12.04.2015

Despite Distractions
Distractions are
everywhere. No matter how much we try,
it's almost impossible to get rid of all the
distractions. How
about this: focus despite distractions!
Here are a few tips:
- Have music in the
background. Music can tune out the
distractions around you & keep you engaged &
motivated.
- Be energised. Have enough sleep & stay
hydrated. The more
energy you have, the less likely you are to
get distracted.
- Set email times. Schedule specific times to
check & respond to emails.
Emotions
Every emotion you
have ever experienced began as a thought. Your
dominant thoughts are programmed into the
unconscious mind and become locked into the
nervous system. Think confident thoughts, and
you feel confident. Think angry thoughts and you
feel angry. It is simply not
true that emotions happen to us in a random and
uncontrolled way; we
create them by choosing our thoughts. Top sports
stars are very well
aware of this. They know that if they allow
their emotions to run
amok, they will disempower themselves and
ultimately concede the
match. They are among the most adept at using
their thoughts to manage
their emotional states.
The Energy Of Faith
What we believe becomes reality. It has been
said that faith can move mountains. The highest
mountains are our negative thoughts, feelings
and ideas, which block our capacity to rise
beyond our limits.
Faith is the energy of understanding that
enables us to realize anything is possible even
if it is not visible in front of our eyes.
The success that comes from faith is closely
linked with 'letting go'. It is only when we
let go of what we are used to, or what we have
learnt to depend on, that new perceptions and
new possibilities will present themselves to us.
All that is needed are a few basic facts and
then we can take action. When we drive a car, do
we insist on knowing how the engine works in
detail before driving it? Do we know the
mechanical details of a lift before we use it?
Most people are only aware of the basic
functions and this is all they need to carry out
the action. However, they do have the faith that
the car has been correctly constructed to do its
job safely and that by pressing a few buttons
the lift will raise them to wherever it is they
want to go. In the modern life-style, there is a
tendency to over-think, to want to control and
direct every outcome, but such a life lacks
spontaneity and simplicity.
Although we do need a framework, it must be
flexible enough to allow space for the
unexpected, the unpredictable and the great
surprise. Such a space is the window through
which the light of innovation can enter. When
life is over-planned, we become cemented in,
unable to grow, or flow, into new horizons.
Faith allows us to realize that optimum results
can happen without always having to structure or
plan. Such faith is the basis for new vision and
allows us to reach beyond our limits; because we
believe we are more than what meets the eye.
Such faith is the inspirational energy of every
pioneer in whatever field.
Soul Sustenance
At
Peace with Time - The Key To Relaxed Living
(Part 1)
To live in freedom you have to live at peace
(harmony) with time; live the dimension of time
as a creator of time and not a slave of time;
live without being either a prisoner or victim
of time. To live at peace with time is to
live in harmony with nature, beginning with your
inner nature. When you plant a sapling today,
you cannot accelerate the process so that the
next day you have a tree. When it is summer, you
cannot make the earth revolve around the sun
quicker or slower for winter to arrive before or
later. Everything has its rhythm in nature. We
have distanced ourselves from the natural rhythm
and our accelerated mind exercises pressure,
creates stress and causes anxiety. We plan the
future, we are stuck in the past and the present
escapes us.
Many worries have to do with how we live time:
the past, the present and the future.
Worrying about what might happen (future), when
the moment has not yet come for it to happen,
takes away from us the necessary energy to deal
with it when it finally arrives. Living in
memories drains our energy; the past already
happened and no longer exists, except in our
memory. We feed memories, not realizing that
emerging the memory in our mind distracts us
from the present and weakens us. It is like
being a plug that connects to a socket with no
current passing through. We lose our energy. We
want to relive an experience that already
happened, and in the end we feel disappointed,
feeling a mental and emotional waste.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
Message for the
day
The one way of
finishing waste thinking is to find a solution.
Expression:
When there is something
negative that happens the mind tends to create a
lot of waste and negative thoughts. At such a
time there is no clear understanding of what is
to be done and so there is difficulty in being
positive at such a time. But once the problem is
identified and the right solution found, i.e.,
the right explanation is given, there is no more
waste thoughts, words or actions.
Experience:
When I am able to find the
right solution at each step, whenever even
negative situations happen, I am able to remain
happy and content. I am not worried about the
problem at hand but I know instead that this
problem has come to increase my own inner
strength and capability. Thus I am able to
maintain my inner positivity under all
circumstances.