08.07.2015

The hills of Salzburg, Austria, are alive with
the Sound of Music-Julie Andrews
Create
Life is not about
finding yourself. Life is about creating
yourself.
How Difficult are
YOUR Conversations ?
Difficult
relationships usually mean difficult
conversations. Sometime focussing on enhancing
the conversational dynamics can help the
relationships be a little less difficult.
'How dare they speak to me like that!'...is a
thought that becomes a memory of a ‘bad
feeling’, that becomes a fear that it may happen
again, that becomes a mental and emotional
obstacle, that almost ensures you will have a
difficult conversation in the future!
Conversations become difficult for different
reasons. But the root cause always lies within
us not them! It’s really just a statement to our
self that we need to learn more about our self
and why we are making things difficult in the
first place. But it’s not easy to see that the
other person is never the problem, regardless of
what they say or do. But if we can say to our
self, ‘now what is this person, this
conversation, this scene we are both in, trying
to teach me’, we may find that we can come away
from the interaction with some moments of
personal enlightenment and access to a deeper
strength within our self. It’s just that we may
have to do that in retrospect at first!
Creating
Positive Habits
To overcome a negative habit, we have to ensure
that the intellect is strong and stable enough
to lead the mind with knowledge and
comprehension. In this way, transformation is
more deep and lasting, creates satisfaction and
fullness, and greatly improves our self-esteem.
Our mind, which is under the influence of an old
program, must be left in no doubt that "I", the
original personality, no longer wants to go down
that old road. We must have the strong
determination to create a new thought pattern;
this will also be recorded on our memory bank.
This new register will help us to avoid taking
up the old habits the next time something
similar happens. For a period of time the two
thought patterns, the old and the new, will
exist alongside each other. To achieve a
long-lasting transformation, we should not
suppress our mind and immediately eliminate all
the habits or tendencies to which the mind has
become accustomed to. If we do this, the mind
will begin to cry and make a fuss, and finally,
the moment we lower our guard and stop paying
attention, the old habits will emerge again and
drag our mind towards automatic thoughts and
actions so that, almost without us realising, we
are once again immersed in our old way of
thinking and doing.
We have an alternative: creating thoughts of a
greater quality that emerge from a new
conscience. In this way, thanks to these
positive thoughts, full of love, harmony and
creativity, the mind will start to cleanse
itself, replacing the old habits and negative
tendencies in a totally natural way. The
positive thought that preceded the positive
action is still conscious, but the more we
repeat the positive action the less conscious we
are of the thought that created it. The time
comes when we don't know why we are doing
whatever we are doing: it has become a positive
habit.
Soul Sustenance
Meditation And
Physical Health
The state of the body is a result of the state
of the soul not only because of past karmas
(actions performed in this and previous births)
but because of its present state also.
For example, when the emotion of fear passes
through the mind, the endocrine system starts
pumping adrenalin through the body to prepare it
for a surge of energy. It is easy to note the
cause-effect relationship between fear (cause)
and adrenalin (effect). In the same way all of
the mental ups and downs cause resulting
secretions throughout the body. Internal rage is
accompanied by heavy breathing, fast
heart-beats, red face and so on. This
relationship between body and soul is the reason
most physical diseases arise from a
psychological or mental origin. There is no
doubt that any lessening of harmful secretions
by reducing the emotional causes will bring
about sound and lasting health. Health and order
in the soul (mind) bring health and order in the
body.
Of course there are other factors which give
rise to health problems - pollution, unhealthy
life-style, lack of exercise, wrong diet etc.
Through Raja Yoga meditation (taught by
the Brahma Kumaris) and its connected positive
lifestyle and through a pure vegetarian diet,
ill-health can be minimized. The removal of
stress and tension has to be one of the most
important advantages for a person who practices
Rajyoga meditation.
Message for the
day
My
words are effective when they are spoken with
good wishes.
Projection:
Although I speak with a lot
of logic and make the other person understand
what I mean to say, I sometimes find that they
are not as effective as they should be.
Sometimes my words are also misunderstood and
misinterpreted.
Solution:
What I say is not important,
but how and with what feeling I say is more
important. I need to keep myself free from any
kind of attitude, when I have to say something
to someone. Thus I find that my words are filled
with good wishes and are effective too.