05.07.2015

Green Man
Humility
Humility accepts
what's there. Sometimes there is a lot available
and sometimes only a little. It doesn't matter.
In humility there is the trust that everything
will come anyway, at the right time.
No
Procrastination
Good planning is
always helpful, but time spent stressing and
procrastinating about having too much to do or
doubting whether you're capable of doing it,
just drains your energy and achieves nothing.
Instead of thinking about doing something just
get on with it. The faster you get on with it,
the fewer problems you create. You'll find that
the more willing you are to respond positively
to opportunities, the more your capacity will
grow.
Different Thought
Types (cont.)
We have explained
Positive Thoughts yesterday. Today we continue
with the same:
Positive Thoughts (cont.)
Positive thoughts make you happy and as a result
your expectations of others decrease. This does
not mean that they do not matter to you, but
that you no longer demand love, respect,
recognition, or even calm, from them, and it
makes your relationships that much easier. This
is the best way to create long-lasting and
harmonious relationships. When you have inner
happiness, you have the strength to accept other
people as they are without wanting them to be
different. This acceptance produces more
peaceful relationships. With the positive
attitude you create, you can offer yourself to
other people just the way you are, with your
virtues and limitations, without pretence.
Your body also benefits greatly, since when you
have a balanced, harmonious mind you are less
susceptible to illnesses. A person who has many
useless thoughts will often feel very tired
because they are spending their energy in
creating thousands of unnecessary and
inefficient thoughts.
Your mind is strengthened and healed by being
nourished with positive thoughts. A healthy mind
is the basis of a balanced personality.
Soul Sustenance
Frozen
Perceptions
Like water, which over a period of time freezes
and takes the form of frozen ice cubes, when
kept in an ice tray; perceptions of different
things, people and events, inside our
consciousness, which come onto the surface of
our consciousness regularly i.e. we shape our
thoughts, words and actions based on them,
regularly, take the form of rigid perceptions
over a period of time. These rigid or
'frozen perceptions', which sometimes never
liquefy in our entire lifetime, are commonly
called our beliefs, which can stick in our
consciousness like ice cubes and be difficult to
uproot at times. One of the greatest harms
that holding to a set of beliefs does is, that
it doesn't let us see from other peoples' point
of view.
Let's say two people look at the same painting
from two different points in a room. One
describes what she sees and how the painting
looks to her. Then the other describes how the
painting looks to him. Both perceptions are
bound to be different to some extent. They are
different because they look from different
angles, different points (places) of viewing
in the same room. So who has the right view?
Neither. But what both of them see is right from
their point of view. Another e.g. is, there is
Mrs. A at my workplace, whom over a period of
time, I have been seeing from a certain point
of view and have started perceiving to be
inefficient. Bringing this perception into my
consciousness repeatedly has frozen this
perception inside my consciousness and it has
taken the form of a belief, which may be
incorrect or correct, partially or completely.
Now even if three different people who have all
seen Mrs. A from three different points of
view i.e. in three different set of
circumstances, and have seen three different
shades of the same virtue i.e. efficiency in
her; come and share their different, but all
positive and right perceptions with me,
depending on their respective circumstantial
view, I will not agree with them and not respect
their perception because a person with unfrozen
perceptions would at least give a hearing to
others' perceptions, but someone with frozen
perceptions, i.e. with fixed beliefs, is not
able to that and is not able to empathize with
or see from others’ point of view.
Message for the
day
To be free from
the burden of responsibility is to fulfill the
responsibility well.
Projection:
When I am responsile for
something or people expect me to be answerable
for something, I tend to feel heavy because of
these responsibilities. With the such a feeling
of having a burden, I'm not able to fulfill my
responsibilities to the best of my ability.
Solution:
Whatever responsibilities are
given to me are according to my capabilities.
When I remind myself of this I'll be able to be
light and give my best to fulfill all my
responsibilities.