'. Making it
simple means making things easy and clear. The
magic wand to wave over your life is 'planning
and prioritising'. Make plans, long and short
term and then prioritise. Then practise taking
one thing at a time, so you can have one thought
at a time, with some space before you have to
have your next thought. But don't get attached
to your plans or priorities. Be flexible (easy)
and yet focused (clear) and in this way you can
teach yourself to think simply and act simply.
One thought at a time. At your own pace. In your
own space. A simple life is a contented life.
Full-stop
Constant
awareness of a positive thought enables me to
maintain my own
inner positivity. The way to remain stable is to
apply a full-stop.
When difficult situations come my way, it is
very natural to have
questions and exclamations in the mind. It
becomes very difficult to
apply a full-stop and finish the situation in my
mind. Because of such
waste thoughts I am not able to experience
stability in difficult
situations. I need to bring out in my mind one
or the other positive
point about the situation. When I understand the
meaning behind the
situation, I am able to accept it. This
acceptance enables me to be
free from waste questions and negative thoughts
and I am easily able
to apply a full-stop. This is what brings inner
stability. (No
question-mark.... why me, when, how, who...?)
Negative Reactions
To Negative Actions
We very commonly react negatively with anger to
another person's anger filled words or actions,
which we perceive to be unjustified or
unreasonable. But this kind of action on our
part, which we feel is our right and is a
justified reaction or response, only adds to the
negative energy already existing inside a
particular situation, increasing the energy and
making the situation even more complicated and
difficult to resolve. Two negatives never
make a positive, they make a higher negative, to
which a very high positive has to be added (as
compared to before) to bring the situation back
to neutral or normal. Also, when you react, you
are doing exactly what you believe the other
person, the attacker, is doing - injuring
someone on an emotional level, which is a form
of subtle violence.
Lastly and very importantly, the other
person's negative and impulsive behavior,
directed at you, portrays that at that
particular moment he/she is experiencing an
emptiness or void of wisdom, joy, peace, love
and power, a void which he/she believes you have
created and can only be re-filled by you.
The anger filled action is a desire directed
towards you, for this filling up. Hidden behind
his/her anger is the feeling, "Because of this
person, I have lost my happiness at this
particular moment and he/she should give it back
to me immediately", which means that the other
person is lacking the realization that no other
person is ever responsible for your happiness.
You are, always. Instead of switching on the
awareness of this spiritual fact and emerging
the value of forgiveness inside yourself,
forgiveness because the other person is lacking
this wisdom at that moment of time, you react,
which makes you similar to him possessing a
similar belief, something which you will
definitely not appreciate too much. But, what
happens is that the emotional storm inside you
at that moment hides your ability to see how you
are yourself injuring your spiritual heart.
While you are in that emotional state, there is
no way you can heal the wounds of the other's
heart i.e. correct the other person.
Soul Sustenance
Stress
Management
Standing Back, Observing and Steering -
Standing Back : We can do this
individually or as a team, when stressful
situations occur. We may take a few minutes to
stand back mentally and physically from the
situation or scene.
Observing : The next step is to re-view
the situation, as if we are an onlooker or a
detached observer. Being as silent as possible,
we can ask ourselves if the thoughts we are
having are the ones we wish to keep, if they are
going where we would choose them to.
Steering : In the resulting silence, it
is possible to steer (change direction) our
thinking to where we want it to be; perhaps to
personal affirmations (positive thoughts) we use
to calm us. The affirmations can be: 'I am aware
of myself as calm and peaceful or, ….as happy
and satisfied’, etc.
This technique changes our attitudes and
feelings, which influences positively the
situation as well as how others respond.
Message for the
day
To have a clear
aim of where the action will lead is to be
successful in everything.
Expression:
Many a times it so happens
that one acts immediately seeing a situation.
But the one who is successful analyses the
situation and predicts the outcome of the action
that he performs and then acts keeping the end
result in mind. Because of knowing the
consequences of the actions before actually
performing that action, he is able to continue
putting in effort in spite of the challenges and
difficulties. So he continues to give his best
to the task.
Experience:
When I am able to give time
to myself to think before performing any action,
I am able to take the opportunity to be clear in
my thinking. The consequences of the action I
wish to take are clear in my mind and so, the
action taken to overcome the situation is right.
Hence, I receive easy and sure success.