
True Diamonds
Become a true
diamond. Eat the nourishment of happiness and
never give sorrow to anyone. There is a
difference between true and false. True diamonds
sparkle from afar.
Tolerance
Tolerance enables
one to learn from mistakes. When one is sure of
what
he is doing and he is in his stage of
self-respect, criticism can be
taken in the right way. This will give the
ability to look within
when something goes wrong. Instead of justifying
mistakes there will
be the ability to learn from them and improve.
When someone criticises
us, we need to remind ourselves that we have
something to learn from
it. Let us ask ourselves if there is at least a
small aspect that we
could learn from and incorporate in our life.
Let us take this aspect
and leave the rest.
Role Induced Stress
A very common form of stress which has raised
its head in recent years is stress induced due
to one's role. There was once a famous movie
actor, well known as one of the best of all time
and he was obviously very much aware of the
same. One day as he was shooting for his new
film; his director, a very prominent figure in
the film-making arena, mentioned to him that
there was a general perception spreading in the
film industry as well as in the film going
audiences that the actor was getting older with
time and his performance was dropping and he
needed to spruce up his performances if he had
to compete with the younger actors. As soon as
he heard this, he started taking his acting role
and everything related to it over seriously and
lost his happiness completely because he had
been used to listening only to praises regarding
his performances and reputation all his life. He
also forgot all that the world had given him all
his life, all the love, respect and adulation
and became angry, bitter and resentful towards
everyone he met, believing that they no longer
held those feelings for him as much as before.
Also a general sense of fear and nervousness
started developed inside him regarding his next
performance.
One piece of information had changed him
altogether. What had gripped him - 'Role
Induced Stress'. His emotion of stress was
made of three sub emotions - sorrow, anger and
fear (or worry). What was the cause - he over
identified with his role. He 'believed' he was
an extremely famous hero actor. But was hero
actor what he was? It's what he did. But he
learned to believe it is what he is. Even we
need to remind ourself that we get to play
various roles on the world stage of action and
that if we over-identify with any of the roles,
which a lot of us do, then just like the actor,
our creativity, spontaneity and lightness is
reduced and we start to take things far too
seriously, more than necessary, and as a result
get stressed.
(To be continued tomorrow ...)
Soul Sustenance
Understanding
Fear
Everyone, when they are young, knows what
their destiny is. At that point in their lives,
everything is clear and everything is possible.
They are not afraid to dream, and to wish for
everything they would like to see happen to them
in their lives. But, as time passes, a
mysterious force begins to convince them that it
will be impossible for them to realize their
destiny... There is only one thing that makes a
dream impossible to achieve: the fear of
failure.
Fear is an energy that puts a brake on you and
prevents you from doing what you want and aiming
where you want to go. It blocks you in the
communication and expression of what you want to
say. Fear makes you hide, suppress and not
express the most attractive; the most beautiful
part of your inner self.
Fear has an influence on our capacity to reason,
discriminate and take decisions. It makes us
doubt, it makes us indecisive even in the
simplest decisions of our lives. Fear does not
allow your energy to flow, and that weakens your
state of wellbeing and general health. Fear
locks you into yourself and makes you become
indecisive. It is a shadow over your inner self
that prevents you from acting with ease and
fluidity. It reduces your capacity of
expression, of being yourself, of dealing with
life and flowing in it.
Message
for the day
Faith in one's
progress brings contentment.
Projection:
Even when the situation is
not according to what is expected, there is
contentment for the one who has faith in his own
progress. Such a person will not just sit back
waiting for things to change nor will he just
curse his fate. Instead he'll do his best and
use all his resources in bettering the
situation.
Solution:
The understanding that all
life's situations are a training for me,
automatically keeps me content in all
situations. There is naturally an experience of
constant progress and a feeling of having gained
something from all situations.