Change
It is wiser to bend rather than to break. Those who
change will get spiritual wisdom. Conversely, those who
have wisdom will decide to change. Change is the first
law of Nature.
Unloading Your Pressure Baggage
On a spiritual level, pressure can be defined as an
external force acting on us divided by our ability to
bear the force or resist it. Thus, force and resistance
capacity are two variants in the equation of pressure.
Everyone has different resistance capacities. Two
people with different resistance capacities will
experience different amounts of pressure on being
subjected to the same magnitude of force. A feeling of
pressure absorbs our freedom and gives us an experience
of being ruled by an external entity. There are a
lot of people who hold the belief that they can
experience freedom only in the absence of an external
force, which is almost impossible, since there is almost
some force or the other exerted on the soul by ups and
downs that takes place in the role that it plays through
the physical body; which includes the physical body
itself; profession; family; wealth, all types of
relationships, etc. Even our own personality, thoughts,
feelings, emotions etc. exert pressure on us at times.
Apart from the resistance capacity, the other variant
in the equation of pressure is not only force but our
perception of what the magnitude of the force is. This
depends primarily on the beliefs that we carry. Two
people will perceive the same situation in their role
(as explained above) as forces of different magnitudes.
While we hold the belief that life events, people and
their expectations from us, are the forces that are the
causes of our pressure, we will be able to do little to
change the habit of being pressurized. It is we who
pressurize ourself and allow the outside to pressurize
us. We can either go through our life journey while
experiencing feelings of being emotionally imprisoned,
confused, rushed and hurried, or we can do the same with
the power of faith and determination, at the same time
remaining patient and maintaining our inner emotional
stability. In some cases, some of us put pressure on
ourselves, because we carry the belief that a bit of
pressure is good in order to achieve what we want; it
provides us with positive energy and motivates us. So
this is an example of perceiving a force in our life, a
force which does not exist. Such kind of pressure can
deceive us and give us a feeling of being beneficial in
the short term but it can have harmful effects on us in
the long term. Some others might not experience this
pressure because they do not carry this belief at all
and don't invite this force.
(To be continued tomorrow...)
Conscious Effort
As part of the daily routine, we do a lot of things, of
which sometimes we find ourselves having to do something
that we don't enjoy doing. Then we tend to force
ourselves to do these things. In spite of all the
effort, we really cannot find any benefit in it. And we
constantly look for something else we enjoy. We need to
make a conscious effort to pick out something that we
like in the task at hand. Only when we begin to love the
task will we be able to enjoy what we are doing and get
the
maximum benefit from it. This is how we can accumulate,
both with the process of the task itself and from the
result too.
Soul Sustenance
The Art of Forgetting In Relationships
Sometimes, someone says something in two minutes that
makes you feel really bad - they said it in two minutes
but it is still there inside the register of your mind
two months or even two years later. How could they! Who
do they think they are! Something happened in two
minutes and you remember it, you repeat it again in your
mind and in your words during interactions with others.
You keep replaying the scene repeatedly in your mind.
Just like an action replay of a cricket match, you see
the replays from different angles and judge the scene in
many different and negative ways and come to different
conclusions, most of which are negative in nature.
With this you strengthen that experience in your mental
register. Memories and the experiences associated with
the memories replayed continuously in the conscious mind
enter your sub-conscious, so that even after a long
period of time you remember what they said to you. The
other person unburdened themselves and forgot it
straightaway.
It's like your neighbor who takes out rubbish, throws it
outside his house, into your compound and forgets about
it and you allow that rubbish to remain there, without
thinking of getting it cleaned. Someone throws a few
words at you and they forget, but not only do you not
forget but you repeat them in your mind to such a point
that at times these action replays do not even let you
sleep. We need to learn the art of forgetting memories
that generate shadows of hurt or pain in our present.
The past has already gone and what you have now is the
present moment.
Message for the day
The one who is powerful shows the practical proof of
success instead of just talking about it.
Projection:
It is usually very easy for us to talk about how to do
things best, it is as much easy to tell others and give
directions. But the one who is powerful is not just
satisfied with mere words or proving to others about his
success. He is more concerned more about being
successful.
Solution:
We need to check if we are applying in our life what we
are talking about. We need to see to it that whatever we
speak about, we must put into practice. Only then will
we find improvement and progress in our life. Then,
there will be no more the need to talk about our success
but our life will reveal how successful we are. We will,
then, be an inspiration to many.