20.10.2014

Introversion
The ability to enjoy one's own company is one of
the greatest gifts life has to offer. Learning
to turn my thoughts away from all my
responsibilities at the day's end and take my
mind into a state of peace and benevolence
enables me to carry greater and greater loads
without feeling the burden. When my inner
landscape is full of beautiful thoughts,
everything I do is a pleasure. Gently, I calm
down chaotic situations and offer solace to
troubled minds.
Making The Journey With The Right Realization
It's so easy to become caught up in my physical
role - my name, physical personality and looks;
the social setup or family I've been born into,
my friend circle, the school I went to, the
person I married, the organization in which I
work, the various material objects I own or
possess. I forget my true identity, the
spiritual being, and that it is me, the spirit
or soul, who is experiencing life through this
physical body and surrounding circumstances. The
physical, human side is essential, but it's
the spirit, the being, the energy, which makes
the journey. The physical body is the vehicle
through which the journey is made. The people
who exist in my life are also energies making
their journeys through their respective
vehicles. Looking at myself and others, when
I realize who is making the journey and I
remember this and maintain this spiritual
consciousness throughout the day, I'm able to
access spiritual treasures of peace, of power,
of love and joy and see the same in others. It
is because of not remaining in this remembrance;
I remember and identify with the vehicle and
experience my false identity. That is why we
find ourselves empty of these treasures today.
As a result there is a tremendous increase in
interest in meditation throughout the world.
Unlike in the past when this interest was seen
primarily in the East, today relaxation and
meditation is a blooming industry in the Western
countries.
The more I become trapped by a materialistic
consciousness, and the more I lose contact with
my inner self, the less freedom I experience.
The search of happiness through the physical
senses brings temporary, short-lived gains.
My life lacks depth when the only things I know,
realize and feel are related to the loads of
information I receive from the physical sense
organs, and I become disconnected from the
spiritual dimension.
Soul Sustenance
Overcoming the Fear of Communication
When the fear of communicating effectively
exists inside you e.g. when appearing for a work
interview, it may be due to personal insecurity.
You have to work on it in order to have more
security, confidence and authoritativeness.
Being secure and full of authority in the moment
of communicating and expressing yourself
requires practice and effort. Most importantly,
to feel secure in such situations, when the
person whom you are faced with is in a position
of power, you have to value yourself. Self-value
brings self-security and a feeling of
fearlessness. When someone is normally asked
to talk about what his/her personality is like
or what is his/her basic character traits are,
they normally speak about their weaknesses. Very
rarely does one speak of his/her strengths or
positive personality traits.
Realizing your strengths requires
introspection. Meditation, based on the complete
spiritual knowledge about the self, is one of
the simplest methods to do this. Once you
realize your own strengths, you are able to
value yourself immensely. If you value yourself,
it does not matter so much to you whether
another values you or not. However, if you
aren't able to value yourself, then doubts
exist: * Let's see if this person values or
respects me; * perhaps this job is not for me; *
perhaps my communication skills are not very
good. Then you need recognition and
appreciation. Since you cannot give it to
yourself (because you have not realized your
strengths), you depend on others giving it to
you.
You need to know that you are unique and that
you are worth a great deal. If the other person
does not value you it is their loss; they are
losing something precious. If you are
established in that self esteem of ‘Who am I’, a
very elevated consciousness and that awareness –
* here comes a treasure whom you will be
interviewing; your words and your body language
will be sharp, secure and stable.
Within you, you value yourself; and if you value
yourself, it will be easier for people to value
you. On the other hand, if you do not like and
respect yourself, you will cause the same
energy, which you radiate, to come back to you
from others.
Message for the day
Success comes through maintaining self-respect.
Projection:
Where there is self-respect, there is naturally
a stable state of mind, even in the most
challenging and difficult times. This in turn
brings right judgment at all times, which allows
discrimination between right and wrong. Right
judgment leads to right actions. So there is
constant success for such a person.
Solution:
Self-respect is the state of mind where I am
able to appreciate my own uniqueness and give
regard to myself. When I am able to be in my
stage of self-respect, I am able to be stable in
all situations. This seat of internal stability
keeps me light and easy under all circumstances.
I am also able to experience constant success
even in the most difficult and challenging
times.
Add Quality and Beauty
When a situation is good we are able to use our
own specialties, but when the situation is not
so good, we tend to come back to ordinary or
waste. So we are constantly waiting for
opportunities to reveal our own specialty and at
other times being colored by the negativity or
ordinariness of the situation. When we are aware
of our own specialties in a conscious way, we
are able to add quality and beauty to everything
that we speak or do. Nothing of ours is then
waste or even ordinary but everything we do
becomes special. We are able to make everything
more meaningful and powerful. We are not caught
up with the ordinariness or the negativity of
the situation, but are able to enjoy the moment
by coloring it with our own special quality.