30.04.2015

Secrets to Overcoming Procrastination
Procrastination is not only the thief of time,
it is the creator of subtle inner tension. You
know you are cheating yourself. There are three
secrets to overcoming procrastination. One,
don’t wait till you feel like doing it – the
feeling will come when you start doing it. Two,
list all the things you have to do and then
prioritise the list. Three, create a vision of
the result and be motivated by the vision of the
outcome, not the thought of the process.
Control
Normally control is understood as something
which we need to have over
others or situations. So when things go wrong,
the first thought is tocontrol others. But since neither the situations
nor the people are in
our hands, we are unable to succeed in
controlling them. Instead of
trying to control something that we have no
control upon, we need to
start with ourselves. The more we are able to
keep a control on
ourselves with constant attention, checking and
changing, the more we
will be able to have everything in control.
Negative Control And Domination In Relationships
In a lot many of the different types of
relationships we find ourselves in, may they be
our personal relationships or at the workplace,
we sometimes feel ourselves to be in a position
where we feel we are being dominated and
controlled negatively by the opposite person. A
very common example of the above negative
energy, in personal and non-personal
relationships, is when someone gets angry with
you and manages to make you react and get upset,
they mange to dominate you. Over a period of
time they start realizing that they possess an
invisible and powerful remote control, using
which, whenever they want to control you, what
they should do is to get angry with you and that
way they will achieve the desired control. Their
anger becomes a remote control. When you react
you are allowing this control or allowing the
other's remote control to work. It is you that
chooses to allow yourself to be influenced and
dominated. It is important for us to realize
that we can choose and take the decision to
allow ourselves to be controlled and dominated,
or we can choose to express what we feel without
being affected by the reaction of the other and
still maintaining our love, respect and good
wishes for the other.
Let us not allow ourselves to be dominated and
influenced by entities external to us which
includes objects and people or we will lose
energy. Each moment we allow another person's
remote control to work successfully or we allow
an object to control and dominate our emotional
state, we weaken internally. We become like a
puppet in the other person's hands. A puppet is
never powerful because it does not act on its
own but is controlled by someone else. We need
to prevent that, if we want to conserve our
energy and remain spiritually strong.
Meditation and spiritual knowledge both increase
our spiritual strength and also increase our
self esteem or self respect over a period of
time. Both these increases help us remain in
self control and not only disallow the other's
remote control to work but also become assertive
(not aggressive) and take a stand when
required.
Soul Sustenance
Performing
A Spiritual Audit At The End Of The Day - Part 2
Yesterday we had explained how self evaluation
at the end of the day is extremely vital to
one's progress and development. A useful
exercise in this regard is keeping a daily chart
for about 3 personality traits or points
and filling it up every night (lesser than 3 is
also fine, but not more , because then you might
feel lazy in keeping the chart after a few days
and also you might lose focus and the
personality traits may not transform as much as
you want). You could either evaluate yourself
with a yes or no or perform a percentage wise
evaluation like 50% or 90% for e.g. We have
mentioned below, some of the common traits from
which you could select the traits to keep a
daily chart for. You could incorporate some
other specific traits (not mentioned in this
list), which you want to change or develop,
depending on your personality:
In the entire day, today; not only in my
words and actions, but also in my thoughts:
* Did I see everyone's specialties and keep good
wishes for each one, in spite of obvious
weaknesses being visible?
* Did I remain free from all forms of anger,
like irritation, frustration, grudge, revenge,
etc.?
* Did I ensure that I neither give nor take
sorrow, hurt, pain from anyone?
* Did I remain free from waste and negative?
* Did I remain ego less?
* Did I remain untouched by name, fame, praise,
insult?
* Did I remain stable?
* Did I remain free from judgments, criticism,
jealousy, comparison, hatred, etc.?
* Did I keep a conscious of serving each one
whom I met?
* Did I bring the 8 main powers into practice
and experience being powerful?
* Did I remain in self-respect and give respect
to everyone?
* Did I practice being soul-conscious in actions
and interactions?
* Did I take a one minute break every hour to
reflect, meditate and control the traffic of
thoughts in the mind ?
Message for the
day
Humility is to
respect everything that comes our way.
Expression:
To love simple things is
humility. It teaches to respect all that life
brings. That means there is an ability to
appreciate and value everything appropriately.
So one is able to use everything that comes one
way to the fullest extent for the benefit of the
self and that of others.
Experience:
When I am humble I am able to
remain focused on my inner peace and not lose my
sense of personal well-being. I am able to
simply learn from everything that happens to my
life and add on to this sense of well-being. No
situation is difficult or impossible to work on,
but I am able to overcome all challenges with
ease.