18.06.2015

Start Early
The best time to
awaken both body and spirit is in the early
morning. We are fresh, in solitude, and the
vibrations of the world are at their calmest. It
is not surprising that you will find all
experienced meditators and yogis up with the
dawn, inviting the sun of spirit to shine into
the heart of their soul. The first half hour of
conscious awareness will be the foundation of
your day. Make an early start. Meditate, set the
switch of your consciousness and calibrate your
energy for the day. You'll be surprised the
difference it makes.
Tolerance
Those with the power
of tolerance will be content and will make
others
content too. When there is tolerance, there is
also continuous
improvement. This in turn brings satisfaction
for the self and also
enables us to become a source of support for
those around too. This
will make them content with themselves and with
us too. Let us take a
thought to make it a point to learn at least one
thing from all the
suggestions that we get throughout a given day.
When we keep this in
mind we will be able to tolerate even negative
comments very easily
and we will find ourselves improving.
Role Induced
Stress (cont.)
It's not at all wrong to treat what we do
seriously, but it's a mistake to believe what we
do is extremely extremely important and we are
extremely busy people living an extremely busy
lifestyle. This kind of consciousness makes us
over-serious. A very common sign of this is
carrying a lot of thoughts of one role into the
other. E.g. Aarti, a young mother, switches
roles from a software executive in the corporate
sector, a role which she plays in the entire
day, to a parent and wife in the evening. If she
is over thinking about her day-role while
playing her evening-role, it is a sign she is
over-identifying with her day role and there is
a lack of detachment. As a result she starts
becoming over-serious and suffers from 'role
induced stress' as a result. There is a deep
connection between seriousness and fear. E.g. In
this case of Aarti, as a result of attachment to
her role, there are lots of fears that she
carries regarding her role of software executive
- fear of loss of position; loss of love,
respect and reputation - either in her company
or in general in society, not succeeding, not
getting promoted etc. because of which she is
over-serious and she carries the role in her
head almost all the time, even when she sleeps.
That is why so called 'extremely busy' people
sometimes complain of sleep problems.
This can happen with us, with any role we
play. This kind of stress, just like in the
case of the actor (explained yesterday) is
generally made up sorrow, anger and fear - one
of these three different negative emotions from
time to time or more than one at the same time -
phases of dejection or feeling low or a lack
of enthusiasm or a general disinterest in life
events; phases of frustration and experiencing a
lack of control of events and people, due to
which there are frequent outbursts of anger and
phases of immense worry regarding the future,
all of which affect our mind, our physical body,
relationships and even success of our role;
although it is our role itself (our
over-identification with it) which is the root
cause of this emotional turmoil inside us. So
instead of benefiting our role, our over-concern
for it starts affecting it adversely.
Soul Sustenance
Accessing
Spiritual Power
In the inner depths of the soul there is
pure, spiritual power of peace, love, wisdom and
un-conditional joy. This power provides us with
the inner strength needed to change. But how do
we access this power? Meditation is the method
– it allows this power to come to the
surface of our consciousness and into our minds
and influence our thoughts, feelings and
personality. In the same way as lava flows from
the inner depths of the Earth to the surface
through a volcano, we can also create volcanoes
of spiritual power when we meditate. Note,
though, that we want to use our power in a
positive way: we are not seeking the kind of
power that is physical in nature and may cause
damage, we are seeking spiritual power.
When we get access to our own personal source of
the power of peace, love and happiness, we
essentially become free of any dependency on
external sources for feelings of the same. When
we generate our own feelings of love and
self-respect, we stop being dependent on others
and our addiction to their acceptance and
approval reduces and finally disappears. When we
generate our own feelings of contentment and joy
within ourselves, we become free from the need
for substances, places or physical experiences
in order to be happy.
Using this inner power in the right way
allows us to uproot or remove completely the old
negative habits within our personality. Any
unwanted habit can be changed and the scars of
all the negative habits, which have developed
within the soul over a long period of time,
during the journey of birth and rebirth, can be
healed in a short time span.
Message for the
day
The ones who are constantly happy are truly
fortunate.
Projection:
Whatever the kind of
situations needed to be faced, whoever the
people and the different kind of personalities
they come into contact with, the ones who are
fortunate constantly enjoy. They also continue
to take benefit and bring benefit to others too.
Their fortune lies in their ability to perceive
the positive aspect in everything and take
benefit accordingly.
Solution:
When I am able to be happy under all
circumstances, I am able to make the best use of
whatever I have with me. I then find myself full
of all resources. I don't think of what I don't
have but I am aware of and make the best use of
what I have. So I find myself to be always
lucky. I constantly move forward.