24.01.2015

The Spiritual Aspect of Healthcare
Silence, happiness,
love and blessings are important aspects.
Happiness leads to good health. It is only you
who can give this medicine to yourself. Some
bring illness to themselves through anger,
greed, unfulfilled desires, expectations,
suppression of feelings and relationships not
based on true love. Look in your heart, you will
know where your illness comes from. There are
three ingredients for a long and healthy life:
live with attention but without worry; use time
in a worthwhile way; keep your thoughts pure,
positive and filled with strength.
Humility
Humility
grows a little more each time we step away from
our own
feelings and opinions and genuinely listen to
the experience of another
human being. Humility is dedication to the
extent that no
acknowledgement is sought for the self. Only
when we have learned to
value others no more no less that we value
ourselves can we be said to
be truly humble.
Cooking
And Eating With A Spiritual Touch (cont.)
Having prepared
food with attention (which we have explained
over the last two days), the Brahma Kumaris'
practice is then to offer the freshly-prepared
meal to the Supreme Soul. We call it offering bhog (or
commonly calledprasad) to the Supreme
Father. As a part of this practice, positive
energy or vibrations of love, bliss and peace
taken from the Supreme via meditation for 5-10
minutes, is given to the food prepared, by
keeping a small portion of the food in a clean
vessel kept aside for this purpose only, on a
table in front of you. This practice can be
followed every day for one main meal at least,
or more, depending on how much time you have at
hand. It is good to do this exercise in a
special corner in the house or even a separate
small room kept aside for the purpose of
meditation or basically a place where the
atmosphere is spiritually empowering as compared
to the rest of the house. Charging the food with
positive spiritual energy and expressing
gratitude to the Supreme in this way serves to
increase the spiritual quality of the food and
deepen the individual's personal relationship
with the Supreme, while also creating a
powerful, shared divine experience. On a very
practical level, it will also help the body to
prepare itself to receive and digest food. Of
course, the last step is to eat, and this, too,
is best done in a peaceful, unhurried and
harmonious state of mind and environment: we are
what we eat and also how we eat. It's good to
avoid eating along with the television or
newspaper. Eating with the family in a positive
setting is a good practice. But talking
excessively and sharing negative information at
that time with each other should be avoided.
Talking quite less, talking very slowly, softly
and sweetly and talking about positive and
constructive aspects of life, with the rest of
the family members, should be the norm for meal
eating time.
Whether you are a new, aspiring or trained cook,
we hope that the information in this and the
last two days' messages, with its emphasis on
the soul as well as the body, will bring an
added dimension to your kitchen and dining
table. Cooking, and eating, should be a joyful
and significant experience. So cook and enjoy!
Soul
Sustenance
Playing
My Part As A Hero Actor (Part 1)
While just as
beings we reside in the soul world, as human
beings we play our many roles through many
physical bodies in this beautiful world drama on
this amazing, colorful and round stage called
planet Earth. Each day is filled with
multi-million scenes in different locations on
this very big stage. Some scenes are directly
related to us, some indirectly and a lot many
aren’t related at all. Each scene that we are
directly involved is an opportunity to not only
play our role in the best possible way but also
as a result shape the role in the most
appropriate way possible. Therefore, we are all
hero actors who by playing our roles as well as
possible, create the script of our own life i.e.
create our own destiny.
And do remember doing this has a positive
influence on others’ scripts also, which
rebounds back to us and in return helps us in
our making our scripts better. While we have
been given a role to live the entire birth right
from childhood to old age, we possess the power,
the remote control to dictate and control as to
how exactly we will live the day, the year and
each year of our present birth, our present
role. Each day offers us multiple options as to
not only how we act but also how we respond to
the world around us and our script or destiny
gets shaped up according to the options we
make. Our destiny is decided not by what
happens to us or around us, but by (i) how we
act (sometimes the actions are responses to
external events and sometimes they are not) and
(ii) how we respond to a million events and
circumstances which we encounter as we make this
complete journey of life.
(To be continued tomorrow…)
Message
for the day
To be happy is to let go through the mind and
not just through words.
Expression:
Things do not always happen
as expected. At such times, the one who is able
to let go of expectations from the situation is
able to forget it. Such a person will not speak
about the situation again and again and describe
it to everyone. Nor will there be the need to
say, "I let go". Once the situation is accepted
as it is, there will not be even a single
thought of it.
Experience:
When I accept things as they
are, I will be able to learn and be richer with
every new experience. I will not be mentally
troubled by what happened, but will be able to
maintain my own inner happiness. I will thus be
able to keep my mind clear for whatever is
coming up in the future. So I will find freedom
from waste and constant progress with the
resources that I have.