20.05.2015

Choose Feelings
If your days seem
filled with unwanted negative feelings, there is
only one cure. When they come, choose them.
Don't ask why, don't wonder how, don't fight
them and never put yourself down for having
them. But most of all never blame someone else
for how you feel. If you do, it means you are
still fast asleep and your choice is to be a
victim. When the feelings come, even big
disturbing emotional feelings say, "I choose
this feeling" and know it comes because of
something you have thought or done in the past,
perhaps a certain belief that you have learned
or an attachment that is threatened. Choice does
not mean you want the feelings, but it does mean
you are taking responsibility for them. And that
is the beginning of self mastery. It is the
first step to the healing and resolving of your
emotions. But only the first step. Try this
today and then ask yourself what the next step
might be. If you are really interested to know,
you will come to know!
Humility-1
True humility comes
from self-respect. When we are full and in our
state of self-respect, we will be able to remain
humble in all
situations. When there is no self-respect, any
comments or criticism
hurts the ego and we tend to lose our humility.
When I find myself
getting affected by criticism, I need to check
whether I am sure of
what I'm doing. Let me look within myself and
see what specialties I
have that I can use in my daily life. So when I
increase my own
confidence in this way and do everything with
this confidence, I'll be
humble.
Self Empowerment
Your strengths, talents, capabilities and
resources are very important as the foundation
of your self progress. Having a clear knowledge
of them will help to keep you moving forward,
and enable you to take up new opportunities when
they arise. Our internal strengths create the
foundation on which we make our decisions in
life, how we relate to others and how we
understand ourselves. For most people their
strengths are understood but never made very
conscious. They lie below the surface and are
not openly talked about. Bringing them into our
conscious understanding improves our process of
self-empowerment. Also assess your areas of
weakness or those aspects of life that are
holding you back in some way and/or are causing
you some sorrow or discomfort.
Exercise:
Make a list of your strengths
and weaknesses (5 each)
Now create questions (5-6) which will help in
your self progress. Looking at your strengths
and weakness, judge how effectively you are
using these strengths to improve your personal
and professional life, and what negative effects
are your weaknesses (shortcomings) having on the
same. These are some examples of questions that
you can ask yourself at the end of each week:
How are my present strengths being used to
improve my worth (value) at the workplace
(office)? Is any weakness of mine proving to be
an obstacle (barrier) in maintaining a healthy
relationship with my spouse (partner)? Am I
using my strengths in helping others or doing
social service? Does any weakness exist inside
me, which if removed, would make my
relationships harmonious (peaceful) in the
family and office ?
Soul Sustenance
Soul
Power over Role Power (Part 1)
Every act that we are involved in throughout the
day is made possible or real by two entities -
role and soul working in conjunction with each
other. Although, it is a spiritual fact that the
soul is the master and makes the role function,
without the soul the role cannot function; while
playing any role in our day-to-day life we tend
to forget this fact and our entire focus falls
on the role that is to be played, forgetting
that by doing that, we bring down the
probability of success of that role in our
personal or professional life. Focusing
positively on the soul and its components while
playing the role fills the role with soul power
and focusing on the role and its components
while playing the role fills the role with
something you could call role power. We need
to create a balance between the role and the
soul and a balance in using both role and soul
power to bring about the success of the role,
the role could be of any type. Even a project
that you have to work on in the office which is
going to last for a month is an example of a
temporary role you have to play. There are many
other examples of roles - getting your child’s
homework done, preparing food for the entire
family, doing charity work at the club together,
taking part in an extracurricular activity in
school or college, etc.
Any such or other role will consist of some
or all of these components - various tasks,
interaction with people or relationships,
mediums like wealth and other objects, time,
knowledge of everything connected with the role
including the components that make up the role,
etc. All these components are physical in
nature and make up the role. The power that
these components possess makes up what we call
role power. Now, what happens is that as soon as
we step into the role each day or on a
particular day, obviously our aim is to bring
about success of the role, but to achieve that,
our entire focus falls on using the power of
the role, neglecting the immense potential that
soul power possesses. We spend our day and
night in streamlining the role components for
the well being of the role, not realizing that
this purpose could be more easily achieved, if
the focus is more on using soul power, obviously
without neglecting role power (without which the
purpose cannot be achieved).
In tomorrow’s message, we shall explain the
various components that make up soul power.
Message for the
day
The right way of living spreads joy to others.
Expression:
When people around me are not
happy with me, I usually believe that I am right
and they are all wrong. I then cannot check or
realise my own mistake. So I rarely make an
attempt to change myself and continue to wait
for others to change or understand me.
Experience:
If people around me are not
able to get happiness from me or the way I live,
I need to look at my own life in a detached way
to see where I could change. Even a slightest
change brought by me with sincerity will have a
great effect on those around me.